[SACD-R][OF] Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Phantom Of The Opera - 2004 (Joel Schumacher Film Original Soundtrack)

Andrew Lloyd Webber / The Phantom Of The Opera (Joel Schumacher Film Original Soundtrack) Жанр: Musical Страна-производитель диска: USA Год издания: 2004 Издатель (лейбл): Sony Classical / Sony Music Soundtrax Номер по каталогу: 82876 76662 2 Страна: USA Тип рипа: PS3, image (ISO) Кодек: DST 2.0, 5.1 Битрейт аудио: 1 bit/2,8224 MHz Продолжительность: 1:03:17 Источник (релизер): Alembic86 Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да Треклист: 01 – Overture 2:45 02 – Think of Me 3:40 03 – Angel of Music 2:42 04 – The Mirror 1:59 05 – The Phantom of the Opera 3:34 06 – The Music of the Night 5:38 07 – Prima Donna 3:28 08 – All I Ask of You 4:53 09 – All I Ask of You (Reprise) 2:15 10 – Masquerade 5:30 11 – Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again 3:42 12 – The Point of No Return 8:00 13 – Down Once More Track Down This Murderer 12:45 14 – Learn to be Lonely 2:26   Об альбоме (сборнике) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1911 gothic mystery novel The Phantom of the Opera proved to be at least the composer’s second most successful project, behind only Cats, and with the potential to outdo even that blockbuster. The musical opened in London in October 1986 and in New York in January 1988, and both productions were still running (along with many others around the world) when the film version finally premiered in December 2004. Because the same starring performers, Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, moved from the West End to Broadway, there was no original Broadway cast recording, the original London cast album serving to represent both stagings. In line with the success of the show, that album, a double-disc set, was also a hit, selling four million copies in the U.S. alone by 1996, with another four million copies of a single-disc highlights version as well. Although there was also an original Canadian cast album (not to mention foreign language versions from such countries as Japan and Austria), the movie soundtrack represents the first major re-recording of the score since 1986. Again, Lloyd Webber has opted to issue it in two versions, but this time, the 63-minute single CD is considered the standard release, with the double-disc set billed as the Special Edition version. Even fans of the show and the film may want to stick with the shorter one, however. The two-hour special edition is that rarity, a soundtrack album that actually contains the complete, unedited film soundtrack, including dialogue, incidental background music, and sound effects. This, of course, makes it something of an odd listening experience, especially because there doesn’t seem to be any reason why some dialogue is spoken and some is rendered in singsong recitative. Lloyd Webber has written some extra background music here and there, as well as one new song, and that’s an oddity, too. Minnie Driver, who plays the prima donna Carlotta, had her singing dubbed by Margaret Preece, but she turns up at the end and, over the closing credits, sings “Learn to Be Lonely,” an irrelevant and musically out-of-place song clearly composed just to have a new tune that would be Academy Award eligible. The film’s other singers are adequate but no competition to Crawford, Brightman, and their colleagues, and the initial recording remains the one to buy – William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide.