King Of Hearts (1978 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]

Peter Link (Composer, Performer), Dorothea Freitag (Performer), Rex Hays (Performer), Pamela Blair (Performer), Bob Gunton (Performer), M. D'Honau (Performer), A. Lacoonis (Performer), Millicent Martin (Performer), M. McCarty (Performer), Don Scardino (Performer), G. Weiss (Performer), Jacob Brackman (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Peter Link, Dorothea Freitag, Rex Hays, Pamela Blair, Bob Gunton, et al.
• Composer: Peter Link
• Audio CD (March 23, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Original Cast Record
• ASIN: B000004CT4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,829 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prologue

2. Here Comes Mine

3. St. Anne's

4. Transformation Suite / Gate Theme / Deja Vu / Promenade

5. Down at Madeleine's

6. Nothing Only Love

7. King of Hearts

8. Mrs. Draba

9. Close Upon the Hour

10. Coronation

11. With My Friends

12. Raoul's Grande Cirque

13. Going Home Tomorrow

14. Somewhere is Here

15. Quartet

16. A Day in Our Life

17. Finale

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GO AND GET IT RIGHT NOW!, May 17, 2008

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Julio Lopez "soundtrack fan" (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Of Hearts (1978 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

Don't waste any minute of your life and enjoy this music! It's one of those albums you fall in love with. It's pure beauty. It's a shame it's been so underrated since it deserves much more attention. Most of the songs are wonderful, specially "Nothing Only Love" "Close Upon the Hour" and "Somewhere is Here". Based in the unforgetable french classic movie about a young soldier during the I world War who gets used to sharing his life with insanes in a french clinic, finding love and confort in the place. Believe me, don't hesitate and get it asap. Much better than many overrated recent musicals which say nothing and sound awful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, Haunting Score, December 29, 2004

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A Charlotte Reader "A Charlotte Reader" (Eastern US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Of Hearts (1978 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

What a gem! This score is rarely heard because the musical failed and has not been widely-performed. (I believe this play originally opened in the middle of a NYC newspaper strike and therefore couldn't get reviewed or advertised properly.) For my money it's one of the sweetest little chamber musicals I've heard. Unlike the reviewer above, I think the small orchestra complements rather than detracts. There is a gentle, bittersweet quality to the music that transcends the bombast we have today in extravaganzas like "Phantom of the Opera." It's true, there are one or two clunkers in here ("Mrs. Draba" is pretty dreadful) but you can skip them and continue with the good stuff. And there's a lot of good stuff.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Addicting, January 15, 2007

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Gary S. Glor (North central NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Of Hearts (1978 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

The only time I saw the movie, I was a little disappointed - it had been a cult anti-war hit in the '60's, but I thought some of the asylum inmates were coy stock characters, and the war invading their town was mostly comic, not very threatening.
That said, I did pick up the cast album shortly after the show came out and found so much pleasure there. It's a very gentle ensemble show with some enchanting music. Not having seen the original or the revival (at the Goodspeed), I can only guess why it didn't succeed, but that hasn't stopped me from listening again and again to this work. When it came out on CD, I couldn't stop myself from buying it.