So I’ve decided to go with these for my first foreign Les Miserables recordings:
1990 Swedish Cast
1991 Paris Cast
1991 Dutch Cast
1996 Duisburg Cast
2004 Prague Cast
2008 Rotterdam Cast
2010 Madrid Cast
It’s going to take me a few days to listen to them all (I still have to find two, but it shouldn’t be to hard). As I progressively listen I’ll put my thoughts here on the blog! Thanks everyone who helped me decide!
So I need help from some of you Mizzies out there.
Isn’t that what the hardcore Les Mis fans call themselves? Anyway, so I’m really starting to get into Les Mis (after being just a normal fan who didn’t really care that much about it for years) and I’m wondering: of all the foreign cast recordings, which ones should I get? Which are best. I don’t care if they’re only highlights albums, but there are just so many, I don’t know where to start. I’ve had all the English recordings for a long time and want to try some foreign ones.
Ya know, the sitzprobe from act two of Phantom is something I’d normally skip while just listening to my iPod on shuffle, but this audio has Jim Weitzer’s sassy Reyer.
what’s truly terrible about hugh and julie’s dynamic though is how hugh’s phantom is so horrible—he’s a bad person, through and through; he thrives on suffering and he loves pain—but around julie’s christine there’s this complete shift. she strips away all of the bitterness and the sarcasm and the…