Even Worse - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Another Hits Collection

Advantages: Some no. 1 Hits
Disadvantages: You have to be a fan to appreciate

I found this one on the shelf at Woolworths along with all the other stuff that goes for £5 when shops decide to have a clearance. I actually bought it out of interest to hear what was so bad on it that it was only worth £5 pound. Fortunately I was pleasantly suprised. Gold has a good collection of hits from his shows. The best ones were "Memory" from Cats and "Another Suitcase Another Hall" from Evita and Don't Cry for me Argentina. But there is a good sprinkling of other musicals including The Phantom of the Opera , Superstar, Whistle Down the Wind. All together there are a good twenty songs in the collection and pleanty of variety. The Cover title is Andrew Lloyd Webber Gold The definitive Hits Collection. There is an extremely explanitive cover insert and introuduction which introduces the album as a collection of all 20 of his ...

damien.gallery 16.06.2007 (11.06.2007) · Read full review
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Getting to know Lloyd Webber

Advantages: Contains the best of the best by Lloyd Webber
Disadvantages: Misses out the last two deccades of his composing

Product: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthology Setting: Vocal line, piano accompaniment and chords Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyricist: Various Published by: Hal Leonard Music Publishing Price: RRP £10.49 - 12.40 (different editions, identical contents) Cheapest at amazon.co.uk - marketplace at £2.55 at the time of writing (july 2007) This is a collection of some of the finest songs Andrew Lloyd Webber has written, dating from 1969, when his first musical Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dreamcoat was written, up to 1987, Starlight express being the most recent show in the book. Although Lloyd Webber has written several musicals since then, none of them have been as successful as his early shows. That makes this anthology a very good collection of his fines songs, although it misses the last twenty years of his career ...

musicalmuppa 09.07.2007 (12.07.2007) · Read full review
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Lloyd Webbers Requiem

Advantages: Interesting, beautifull, well written
Disadvantages: Bad choice of soloists

The Requiem, written shotly after his fathers death, is the only piece in this genre that Andrew Lloyd Webber has written. It is a relatively short piece, only 45 minutes long (NOT as the CD discription says, 1h 45min!!), written for chamber orchestra, organ, SATB choir and tenor, soprano and treble soloists. It uses the well known texts of the Requiem mass. I find the music beautifull in a haunting way. The music os mainly classical, but bears a modern touch, which is refreshing. The music is reasonably easy to sing for a choral singer, which makes it an attractive piece for choirs. This recording uses a boy choir and the soloist Placido Domingo (tenor), Sarah Brightman (soprano) and Paul Miles-Kingston. To me, the soloist are the weakest part of the recording. Placido Domingos voice is to heavy to manage the fast Hosanna, Sara ...

musicalmuppa 23.06.2007 · Read full review
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