Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein

Bernadette Peters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000062R9C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,718 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Get It!!!, April 17, 2002

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Peter Mins "Costume Designer Extraordinaire" (Palm Springs, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein (Audio CD)

I just couldn't wait for this CD to be released and now I can't share all the enthusiasm I read about. I am highly disappointed because I consider it one of the most boring collections in years. There isn't one song in there that I haven't heard the original recording artist do better. I don't know what all the hoopla is about. I love R&H and BP, but this just doesn't cut it for me. (Reminds me of Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley's recording of "The King and I". What a shame ... for all of us!)

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She's got it!, March 15, 2002

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Adam Mathias (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein (Audio CD)

Bernadette Peters gets it: in musical theatre the words are as important as the music. If you like your standards crooned like warm butter and spun silk, this may not be the cd for you. This incomprable musical theatre star gets to the heart of these classic songs and dispels the notion that Rodgers and Hammerstein shows are just fluffy musical-comedy.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo!!, March 19, 2002

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"joto25" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein (Audio CD)

Bernadette Peters is usually associated with Sondheim. And I loved her in Webber's Tell Me On A Sunday. This BP loves R & H is quite something.

Miss Peters' unique talent comes right through the "live" recordings. The phrasing is not practised like Miss Streisand would in her studio recordings. Mind, I do adore Miss Streisands' talents enormously. BP oozes fun and frivolity in some of the cheeky numbers like The Gentleman is a dope and Mr Snow.

Her guts and emotions are so intact for the performances of these songs here, that she sounds like she's in character on stage!! Only without the usual distractions of a live stage recording. Although at times, her voice is too forwardly placed, but it works as I listen to it again and again. She is right here on stage in my home!! Brilliant!

Miss Peters' rendition and choice of There is nothing like a Dame is rather audacious but appropriate. Do listen to this and enjoy what she is trying to say.... a howling, glaring, gutsy telling of R & H music and lyric!!

The treatment of It Might As Well Be Spring and Something Good is most exquisite. The latter, as pointed out by others here, is a mostly over-looked gem from The Sound Of Music.

In Weber's Tell Me On A Sunday, BP delivered the most individual performance I've heard. And here, now doing R & H, I am in love with Miss BP again....

Jonathan Tunick of course, has come up with some stunning arrangements and never sounding like he is repeating himself even though he has arranged these tunes many times for other artistes. Great work.

Other pieces to really note are, If I Loved You,Out Of My Dreams, So Far....I Haven't Got A Worry In The World, Something Wonderful.... well, the whole CD recording!!!!!!

Get it, a wonderful collaboration of all involved..and of course the fabulous Miss Peters. Don't forget to check out the TATTOO.