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| meva1 |
Thanks. Nice version, I still think i prefer the Casnoff and Stig Rossen renditions.
Any chance of posting Anthem from the same version ? |
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| Salome |
nothing beats Casnoff's version..but Pascal is less annoying in Chess than he is in Rent. | ||
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| Timmerbo |
Wow, thank you. The quality is so much better, and I'm interested to hear the Groban 'Anthem'. 
EDIT: Just heard Anthem. Beautifully sung, too bad about the feedback at the climax of the song. I seem to recall someone saying he threw some High As into the song, but to my ears he sang it very straight. Not so sure about the choir yet. Too bad he didn't even attempt a Russian accent on the spoken parts, though. |
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| kiya18 |
Oh my goodness! You are my hero! (I'm a fan of Chess, Adam Pascal and Josh Groban, though I'd somehow never heard any of these versions). Where is it possible to get the audio copy of that concert? | ||
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| Salome |
can ytou post some of florence's songs too? | ||
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| Salome |
didnt sound rude at all..and thanks i didnt see the above post! lol | ||
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| kiya18 |
Once more, loquaciously is completely awesome. Thanks.
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| Timmerbo |
Some of my impressions after listening to most of the concert:
I really like Pascal, though he doesn't live up to his Pity the Child standard in the rest of the show, I really liked what he did with most of Freddie's stuff. His high C# at the end of 'A Taste of Pity' is incredible, so it's surprising that on some of the much lower notes he does have a tendency to go flat when he barks them rather than singing them... but for the most part I was pretty impressed. Groban was great, I'd heard a lot of complaints about his acting but it sounds pretty good from here... dug the high note at the end of 'Quartet', I'd seen it written in the music but never expected to hear an Anatoly hit it. Julia Murney sucked. She sounded out of control and just plain bad on the high belt stuff. Her vibratto pissed me off. Raul as the Arbiter was really enjoyable... that was him singing 'the Story of Chess', right? Great. I wish they'd cast an actual bass as Molokov, or at least someone with a darker timbre. Didn't really listen to much of Sutton because I skipped over 'I Know Him so Well'... Murney was pissing me off too much by then... but I'm sure she's great. |
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| Timmerbo |
The high note in Pity the Child is a C#, but he only hits it breifly. He hits the C on 'Pity the child, with no such weapons', and again on 'I was only her son'. It's on the word 'son' that he squeaks out the C#. But Taste of Pity, at least according to the music I have which was from the licensed version, is a semitone higher in key than Pity the Child, so the line 'but the fools never learn' is a C#. I don't have a piano near me so I can't tell if it's been keyed down for Pascal, but he does a damn good job with it regardless of what the note is. |
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| Salome |
hey..i tried to find the file for the whole show and its gone. can you repost it? thanks! | ||
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| Timmerbo |
I was in a production of Chess, but not as Freddie, as Gregor Vassey, and/or Old Man. I got to sing the Story of Chess and the lullaby though, it was much fun. Freddie is way, way too high for me. |
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| RainbowJude |
I'll second the request. If anyone who downloaded the show is willing to post it for a second time, I'd also appreciate it... Thanks... Later days David |
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| Timmerbo |
I'm about an hour's drive away from where I originally downloaded it two days ago. Sorry. 
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| LoneWanderer |
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...damn it!
I've been looking for this recording for a while...and now it's here and I'm too late. Anyone who has it, PLEASE IM me (click the AIM button below to msg me). I'm willing to trade for it. ~The Lone Wanderer |
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| meva1 |
I think that is a C#.I'm glad that note isn't in the U.K version. 
I'm working hard to manage the short C#'s in Pity. My M.D is happy for me to falsetto it but I'd rather not. I'll try to re-upload the file tomorrow. Happy New Year !! |
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| meva1 |
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=26TTO8IR
Thanks again to loquaciously for the real work. |
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| vicki_girl |
Can someone tell me the full names of the principals on this recording? I have it downloaded and I'd like to know who I'm hearing! 
Thanks! |
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| vicki_girl |
Um...I just looked it up at ibdb.com, so never mind. 
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