Josh Groban - Stages


Label:

Reprise

Genre:

Pop/Rock

Product No.:
AREP 548292
UPC: 093624928362
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Vinyl Record


No. of Discs: 2


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Songs from the world's greatest musicals!

With special guests Kelly Clarkson, Chris Botti and Audra McDonald

Double LP includes two bonus tracks

Josh Groban always skirted the edges of middlebrow pop so it's a certain relief to hear the classical singer go all in on 2015's Stages, a tribute to the great songs of the Great White Way. He throws a few movie tunes in for good measure, including the opening "Pure Imagination" from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and "Over the Rainbow," but the concentration is on A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, The Fantasticks, Into the Woods, and Sunday in the Park with George — lots of Sondheim, lots of musicals from after the peak of '60s crossover.

Nevertheless, in its handsome deliberation, Stages does feel like a throwback to '60s LPs comprised of tunes everybody knows, sung by singers everybody knows. Groban in some ways benefits from a less operatic setting, as it naturally scales back his soaring excess, and the record is also nicely modulated — a mellow, attractive journey to the middle of the road, a place that seems to suit Groban just fine.



1. Pure Imagination (from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory)
2. What I Did For Love (from A Chorus Line)
3. Bring Him Home (from Les Misérables)
4. Les Temps Des Cathédrales (from Notre Dame de Paris)
5. All I Ask Of You (from The Phantom of the Opera) (feat. Kelly Clarkson)
6. Try To Remember (from The Fantasticks)
7. Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
8. Children Will Listen/Not While I’m Around (from Sweeney Todd/Into the Woods)
9. You’ll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel)
10. Old Devil Moon (from Finian’s Rainbow) (feat. Chris Botti)
11. Finishing the Hat (from Sunday in the Park with George)
12. If I Loved You (from Carousel) (feat. Audra MacDonald)
13. Anthem (from Chess)

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