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Title: "Evening Primrose" slaughtered
Review: I bought this for the complete "Evening Primrose" sequence, and boy, was that a mistake. The main problem, I think, is that these four songs were recorded here without composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's supervision, and that makes all the difference in the world. Left to his own devices, Mandy Patimkin greatly distorts "If You Can Find Me"'s melody; Bernadette Peters's voice is under the accompaniment on "I Remember" (although she's faithful to the song at least, unlike Patimkin and his arrangers), and the arrangements on "Dress Casual" are over-elaborate, gooey, and unrestrained. Neither singer effectively plays his character.I didn't care for the other stuff either, but that's your own lookout. Just don't do as I did; don't buy this for "Evening Primrose". Buy instead the "Evening Primrose" that comes with "Frogs".By the way, WHY is amazon.com listing this under "classical music"? It's about as far from classical as you can get.
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