{"title":"Sondheim","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sondheim-in-the-city","title":"\"Sondheim in the City\" CD","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\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. 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. More recently, she has been establishing a reputation as a writer, publishing essays in The New York Times and beyond. Television roles include the series Central Park West by Darren Star, recurring roles on Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick and Showtime’s Billions. Melissa has also recently finished shooting a role in The Magnificent Meyersons, an Eric Oppenheimer film with Kate Mulgrew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melissa Errico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49834897735919,"sku":"ME-SS-CD","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4348\/7983\/files\/SondheimSublime-CdCover_Disc.jpg?v=1782093041"},{"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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