The Sound Of Music: 40th Anniversary Edition [Remaster]

Performer: New Broadway Cast Recording/Original Broadway Cast/Original Soundtrack/Mary Martin
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Music composed by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein. Principal cast includes: Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, Elizabeth Howell, Muriel O'Malley, Patricia Neway, Karen Shepard, Theodore Bikel, John Randolph, Nan McFarland, Lauri Peters, William Snowden, Kathy Dunn, Joseph Stewart, Marilyn Rodgers. Producers: Goddard Lieberson, Enoch Light, Mitch Miller. Reissue producers: Didier C. Deutsch, Darcy M. Proper. Engineers include: Fred Plaut, Bud Graham, Frank Laico. Recorded at the Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on September 26 and November 22, 1959. Includes liner notes by Richard Rodgers and Marc Kirkeby. Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Darcy M. Proper and Dawn Frank. This is the 30th Anniversary edition of the classic 1965 soundtrack. The track order has been reconfigured from the original release to better reflect the original film narrative. Principal cast: Julie Andrews (Maria); Christopher Plummer (The Captain); Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess); Dan Truhitte (Rolf); Charmain Carr (Leisl); Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich); Heather Menzies (Louisa); Duane Chase (Kurt); Angela Cartwright (Brigitta); Debbie Turner (Marta); Kym Karath (Gretl). Producer: Neely Plumb. Reissue producer: Paul Williams. Includes liner notes by Michael Mattesino. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Music composed by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics written by Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. Principal cast includes: Rebecca Luker (Maria Rainer); Michael Siberry (Captain George von Trapp); Patti Cohenour (The Mother Abbess); Sara Zelle (Leisl von Trapp); Ryan Hopkins (Friedrich von Trapp); Natalie Hall (Louisa von Trapp); Matthew Ballinger (Kurt von Trapp); Fred Applegate (Max Detweiler). Recorded at the Hit Factory's Studio 1, New York, New York on March 16, 1998. Includes liner notes by Theodore S. Chapin. Music composed by Richard Rogers. Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein. Principal cast: Julie Andrews (Maria); Christopher Plummer (The Captain); Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess); Dan Truhitte (Rolf); Charmain Carr (Leisl); Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich); Heather Menzies (Louisa); Duane Chase (Kurt); Angela Cartwright (Brigitta); Debbie Turner (Marta); Kym Karath (Gretl). Producer: Neely Plumb. Reissue producer: Paul Williams. Includes liner notes by Michael Matessino. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This 35th Anniversary Edition of THE SOUND OF MUSIC includes a remastered version of the original soundtrack as well as a bonus disc of longer or different versions of the songs and a spoken segment with Richard Rodgers. Principal cast: Julie Andrews (Maria); Christopher Plummer (The Captain); Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess); Dan Truhitte (Rolf); Charmain Carr (Leisl); Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich); Heather Menzies (Louisa); Duane Chase (Kurt); Angela Cartwright (Brigitta); Debbie Turner (Marta); Kym Karath (Gretl). Producers: Neely Plumb, Nick Redman. Compilation producer: Paul Williams. Includes liner notes by Michael Matessino. Digitally remastered by Mike Hartry. Multi-million sales, a spell of 16 weeks at the top of the US chart, and winning Gold Disc and Grammy Awards were fitting rewards for this memorable recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's much-loved musical which opened on Broadway in November 1959. The show's stars, Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, were in fine vocal form, and led the excellent cast through the score's highlights, which included `My Favourite Things', `Do-Re-Mi', and `Edelweiss' - the last song that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together before the latter's death in 1960. One of the best-selling albums of all time, the original soundtrack for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC is above all a showcase for the formidable talents of Julie Andrews. She plays the novitiate Maria, governess and eventual mother to the seven musically gifted children of the widower Captain Trapp. During the swinging '60s much was made of Andrews' ultra-wholesome image in both this film and Disney's Mary Poppins. What can't be denied is Andrews' uniquely British brand of down-to-earth charisma. From the first bird-chirping strains introducing the famous opening scene in which Maria sings the title song amongst the Alps, Andrews is in utter command of this material. She so ably enacts her character's belief in the redemptive power of music--the real theme of this last and most universal of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musicals--that her bright performances of the justly revered "My Favorite Things" and the singing lesson "Do-Re-Mi" are suffused with intelligence and conviction.

Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.28) - Ranked #2 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...This tale of finding joy in a world gone mad is impossible to resist..."

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