{"title":"Music","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"i-can-dream-cant-i-cd","title":"\"I Can Dream, Can't I?\" CD","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"\u003eIllusions \u0026amp; Conversations from The Great American Songbook\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— CD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA romantic journey through the Great American Songbook, I Can Dream, Can’t I? finds Melissa Errico exploring love, longing, illusion and possibility through songs by some of America’s greatest composers. Intimate, sophisticated and deeply personal, the album brings Melissa’s theatrical storytelling into the world of jazz.\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA beautiful record for late-night listening.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMelissa Errico’s new album is a collection of standards that are not standard. Though many of the songs are familiar, even classics; they evade the usual categories of American music: the torch song, the ‘I want’ number, the patter-comedy turn, the wash-that-man-out-of-my-hair song. An intuitively discovered body of work, these are songs of conversation and reflection, songs that ask themselves questions privately, more than they declare their desires loudly and publicly. There are moons and Junes in these songs, but reality too. Here are songs of self-reliance and self-reflection, often sad, even when the feelings resolve in equipoise. With Melissa, a song isn’t a torch song. It’s more of a searchlight. A love story made of sighs and secrets rather than neat happy endings; and a series of evasions and implications. Love as an obstacle course run by adults rather than meadows measured by children. Spring will be a little late this year. Only a little, but that’s enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThese songs are drawn from what Melissa calls “the field of poppies from which sprang Sondheim’s opium.” Errico’s years singing Sondheim, in the ever-extended Sondheim project, have brought her a new and unusual delicacy with the standards. Her diction, her clarinet of a voice, and all the skill learned in the classroom of the self-conscious ironies and comma-bound contradictions of Sondheim, are applied to reimagine the emotional resources of the American Songbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMusic by Frank Loesser, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee, Van Heusen, Rodgers \u0026amp; Hart, Jerome Kern, Sammy Fain, Dave Frishberg, Dori Caymmi, and Joni Mitchell. 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In songs like the jangly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Another Hundred People,’ the exuberant ‘What More Do \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Need?’ and the dry, disappointed ‘It Wasn’t Meant to \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHappen,’ Errico, one of Sondheim’s deepest-hearted yet \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003elightest-touch interpreters, evokes both the city and cabaret \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003estyle at its best. On the pristine recording you can almost \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehear the martini glasses clink — and shatter.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The finest all-Sondheim album ever recorded,” was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal’s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003everdict on Melissa Errico’s ecstatic, inward-turning \u003ci\u003eSondheim Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (released in 2018). Now, her new tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Sondheim In The City, changes tone to offer us a more outward-driven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the poetic vision of a man who once confessed that his entire creative life had been spent in a twenty-block radius of Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrom the wide-eyed newly-wed for whom a basement room with a quarter-inch view is all that she needs, to the cynical nouveau from New Rochelle who can’t choose between uptown and downtown for her bitter pleasures, Melissa celebrates and embodies New York characters of all kinds – with a clear arc of passage along the way:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBeginning in innocence (“What More Do I Need?” and “Another Hundred People”) passing into experience (“The Little Things You Do Together”, “Everybody Says Don’t”) and arriving at the plaintive, bittersweet ambivalence that is Sondheim’s tonic note on “Good Thing Going” and “Sorry-Grateful.” In the very end we rise, in a driving, deeply emotional, and redemptive version of “Being Alive”, to some kind of broken-hearted, Sondheimian hope.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJoined by the inimitable pianist \u003cb\u003eTedd Firth,\u003c\/b\u003e the recording was produced by \u003cb\u003eRob Mathes \u003c\/b\u003e(Sting, Elvis Costello) and features Lewis Nash on drums, David Finck on bass — plus strings \u0026amp; horns.\u003ci\u003e Sondheim In The City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Melissa singing New York as it was, might still be, and will yet become, through the words and music of one of its most enduring poets.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melissa Errico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49834840785135,"sku":"ME-SITC-CD","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4348\/7983\/files\/SITC-CdCover_Disc.jpg?v=1782092794"},{"product_id":"sondheim-sublime","title":"\"Sondheim Sublime\" CD","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Not to put too fine a point on it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSondheim Sublime\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Sondheim Sublime Melissa Errico shows us a side of Stephen Sondheim’s music that no singer has explored so completely before. It’s not the satiric or slyly disillusioned Sondheim – it’s the soulful Sondheim, the heartfelt, hungering Sondheim, author of songs of aching love and slowly dawning wisdom, the exalted, and reflective Sondheim: Sondheim Sublime. Accompanied by pianist Tedd Firth, Errico sings in a tone by turns hushed, electric and ecstatic, giving us a new understanding of the emotional intensity that has always equaled Sondheim’s virtuosic verbal magic. It’s a program of songs of love and life lessons, including a perfectly protective mother’s version of “Not While I’m Around” – while still having time for a provocative “Sooner or Later.” An album to place alongside her earlier Legrand Affair and Lullabies and Wildflowers as part of a uniquely lyrical and romantic library, Sondheim Sublime is an Errico album meant for the three-o-clocks in the mornings of the soul, when love is lost and wisdoms sought from one wise friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa is best known for her starring roles on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, Anna Karenina, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas and Amour which won her a Tony nomination for “Best Actress” and began a longtime association with its composer Michel Legrand. She has also been a recording artist and concert singer, releasing several solo albums and working with some of the world’s best symphonies and in jazz and cabaret spaces. 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Searching through her Legrand memorabilia, she discovered a long-overlooked box of beautifully recorded demos she had made of Legrand songs, with Legrand himself on the piano, bassist David Finck and the great pop drummer Steve Gadd, produced by Phil Ramone - all exquisite sketches for the album that became the canonic \"Legrand Affair\" (also Co-Produced by Richard Jay-Alexander). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe also discovered a series of living room recordings made with Michel at her piano, where he taught, sang, scatted and revealed his almost mystical gift for passing instantly from genre to genre, from classical to pop to French chanson to free jazz. Simultaneously, she was offered the words and music of the very last song that Legrand ever composed with his favorite lyric writing team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Never before performed, the Bergmans entrusted it to Melissa, asking her to record it. Inspired by the Legrand memorial concerts, which included Legrand classics that she had never before performed, and by the new, and newly discovered material, Melissa, in tandem with Ghostlight Records, will on November 8, 2019 release an extended and complete version of her dream Legrand project. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn addition to the 15 original recordings with the Brussels Philharmonic, \"Legrand Affair: Deluxe Edition\" will incorporate 12 new tracks, including the best unheard studio sketches, the newly recorded last collaboration - \"I Haven't Thought Of This In Quite A While\" - as well as new recordings of \"Hurry Home, \" \"Little Boy Lost, \" \"The Way He Makes Me Feel\" and a new guitar duo version of the evergreen \"What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?\" As a bonus, Errico has made a montage of the 'living room demos, ' creating a single composite track called \"Michel At Work\" which offers an unprecedented window into Legrand's almost child-like delight in leaping, within his own music, from style to style. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Working with Michel was one of the highlights of my musical life - it's as though this year, his spirit is at my shoulder and asking me to sing again for him. I love the grandeur of the \"Legrand Affair\" album beyond words - but hearing the tracks of me and Michel working together reminded me of how much I also love hearing more intimate versions of his music. In Michel's music, genre doesn't exist - he was unencumbered by boundaries. His plurality of disciplines became his freedom and made one seamless web of music. I'm happy beyond words to be able to put his energy back into the world.\" - Melissa Errico\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/melissaerrico.com\/music\/albums\/legrand-affair\/\" title=\"Legrand Affair\"\u003eLearn more about this album\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melissa Errico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49978839236847,"sku":"ME-LA-DLX-CD","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4348\/7983\/files\/LegrandAffair-CdCover_Disc.jpg?v=1782353417"},{"product_id":"legrand-affair-the-songs-of-michel-legrand-deluxe-edition-lp","title":"Legrand Affair: The Songs of Michel Legrand LP","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Sensuously alluring” “with luscious and emotive strings produced by Phil Ramone.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhen the great French composer Michel Legrand died in January of 2019, Melissa Errico could not have imagined how his spirit would come to dominate her year. Asked by The New York Times to offer the eulogy to her beloved collaborator, on Jan. 28, the Times published her long, affectionate appreciation. Not long after, she was invited to become the sole American performer to participate in the extraordinary two-day memorial to Legrand held in April at Paris' Le Grand Rex Theatre, the Radio City Music Hall of the French capitol, and after that to participate in an equally significant memorial later in the year at London's Royal Festival Hall. Along with the Paris concert, the leading French political and cultural magazine, La Regle du Jeu, published a much-extended version of her Legrand eulogy in French. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn May, Melissa took her vision of the French composer to San Francisco for an extraordinary one-night concert, causing one reviewer to announce simply that \"Errico is, and will continue to be, the premier interpreter of the musical legacy of Michel Legrand.\" She also curated a sold-out film festival, \"The Summer of Legrand, \" at the French Institute\/Alliance Franc¸aise (FIAF) in Manhattan over the summer of 2019, singing her own tribute after one of eight screenings. Then, something truly extraordinary happened. Searching through her Legrand memorabilia, she discovered a long-overlooked box of beautifully recorded demos she had made of Legrand songs, with Legrand himself on the piano, bassist David Finck and the great pop drummer Steve Gadd, produced by Phil Ramone - all exquisite sketches for the album that became the canonic \"Legrand Affair\" (also Co-Produced by Richard Jay-Alexander). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe also discovered a series of living room recordings made with Michel at her piano, where he taught, sang, scatted and revealed his almost mystical gift for passing instantly from genre to genre, from classical to pop to French chanson to free jazz. Simultaneously, she was offered the words and music of the very last song that Legrand ever composed with his favorite lyric writing team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Never before performed, the Bergmans entrusted it to Melissa, asking her to record it. Inspired by the Legrand memorial concerts, which included Legrand classics that she had never before performed, and by the new, and newly discovered material, Melissa, in tandem with Ghostlight Records, will on November 8, 2019 release an extended and complete version of her dream Legrand project. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Working with Michel was one of the highlights of my musical life - it's as though this year, his spirit is at my shoulder and asking me to sing again for him. I love the grandeur of the \"Legrand Affair\" album beyond words - but hearing the tracks of me and Michel working together reminded me of how much I also love hearing more intimate versions of his music. In Michel's music, genre doesn't exist - he was unencumbered by boundaries. His plurality of disciplines became his freedom and made one seamless web of music. I'm happy beyond words to be able to put his energy back into the world.\" - Melissa Errico\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melissa Errico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49978843234543,"sku":"ME-LA-DLX-LP","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4348\/7983\/files\/LEGRAND_LP_Cover_PackShot.jpg?v=1782353568"},{"product_id":"sondheim-in-the-city-lp","title":"\"Sondheim in the City\" LP","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eondheim in the City, Melissa Errico’s tribute to \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSondheim’s urbanity, feels like a New York house \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003etour of thrill and heartbreak. 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Now, her new tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Sondheim In The City, changes tone to offer us a more outward-driven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the poetic vision of a man who once confessed that his entire creative life had been spent in a twenty-block radius of Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrom the wide-eyed newly-wed for whom a basement room with a quarter-inch view is all that she needs, to the cynical nouveau from New Rochelle who can’t choose between uptown and downtown for her bitter pleasures, Melissa celebrates and embodies New York characters of all kinds – with a clear arc of passage along the way:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBeginning in innocence (“What More Do I Need?” and “Another Hundred People”) passing into experience (“The Little Things You Do Together”, “Everybody Says Don’t”) and arriving at the plaintive, bittersweet ambivalence that is Sondheim’s tonic note on “Good Thing Going” and “Sorry-Grateful.” In the very end we rise, in a driving, deeply emotional, and redemptive version of “Being Alive”, to some kind of broken-hearted, Sondheimian hope.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJoined by the inimitable pianist \u003cb\u003eTedd Firth,\u003c\/b\u003e the recording was produced by \u003cb\u003eRob Mathes \u003c\/b\u003e(Sting, Elvis Costello) and features Lewis Nash on drums, David Finck on bass — plus strings \u0026amp; horns.\u003ci\u003e Sondheim In The City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Melissa singing New York as it was, might still be, and will yet become, through the words and music of one of its most enduring poets.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melissa Errico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49978843529455,"sku":"ME-SITC-LP","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4348\/7983\/files\/SITC_2LP_Cover_PackShot.jpg?v=1782353705"},{"product_id":"lullabies-wildflowers-cd","title":"\"Lullabies \u0026 Wildflowers\" CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A reflection on the journey of motherhood-most of the album has a jazzy feel with some pop influences and light tingles of gentle folk music. 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