Track Listings (1) - Disc #1| All Artists: Jonathan Larson Title: Jonathan Sings Larson Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: P.S. Classics Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 11/6/2007 Genres: Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Vocal Pop, Musicals Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPC: 803607075729 |
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Jonathan Larson s career was brief and intense. Like the characters he created so vividly for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent, Larson radiated a great vitality and sense of purpose. Engaging and warmly gregarious, he also ... more » |
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Product Description Jonathan Larson s career was brief and intense. Like the characters he created so vividly for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent, Larson radiated a great vitality and sense of purpose. Engaging and warmly gregarious, he also possessed a sharp wit and keen sense of irony. JONATHAN SINGS LARSON uses Larson s own demo recordings (for which he used the newly-evolving mediums of computer and keyboard synthesizer to create performances far more elaborate than the usual songwriter piano-vocal demos) to reveal the range and gifts of a songwriter who was just fully realizing his potential at the time of his death. Besides familiar numbers from Rent and tick, tick...BOOM!, included are several songs that have not been widely heard, songs that further showcase Larson s gift for inventive melody, character and novel situation. Also included: a bonus DVD with four video tracks from his November 25, 1991 performance at New York s Village Gate. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsRemembrance Miranda DerOhanian | 12/26/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Hearing Jonathan Larson sing his own songs was both inspiring and somewhat painful. His talent for understanding how to reach out to a new musical theatre audience is amazing, and hearing the songs as he invisioned them is powerful. It is the knowledge that his talent came to an end too soon which is painful. But we remain thankful that he left some pieces behind so we can remember him." Unfortunately Lacking M. A. Newman | Gulf Shores, AL | 03/17/2008 (2 out of 5 stars) "I don't want to be a hater here but this CD is not great. I am huge fan of Jonathan's song-writing abilities and I've seen RENT over a dozen times in NYC and also got the chance to see tick, tick...boom off-Broadway. I was really anticipating this CD very much since I obviously have the other cast recordings and I was anxious to hear Larson's interpretations of his own work. Sadly, as brilliant as he was a composer, it just didn't carry over vocally. The songs that are unknown--like most composers--are not great. However, I think a compilation album of his work, including the unknown and never-before-heard tunes, would be a great idea and feature some of today's top singers doing their own interpretations (please, no Seasons of Love...it's quickly becoming the "Memory" of the 90s!). This is indeed a must-have for Rent heads to be sure." Demos from a master George Fagin | 05/09/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "This album shows how much potential and how much it is a loss that Jonathan Larson isn't here writing more songs. This shows that he had a lot more to do and that Superbia and other shows should have been produced just like Rent was. Each song not only brings out something about the show he was writing, but his own life that was filtering itself into the songs that he was writing. It is brilliant and heartbreaking to see this young writer's vision come true but have him not be here to see it."
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