Contents: 15 of Andrew Lloyd Webber's intensely melodic songs for leading
ladies and supporting actresses from Aspects of Love, Cats, Evita, Jesus
Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Tell Me On A
Sunday and The Woman in White.
The songs are: "All I Ask of You," "Another Suitcase In
Another Hall," "As If We Never Said Goodbye," "Don't Cry For Me Argentina,"
"Buenos Aires," "I Don't Know How To Love Him," "Learn To Be Lonely,"
"Memory," "Rainbow High," "Surrender," "Tell Me On A Sunday," "The Heart Is
Slow To Lean," "The Music of the Night," "The Perfect Year," "With One
Look."
The list of vocalists is an impressive one
and most of the choices of which song a given diva will sing make sense.
There's Shirley Basey, Sarah Brightman, Betty Buckley, Dina Carroll, Glenn
Close, Barbara Dickson, Minnie Driver, Yvonne Elliman, Katherine Jenkins,
Patti LuPone, Madonna, Elaine Paige, Barbra Streisand (Yes, Barbra
Streisand) Kiri Te Kanawa and Marti Webb. You may look high and low for
Mandy Patinkin's billing for his appearance in the LuPone recording of
"Buenos Aires" - the cut is directly from the Original Broadway Cast
recording of Evita.
Each is accompanied by either original orchestrations
or specially created ones for the project from which the vocalist originally
recorded the song. Since most of these were either major Broadway or London
West End productions or a Hollywood movie, there's no sense that any songs
are being sung with less than a full orchestra.
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