Sony Music Entertainment: 88725416962/D12 (set: 88725 41696 2) Selections from the original Broadway cast recording. Music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. Title from label. Mary Martin as Maria Rainer ; Theodore Bikel as Captain Georg von Trapp ; Patricia Neway as the Mother Abbess ; Kurt Kasznar as Max Detweiler ; Marion Marlowe as Elsa Schraeder ; supporting soloists ; orchestra conducted by Frederick Dvonch. Tracks 1-18 recorded 1959 November 22 Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City. Track 19 recorded 1962 Carnegie Hall, New York City. Track 20 recorded in live performance 2005 Volksoper, Vienna. Track 21 recorded 1995. Originally released in 1959 by Columbia as KOS 2020. Bonus tracks are taken from the 2009 release and include a comedy sketch from the 1962 television special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, with Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett (track 19), a performance of Edelweiss, sung in German by Michael Kraus and recorded in live performance at Vienna's Volksoper in 2005 (20), and a performance of Climb Ev'ry Mountain, recorded in 1995 and sung in Swedish by Tommy K�orberg (21). This disc is part of a 12-disc boxed set issued by Sony in 2012. Booklet with program notes by Ted Chapin and David Foil, biographies of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and histories and synopses of the individual musicals (96 unnumbered pages : illustrations) accompanies set.
Contents:
The sound of music (56:08): Preludium (2:14) -- The sound of music (2:44) -- Maria (3:14) -- My favorite things (2:50) -- Do-re-mi (5:56) -- Sixteen going on seventeen (3:53) -- The lonely goatherd (3:23) -- How can love survive? (3:05) -- The sound of music (reprise) (3:16) -- Laendler (2:26) -- So long, farewell (2:53) -- Climb ev'ry mountain (3:33) -- No way to stop it (3:07) -- An ordinary couple (3:38) -- Processional (3:52) -- Sixteen going on seventeen (reprise) (2:19) -- Edelweiss (2:09) -- Climb ev'ry mountain (reprise) (1:36) -- Bonus tracks: From Switzerland: The Pratt Family (6:42) ; Edelweiss (2:27) ; Climb ev'ry mountain = S�ok dig till bergen (3:21).
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