Masterworks Broadway Celebrates Rodgers & Hammerstein Online

Masterworks Broadway celebrates the unparalleled Rodgers & Hammerstein catalogue and makes available these gems on all digital service providers and on CD exclusively through ArkivMusic.com

CAROUSEL - 1965 Broadway Revival Cast Recording
OAKLAHOMA! - 1952 Studio Cast Recording
RODGERS CONDUCTS RODGERS

The 1965 Music Theater of Lincoln Center recording of CAROUSEL, featuring its original star John Raitt, is extended with tracks from Raitt's 1952 studio recording of excerpts from CAROUSEL, as well as a 1955 studio recording of the musical with opera stars Robert Merrill and Patrice Munsel, led by one of Broadway's most authoritative maestros, Lehman Engel. Digital booklet to include exclusive rare recording session photographs shown for the first time.

Available for digital download for the first time is the classic 1952 studio recording of OKLAHOMA! with a cast led by the legendary operetta star Nelson Eddy, also with Lehman Engel conducting. Bonus tracks on this recording will include the first release since the LP era of John Raitt's studio recording of excerpts from OKLAHOMA!

Making its first appearance since the LP era is what may be composer Richard Rodgers' only major recording as a conductor of his own music, leading the New York Philharmonic in 1954 performances of selections from his score for the TV documentary series "VICTORY AT SEA," the "Carousel Waltz" from CAROUSEL, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet from ON YOUR TOES, the "March of the Siamese Children" from THE KING AND I and an arrangement of his greatest waltz melodies. Bonus material will include an audio interview with Rodgers conducted by record producer Goddard Lieberson.

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