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  • Audio CD (6 Mar 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Varese Sarabande
  • ASIN: B00000JNO8
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 110,609 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Beautiful City/Day By Day
2. Corner Of The Sky
3. Lion Tamer
4. Just Around The Riverbend
5. West End Avenue
6. Blame It On The Summer Night
7. Colours Of The Wind
8. No Time At All
9. With You/Gifts Of Love
10. Stranger To The Rain
11. Meadowlark
12. Fathers And Sons
13. Chanson
14. In Whatever Time We Have
15. Out There
16. When You Believe

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Amazon.co.uk Review

From Godspell to Prince of Egypt, Stephen Schwartz has written some of the most accessible, touching shows of the last 30 years. His melodies are deceptively complex and, combined with yearning or feel-good lyrics as appropriate, they provide both performer and listener with immensely satisfying fare. This collection benefits from Schwartz's personal touch, not just in the selection process but also in his own version of "Fathers And Sons" from the show Working. But Varese Sarabande has assembled a strong sample of contemporary Broadway talent of whom the best known are probably Dorothy Loudon, Marin Mazzie ("With You" and "Gifts Of Love" from Pippin and The Baker's Wife), Susan Egan ("Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife). There's also a charming "Chanson" (The Baker's Wife) from Emily Skinner. Loudon's rendition of "No Time At All", the anthem to living it up in old age from Pippin, is extraordinary: life-affirming, funny and poignant, defying anyone to sit through it without swinging along. These are timeless, modern show songs. --Piers Ford

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Corner Of The Sky, 27 Oct 2006
By R. F. Sutton (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a great recording.

Schwartz is a brilliant lyricist and these songs represent a superb body of work. Comparison can obviously be made with the original performances and opinions differ: US reviewers testify to this fact. The Varese Sarabande artists offer outstanding alternatives in almost every case, and the recorded sound is expertly balanced providing a consistently truthful image throughout.

Guy Haines' version of 'Corner Of The Sky' has attracted most debate, but it re-pays repeated listening and creates something very different from the John Rubinstein / Jackson 5 precursors. 'Lion Tamer', a favourite of Leonard Bernstein's, is a simply phenomenal song in 7/4 time; there are precious few available recordings (David Burnham is worth hearing on the Kritzerland label) but Kristin Chenoweth is compelling. 'Meadowlark' is possibly the only disappointment on the disc; Schwartz devotees recognise it as one of his most perfect compositions but Susan Egan sings it without much vocal colour. Patti LuPone is the sine qua non in this repertoire: both her available recordings (Original Cast & Patti LuPone Live) leave Egan standing, the latter album offering superb piano from John McDaniel. Sharon Lee Hill (Original London Cast) is also magnificent and perhaps makes best sense of the emotional subtleties in the score.

'In Whatever Time We Have' comes from 'Children Of Eden' and this is unquestionably the finest performance of the song, bolder and braver than both the Original London Cast and New Jersey Recording. Brian D'Arcy James's vocal is arguably the best on this disc. 'Children Of Eden', now somewhat outshone by 'Wicked', is a first-rate musical in its own right and one day an enterprising producer will see the sense in a London West End revival.

The three songs here for which Alan Menken wrote the music are no less captivating; 'Out There' is thrillingly performed by Jason Daniely and Christiane Noll makes a good job of 'Just Around The Riverbend'. The stand-out, however, is the award-winning 'Colors Of The Wind'. Judy Kuhn sang this on the 'Pocahontas' soundtrack, and brilliantly so, while Vanessa Williams' splendid cover did well in the US charts; but Sara Ramirez brings wonderful shape to the vocal line and the accompaniment is crisper than on the other versions.

All told, this is a scintillating product which grows upon the ear with each new listening. The American Musical, in all its glorious colours and contexts, captured so adeptly that zeitgeist of 'searching out a path' in the late twentieth-century consciousness, and Stephen Schwartz was the man who found the words and penned the tunes. The coda of 'Children Of Eden' says it all:

'Our hands can choose to drop the knife
Our hearts can choose to stop the hating
For every moment of our life
Is the beginning...
We cannot know what will occur
Just make our journey worth the taking
And pray we're wiser than we were
In the beginning
NOW WE BEGIN.'
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