Fiddler On The Roof Cd Soundtrack

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.

Fiddler on the roof cd soundtrack. Available for the first time ever in its 55 year history the musically complete cast recording of fiddler on the roof including 11 songs in english that were cut from the original broadway production in 1964. The gold selling soundtrack album for the screen adaptation of the broadway musical fiddler on the roof which became the top grossing film of 1971 features songs by jerry bock and sheldon harnick and score by john williams. It was also the origin of several famous and now standard songs such as sunrise sunset and matchmaker matchmaker in addition to those mentioned above. Topol who starred as tevye in the london stage version perfectly nails if i were a rich man which is only one of.

The music is beautiful and haunting at moments. His cds have been nominated for several nammies or native american music awards including 1998 honors for the. The soundtrack is often compared unfavorably with the original 1964 cast album in which zero mostel played the part of tevye here performed by topol who had been in the 1967 london production. John williams 4 isaac stern fiddler on the roof original motion picture soundtrack recording cd album re emi usa emi usa e2 46091 e2 0777 7 46091 2 8.

For me what raises the original 1964 broadway cast recording of fiddler on the roof to the indispensable level is 1 the superb vividly captured orchestral playing with magnificent clarinet trills in the wedding bottle dance which like the rumor was a welcome addition to the cd transfer from the original lp and an evocative. John williams 4 isaac stern fiddler on the roof original motion picture soundtrack recording cd album re emi usa emi usa. This is the national yiddish theatre folksbiene s nytf production of fiddler on the roof in yiddish. But this cd has a lot going for it including glossy remastering and of course isaac stern as the fiddler.