Phantasia
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Performer: Julian Lloyd WebberComposer: Geoffrey Alexander
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Conductor: Simon Lee
Orchestra: London Orchestra
Performer: Sarah Chang
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Phantasia - Julian Lloyd Webber
- The Woman In White Suite - Simon Lee
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Free Music Review: Orchestra too loud / soloists too quiet
Hit: 2 Stars
The phantasia piece is supposed to be a singing dialogue between a young woman and a man, namely the violin and the cello. Listening to this recording I can barely hear them. If I turn up the volume to try to hear them clearly I then get my ears blasted when the orchestra then plays. It's really unfortunately that it was recorded this way.
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The arrangers of these Andrew Lloyd Webber works aspire to carry on the operatic tradition of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner by transforming his vocal compositions into independent instrumental pieces. But the music's origin in theater and film is unmistakable, and the transitions between the tunes and sections are pretty bumpy. Phantasia combines material from both the stage and movie versions of The Phantom of the Opera in a double concerto which showcases a virtuoso violinist and cellist with brilliant cadenzas, runs, and soaring stratospheric flights. It also casts them as the play's protagonists in ardently passionate love duets. Although the cello part was written for the composer's brother, who plays it very well, Sarah Chang easily steals the show, especially in this technically and tonally stunning, all-out performance. The two soloists play with and off each other, projecting an infectious sense of sheer exuberant enjoyment. The Woman in White Suite conveys the spooky as well as the pastoral and passionate elements of Collins's gothic mystery story and features dances in various styles: straight and parodistic waltzes and tangos and jazzy rhythms. The composer's orchestrations are lush, veering between whispers and crashes, so keep a finger on the volume control. --Edith EislerClassical Music CDs
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