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Title: Lloyd Webber instrumentally straight up...
Review: The LSO under the direction of British conductor Anthony Inglis gives us a symphonic tour de force of Andrew Lloyd Webbers most popular theatrical scores. Inglis takes the more serious less gimmicky approach, conducting arrangements more in the vain of 20th Century Romanticism.(akin to Richard Strauss) There is little exaggerated if any electronic instruments involved adding to the pure instrumental experience. Phantom and JC Superstar are the headliners, everything else I would consider just filler, though a short suite from "Cats" is nicely fleshed out considering it's a one hit(Memory)wonder. All and all this effort is a pleasant listen lead by a conductor who is just as at home directing Mozart as he is in the theatre orchestra pit.
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