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Schubert: Goethe Lieder Music | Label | Berlin Classics | | Orig Year | 10/25/1994 | | All Time Sales Rank |  58207  | | CD Universe Part number | 1120748 | | Catalog number | 21852 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 08, 2008 | | Recording Time | 55 minutes |
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Schubert: Goethe Lieder Music Composers on Schubert: Goethe Lieder CD : Franz Schubert Performers on Schubert: Goethe Lieder CD : Arleen Auger Purchase Schubert: Goethe Lieder To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Attic CD (1998)
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Drabik, Shoshana Frishberg, Julia George, Jack Gibson, Nina Gottlieb, Erick Hernandez, Michelle Repella, Anton Spivack.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra's second album, Christmas Attic, may not be as focused or serious as Christmas Eve, but it is just as enjoyable and maybe even more consistent, thanks to Paul O'Neill's increasingly impressive compositions and an improved musicality. ~ Stephen ...
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Just going by the title Kurt Weill on Broadway, one might expect to encounter certain songs from certain shows, for example, the title song from Lost in the Stars and "September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday. Composer Kurt Weill's biggest hit show on Broadway was One Touch of Venus, and when you consider that this album, although credited to opera singer Thomas Hampson, who is heard to one extent or another on all but two of the 16 tracks, is really something of a studio cast recording of selections from Weill musicals also featuring 21 other singers (notably Elizabeth Futral, Jerry Hadley, and Jeanne Lehman), you might expect to hear "Speak Low," "That's Him," and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from that show (even though they're sung by the female lead) and, perhaps, "Jenny" and "Tschaikowsky" from Weill's second biggest Broadway hit, Lady in the Dark. You might even expect to hear a song or two from The Threepenny Opera, which, even though it dates from Weill's early career in Germany, has had several Broadway and off-Broadway productions. But all such expectations should be banished; none of these songs is included. The title of this album really should be The Lost Songs of Kurt Weill on Broadway, or something like that, because it is in fact a reclamation project that looks to some of Weill's least successful shows and most obscure compositions.
Forget about Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars, much less The Threepenny Opera. This collection is devoted to music from shows like The Firebrand of Florence (a 48-performance flop) and Johnny Johnson (68 performances), shows that never had cast albums. Neither did Love Life, another show highlighted here, even though it ran a comparatively long 252 performances, if only because, as annotator Miles Kreuger points out, the year it opened on Broadway there was a strike of the musicians union that prevented anything from being recorded. Kreuger, in his extensive notes, provides much of the rationale for this album, claiming, for example, that The Firebrand of Florence, an operetta with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and excerpts from which take up half the album's running time, "failed, not because of its writing or composition, but because almost everything that could go wrong with its original Broadway production went wrong," among those things that the show was "poorly directed, and four out of the four leading characters [were] poorly cast...." The annotator says nothing about the casting on this album; in fact, he says practically nothing at all about these recordings, restricting himself to historical comments about the original productions.
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