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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5014636600829 Format: Cast Recording Item Dimensions:24 Label: First Night Records Manufacturer: First Night Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: First Night Records Release Date: June 10, 2008 Studio: First Night Records
Disc 1:
Overture
Bless Your Beautiful Hide
Wonderful, Wonderful Day - Steve Devereaux
One Man
Goin' Courtin'
Love Never Goes Away
Sobbin' Women
Townsfolk's Lament
Woman Ought to Know Her Place
We Gotta Make It Through the Winter - Steve Devereaux
We Gotta Make It Through the Winter (Reprise)
Spring, Spring, Spring - Steve Devereaux
Woman Ought to Know Her Place (Reprise)
Glad That You Were Born - Steve Devereaux
Love Never Goes Away
Wedding Dance - Steve Devereaux
Finale: Goin' Courtin'/Wonderful Wonderful Day - Steve Devereaux
Rating: - avoid at all costs
I don't own this recording but, just from listening to the samples, I can safely say, there is no amount of money you could pay me to convince me to buy it.
Rating: - exceptional recording and performance
I find I can't agree with the other appraisals I see here of this delightful recording of this musical. Both Roni Page and Steve Devereaux are truly exceptional with Devereaux in particular bringing a very pleasing baritone and a great characterization to the part. Personally, I do not feel either of them give up anything to Powell or Keel in the quality of their singing and I, in many ways, find them preferable.
I think this set is also more complete than the MGM issue containing ... Read More
Rating: - average production, average recording
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS was tricked-out for the stage in the early 80's, and quickly met its demise in London. This production opened in 1984 but met with mixed reviews, and closed after a relatively short run.
Roni Page and Steve Devereaux hardly compare with Jane Powell and Howard Keel (though who could?), but aquit themselves with their solid voices. Roni Page beautifully handles Millie's elation in "Wonderful Wonderful Day" (which features a rewritten lyric and setting). Read More
Rating: - A welcome recording
I was glad to get this recording simply because it had the songs that were added after the movie. The problem is that it just doesn't have the musical feel that I was expecting, the Barn Dance isn't on here, and the guy that plays Adam is just ridiculous sounding. The rest of the cast sounds decent, and the woman who plays Millie shows just the right amount of feistiness and tenderness. All in all, I'd say it's only for the completists, otherwise wait until the Jay Masterworks recording coming soon.
Rating: - Not as good as the movie soundtrack.
I was sort of dissapantant in this CD. It wasn't as good as the movie virson. Jane Powell isw much better than the other women.
Born:13 August1942
— Harrow Weald, Middlesex
— England
Died:
Music
Primarily Symphonies, Orchestral, Choral & Organ works, mostly with a strong spiritual theme. Two main areas of inspiration are represented: (a) Mountains and wilderness, and (b) Overtly mystical themes, especially Eastern mysticism and using sacred mantras in choral works.
The idiom is modal, and is characterized by a certain elemental intensity and (usually) large scale of vision, which can apply even to ‘chamber’ works, such as ‘The Seen and the Unseen’ for 2 saxophones & piano. Other composers with overlapping idioms include: Vaughan-Williams (in more adventurous mode), Holst (as in ‘The Planets’ and ‘Egdon Heath’), Sibelius (later, more elemental works), Vagn Holmboe, Eduard Tubin, Messiaen and, particularly notably, Jehan Alain.
Life
Has lived in Exeter, Devon, U.K. since 1976. Self taught, and, although having always had music composing itself in his mind since his teens, did not produce his Opus 1 (Symphony 1) till 1995 (age 53), but within two years from then he had completed another five symphonies as well as other orchestral and choral works.
He spends much time hiking in wild terrain and also developing as a healer and mystic, and all this is reflected in the music.
One of the first generation of composers to use the resources of the internet to promote their works, he has produced MIDI realisations of his orchestral works which are widely acclaimed as being some of the most realistic and effective uses of this medium.
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