Fiddler on the Roof [30th Anniversary Edition]

Fiddler on the Roof [30th Anniversary Edition]

Fiddler on the Roof [30th Anniversary Edition]

Fiddler on the Roof [30th Anniversary Edition]

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Overview

Originally released as a double-LP set and now on one CD, the gold-selling soundtrack album for the screen adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, which became the top-grossing film of 1971, stretched out Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's song score with musical adaptations by conductor John Williams, who used a giant orchestra and chorus that sounded like it was far bigger than the population of the little village of Anatevka. (Williams won the Academy Award for musical adaptation for his trouble.) There was plenty of screen dialogue, too. But the appeal of the work continued to be the wonderful songs "Tradition," "Matchmaker," "If I Were a Rich Man," "To Life," "Sunrise, Sunset," and "Do You Love Me." Topol, who repeated his starring performance as Tevye from the London stage version, wasn't as funny as Zero Mostel, who created the part on Broadway, but gave it more gravity. Occasionally on the soundtrack he sounded so tired, though, that he barely got his lines out. Happily, he nailed "If I Were a Rich Man," which is Tevye's real showcase number. The soundtrack also includes one song, "Chavaleh," here called "Chava Ballet Sequence," that was cut from the stage show, though a song that was in the show, "Now I Have Everything," has been dropped. Still, the Fiddler on the Roof album to buy is the original Broadway cast recording. The 2001 CD reissue is even more the creature of Williams than of Bock and Harnick, adding several short instrumental orchestral pieces. But it also adds a good previously unheard song, "Any Day Now," sung by Paul Michael Glaser, who played Perchik, and probably intended to replace "Now I Have Everything," although it, too, was left on the cutting room floor of a film that already ran three hours. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 10/09/2001
Label: Capitol / Capitol/Emi Records / Emi Music Distribution
UPC: 0724353526627
Rank: 6545

Tracks

  1. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Prologue And Tradition & Main Title
  2. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Matchmaker
  3. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~If I Were A Rich Man
  4. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Sabbath Prayer
  5. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~To Life
  6. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Miracle of Miracles
  7. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Tevye's Dream
  8. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Wedding Procession
  9. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Sunrise, Sunset
  10. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Wedding Celebration And The Bottle Dance
  11. First Act Finale for the film version of Fiddler on the Roof
  12. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Entr'acte
  13. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Do You Love Me?
  14. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Far From The Home I Love
  15. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Chava Ballet Sequence
  16. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~The Rejection Scene
  17. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Anatevka
  18. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Finale
  19. Fiddler on the Roof, musical~Any Day Now

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chaim Topol   Primary Artist,Vocals
John Williams   Primary Artist,Conductor
Michele Marsh   Primary Artist
Paul Mann   Primary Artist,Vocals
Michael Glaser   Primary Artist
Isaac Stern   Primary Artist,Violin,Vocals,Soloist
Rosalind Harris   Primary Artist,Vocals
Ruth Madoc   Primary Artist,Vocals
Neva Small   Primary Artist,Vocals
Shimen Ruskin   Primary Artist
Leonard Frey   Primary Artist,Vocals
Molly Picon   Primary Artist,Vocals
Barry Dennen   Primary Artist,Vocals
Patience Collier   Primary Artist
Norma Crane   Primary Artist
Norman Jewison   Director

Technical Credits

Norman Newell   Producer
Bryan Kelley   Producer
Sheldon Harnick   Composer,Lyricist
Jerry Bock   Composer
Darren Wong   Art Direction,Design
Anita Camarata   Music Executive,Executive in Charge of Music
Norman Jewison   Producer
Gregg Ogorzelec   Producer
Ron McMaster   Remastering
John Williams   Adaptation,Composer
John Hendrickson   Remixing
Didier C. Deutsch   Reissue Liner Notes,Liner Notes
George Gershwin   Composer
Cheryl Pawelski   Producer
Kenny Nemes   Project Manager
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