“One of the Year's Top 5 Albums! From its stars — the affable, robust Tom Wopat; the relentlessly charming Vanessa Williams and the peerless Barbara Cook — to its supple-voiced, expertly-used supporting players, the ensemble captures the piercing wit and the dizzying peaks of joy and heartache in these intricate but highly approachable treasures.” –Elysa Gardner, USA Today
“A priceless gift to the theater. revealing, fascinating and utterly charming!” –Newsday
“It feels like you're having an intimate chat with the master himself!” –Entertainment Weekly
“There's been a lot of Stephen Sondheim's music offered up this year as he celebrates his 80th birthday, but the most lasting gift could very well turn out to be the original cast recording of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. Transferred to disc with care and taste, it's a little like the songwriter has pulled up a chair to have a one-on-one conversation with you.” –Theatermania
Sondheim on Sondheim Original Broadway Cast Recording Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat
Hailed by the Associated Press as a "revelatory revue full of wonderful
moments" and by USA Today as a "funny, affectionate and revealing tribute
to musical theater's greatest living composer and lyricist," SONDHEIM ON
SONDHEIM is an intimate portrait of the famed songwriter in his own
words... and music.
An all-star cast headed by Barbara Cook, Vanessa
Williams and Tom Wopat takes on new arrangements of over two-dozen
Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure, interspersed with
audio commentary by the composer himself, who reveals fascinating details
about his life and his art. Stephen Sondheim's final word on his
unparalleled body of work has been preserved by PS Classics in this lavish
two-disc set, a 2010 Grammy Award nominee.
