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Description / My Opinion
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Music Boulevard - Ordered 01/06/99 - Shipped 01/08/99 - Received 01/19/99 The booklet contains 9 medium photos of the performers, and a description of A Little Night Music and what is it's place among the other Sondheim musicals. There is also a note about the recording, because there were some orchestration changes due to the theatre where the show had to take place, from John Owen Edwards who conducted it. This recording is quite strange when you know well the others: the voices of the performers are much more opera trained, and it sometimes discards the freshness of the songs. For example, Bonaventura Bottone is a very good tenor, but the way he renders Henrick makes the character more mature, while he is not. So these are high level performances but that sometimes kill the original spirit of the characters. Sometimes only though, and this recording still contains some great numbers, for example Send In The Clowns is wonderously sung by Sian Phillips, and Jason Howard is a perfect Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 3:44 | Overture | Orchestra, Quintet |
| 2 | 2:59 | Night Waltz | Orchestra, Quintet |
| 3 | 3:05 | Now | Anne, Frederick |
| 4 | 2:28 | Later | Henrik |
| 5 | 3:52 | Soon | Anne, Frederick, Henrik |
| 6 | 3:47 | The Glamorous Life | Frederika, Desirée, Madame Armfeldt, Quintet |
| 7 | 2:50 | Remember | Quintet |
| 8 | 4:13 | You Must Meet My Wife | Frederick, Desirée |
| 9 | 5:41 | Liaisons | Madame Armfeldt |
| 10 | 3:19 | In Praise Of Women | Count Carl-Magnus |
| 11 | 2:22 | Every Day A Little Death | Countess Charlotte, Anne |
| 12 | 6:13 | A Weekend In The Country | Petra, Anne, Frederick, Countess Charlotte, Count Carl-Magnus, Quintet |
| 13 | 3:22 | Night Waltz I (The Sun Won't Set) | Quintet |
| 14 | 2:20 | Night Waltz II (Liebeslieders) | Quintet |
| 15 | 4:06 | It Would Have Been Wonderful | Frederick, Count Carl-Magnus |
| 16 | 1:20 | Perpetual Anticipation | Ladies Trio |
| 17 | 4:37 | Send In The Clowns | Desirée |
| 18 | 4:10 | The Miller's Son | Petra |
| 19 | 3:42 | Send In The Clowns (Reprise) | Desirée, Frederick |
| 20 | 1:32 | Last Waltz | Orchestra |
The Cast
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| | Frederick Egerman | Eric Flynn | | | Anne Egerman | Janis Kelly | | | Henrik Egerman | Bonaventura Bottone | | | Frederika Armfeldt | Megan Kelly | | | Desirée Armfeldt | Sian Phillips | | | Madame Armfeldt | Elisabeth Welch | | | Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm | Jason Howard | | | Countess Charlotte Malcolm | Susan Hampshire | | | Petra | Maria Friedman | | | Quintet | Michael Bulman | | | | Susan Flannery | | | | Dinah Harris | | | | Martin Nelson | | | | Hilary Western |
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