Essential Recordings
Tony Porter
What recordings do you out there in ratm feel are essential recordings
for a good basic collection? I'm looking at ten to twenty recordings (so
as not to get too exhaustive a list) that you would want with you if you
ever blast off into space to man the listening post on Mars. I really am
interested in short lists. I have a list of "basic repertoire" for
classical recordings I downloaded that is over twenty pages long! Hardly
basic.
Anxiously awaiting your responses. Mine will follow soon.
Tony Porter
Chris Mayfield
1. Evita, London Studio
2. Assassins
3. Merrily We Roll Along, OBC
4. Sweeny Todd
5. Jekyll and Hyde: The Complete Work
6. Salvation
7. 1776
8. Canterbury Tales
9. Hair
10. Chess, London Studio
11. Sunset Boulevard, with Glenn Close
12. Barnum
13. Nine, with Jonathan Price
14. Tommy
15. Jesus Christ Superstar, 20th Anniversary
16. Les Miserables, Complete Symphonic Recording
17. Grand Hotel
18. City of Angels, OBC
19. Wuthering Heights
20. The Scarlet Pimpernel
Erin Blair
Miss Saigon-OLC
Les Mis-London, Broadway, CSR, and the French recording
King and I-with Lea Salonga
Damn Yankees-1994 B'way cast
Yours,
Erin
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Steve Lorenzo
> What recordings do you out there in ratm feel are essential recordings
> for a good basic collection? I'm looking at ten to twenty recordings (so
> as not to get too exhaustive a list) that you would want with you if you
> ever blast off into space to man the listening post on Mars
1) Annie Get Your Gun -- Merman, Lincoln Center Revival
2) The Baker's Wife -- Patti Lupone/ L.A. Cast
3) Carousel -- 1994 B'way Revival
4) Evita -- American Cast
5) Falsettoland
6) Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2
7) Funny Girl -- Original Broadway Cast
8) Guys and Dolls -- 1992 Broadway Revival
9) Gypsy -- Merman!
10) The King and I -- 1977 B'way Revival
11) Kiss of the Spider Woman -- Chita!
12) Les Miserables -- Original London Cast
13) March of the Falsettoes
14) The Music Man -- Original Broadway Cast
15) My Fair Lady -- London Cast w/ Julie Andrews (Stereo)
16) Once on this Island
17) Pal Joey -- 1952 Revival
18) The Rothschilds -- Original Broadway Cast
19) The Secret Garden -- Original Broadway Cast
20) She Loves Me -- Both OBC and 1993 Revival
21) South Pacific -- Original Broadway Cast
22) Sweeny Todd -- Original Broadway Cast
23) The Who's Tommy -- Original Broadway Cast
24) West Side Story -- Original Broadway Cast
25) The Will Rogers Follies -- Original Broadway Cast
This was difficult!
- Steve
bse...@hulaw1.harvard.edu
> Tony Porter wrote:
>
>> What recordings do you out there in ratm feel are essential recordings
>> for a good basic collection? I'm looking at ten to twenty recordings (so
>> as not to get too exhaustive a list) that you would want with you if you
>> ever blast off into space to man the listening post on Mars
>
> 1) Annie Get Your Gun -- Merman, Lincoln Center Revival
> 2) The Baker's Wife -- Patti Lupone/ L.A. Cast
> 3) Carousel -- 1994 B'way Revival
> 4) Evita -- American Cast
> 5) Falsettoland
> 6) Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2
> 7) Funny Girl -- Original Broadway Cast
> 8) Guys and Dolls -- 1992 Broadway Revival
> 9) Gypsy -- Merman!
> 10) The King and I -- 1977 B'way Revival
> 11) Kiss of the Spider Woman -- Chita!
> 12) Les Miserables -- Original London Cast
> 13) March of the Falsettoes
> 14) The Music Man -- Original Broadway Cast
> 15) My Fair Lady -- London Cast w/ Julie Andrews (Stereo)
Jeff Marx
>for a good basic collection?
If someone set me loose in Footlights with a few hundred dollars, this is
what I'd come home with (assuming everything I already own was stolen or
destroyed):
Sweeney Todd
Passion
Merrily We Roll Along (York)
Assassins
Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Putting It Together
West Side Story
Gypsy
The Baker's Wife
Rags
Falsettoland
March of the Falsettos
Ruthless!
Beauty and the Beast
The Hired Man
Working
A Chorus Line
The Fantasticks
She Loves Me (original cast)
Fiddler on the Roof
Brigadoon (original cast or the John McGlinn studio cast)
Pippin
Guys And Dolls (newest revival)
Big River
Sunset Boulevard (London -- not L.A.)
Closer Than Ever
And The World Goes 'Round
Betty Buckley's "Children Will Listen" solo album
Sam Harris's "Standard Time" and "Different Stages" solo albums
Barry Manilow's "Showstoppers" and "Even Now" solo album
Bobby Short's "Songs of Andy Razaf" solo album
A Streisand album, a Sinatra album, a Tony Bennett album, and a Billy Joel
album
That's basically fairly-complete minimum list I'd need if I were moving to
a remote desert island...
Jeff Marx
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It's called flowers wilt.
It's called apples rot.
It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot.
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot.
Alright, now you know.
-- Stephen Sondheim in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Adam Feldman
>What recordings do you out there in ratm feel are essential recordings
>for a good basic collection? I'm looking at ten to twenty recordings (so
>as not to get too exhaustive a list) that you would want with you if you
>ever blast off into space to man the listening post on Mars.
Well, here are the twenty that have given me the most listening pleasure
lately. This isn't written in stone and isn't even meant to be an
evaluation of the *quality* of these recordings per se -- they're just
the ones I happen to have cathected with. Recordings below are, unless
otherwise noted, the Original Broadway Cast recordings -- so when I say
"GYPSY" it means the Merman GYPSY, and when I say "GUYS AND DOLLS" it
means the one with Robert Alda et al.
So, in no particular order:
SWEET CHARITY
ANYTHING GOES (LuPone)
SHOW BOAT (McGlinn version)
ON THE TOWN
CANDIDE
EVITA
GYPSY
GUYS AND DOLLS
CHESS
FUNNY GIRL
EATING RAOUL
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR (Murray Head et al)
KISS ME, KATE
HAIR
NINE
GODSPELL
COMPANY
FALSETTOS (especially "Falsettoland")
FOLLIES
THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Blitzstein adaptation)
Of course, if I ever had to go to Mars, there is no WAY I would only
bring twenty CDs. :)
Warmly,
Adam
CT Hal 77
let it ride
kean
1776
flora, the red menace
fade out, fade in
bells are ringing
Hal in Connecticut
Timothy R. Hulsey
Here are my suggestions (I'll keep it to 15):
(Key: OBCR means "Original Broadway Cast Recording"; OCR means
"Original Cast Recording")
1: Kern / Hammerstein, _Show Boat_: highlights from the John
McGlinn recording.
2: Weill / Brecht, _Die Dreigroschenoper_ ("Threepenny
Opera"): late 1980's John Mauceri recording (in German).
3: Gershwin, _Of Thee I Sing_: 1950's revival recording.
4: Porter, _Anything Goes_: again, the McGlinn recording.
5: Bernstein / Comden / Green, _On the Town_: the Michael
Tilson-Thomas recording. (Either that or the OBCR of
Bernstein's _Candide_.)
6: Rodgers / Hammerstein, _Carousel_: the recent revival
recording, American cast.
7: Loesser, _Guys and Dolls_: 1990's revival cast recording.
8: Styne / Sondheim, _Gypsy_: OBCR (you must have something
with Ethel Merman).
9: Schmidt / Jones, _The Fantasticks_: OCR.
10: Lerner / Loewe, _My Fair Lady_: OBCR.
11: Bock / Harnick, _Fiddler on the Roof_: OBCR.
12: Sondheim, _Company_: OBCR.
13: Hamlisch, _A Chorus Line_: OBCR.
14: Lloyd Webber / Rice, _Evita_: American Premiere Recording.
15: Sondheim, _Sweeney Todd_: complete 2-CD recording.
I don't have all of these scores myself--I don't even like
several of them--but I think that this selection will give you
a good (if somewhat sketchy) idea of where musical theater has
been and is going. It includes most of the influential writers
for musical theater, and several major popular successes.
Weill's _Dreigroschenoper_ is a controversial choice. But
Weill was a remarkably adept theatrical composer both in Weimar
Republic Germany and in the United States, and the original
_Dreigroschenoper_ score contains some of his best work.
You'll find a pleasant variety in the selections, I suspect.
Thanx,
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Here, in no special order, are my 'must-haves' (OBC, unless
otherwise stated):
My Fair Lady, OLC
South Pacific
Fiddler on the Roof
Man of La Mancha, OBC or OLC
Phantom of the Opera, OLC
Les Miserables, OLC
Evita, concept album
West Side Story, soundtrack
CATS, OLC
Sweeney Todd
Gypsy, Merman version
Sunset Boulevard
Jacques Brel is...etc., off-B'way version
Barnum, OLC
Jesus Christ Superstar, concept album
Forbidden Broadway, vol. 2
Chess
Canterbury Tales
Flowers for Algernon, OLC
Carousel
Regards--Thalia
Sam Ross
Girl Crazy (Mauceri)
Lady, Be Good Teeter, Maguire, Jason Alexander
Hey Mr. Producer! The Musical world of Cameron Mackintosh
70 Girls 70 OBC
Candide OBC
My Fair Lady OBC 1956
The Boys From Syracuse 1963 Off Bway Cast
She Loves Me OBC
The Noel Coward Album
Little Me (Sid Caesar)
Kiss Me Kate (DRAKE) Stereo
Die Dreigroschenoper and Berlin 1930 w/Lenya and M. Dietrich
On The Twentieth Century OBC
The Complete Sweeney Todd
All of The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas
1776
The Fantasticks Orig recording
Finians Rainbow
King and I Gertie Lawrence
Fiddler on the Roof (Mostel)
Funny Thing (Mostel)
FOLLIES (Avery Fisher Hall recording)
How long would I be away for?
Erin L Claypoole
are all my friends who really don't like to hear me go on and on about musicals
:) Here is my essential list...
1. Les Miserables Complete Symphonic Recording
2. Aspects of Love
3. THe Phantom of the Opera, OLR
4. The Secret Garden
5. Nine (with Jonathon Pryce)
5.5 Sunset Boulevard (AmericanRecording)
6. Starlight Express (OLR)
6.5 Cats (OLR with Elaine Paige)
7. Jesus Christ Superstar (with Murray Head)
8. Chess (with Elaine Paige)
9. Into the Woods (OBR)
10. Kiss of the SpiderWoman
11. Beauty and the Beast
12. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (I have the new one...)
13. West Side Story (OBR)
14. Annie (OBR) For Sentimental Reasons...my first "starring role" in High Sc.
15. She Loves Me (the new Broadway Recording)
I just saw "Sunset Boulevard" last weekend in NYC and was imressed with Glenn
Close. Her first song, the one sung over the little chimp, was pretty weak and
I got nervous, but then she just belted out the rest. But I couldn't believe
that people actually stopped the show to clap *three* times at the *beginning*
of scenes...(1) When the scenery of the mansion came out (people clap for
scenery?? New to me!) (2) When Glenn Close made her first appearance, they
went on for almost two minutes and (3) When the car made its appearance during
the second act.
Erin
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M. Lara
so it's not quite what I would bring if stranded on a desert island.
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The question "Which are the essential recordings for a budding
musical collector?" is very difficult to answer, especially
without knowing anything about the person asking the question.
The following recordings are what I feel are a representative
list to be explored. I've tried to choose recordings which have
become historically important in one way or another. Some are
high points in a composer's career; some were unusually
influential; some present legendary performances by legendary
stars, and still others are just personal favorites. All in
all, over 50 years of musical theatre are represented here.
My list will undoubtedly offend some people, due to the
inclusion or exclusion of certain recordings. That can't be
helped, considering the diversity of people's tastes, and the
brevity of this list. I had to omit many of my favorite titles,
because I thought that they hadn't yet attained any historical
importance. Anyway, I've tried to express the diversity of
musical theatre in compiling this list, and hopefully you'll
find here something to your liking.
In no particular order...
1. Crazy for You (Original Broadway Cast)
2. Show Boat (1994 revival recording)
3. Annie Get Your Gun (1966 revival recording)
4. Anything Goes (1989 studio recording by John McGlinn)
5. Kiss Me Kate (Original Broadway Cast)
6. Guys and Dolls (1992 Broadway revival)
7. Gypsy (Original Broadway Cast)
8. The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)
9. The King and I (1977 Broadway revival)
10. Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast)
11. My Fair Lady (Original London Cast)
12. Cinderella (1957 TV cast)
13. Kismet (Original Broadway Cast)
14. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)
15. Hello, Dolly! (Original Broadway Cast)
16. The Fantasticks (Original Cast)
17. Fiddler on the Roof (Original London Cast)
18. Hair (Original Broadway Cast)
19. The Who's Tommy (Original Broadway Cast)
20. Godspell (Original Cast)
21. A Chorus Line (Original Broadway Cast)
22. Evita (Premiere American Recording)
23. Sweeney Todd (Original Cast)
24. Chess (Original Concept Album from 1984)
25. Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast)
26. Rags (with members of the Broadway cast)
27. Les Miserables (Original London Cast)
28. Closer Than Ever (Original Cast)
29. Falsettoland (Original Cast)
30. The Phantom of the Opera (Original London Cast)
Now don't feel compelled to buy all of these--these are merely
suggestions. One last suggestion: check your local library,
as they probably have many of these. That way you can sample
the works without risking a dime.
--
Michael Soliven Lara Sind es die Worte, die mein Herz
bewegen, oder sind es die Tone,
msl...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu die starker sprechen? (Clemens Kraus)