{"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","url":"https:\/\/shop.melissaerrico.com\/products\/sondheim-in-the-city","provider":"Melissa Errico","version":"1.0","type":"link"}