Song Of Norway (1944 Original Cast Members) [Cast Recording]

George Forrest (Composer), Don Raye (Composer), Jack Strachey (Composer), Fred E. Ahlert (Composer), Arthur Kay (Conductor), Harry Sosnik (Conductor), Song of Norway Pit Orchestra (Orchestra), Harry Sosnik & His Orchestra (Orchestra), Gwyneth Jones (Performer), Robert Shafer (Performer), Kitty Carlisle Hart (Performer), Lawrence Brooks (Performer), Sig Arno (Performer), Helena Bliss (Performer), Kent Edwards (Performer), Walter Kingsford (Performer), Ivy Scott (Performer), Robert Wright (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Gwyneth Jones, Robert Shafer, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Lawrence Brooks, Sig Arno, et al.
• Orchestra: Song of Norway Pit Orchestra, Harry Sosnik & His Orchestra
• Conductor: Arthur Kay, Harry Sosnik
• Composer: George Forrest, Don Raye, Jack Strachey, Fred E. Ahlert
• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Box Office
• ASIN: B000001ZRL
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,814 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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  • #39 in Music > World Music > Europe > Scandinavia > Norway
  • #89 in Music > Indie Music > Soundtracks > General

Track Listings

1. Prelude and Legend (A minor Concerto) - Kitty Carlisle Hart

2. Hill of Dreams (A Minor Concerto) - Kitty Carlisle Hart

3. Freddy & His fiddle (Nowegian Dance No. 2, Op. 35) - Kitty Carlisle Hart

4. Now (Waltz, Op. 12 and Violin Sonata No. 2) - Kitty Carlisle Hart

5. Strange Music (Nocturne and Wedding Day in Troldhaugen)

6. Midsummer's Eve ('Twas on a Lovely Eve in June & Scherzo in E minor)

7. March of the Trollgers (Mountaineers' Song, Halling in G Minor, March o

8. Hymn of Betrothal (To Spring) and Finale of Act 1

9. Bon Vivant (Water Lily)

10. Three Loves (Alumblatt and Poem Erotique)

11. Finaletto: Part 1

12. Finaletto: Part 2 - Nordraak's Farewell (Springtide); Reprise of Three

13. I Love You (Ich Liebe Dich)

14. At Christmastime (Woodland Wanderings)

15. Song of Norway - Finale (Poem by Milton Lazarus)

16. I'll Remember April

17. These Foolish Things

18. I'll get by

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PLEASE wait for the Decca Broadway remaster!!, October 27, 2002

By 

Alfonzo Tyson (Buffalo, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Song Of Norway (1944 Original Cast Members) (Audio CD)

I want to strongly advise against anybody purchasing this shoddily mastered Box Office Recordings CD of "Song of Norway". The score is beautiful, but this CD makes all of the singing voices sound like mush! Decca Broadway (the REAL owners of the masters of the original recording) will be making a remastered CD of "Song of Norway" which is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003. Please be patient and wait for the remaster. Don't even THINK about getting THIS CD!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Song of Norway needs to be redone on Broadway, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Song Of Norway (1944 Original Cast Members) (Audio CD)

What a beautiful score and magnificent singing. I've looked for a long time for this particular album and the remastered cd is as good as I remember the original and that is saying quite a lot. My particular cd seems to have a slight defect and I have informed amazon.com about that. But considering how reliable they have been in the past, I'm not concerned. If you liked the "Sound of Music" you should love this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrible remastering of dated operetta, February 26, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Song Of Norway (1944 Original Cast Members) (Audio CD)

This is as clear as mud - the songs are lovely and the singing is fine but the transfer from original discs is substandard. Also to note the libretto and dialogue (even for 1946) are the poorest ever recorded. Embarrassingly awful writing with putrid attempts to act - it was not a loss at all to have a lot of the recorded dialogue cut for the LP transfer.

For the record:

The LP eliminated:

3. Opening dialogue of FREDDY AND HIS FIDDLE
5. Opening dialogue and musical intro to STRANGE MUSIC
7. Entire cut except for final few words
9. Three minutes of opening dialogue
10. Two minutes of musical intro

Cuts 6 and 7, cuts 10 and 11 and cuts 13 and 14 were double bands recorded onto single sides of the 12 inch 78-rpms. Maximum time for a side of this size was 4 and one half minutes.

The score needs a modern studio reproduction sans dialogue. This CD is a very very poor incarnation of the original recording.