SONGS OF NOEL COWARD (1998 TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES)

SONGS OF NOEL COWARD (1998 TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kjo3k7lcjp7ivf9/VA-Twentieth_Century_Blues__Songs_Of_Noel_Coward%2528.rar/file

or

https://mega.nz/file/21hBhbRA#HGvyMT7b92nWnI3wEmZKfsxuOO3lI4Q9hXo66ysAlXc

More Info Here:
http://castalbums.org/recordings/Twentieth-Century-Blues-The-Songs-of-Noel-Coward-1999-Studio-Cast/5079/

Thank you very much JAZZMAN2 for this "lost" link!!!

SINGERS: STING "IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT..."

STING "IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT..."
https://www.sendspace.com/file/rufyyq

SINGERS: STING “THE LAST SHIP” (2013) 12 TRACKS

STING “THE LAST SHIP” (2013)
http://depositfiles.com/files/p15324se1

More Info Here:
https://castalbums.org/recordings/Last-Ship-The-2013-Sting/27161/

AIDA (1999 CONCEPT ALBUM)

AIDA (1999 CONCEPT ALBUM)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/cxbj5c

Show: Aida 

Music: Elton John 

Lyrics: Tim Rice

Book: Robert Falls,  David Henry Hwang,  Linda Woolverton

Date: 1999

Performers: Boyz II Men,  Spice Girls,  Heather Headley,  Dru Hill,  Janet Jackson,  Elton John,  Lenny Kravitz,  Lulu,  Kelly Price,  LeAnn Rimes,  Sherie Rene Scott,  Sting,  James Taylor,  Tina Turner,  Shania Twain

Tracks:

1. Another Pyramid Sting

2. Written in the Stars Elton John/LeAnn Rimes

3. Easy As Life Tina Turner ft. Angelique Kidjo

4. My Strongest Suit Spice Girls  

5. I Know The Truth Elton John/Janet Jackson

6. Not Me Boyz II Men

7. Amneris' Letter Shania Twain  

8. A Step Too Far Elton John/Heather Headley/Sherie Scott  

9. Like Father Like Son Lenny Kravitz

10. Elaborate Lives Heather Headley  

11. How I Know You James Taylor

12. The Messenger Elton John/Lulu  

13. The Gods Love Nubia Kelly Price

14. Enchantment Passing Through Dru Hill

15. Orchestral Finale Elton John

WELCOME TO THE VOICE

WELCOME TO THE VOICE

https://www.sendspace.com/file/g5ozr4

Composers: Steve Nieve, Muriel Teodori

Performers: Sting, Barbara Bonney, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Brodsky Quartet

An unlikely encounter of a unique project with an all-star cast! Steve Nieve, Elvis Costello's long-time pianist and music director, and Nieve's partner Muriel Teodori, a film/theatre director, began working on Welcome To The Voice ten years ago. She wrote the libretto, he composed the music, and together they developed and shaped the project that is an opera in homage to the human voice. It is a very accessible opera on one CD - one that will interest both the pop and the classical consumer. Welcome To The Voice is a multifaceted opera that welcomes voices from different musical worlds. It lives on the juxtaposition of men who have rough, untrained voices, coming from jazz or rock (Robert Wyatt, Elvis Costello, Sting), with women who have classically trained voices (Barbara Bonney, Amanda Roocroft, Nathalie Manfrino, Sara Fulgoni). The score has been composed for the Brodsky Quartet while Marc Ribot, Ned Rothenberg, and Steve Nieve himself improvise with a jazz feeling. Apart from the music itself, the beauty of this project lies in the profound idealistic - even romantic - themes that transcend all levels of the work. The catchphrase is: 'unlikely encounter'. Seemingly opposing music genres, classes, artists, languages, and codes are unified in the name of love and art. It's no wonder that the project has attracted all the high-profile artists that collaborate in the opera and contribute to the uniqueness of this work.

Composed by longtime Elvis Costello keyboardist Steve Nieve and set to a surreally episodic, multilingual libretto by his life partner, Muriel Teodori, this singspiel/dramatic oratorio describes the obsessive passion of an opera-loving steelworker of Greek extraction (Sting) for a diva (Barbara Bonney), a not-unheard-of situation in either real or reel life. Although Dionysos (the hero) seems to hover on the edge of becoming a textbook psycho-stalker (the cover photo of a hard-hat kissing his saw does little to dispel this impression), all ends well, if unbelievably. Blue-collar boy not only narrowly avoids incarceration (Elvis Costello appears as a police officer) but even gets next to the ermine-collar girl. Scored for string quartet with piano and reed improvisations, the work's avowed raison d'être was to allow voices from various backgrounds, classically trained and otherwise, to encounter one another on a level playing field. This might have been more successful if the singers were better matched in terms of texture and production. As it is, the sopranos soar effortlessly, allowing the music to do the work, while the male pop stars take the opposite approach, working up a sweat at the drop of an emotion. Musically, despite arresting juxtapositions between conventionally melodic power-pop and 20th-century atonality--to say nothing of a blazing concluding "yes" sung by all involved--the composition comes across more as a study in parallels rather than a unifying force. But even so, the point does get across, and so ambitious and heartfelt an adventure is always worth checking out.

THE LAST SHIP (2014 OBC)

THE LAST SHIP (2014 OBC)

https://www.sendspace.com/file/q6ypkw

More Info Here:
http://castalbums.org/recordings/Last-Ship-The-2014-Original-Broadway-Cast/28816/

THE GLORY OF GERSHWIN

THE GLORY OF GERSHWIN

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H4V8E5FP

Tracks:
1. Summertime - Peter Gabriel
2. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Sting
3. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Lisa Stansfield
4. Someone To Watch Over Me/Our Love Is Here To Stay - Elton John
5. I've Got A Crush On You - Carly Simon
6. But Not For Me - Elvis Costello
7. It Ain't Necessarily So - Cher
8. The Man I Love - Kate Bush
9. How Long Has This Been Going On - Jon Bon Jovi
10. Embraceable You - Oleta Adams
11. My Man's Gone Now - Sinead O'Connor
12. I Got Rhythm - Robert Palmer
13. Somebody Loves Me - Meat Loaf
14. I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise - Issy Van Randwyck
15. Summertime - Courtney Pine
16. Rhapsody In Blue - Larry Adler & George Martin