Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Prologue. Work Song
2. Prologue. Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven
3. Prologue. What Have I Done?
4. At the End of the Day
5. I Dreamed a Dream
6. Lovely Ladies
7. Fantine's Death. Who Am I?
8. Fantine's Death. Come to Me
9. Fantine's Death. Confrontation
10. Castle on a Cloud - Alun Armstrong, Sue Jane Tanner
11. Master of the House
12. Thénardier Waltz
13. Stars
14. Look Down
15. Little People
16. Red and Black
17. Do You Hear the People Sing?
18. Wedding Chorale
19. Beggars at the Feast
20. Finale

Disc 2:

1. Love Montage. I Saw Him Once/In My Life/A Heart Full of Love
2. Plumet Attack
3. One Day More
4. On My Own
5. Attack
6. Little Fall of Rain
7. Drink with Me
8. Bring Him Home
9. Dog Eats Dog
10. Javert's Suicide: Soliloquy
11. Turning
12. Empty Chairs
13. Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
14. Finale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3712 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .39 pounds
• Running time: 98 minutes

From Amazon.com
This recording captures the 1985 London cast that transformed an obscure French musical based on Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel of pre-Revolutionary France into a worldwide phenomenon throughout the late-1980s and '90s and became one of the best examples of the era's trend of blockbuster musical spectacles. Yes, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's score tends to recycle its themes, but its beautiful melodies and stirring anthems rarely fail to captivate and touch its audience. Colm Wilkinson is the heroic Valjean, Patti LuPone is the tragic Fantine, Michael Ball is the love-struck Marius, and Frances Ruffelle is the despondent Eponine, with Roger Allam (Javert), Alun Armstrong and Sue Jane Tanner (the Thénardiers), Rebecca Caine (older Cosette), and David Burt (Enjolras) filling out the excellent cast. Fans will want to take note that this recording includes some material that was revised when the show crossed the pond to Broadway--"Little People" was lost altogether, while the "Love Montage" was significantly rewritten. Les Misérables sounds especially vivid in its 1998 remastering, and a synopsis and full lyrics are included. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

TOTALLY BRILL!
BY FAR THE BEST VERSION OF THE ULTIMATE MUSICAL TO HIT THE STAGE SO FAR!

with the original cast it is a superb cd.

highly recommended!

les mis
I didn't expect to enjoy Michael Ball's performance quite so much. The whole production is absolutely brilliant.

Captures the show
Briliant recording brings back all the power and emotion of the show. Don't bother with the 'video' content on CD2 though, its a poor quality gimick. If you want decent video get the DVD.