Musical Genius Of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The - Various Artists

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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Sing Song

Advantages: Loads of music for your money, wide variety
Disadvantages: I've not seen all the shows

Simply the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a box set of four CDs which contain fifty-five songs from fourteen different musicals. You should expect plenty of variety then. Lloyd Webber has written a huge number of musicals on a variety of topics. He's written some based on religion (Jesus Christ Superstar), some about historical figures (Evita) and some that are just collections of songs (Cats). If you like musicals, the chances are you will have seen some by him. If you don't like musicals, you're probably not going to go out and buy these CDs whatever I say about them. Some Lloyd Webber songs are fairly predictable. They follow a standard pattern of verses, so you can see the rhymes coming a mile off. Others are well-constructed, beautiful pieces of music. Since this box set is a 'best of' with such a large number ...

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Review of Simply the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber - Various Artists

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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