100 GREATEST MUSICALS

 

Various Artists

 

Silva Screen’s previous comprehensive 100 track 6 CD sets provided the perfect introduction to film and TV music and this latest release covers the glorious world of the musical.

 

This glittering extravaganza highlights 83 fabulous years of the genre beginning with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s groundbreaking Show Boat all the way through to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera sequel Love Never Dies

 

Includes music from the post-war golden era dominated by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Lerner & Lowe and the next generation of Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Lloyd Webber & Rice

 

Featuring vocals from many stars of the London stage including Lesley Garrett, Dave Willetts, Helen Hobson and David Shannon

 

Orchestras performing include The Royal Philharmonic, The Philharmonia and The City Of Prague - James Loynes, the winner of The Stage/Pure Solo competition to find a new musical theatre star and offered the chance appear on this release, make his professional recording debut with All I Ask Of You from The Phantom Of The Opera

 

 

CD 1 1927-1948

1. Show Boat – Make Believe

2. Show Boat – Ol’ Man River

3. Anything Goes – Anything Goes

4. Porgy And Bess – Summertime

5. The Wizard Of Oz –Over The Rainbow

6. Carmen Jones – Dat’s Love

7. Oklahoma! – Oh, What A Beautiful Morning

8. Oklahoma! – The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

9. Oklahoma! – Oklahoma!

10. Carousel – If I Loved You

11. Carousel – Soliloquy

12. Carousel – You’ll Never Walk Alone

13. Annie Get Your Gun – Anything You Can Do

14. Annie Get Your Gun – The Girl That I Marry

15. Annie Get Your Gun – There’s No Business Like Show Business

16. Kiss Me Kate – Where Is The Life That Late I Led?

 

CD 2 1949-1957

1. South Pacific – Some Enchanted Evening

2. South Pacific – Younger Than Springtime

3. Guys And Dolls – Luck Be A Lady

4. Paint Your Wagon – Wandrin’ Star

5. The King And I – Shall We Dance

6. The King And I – Getting To Know You

7. Singin’ In The Rain – Singin’ In The Rain

8. Kismet – And This Is My Beloved

9. Kismet – Stranger In Paradise

10. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers – Bless Your Beautiful Hide

11. My Fair Lady – I Could Have Danced All Night

12. My Fair Lady – On The Street Where You Live

13. High Society – True Love

14. West Side Story – America

15. West Side Story – Maria

16. West Side Story – Tonight

17. West Side Story – Somewhere

 

CD 3 1958-1966

1. Gigi – Gigi

2. The Sound Of Music - The Sound Of Music

3. The Sound Of Music – Climb Ev’ry Mountain

4. The Sound Of Music – My Favourite Things

5. The Sound Of Music – Edelweiss

6. Camelot – If Ever I Would Leave You

7. The Fantasticks – Try To Remember

8. Oliver! – As Long As He Needs Me

9. Oliver! – Consider Yourself

10. Pickwick – If I Ruled The World

11. Fiddler On The Roof – If I Were A Rich Man

12. Funny Girl – People

13. Funny Girl – Don’t Rain On My Parade

14. Mary Poppins – A Spoonful Of Sugar

15. Mary Poppins – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

16. Man Of Lan Mancha – The Impossible Dream

17. Cabaret – Cabaret

 

CD 4 1966-1977

1. Sweet Charity – Big Spender

2. Hair –Aquarius

3. The Jungle Book – The Bare Necessities

4. The Jungle Book – I Wanna Be Like You

5. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

6. Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Close Every Door

7. Jesus Christ Superstar – Everything’s Alright

8. Jesus Christ – I Don’t Know How To Love Him

9. Jesus Christ Superstar – Superstar

10. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory – Pure Imagination

11. Grease – Summer Nights

12. Grease – You’re The One That I Want

13. A Little Night Music – Send In The Clowns

14. A Chorus Line – What I Did For Love

15. Chicago – All That Jazz

16. Annie - Tomorrow

 

CD 5 1978-1986

1. Evita – Another Suitcase In Another Hall

2. Evita – High Flying Adored

3. Evita – Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina

4. Sweeney Todd – Not While I’m Around

5. The Blues Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

6. Fame – Fame

7. Les Misérables – Bring Him Home

8. Les Misérables – I Dreamed A Dream

9. Cats – Macavity – The Mystery Cat

10. Cats – Memory

11. Little Shop Of Horrors – Little Shop Of Horrors

12. Tell Me On A Sunday – Tell Me On A Sunday

13. La Cage Aux Folles – I Am What I Am

14. Starlight Express – Starlight Express

15. The Phantom Of The Opera – The Phantom Of The Opera

16. The Phantom Of The Opera – The Music Of The Night

17. The Phantom Of The Opera – All I Ask Of You

 

CD 6 1986-2010

1. Chess – I Know Him So Well

2. Aspects Of Love – Love Changes Everything

3. Aspects Of Love – Seeing Is Believing

4. Miss Saigon – The Last Night Of The World

5. Sunset Boulevard – Sunset Boulevard

6. Sunset Boulevard – As If We Never Said Goodbye

7. Sunset Boulevard – With One Look

8. Riverdance – 1994

9. Hairspray – You Can’t Stop The Beat

10. Wicked – Defying Gravity

11. Jersey Boys – Sherry

12. Spamalot (Monty Python’s Life Of Brian) – Always Look On The Bright

Side Of Life

13. High School Musical – We’re All In This Together

14. Glee – Don’t Stop Believin’

15. The Princess And The Frog – Almost There

16. Love Never Dies – ‘Til I Hear You Sing

17. Love Never Dies – Love Never Dies

 

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