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1. Happiness 2. First Letter 3. Second Letter 4. Third Letter 5. Fourth Letter 6. I Read 7. Transition 8. Garden Sequence 9. Transition 10. Trio 11. Transition 12. I Wish I Could Forget You 13. Soldiers' Gossip 14. Flashback 15. Sunrise Letter 16. Is This What You Call Love? 17. Soldiers' Gossip 18. Transition 19. Forty Days 20. Loving You 21. Transition 22. Soldiers' Gossip 23. Farewell Letter 24. No One Has Ever Loved Me 25. Finale
Details
Producer:
Phil Ramone
Distributor:
EMI Music Distribution
Recording type:
Studio
Recording mode:
Stereo
SPAR Code:
DDD
Album notes
Original score written by Stephen Sondheim. Principal cast includes: Marin Mazzie (Clara); Jere Shea (Giorgio); Gregg Edelman (Colonel Ricci); Tom Aldredge (Doctor Tambourri); Francis Ruivivar (Lieutenant Torasso); Marcus Olson (Sergeant Lombardi); William Parry (Lieutenant Barri); Cris Groenendaal (Major Rizzolli); George Dvorsky (Private Augenti); Donna Murphy (Fosca); Linda Balgord (Fosca's mother); John Leslie Wolfe (Fosca's father); Matthew Porretta (Ludovic); Juliet Lambert (mistress). Recorded at Hit Factory, New York. Includes liner notes by Michiko Kakutani. PASSION won the 1995 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album. The unnerving tale of Fosca, an ugly, sickly woman, and her love for a handsome but indifferent soldier who is involved with a married woman, PASSION is in many ways Stephen Sondheim's darkest, grimmest show. It is also, however, a moving tribute to the healing powers of love and arguably, his most ambitious work to date. This is no ordinary musical full of showstoppers that will leave the audience humming. Rather, this is a sinuous musical tapestry more suited to the kind of detailed psychological explorations Sondheim is famous for. The score most closely related to PASSION is Sondheim's own SWEENEY TODD. Both are tragic stories of lonely sociopaths whose obsessive behaviour brings about their own destruction as well as the ruin (or near ruin) of those around them. The score features lush orchestration by Sondheim's longtime collaborator, Jonathan Tunick. This original cast album, however, adds twenty-six extra strings to the fifteen-piece orchestra originally used for the Broadway production. This gives the music a greater visceral strength, and musical soliloquies such as "I Read" and the show's centerpiece, "I Wish I Could Forget You," a surging, soaring quality that underscores Fosca's anguish and desire to transcend her limitations.
Editorial reviews
Included on Stephen Holden's list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - Recorded with an orchestra that has been expanded from the Broadway production...[PASSION] achieves a heart-stopping poignancy in Donna Murphy's main solos. New York Times (01/05/1995)
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This is a Signed CD from Passion with Music Stephen Sondheim & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Autographed by Marin Mazzie , Donna Murphy , Jere Shea , Tom Aldredge , George Dvorsky , John Leslie Wolfe , & Colleen Fitzpatrick after different shows In NY. This CD is in mostly Thick Black Marker.
The cover of the booklet was signed by Marin Mazzie , Donna Murphy ( a little of her name is in the dark) , Jere Shea , Tom Aldredge , George Dvorsky , .the back cover has John Leslie Wolfe. The cast page is autographed by Colleen Fitzpatrick. The CD ,Booklet & are all in Excellent Condition. Fast Shipping .
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