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Les Misérables: Original London Cast
 
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Product details

  • Orchestra: Original London Cast
  • Conductor: Martin Koch
  • Composer: Claude-Michel Schönberg
  • Audio CD (31 Dec 1986)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: First Night Records
  • ASIN: B0000071KE
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,772 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Prologue. Work Song
2. Prologue. Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven
3. Prologue. What Have I Done?
4. At the End of the Day
5. I Dreamed a Dream
6. Lovely Ladies
7. Fantine's Death. Who Am I?
8. Fantine's Death. Come to Me
9. Fantine's Death. Confrontation
10. Castle on a Cloud - Alun Armstrong, Sue Jane Tanner
See all 20 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Love Montage. I Saw Him Once/In My Life/A Heart Full of Love
2. Plumet Attack
3. One Day More
4. On My Own
5. Attack
6. Little Fall of Rain
7. Drink with Me
8. Bring Him Home
9. Dog Eats Dog
10. Javert's Suicide: Soliloquy
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On this CD:
  1. (Les) Misérables
    Composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg
    Performed by Original London Cast
    Conducted by Martin Koch


Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
There have been several subsequent recordings of Les Mis, but this is the one that captures the original 1985 London cast who transformed an obscure French musical based on Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel of pre-Revolutionary France into a worldwide phenomenon throughout the late-1980s and 90s and became one of the best examples of the era's trend of blockbuster musical spectacles. Yes, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's score tends to recycle its themes, but the beautiful melodies and stirring anthems rarely fail to captivate and touch its audience. Colm Wilkinson is the heroic Valjean, Patti LuPone is the tragic Fantine, Michael Ball is the love-struck Marius, and Frances Ruffelle is the despondent Eponine, with Roger Allam (Javert), Alun Armstrong and Sue Jane Tanner (the Thénardiers), Rebecca Caine (older Cosette), and David Burt (Enjolras) filling out the excellent cast. --David Horiuchi

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Les Mis recording, 20 May 2003
This is by far the best Les miserables recording ever!!!!!
All the music is really beautiful and the performers are outstanding. Colm Wilkinson's Valjean is a tear jerking and always hits the really high-should-he-impossible-for-men-notes
Frances Ruffelle is an incredible singer and her Eponine is truly sensational- There is a reason why they picked her first!!!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Recording, 29 April 2003
By Jonny Baird (Belfast United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Top end recording of the London Cast, this is it people, don’t settle for the mediocre Broadway Cast recording, this London version is much superior!
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a show! What a recording!, 15 Sep 2003
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I have just seen the show and was blown away so I ordered the CD immediately! The CD is excellent, I was so pleased to find the words inside too!
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