Anyone have particularly handy ways of getting recordings from musicals (originally in English) done in other languages? In particular I'm looking for: Cabaret, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady (and any other translations besides Les Mis and JC Superstar) in Czech and Rent in Italian.
Most of my other-than-English recordings I've gotten from eBay auctions. Amazon UK and Dress Circle both have quite a few foreign recordings. Check Footlight as well--I recently bought a Mexican recording of Cabaret.
i remember my french teacher in high school playing the french soundtrack of SOUND OF MUSIC. (ok, this was YEARS ago.) i thought it was so cool. now i listen to the french track of my DVD and relive the memories. the french tracks of SNOW WHITE and MARY POPPINS are also fun to listen to
Rent - Dutch Cast. The actress playing Mimi who belts the "oooout (tonight)"s, as opposed to flipping into a head-voice. Gotta love it, she's awesome.
Speaking of Rent, The different orchestrations on the Swedish Cast's version... definately interesting. Though, at times, I find it quite awesome.
Anyone heard the version of "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer" on the Japanese version of CATS? Why is the song entirely different? I vaguely remember hearing the intro in an old version on some Webber set. It sounds so weird, though.
A good source for german recordings is www.soundofmusic.de
I particularly love 'Tanz der Vampire' and the latest 'Elisabeth' recording 2003/4 cast Vienna.
Plus the german 'Aida' from Essen has absolutely gorgeous orchestrations. In fact I prefer it to the Broadway version for that reason, although the Broadway version is great cos I understand the lyrics
good luck finding anything in Czech.....I believe a major production has to be mounted in the country mto even have a cast recording considered......and frankly I've heard of nothing of that magnitude done in Prague. I have POTO, Ms. Saigon, Joseph, Titanic, RENT, Starlight Express in German (and also German language productions such as Tanz, Elisabeth, Mozart, Gaudi, etc) I also have RENT hilights in Icelandic. I usually go to amazon.de, or get them when I'm in the country. Vamp, thanks for the link......will see what they have there.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
gotta love it. Right one of the "recordings part, is 1776 listed.......read the description. They say it's about the American Civil War, lol.......cracks me up...only because in general, Europeans are much more aware of world history than we are........ask any group of American adults when the hundred years war was, and you'll get so many different answers
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Chris -- thanks! Amazon uk was no help when I looked before, but I'd forgotten about Dress Circle! Amazing such a physically tiny store can have such great variety. They had a couple things I didn't even know were done in Czech -- like "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"! Great resource. I shall now scrap together the funds to get them (I'll check out e-bay too...)
Elphaba -- They've been done! I saw a GREAT production of JC Superstar when I lived there (theatre in the round - saw it 9 times). I think Les Mis sort of kicked it all off in '92. It's in reading the bios for the actors in Les Mis that I see how many other shows have been mounted!
Thanks all. Let me know if you think of anything else :)
I dont have those cds, actually the only non_english cast recording I have is Der Glockner von Notre Dame which is the German cast of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is so good the guy who plays Quasi is wonderful and Clopin is outstanding. Esmeralda is wonderful as well. Einmal which is "Someday" is the most beautiful song in the score with the chorus singing it.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
I have so many other than english cds. I have almost all the dutch cast albums from the last 10 years and a lot of albums from vienna and germany.
My favorites are: Elisabeth- vienna, essen, vienna, holland Rent - german, holland (Nurlaila Karim as Mimi is really great!) Tanz der Vampire - Vienna, Hamburg
If you are looking for spanish recordings of english musicals... I can recommend you some sites to buy. try: www.fnac.es www.elcorteingles.com
I live in Spain and I have the spanish cast recording of (only the official are mentioned): Jekyll & Hyde Annie (3 versions) the phantom of the opera (movie & cast) Grease man of la mancha (2 versions) evita we will rock you little shop of horrors (both spanish & catalonian) my fair lady cabaret notre dame the fantasticks jesus christ superstar les miserables blood brothers I love you, you're perfect now change martin guerre
For the german/dutch/european versions of musicals... you can try:
Glad someone else likes 'Der Glockner von Notre Dame' too It was the first german language musical I saw (and look what it lead to!) and was visually stunning as well as being a 'proper' musical (ie I find Disney's Beauty & the Beast has too much of a pantomine feel for me personally).
'Einmal' is definitely my favourite, it sounds so beautiful
So if you're looking for more foreign recordings, add that to the list