Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1979 Original B

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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1979 Original Broadway Cast) (1990) [FLAC]

Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Cast Recording
Label: RCA
Genre: Vocal, Musical, Opera, Classical
Quality: FLAC

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This review is by Crosley

Stephen Sondheim is my favorite composer and lyricist, and he is incredibly good at both. Sweeney Todd is the best of his works, and 50 years from now, Sondheim will be the Mozart to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Salieri. Once day, the muddled masses will lose the perception that show tunes have to be repetitive enough to get stuck in your head and trivially escapist, and will recognize Sondheim and his phenomenal talent for what it is: genius.

What makes Sweeney so good is the sheer complexity of the score, plot, characters, and message. The show, on one level, is about murder and cannibalism. Deeper, it's about vengeance. Still deeper, it's about the breakdown of an ordered society. Even deeper than that, it's about the nature of good, evil, justice, the terrible dark side to the Industrial Revolution, and the corruption of innocence. The show's wealth of topics and moral questions is infinite, and I personally have had many a debate with myself and others about this show and the questions proposed. Told in such an unconventional, uncompromising, and graphic manner, the messages are that much more powerful.

Disc: 1
1. Prelude
2. No Place Like London
3. The Barber and His Wife
4. The Worst Pies in London
5. Poor Thing
6. My Friends
7. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Lift your razor high, Sweeney!...
8. Green Finch and Linnet Bird
9. Ah, Miss
10. Johanna
11. Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
12. The Contest
13. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned
14. Wait
15. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: His hands were quick, his fingers strong...
16. Johanna
17. Kiss Me
18. Ladies in Their Sensitivities
19. Pretty Women
20. Epiphany
21. A Little

Disc: 2
1. God, That's Good
2. Johanna
3. By the Sea
4. Wigmaker Sequence
5. Not While I'm Around
6. Parlor Songs
7. Final Sequence
8. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd