Search - Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glen Slater :: Songs of Beauty And The Beast (Accompaniment 2-CD Set)

Beautiful music but where are the words?

J. Oberg | Littleton, CO | 02/10/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Beautiful music and voices, however, on the second cd, though it has great music, there are no back-up singers, nor lyrics for the karaoke machine, so unless you memorized every song and words, you should start learning."

Good. Not great.

Michael S. Kent | 05/14/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Purchased this item to use as a rehearsal CD for our Community Theatre's production of Beauty and the Beast. It has all of the songs from the stage version of the show, and they are fully orchestrated. It is not a CD-G, so if you put it in your karaoke machine you will just hear the accompaniment without any words appearing on the screen.



The songs were decent renditions of the stage versions of the songs. They have all of the verses from the libretto. "Be Our Guest" is a little slow compared to what you may expect. The other songs are about at the tempo you would expect.



The set comes with two CDs, one with vocals, one without. The voice talent on the vocal CD is so-so. Gaston is strong. Lumiere is a little weak. Belle is good.



One note- if you are going to rip the files to your computer... each of the two CDs in the set has identical file names for the songs. It can take a while to manually sort out the vocal versions from the instrumental versions if you rip both CDs, plus there is a problem with overwriting files (the files have the same names and are exactly the same size). I takes a little mucking about to get everything into mp3 format if you want to put them on your mp3 player."

Beauty and the Beast accompaniment

David L. Worobec | Boston, MA USA | 01/27/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you are a huge fan of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and want to sing instrumental tracks from the show, this will do the trick. I bought this because I really needed an instrumental track of "If I Can't Love Her" and the version here, is beautiful! I do wish this CD had the reprise of "If I Can't Love Her" as well as others, but overall, it's really good. The instrumental tracks are great and vocalists, particularly the girl who does Belle is really good."