Les Miserables Original London Cast
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Performer: Victor SlaymarkPerformer: Brent Forbes
Performer: Paul Klegg
Performer: Peter Halling
Composer: Claude-Michel Schoenberg
Conductor: Martin Koch
Performer: Peter Boita
Performer: Christopher Lacey
Performer: Ian Laws
Performer: Brian Newman
Performer: Duncan Hollowood
Performer: Caroline Marwood
Performer: Tony McVey
Performer: Peter Washtell
Performer: David Hissey
Performer: Peter Wright
Performer: Roderick Tearle
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Music Label: Red Ink
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prologue: Work Song
- Prologue: Valijean Arrested/Valijean Forgiven
- Prologue: What Have I Done?
- At The End Of The Day
- I Dreamed A Dream
- Lovely Ladies
- Who Am I?
- Fantine's Death: Come To Me
- Fantine's Death: Confrontation
- Castle On A Cloud
- Master Of The House
- Thenardier Waltz
- Stars
- Look Down
- Little People
- Red & Black
- Do You Hear The People Sing?
- Love Montage: I Saw Him Once/In My Life/A Heart Full Of Love
- Plumet Attack
- One Day More!
- On My Own
- The Attack
- A Little Fall Of Rain
- Drink With Me
- Bring Him Home
- Dog Eat Dog
- Soliloquy
- Turning
- Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
- Beggar At The Feast
- Finale
Free Music Notes for Les Miserables Original London Cast
Free Music Review: Back to the source
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree with most of the reviews - the London staging is the very best of the English language versions of 'Les Miserables'. Forget the New York (Broadway) production, much too polished (sanitized ?). It pales in comparison. The American version benefits from greater sophistication but at the cost of the original book.
BUT, for the first production of this musical, go to the recording on the 'Anthology' (French) label, issued by FGL Productions (the complete 1980 version). It has the cast of the premier, with 'guest appearances' by some big names in yesterday's French popular music, Michel Sardou, Salvatore Adamo, and Michel Delpech. And a list of superb actor-sings, like Maurice Barrier (Valjean), Rose Laurens (Fantine), Yvan Dautin (Thenardier), and Richard Dewitte (Marius), the list is long.
Of course, it is all in French, but this IS a French musical, and this is what the composer, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and the librettists, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, created. Here you have it, without embellishments added to fit 'Anglo-American' tastes. A much more raw interpretation, closer to Victor Hugo's very thick novel (interestingly written in France, and in England, when the author was in self-imposed exile). The words in the French production are quite different from the English-language versions. The recording on two cds comes without a text, but the actors enunciate perfectly. Every word is audible, if you understand the language. Great stuff !
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