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West Side Story
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Track Listing
- Something's Coming
- Boy Like That
- Maria
- Prologue-Jet Song
- Tonight
- Cool
- Somewhere
- America
- I Feel Pretty
- One Hand, One Heart
- Gee Officer Krupke
- I Have A Love
- Prelude To The Rumble
- Chick Corea's Elektric Band Vs. Steve Vai's Monsters - The R
- Prelude To Somewhere
- Somewhere
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #466 in Music
- Released on: 1997-12-22
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
I have known this album since i was 4 years old. Had In on vinyl for a long time. Got all the pretend versions (kiritikanawa or what ever you call her, and all the others) This is the best. So to all the knockers. YOU HAV'NT GOT A CLUE. Or get a decent Hi Fi system. I thank you. Good delivery service from Amazon as usual.
Dissapointing
I love West Side Story, and decided to buy the soundtrack to such a good musical. I assumed this would be the best money could buy. Oh boy was I wrong!
Decent oechestral playing masks the first couple of tracks, then the Jets enter. Unfortunately, most of them have fairly poor voices and fail to pitch the notes very well at all. Most chorus numbers are like this on the CD.
Whoever sings Maria (I belive it is not Natalie Wood) is, however, a good singer, and so is Toni. Whilst their voices are a little weak, they can still sound like teenagers madly in love.
The worst Point of this CD is the "Tonight" Quintet. When the Sharks enter, they are so out of tune wth each other that it sounds painfully unpleasant. This is made worse by the adaption of the whole running order and change of some of the words to suit the movie makers.
I found this CD to be pretty bad, and was saved only by some decent leading role work from Maria and Toni. If you want a good CD, buy the Carreras/Te Kanawa recording also available from Amazon.
An outstanding 'classic' recording
So much has been said about West Side Story, which is universally regarded as one of the best recordings ever made, that it needs little in the way criticism. Suffice to say that there are a number of releases of the original soundtrack - of which this is clearly (pun intended) the best. The 2004 20-bit remastered and extended version is a failure and best avoided, with the energy, presence and detail of the original transfer sucked out of it.
An all-time classic, still technically outstanding after more than 40 years, and a reference point in the history of recording technique.
