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Sarah Brightman: The Songs That Got Away

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Label: Really Useful Group Ltd
Released: 1989
Time:
 49:52
Category: Classical
Producer(s): Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.sarahbrightman.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Meadowlark [from The Baker's Wife] (Stephen Schwartz) - 5:09
[2] I Am Going to Like It Here [from Flower Drum Song] (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein) - 3:34
[3] I Remember [from Evening Primrose] (Stephen Sondheim) - 3:05
[4] Mr. Monotony [Cut from movies Easter Parade, Miss Liberty and Call Me Madam] (Irving Berlin) - 3:59
[5] Dreamers [from Jean Seberg] (Marvin Hamlisch, Christopher Adler) - 2:53
[6] Silent Heart [from Bless the Bride] (Vivian Ellis, A. P. Herbert) - 3:56
[7] Lud's Wedding [from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue] (Leonard Bernstein, Alan Jay Lerner) - 3:47
[8] Three-Cornered Tune [Early version of “Fugue for Tinhorns” from Guys and Dolls] (Frank Loesser) - 2:11
[9] If I Ever Fall in Love Again [from The Crooked Mile] (Peter Greenwell, Peter Wildeblood) - 3:57
[10] What Makes Me Love Him? [from The Apple Tree] (Jerrold Bock, Sheldon Harnick) - 2:41
[11] Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta [from La Rondine] (Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami) - 2:47
[12] Away from You [from Rex (musical)] (Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick) - 3:28
[13] If Love Were All [from Bitter Sweet] (Noël Coward) - 4:25
[14] Half a Moment [from By Jeeves] (Lloyd Webber, Alan Ayckbourn) - 3:56

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Sarah Brightman - Vocals

Capt. Dave Beer - Piano
Geoffrey Eales - Piano
Barbara Thompson - Saxophone
Ritchie Pits - Vocals

Stephen Hill - Choir/Chorus
Marvin Hamlisch - Conductor, Producer
Harry Rabinowitz - Conductor
Michael Reed - Conductor
Dick Hazard - Orchestration
Luther Henderson - Orchestration
Steve Margoshes - Orchestration
Peter Matz - Orchestration
Tony Cox - Adaptation, Orchestration
David Cullen - Orchestration
Laurence Roman - Adaptation

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Adaptation, Orchestration, Producer
Martin Levan - Engineer
Sheridan Morley - Liner Notes
Thomas Z. Shepard - Engineer
Firooz Zahedi - Photography, Sleeve Photo

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The Songs That Got Away is an album by English soprano Sarah Brightman. The songs selected for this album were allegedly based on an idea by Brightman's then husband Andrew Lloyd Webber. His idea was to incorporate songs which were mostly from West End theatre or Broadway theatre productions that were either unsuccessful, never made it across to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, were cut from its respective show, or forgotten by time. All songs were produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber with the exception of "Dreamers". It was produced by its original composer Marvin Hamlisch. Album liner notes were written by Sheridan Morley.



Sarah Brightman's The Songs That Got Away delivers what the title promises: a collection of 14 of Brightman's favorite songs that are more obscure to the general public. These little-known show tunes include works by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Noël Coward, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other great songwriters, making this album worthwhile not only for Brightman fans, but musical theater historians as well.

Heather Phares - AllMusic.com



For those Sarah Brightman fans who didn't spring for The Songs That Got Away when it was a pricey import, this domestic release will be a must-buy. Originally recorded in 1989 shortly after she achieved international fame in The Phantom of the Opera, the album spotlights obscure American and British musical theater songs that either were removed from shows or were "lost" when the shows themselves slipped out of the repertoire. (Of course, some of the songs aren't nearly as obscure as they were in 1989--the opening track, Stephen Schwartz's soaring "Meadowlark," has since been claimed by Liz Callaway, Patti LuPone, and Betty Buckley, while Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember" - well suited to Brightman's glasslike tones - is now recognized as one of his most gorgeous and haunting compositions.) Brightman performs well on this diverse collection of entertaining and often lovely songs, including an early draft of Frank Loesser's "Fugue for Tinhorns," here sung as a triple-tracked, lilting waltz, and the Puccini aria "Chi il bel sogno di doretta," which foreshadows her later, more ambitious crossover projects. There's also a tune from Jeeves by then-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, who produced this album not long before he and Brightman divorced in 1990.

David Horiuchi - Amazon.com
 

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