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- Original Release Date: 28 Nov 2005
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Wonderful Town: Overture | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | 5:18 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Wonderful Town: Christopher Street (Guide/Tourists/Villagers/Violet) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Rodney Gilfry/Michael Dore/Kimberly Cobb | 4:58 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Wonderful Town: Ohio (Ruth/Eileen) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald | 3:29 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Wonderful Town: Conquering New York (Ruth/Chorus) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Kim Criswell | 3:52 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Wonderful Town: One Hundred Easy Ways To Lose a Man (Ruth) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell | 3:22 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. Wonderful Town: What a waste (Baker/Ruth/First Editor/Second Editor) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell/Thomas Hampson/Rodney Gilfry/Carl Daymond | 3:07 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Wonderful Town: A Little Bit in Love (Eileen) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Audra McDonald | 2:58 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Wonderful Town: Pass the Football (Wreck) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Brent Barrett | 3:46 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Wonderful Town: Conversation Piece (Eileen/Frank/Ruth/Chick) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald/Rodney Gilfry/Carl Daymond | 3:48 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Wonderful Town: A Quiet Girl (Baker/Men's chorus) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Thomas Hampson | 3:38 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. Wonderful Town: Conga! (Cadet/Ruth/Cadets) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Kim Criswell/Michael Dore | 3:36 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Wonderful Town: Entr'acte | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | 3:54 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 13. Wonderful Town: My Darlin' Eileen (Solo cop [Lonigan]/Men's chorus/First Cop/Second Cop/Third Cop/Eileen) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Audra McDonald/Timothy Robinson/Michael Dore/Lynton Atkinson/Robert Fardell | 3:33 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 14. Wonderful Town: Swing! (Villager/Ruth/Chorus/First Man/Second Man/First Girl/Second Girl) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Kim Criswell/Michael Dore/Lynton Atkinson/Simone Sauphanor/Melanie Marshall | 5:14 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 15. Wonderful Town: Quiet Incidental (Eileen/Ruth) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald | 0:49 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 16. Wonderful Town: Ohio Reprise (Eileen/Ruth) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald | 1:25 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 17. Wonderful Town: It's Love (Eileen/Baker/Chorus) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Audra McDonald/Thomas Hampson | 3:33 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 18. Wonderful Town: Ballet at the Village Vortex | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | 2:28 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 19. Wonderful Town: The Wrong Note Rag (Ruth/Eileen/Chorus) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald | 2:25 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 20. Wonderful Town: It's Love Reprise - Finale Act Two (Eileen/Baker/Ruth/Chorus) | Sir Simon Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/London Voices/Kim Criswell/Audra McDonald/Thomas Hampson | 1:23 | £0.89 |
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
We love "Wonderful Town". It's a witty piece, brilliantly sung and breathtakingly played, with funny lyrics, melodies to sing a long to and numbers that had our children dancing for hours. The soloists are international and no wonder, BCMG are at their slickest and electric best, the story is Hollywood Soppy Musical Naff, but who cares? We have given this as a present to friends aged 80 to 8. It has always, so far, been recieved with enthusiasm.
Buy it - you won't be disappointed!
Buy it - you won't be disappointed!
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Good, but not perfect
23 Sep 1999
Format:Audio CD
"Wonderful Town" is one of the frothiest, most delightful forays in the musical comedy genre ever created. This recording will certainly bring the piece to more listeners, which is good, but it isn't the best recording available. By far the most successful casting here is Audra McDonald as Eileen, her sweet, full soprano making the most out of Bernstein's marvelous music and Comden and Green's terrific lyrics. Kim Criswell trades in her usual brassiness for a more throaty and wry characterization than we are used to from her, but she makes it work well. She seems to be singing at the extreme low end of her range at times (especially in the "Ohio" duet) but this is because the role was originally written for Rosalind Russell, who had an incredibly full lower range (almost tenor-like). The rest of the casting works fairly well, but Rattle's conducting is what keeps this set from earning top honors. Parts are way too slow (the spoken section in OHIO) and others way too fast: the vamp in "Conversation Piece" needs to go at least twice as slow as Rattle takes it, or the number loses its humor. For better recordings of "Wonderful Town," I recommend either of the Ros Russell versions (the second one is slightly better) or the new, two-disc recording with Karen Mason and Rebecca Luker, which includes all the music plus several variants.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
TOPS!
9 Jun 2001
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you need one reason to buy this super cd, let it be for Leonard Bernstein's brilliant music---his only score to win a Tony Award. (That's right: neither "Candide" nor "West Side Story" won a Tony.)
The lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green are some of their best. The witty duo came back to Broadway for this show, their first reunion with Bernstein since the success of "On The Town" almost 10 years before. They had very recently written the wildly successful "Singin' In The Rain" in Hollywood and with "Wonderful Town" they (& the entire creative team) conquered New York City.
This CD, to my mind, is a heck of alot better in almost every way than the original cast recording which starred Rosalind Russell. Russell, of course, could not sing and although her role is heavy on comedy and light on music, Kim Criswell comes off better: she is funny & touching as well as caustic and light-handed as well as tough. Russell sounds angry and almost sullen throughout...also quite mature. Add to this, the fact that Criswell has a sensational singing voice. As her love interest,Thomas Hampson, one of our finest operatic baritones, knows exactly how to lighten his voice to sing musical comedy and does it beautifully. On the Russell CD, George Gaines merely sounds old and terribly fancy, like a serious singer who is slumming. Although Edith Adams is fine as "Eileen," Audra McDonald (a 3-time Tony winner, herself) is even better in the role of the girl that all New York City wants to woo. Brent Barrett brings his gorgeous voice, as well as comic skills to his one song as the football-playing dunce, "Wreck."
The sound on this 1999 recording is superb. The conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, throws himself into Bernstein's score with verve and shows exactly how much he loves American jazz and Broadway.
There are many comic numbers, all of which hit the mark, but I must mention that "A Little Bit In Love" and "A Quiet Girl" and "It's Love" have got to be three of the sweetest, cleverest, most charming "love" songs in any musical. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Why oh why Wonderful Town?
12 Feb 2000
Format:Audio CD
Why? Because we LOVE it!
The music in this show is absolutely breathtaking! "Ohio" has become my new favorite song (and not because that's where I live, but because of it's haunting harmony that rips at your heart strings).
All the performances are great, but Audra's (as usual) stands out above the rest. Her "A Little Bit in Love" is so charming you can almost hear her face light up! That girl is just asking to beome another wonder of the world! Oh yah, and so is Wonderful Town.
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