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Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim
 
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Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim [CAST RECORDING]

Stephen Sondheim (Composer), Jonathan Tunick (Conductor), Paul Gemignani (Conductor), American Theatre Orchestra (Orchestra), New York Philharmonic (Orchestra), Angela Lansbury (Performer), Annie Golden (Performer), Barbara Cook (Performer), Bernadette Peters (Performer), Carolann Page (Performer), Cleo Laine (Performer), David Kernan (Performer), George Hearn (Performer), Gregory Paul German (Performer), Jerry Hadley (Performer), Julie Andrews (Performer), Kenneth Jennings (Performer), Mandy Patinkin (Performer), Michael Rupert (Performer), Stephen Collins (Performer)
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Product Details

  • Performer: Angela Lansbury, Annie Golden, Barbara Cook, Bernadette Peters, Carolann Page, et al.
  • Orchestra: American Theatre Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Jonathan Tunick, Paul Gemignani
  • Composer: Stephen Sondheim
  • Audio CD (October 22, 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Cast Recording
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • ASIN: B00006LSQJ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #140,329 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Send in the Clowns [From A Little Night Music] - Cleo Laine, Jonathan Tunick
2. Losing My Mind [From Follies] - Barbara Cook, Paul Gemignani, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
3. I Remember [From Evening Primrose] - David Kernan
4. Liaisons [From A Little Night Music] - Hermione Gingold
5. With So Little to Be Sure Of [From Anyone Can Whistle] - American Theatre Orchestra, Paul Gemignani, Jerry Hadley, Carol Ann Page
6. Not a Day Goes By [From Merrily We Roll Along] - American Theatre Orchestra, Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters
7. Pretty Women [From Sweeney Todd] - Stephen Collins, Michael Rupert
8. In Buddy's Eyes [From Follies] - Barbara Cook, Paul Gemignani, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
9. No One Is Alone [From Into the Woods] - Cleo Laine, Jonathan Tunick
10. Johanna [From Sweeney Todd] - Victor Garber
11. So Many People [From Saturday Night Fever] - Craig Lucas
12. Sorry-Grateful [From Company] - Stephen Collins
13. Too Many Mornings [From Follies] - Barbara Cook, , George Hearn, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
14. Finishing the Hat [From Sunday in the Park with George] - Mandy Patinkin
15. Not While I'm Around [From Sweeney Todd] - Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury
16. Like It Was [From Merrily We Roll Along] - Julie Andrews
17. Unworthy of Your Love [From Assassins] - Greg Germann, Annie Golden
18. Anyone Can Whistle [From Anyone Can Whistle] - Cleo Laine, Jonathan Tunick

On this CD:
  1. A Little Night Music, musical Send in the Clowns
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Cleo Laine
    Conducted by Jonathan Tunick

  2. Follies, musical play Losing My Mind
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    Performed by New York Philharmonic
    with Barbara Cook
    Conducted by Paul Gemignani

  3. Evening Primrose, musical play I Remember
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with David Kernan

  4. A Little Night Music, musical Liaisons
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim

  5. Anyone Can Whistle, musical With So Little To Be Sure Of
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    Performed by American Theatre Orchestra
    with Carolann Page, Jerry Hadley
    Conducted by Paul Gemignani

  6. Merrily We Roll Along, musical Not A Day Goes By
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    Performed by American Theatre Orchestra
    with Bernadette Peters
    Conducted by Paul Gemignani

  7. Sweeney Todd, musical play Pretty Women
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Michael Rupert

  8. Follies, musical play In Buddy's Eyes
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    Performed by New York Philharmonic
    with Barbara Cook
    Conducted by Paul Gemignani

  9. Into the Woods, musical play No One is Alone
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Cleo Laine
    Conducted by Jonathan Tunick

  10. Sweeney Todd, musical play Johanna
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Victor Garber

  11. Saturday Night, musical play So Many People
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim

  12. Company, musical Sorry-Grateful
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim

  13. Follies, musical play Too Many Mornings
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    Performed by New York Philharmonic
    with Barbara Cook, George Hearn
    Conducted by Paul Gemignani

  14. Sunday in the Park with George, musical play Finishing the Hat
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Mandy Patinkin

  15. Sweeney Todd, musical play Not While I'm Around
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Angela Lansbury, Kenneth Jennings

  16. Merrily We Roll Along, musical Like it Was
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Julie Andrews

  17. Assassins, musical Unworthy of Your Love
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim

  18. Anyone Can Whistle, musical Anyone Can Whistle
    Composed by Stephen Sondheim
    with Cleo Laine
    Conducted by Jonathan Tunick


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful songs, February 6, 2003
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If you're a Sondheim ballad fan, this a must-have. While there are a few renditions that aren't great (Not a Day Goes By is way overdone), the selections from Follies sung by Barbara Cook are outstanding. The Cleo Laine version of "Send in the Clowns" is lovely and Stephen Collins does an amazing good job on "Sorry-Grateful" from Company. Still, it's the Follies songs that truly shine!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An actor's delight: a musician's dream, January 7, 2008
Tim Burton's movie version of Sweeney Todd brought back to me just how marvelous Stephen Sondheim's musicality is and what force he has been in the development of musical theatre. I came away from the movie wanting more Sondheim. I found it in Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim. I wanted to hear ballads, songs I could listen to and moon over, to recall just why this music of all theatre music, resonates so well in some of the best of Broadway performers, to hear beauty and depth of feeling. Boy, did this album do the trick.

Not only did I get the best three ballads from Sweeney Todd, I got them with other tracks containing some of the best acting performances I have heard in a long time.

Each ballad is a microcosm of a one-act play and each performance is a mini-lesson in acting, but three of the best are these: Bernadette Peters' "Not a Day Goes By," is an acting lesson in how to build in an out of conflicting emotions in the short span of a song. Mandy Patinkin is almost showing off, he's so good in "Finishing the Hat," a song that has the sharp punctuation of the Pointillist technique of the painter he is playing.

Also worth mentioning in the acting category, is Julie Andrews' quiet and moving "Like it Was."

Barbara Cook is marvelous, as are Cleo Laine's tracks. For sheer listenability, you can get lost in Laine's lush contralto.

And if you need any more reason to get this album, for the theatre student it is a study in musical theatre history.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sondheim - how can you go wrong?, July 28, 2008
Interesting compilation of Sondheim ballads with a great variety of artists - from the incomparable Cleo Laine and Barbara Cook to singers you've never heard of who are equally impressive.
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