A Contemporary female Gospel CD

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CD set that goes with PBS series. Include origianl cast recordings from many important muscials

A companion to the fabulous PBS series, the 21-song, 77-minute The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" provides about as good a single-disc compilation as anyone could hope for. (There's also a five-CD version.) What sets it apart from so many other "best of Broadway" collections is its breadth--because it had access to a variety of record-label vaults it doesn't have to try to disguise gaps by using revivals or solo recordings. Here you get all the authentic stuff, including: Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River" from the first modern American musical, Show Boat; Ethel Merman singing "You're the Top"; the title song from Oklahoma!; Julie Andrews singing "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady; West Side Story's "America"; Betty Buckley singing "Memory" from Cats; Hairspray's "Good Morning Baltimore"; and "Defying Gravity" from Wicked, the newest show discussed in the PBS series. And it's hard to argue with the songwriters represented: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, among others. Obviously, no single-disc compilation could ever please everyone (did we really need two ALW songs?), but as a sampler intended for people who watched the series and want to hear more of the Great White Way, The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" can't be topped. --David Horiuchi

"Auber's music has an irresistible snappiness, and the Offenbach-like energy of the exchanges is compelling ... the patter songs (reminiscent of Rossini), sparkling coloratura, and decadent waltzes are beguilingly slick." - ROUGH GUIDE TO OPERA A complete performance of Auber's sparkling opera Le domino noir, plus highlights from another Auber opera, Fra Diavolo. Performances recorded live in Paris (1950) and Milan (1952) respectively. Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) produced a series of thirty-six operas, all in collaboration with the famous librettist Eugène Scribe, who also provided texts for Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and more. Le domino noir ("The Black Mask") was one of the most successful of Auber's many operas. First given on December 2, 1837 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, it ran for some 1,000 performances until 1882, and is still revived often in France. Fra Diavolo ("Brother Devil") is perhaps his best-known work today, and its famous Romance favorite, often known in English as "On Yonder Rock Reclining," has long been a popular French encore. Janine Micheau was the most famous soprano in France in the immediate post-World War II era, in both lyric and coloratura roles. She had equally successful careers in opera and on the recital stage, starring at the Paris Opéra particularly in the role of Mélisande in Debussy's opera. Among the many interesting artists in these performances is Giuseppe Campora, perhaps one of the most underrated tenors of his generation. Campora did not have the vocal weight of a Domingo or Pavarotti, but he was distinguished by elegance of sound and a pure tone of great charm.