Paint Your Wagon New York City Center Encores

Description

Masterworks Broadway will release the New York City Center Encores! Cast
recording of Lerner & Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon starring Keith Carradine,
Justin Guarini and Alexandra Socha, on May 27, 2016. Filled with gorgeous
standards such as “They Call the Wind Maria, ” “I Talk to the Trees, ” and
“Wand’rin’ Star, ” Paint Your Wagon is Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s
sweepingly ambitious and surprisingly realistic take on freedom, family, and
racism in the Gold Rush-happy America of 1853. The outstanding March 2015
production by Encores! brought the almost-forgotten show back to New York’s
mainstream stage for the first time since the original Broadway production
closed in 1952. And because the original cast album – an early limited
capacity monaural LP – had omitted so much of the music, the score was ripe
for rediscovery and a brand new recording. Helping to capture the spirit of
the original Broadway production were the full handwritten scores used in 1951
by Franz Allers (Loewe’s favorite musical director) and discovered
accidentally by Rodgers & Hammerstein musicologist Bruce Pomahac at the bottom
of a musty Warner Chappell trunk stored, curiously, at the R&H offices in New
York. Album co-producer and Encores! Music Director Rob Berman leads the
thirty member cast and thirty-one piece Encores! Orchestra, in the 2015 stereo
cast album that celebrates the scope and riches of Lerner & Loewe’s
exceptional score. Much of the original dance music orchestrated by Trude
Rittmann, created in close collaboration with both Loewe and choreographer
Agnes de Mille, appears on this recording for the first time. Also recorded
for the first time on this album is the bonus track “What Do Other Folks Do?”
which was dropped from the original production before the show reached New
York and whose historical importance is clear: Lerner and Loewe would later
recycle the concept for Camelot’s “What Do the Simple Folk Do?”

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Masterworks
• Item model number ‏ : ‎
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ May 10, 2016
• Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Masterworks
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
• Best Sellers Rank: #130,827 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #8,348 in Soundtracks (CDs & Vinyl)