Lyrically Alan Bergman

Alan Bergman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B000P6R7P0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,215 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE, June 22, 2007

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Mr. B. Pugh (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lyrically Alan Bergman (Audio CD)

Followers of the marvellous songwriting team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman would have been astounded to learn of Alan's surprising vocal debut. For decades they have delighted all people who love classy music and are probably best known for working with Michel Legrand, Johnny Mandel and Dave Grusin.This astonishing debut work is brimming over with immaculate performances and lyrical mastery. As his wife Marilyn says in the sleeve notes "This is with Pride and Prejudice". Each track displays that his timing, pitch and phrasing is quite amazing. If you want to listen to poignant, emotional music, then, in my humble opinion, this is the best album released in 2007. It is difficult to single out individual tracks since all have an individual sensitivity. However, I'll just mention one to wet your appetite. The song "What Matter Most" (a little jewel of a melody originally beautifully sung by Kenny Rankin) gets unbelievable emotion from Alan, and closes the album. On a personal note, if I had to name one song as my favourite over a lifetime of loving and listening to music - this would be it! Bravo Alan

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lyrically, Ours, July 5, 2007

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Daniel E. Molloy (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lyrically Alan Bergman (Audio CD)

This recording is Bergman's love letter to the life he has lived so fully and so generously.

Rarely is a recording so aptly named. LYRICALLY, ALAN BERGMAN is the signature to his heartfelt expression of the joy, love and privilege he feels as he nears the end. Like other lyricists and composers, notably Johnny Mercer, Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach, his vocal skills and styling are subservient to the emotion he expresses in the songs.

Bergman, an octogenarian, brings us his smile, his laughter and his gratitude in a way that makes tune and tone less important than his emotion. Each piece fits, like a finely sawed puzzle part, into the magnificent portrait at which he has been working for the past sixty years. The orchestrations are wonderfully understated. The production work is subtly superb. Everything works together to present a giant of lyricism at his most humble and beautiful.

Will there be a finer recording produced this year? Hard to know. Will this one stand out as one of the great self-interpretations in modern music history? Most definitely.

A gem - listen to it, love it, share it as Bergman has done all of his life.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty....Romantic....Mellow, July 14, 2007

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Renee (BROOKLYN, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lyrically Alan Bergman (Audio CD)

Pour a glass of wine, have a seat, sit back, and listen to some beautiful music and lyrics, sung beautifully by Mr. Bergman. He sounds a little like Jack Jones here, a little like Bacharach there. The music that Alan Bergman and his wife Marilyn have gifted us with over the years has just been so memorable and lovely and heartfelt. What a treat to have the composer very ably show those singers who have brought us their music how they intended it to be sung when words and music were put to paper.