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Stephen Sondheim's musical, inspired by the life and work of the French pointillist (or, as he preferred to be known, chromo-luminarist) painter Georges Seurat (1859-91), is one of his most beguiling and challenging works, but one that won't necessarily appeal to every taste. The music is, on one level, an homage to Seurat's most celebrated painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and could easily be the finest dramatization on a work of art and the life of an artist this side of Alexander Korda's film Rembrandt. But this is also a sweet, sad, profound, and ultimately elevating meditation on life and the creative process. Sunday In the Park With George moves with lightning swiftness between brittle passages, many centered on frustration, and soaring, achingly beautiful sections. It engages in a fair amount of wry comedy in the process, mostly at the expense of its characters, and, more importantly, the worlds of modern art, multi-media art, and New Age music, among other '80s cultural fixtures. Clearly we're not talking about Gypsy or A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum here, in terms of entertainment (though there are a few broad moments for the ensemble, which includes Charles Kimbrough and Brent Spiner), but Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters turn in brilliant performances together on "Color and Light," "We Do Not Belong Together," "Move On," "Children and Art"; the entire ensemble excels in "Sunday," and his work on "Finishing the Hat" is worth the price of the CD by itself. The sound is clean, although the quiet passages could have been mastered at a slightly higher volume level. (Note: Along with Into the Woods, Sunday In the Park With George is one of a pair of Sondheim musicals that exist in complete form as commercial video releases featuring their original casts).
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Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Charles Kimbrough, Vocal - Dana Ivey, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Barbara Bryne, Vocal - Judith Moore, Vocal - Mary D'Arcy, Vocal - Melanie Vaughan, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer - William Parry, Vocal
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Barbara Bryne, Vocal - Brent Spiner, Vocal - Judith Moore, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Mary D'Arcy, Vocal - Melanie Vaughan, Vocal - Nancy Opel, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Robert Westenberg, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer - William Parry, Vocal
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Barbara Bryne, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Company, Performer - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Company, Performer - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Barbara Bryne, Vocal - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Charles Kimbrough, Vocal - Cris Groenendaal, Vocal - Dana Ivey, Vocal - Judith Moore, Vocal - Kurt Knudson, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Nancy Opel, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Robert Westenberg, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer - William Parry, Vocal
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Mandy Patinkin, Vocal - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Anthony Salvatore, Engineer - Company, Performer - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Paul Goodman, Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Thomas Z. Shepard, Producer
(P) 1984 BMG Music
Christopher Durang, Vocal - James Nichols, Recording Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Julie Andrews, Vocal - Michael Rupert, Vocal - Rachel York, Vocal - Scott Frankel, Conductor - Stephen Collins, Vocal - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist
(P) 1993 BMG Music
American Theatre Orchestra, Performer - Andy Strauber, 2nd Engineer - Bernadette Peters, Vocal - Bill King, Engineer - Broadway, Performer - David Hewitt, Engineer - Jay David Saks, Producer - Ken Hahn, Edited By - Ken Hahn, Mixing Engineer - Louise de la Fuente, 2nd Engineer - Michael Starobin, Orchestrator - Paul Cohen, 2nd Engineer - Paul Gemignani, Conductor - Phil Gitomer, 2nd Engineer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist
(P) 1993 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Stephen Sondheim's musical, inspired by the life and work of the French pointillist (or, as he preferred to be known, chromo-luminarist) painter Georges Seurat (1859-91), is one of his most beguiling and challenging works, but one that won't necessarily appeal to every taste. The music is, on one level, an homage to Seurat's most celebrated painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and could easily be the finest dramatization on a work of art and the life of an artist this side of Alexander Korda's film Rembrandt. But this is also a sweet, sad, profound, and ultimately elevating meditation on life and the creative process. Sunday In the Park With George moves with lightning swiftness between brittle passages, many centered on frustration, and soaring, achingly beautiful sections. It engages in a fair amount of wry comedy in the process, mostly at the expense of its characters, and, more importantly, the worlds of modern art, multi-media art, and New Age music, among other '80s cultural fixtures. Clearly we're not talking about Gypsy or A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum here, in terms of entertainment (though there are a few broad moments for the ensemble, which includes Charles Kimbrough and Brent Spiner), but Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters turn in brilliant performances together on "Color and Light," "We Do Not Belong Together," "Move On," "Children and Art"; the entire ensemble excels in "Sunday," and his work on "Finishing the Hat" is worth the price of the CD by itself. The sound is clean, although the quiet passages could have been mastered at a slightly higher volume level. (Note: Along with Into the Woods, Sunday In the Park With George is one of a pair of Sondheim musicals that exist in complete form as commercial video releases featuring their original casts).
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About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:52
- Main artists: Original Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George
- Composer: Stephen Sondheim
- Label: Masterworks Broadway
- Genre: Classical
(P) 1984, 1993, 2006 BMG Music
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