Les Miserables - Audios
Paris, 1980
Maurice Barrier, Jean Vallée, Rose Laurens, Gilles Bulhmann, Fabienne Guyon, Marianne Mille, Yvan Dautin, Marie-France Roussel, Christian Rattelin
From the limited 3 month run at the Palais Des Sports.
The quality is excellent - I suspect a soundboard.
A
London, 1985
File name: LM London 1985 (A) --- See description below.
Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean), Roger Allam (Javert), Patti LuPone (Fantine), Michael Ball (Marius), Rebecca Caine (Cosette), Frances Ruffelle (Eponine), David Burt (Enjolras), Alun Armstrong (Thénardier), Susan Jane Tanner (Madame Thénardier)
Good recording but a touch hissy from a preview at the Barbican theatre. Clearly, this is the original version of the show with a running time just short of three hours with the original cast including the full versions of "Little People" & "I Saw Him Once" which along with other parts would later be cut and/or changed to remove half an hour from the show. Sometimes listed as a soundboard recording. The hiss makes me wonder if that's true or not, but given it's age the hiss could just be a side effect of generation loss.
I have another audio also from the same time period just below, I'm not certian that they are not the same, so I've labeled this file LM London 1985 (A) to differentiate it from the audio just below here.
B
London, 1985
File name: LM London 1985 (B) --- See description below.
Colm Wilkinson, Roger Allam, Patti LuPone, Alun Armstrong, Susan Jane Tanner, Frances Ruffelle, Michael Ball, Rebecca Caine, David Burt
Barbacian Preview. I'm not sure that this is not the same recording as the one above. Both run the exact same time (down to the second) and have the exact same amount of track cuts, but there is a slight discrepency on size (even though both are ripped at the same bitrate?)
At any rate, this one seems SLIGHTLY better quality - not by much though. This one also has album art attached to the audio files, as well as having the tracks named with the songs instead of just "track #".
Runs just under 3 hours.
To differentiate it from the above audio, I've labeled the file you'll recieve from me as LM London 1985 (B).
B
London, August 12 (?) 1989
Peter Karrie, Philip Quast, Grania Renihan, Gay Soper, Barry James, Michael Cantwell, Mario Frangoulis, Lisa Hull
Very VERY quiet. Quite a bit of analog hiss. Not certian that it is the audio from the 12th, as back in the day there were audios from both August 12th and 13th floating around (Same cast, but very different quality, with the 13th being better). But, most traders trade this one now with the 12th as the date so I'll leave it because there's no way we'll ever know for sure now which it was.
B
Australia, August 11, 1990 (Melbourne)
Rob Guest, Andrew Pole (u/s Javert), Marina Prior, Sylvie Paladino, Anthony Warlow
A bit of analog hiss overlaying the recording from the transfer, but in a lot better condition than I thought it would be.
The track labeling is very odd - it doesn't quite come out in order. Someone who is more versed in Les Miz would be able to make better sense of it than I could. The tracks do have song names they're just not in the actual FILE names - they're in the ID3 tag info.
B
Broadway, October 18, 1990
Craig Shulman, Merwin Foard (u/s), Christy Baron, Evalyn Baron, Ed Dixon, Natalie Toro, Hugh Panaro, Jacqueline Piro, Joseph Kolinski
Amazing condition for an audio of this age, I was very surprised. None of the hiss or generation loss I expected. I'd wonder if it were a soundboard, but there's some audience noise in places (example: coughing near the taper in Bring Him Home.)
A
Australia, May 1, 1991 (Adelaide)
Rob Guest, Philip Quast, Peta Toppano, Robyn Arthur, William Zappa, Jodie Gillies, Peter Cousens, Anita Louise Combe, Rohan Tickell
Hiss overlaying the audio, but clear enough underneath that (At least there's no HSD!)
B.
Paris, Spring 1992
Christian Dassie (u/s, Act I)/Robert Marien (Act II), Philippe Ermelier (u/s), Louise Pitre, Stephanie Martin, Jerome Pradon, Marie Zamora, Julien Combey (Act I)/Pierre-Yves Duchesne (u/s, Act II), Laurent Gendron, Virginie Ramirez (u/s)
Act I and Act II recorded on two different nights.
A
London, April 16, 1993
Mark McKerracher, Andrew C. Wadsworth, Claire Moore, Tony Rouse, Claudia Bradley (u/s), Nicky Adams, David Malek, Mark White, Jenny Galloway
Soundboard. Excellent quality audio. Very MINOR amount of hiss from the analog transfer.
A
Broadway, September 26, 1998
Fred Inkley (Valjean), Robert Gallagher (Javert), Alice Ripley (Fantine), Sutton Foster (u/s Eponine), Chris Diamonotopoulos (u/s Marius)
B
Toronto, Canada December 26, 1998
Colm Wilkinson, Todd Alan Johnson, Susan Gilmour, J. P. Dougherty, Sharron Mathews, Jessica Snow – Wilson, Tim Howar, Regan Thiel, Kurt Kovalenko, Stephen Bishop
(On my old list, I have a footnote on a different Toronto Audio as this being the Third National Tour. If so, it sure stayed in Toronto a LONG time)
Absolutely gorgeous audio for the time period, puts some newer ones to shame. Not 100% sure on the cast, I couldn't find a description to match the date, and this seems to have been the primary cast in Toronto around that time. I am sure on Wilkinson, though.
A
Broadway, January 18 2001
Ron Sharpe (u/s), Shuler Hensley, Jane Bodle, Dana Meller (u/s), Peter Lockyer, Tobi Foster, Christopher Mark Peterson, Nick Wyman, Betsy Joslyn
Early version of the cuts. Has a moderate amount of hiss overlaying the audio, obviously this was an analog transfer. Without the hiss I'd call this an A ... but ...
B
London, November 30, 2002
Mike Sterling, Jerome Pradon, Sophie Ravagelas, Hadley Fraser
Has an odd echo to it (Very similar to what I'd always hear in London POTO recordings of this time period) and a mild amount of hiss. Still, a very good audio.
A
Berlin, 2003
Olegg Vynnyk, Uwe Kröger, Ann-Christin Elvernum, Vera Bolten, Lucius Wolter, Valerie Link, Martin Pasching, Ulrich Wiggers, Betty Vermeulen
Soundboard. Really sounds like it's cast recording quality.
A
US Tour, January 5, 2006
3NT, National Theatre, Washington, DC
Randal Keith (Valjean), Robert Hunt (Javert), Joan Almedilla (Fantine), David McDonald (M. Thénardier), Jennifer Butt (Mme. Thénardier), Melissa Lyons (Eponine), Victor Wallace (Enjolras), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Sierra Boggess (Cosette u/s), Rachel Schier (Young Cosette), Austyn Myers (Gavroche)
Sierra Boggess' first time as Cosette. There is an intermittant mechanical noise - it starts and stops - which kind of makes me think that the taper had another device of some kind with him or her. What's strange though is whatever that other device is, it's NOISY! I can't imagine not getting caught with that sound, because if the audio device picked it up, the people surrounding the taper had to have heard it!
Other than that noise, good quality audio.
A
London, April 11, 2007
Jacob Chapman (u/s Valjean), Hans-Peter Janssens (Javert), Joanna Ampil (Fantine), Jon Lee (Marius), Gina Beck (Cosette), Sabrina Aloueche (Eponine), David Thaxton (u/s Enjolras), Chris Vincent (Thenardier), Tracie Bennett (Madame Thenardier)
Not quite the quality I'd have expected from an audio made after 2005. VERY quiet, some hiss as well.
B
London, September 15, 2007
Stephen John Davis (u/s Valjean), Hans Peter Janssens, Jo Ampil, Gary Watson, Edward Baruwa, Rachel Louis Miller (u/s Eponine), Claire-Marie Hall, Chris Vincent, Melanie La Barrie
A
US Regional Production
Philadelphia Walnut St Theatre, May 17, 2008
Hugh Panaro, Paul Schoeffler, Jessica Bogart, Christina DeCicco, Josh Young, Julie Craig, Jeffrey Coon, Scott Greer, Dawn Spence, Laura Gwynne Yaros (Young Cosette), Dante Mignucci (Gavroche)
Seriously picked this up strictly to hear Hugh Panaro's Valjean ... OMG *Drools* ...
Very nice quality recording.
A
London, November 26, 2009
Simon Bowman, Jeff Nicholson (First Cover), Rebecca Seale, Alistair Brammer, Emily Bull, Nancy Sullivan, David Thaxton, Martin Ball, Lorraine Bruce
One track per act.
A
Maurice Barrier, Jean Vallée, Rose Laurens, Gilles Bulhmann, Fabienne Guyon, Marianne Mille, Yvan Dautin, Marie-France Roussel, Christian Rattelin
From the limited 3 month run at the Palais Des Sports.
The quality is excellent - I suspect a soundboard.
A
London, 1985
File name: LM London 1985 (A) --- See description below.
Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean), Roger Allam (Javert), Patti LuPone (Fantine), Michael Ball (Marius), Rebecca Caine (Cosette), Frances Ruffelle (Eponine), David Burt (Enjolras), Alun Armstrong (Thénardier), Susan Jane Tanner (Madame Thénardier)
Good recording but a touch hissy from a preview at the Barbican theatre. Clearly, this is the original version of the show with a running time just short of three hours with the original cast including the full versions of "Little People" & "I Saw Him Once" which along with other parts would later be cut and/or changed to remove half an hour from the show. Sometimes listed as a soundboard recording. The hiss makes me wonder if that's true or not, but given it's age the hiss could just be a side effect of generation loss.
I have another audio also from the same time period just below, I'm not certian that they are not the same, so I've labeled this file LM London 1985 (A) to differentiate it from the audio just below here.
B
London, 1985
File name: LM London 1985 (B) --- See description below.
Colm Wilkinson, Roger Allam, Patti LuPone, Alun Armstrong, Susan Jane Tanner, Frances Ruffelle, Michael Ball, Rebecca Caine, David Burt
Barbacian Preview. I'm not sure that this is not the same recording as the one above. Both run the exact same time (down to the second) and have the exact same amount of track cuts, but there is a slight discrepency on size (even though both are ripped at the same bitrate?)
At any rate, this one seems SLIGHTLY better quality - not by much though. This one also has album art attached to the audio files, as well as having the tracks named with the songs instead of just "track #".
Runs just under 3 hours.
To differentiate it from the above audio, I've labeled the file you'll recieve from me as LM London 1985 (B).
B
London, August 12 (?) 1989
Peter Karrie, Philip Quast, Grania Renihan, Gay Soper, Barry James, Michael Cantwell, Mario Frangoulis, Lisa Hull
Very VERY quiet. Quite a bit of analog hiss. Not certian that it is the audio from the 12th, as back in the day there were audios from both August 12th and 13th floating around (Same cast, but very different quality, with the 13th being better). But, most traders trade this one now with the 12th as the date so I'll leave it because there's no way we'll ever know for sure now which it was.
B
Australia, August 11, 1990 (Melbourne)
Rob Guest, Andrew Pole (u/s Javert), Marina Prior, Sylvie Paladino, Anthony Warlow
A bit of analog hiss overlaying the recording from the transfer, but in a lot better condition than I thought it would be.
The track labeling is very odd - it doesn't quite come out in order. Someone who is more versed in Les Miz would be able to make better sense of it than I could. The tracks do have song names they're just not in the actual FILE names - they're in the ID3 tag info.
B
Broadway, October 18, 1990
Craig Shulman, Merwin Foard (u/s), Christy Baron, Evalyn Baron, Ed Dixon, Natalie Toro, Hugh Panaro, Jacqueline Piro, Joseph Kolinski
Amazing condition for an audio of this age, I was very surprised. None of the hiss or generation loss I expected. I'd wonder if it were a soundboard, but there's some audience noise in places (example: coughing near the taper in Bring Him Home.)
A
Australia, May 1, 1991 (Adelaide)
Rob Guest, Philip Quast, Peta Toppano, Robyn Arthur, William Zappa, Jodie Gillies, Peter Cousens, Anita Louise Combe, Rohan Tickell
Hiss overlaying the audio, but clear enough underneath that (At least there's no HSD!)
B.
Paris, Spring 1992
Christian Dassie (u/s, Act I)/Robert Marien (Act II), Philippe Ermelier (u/s), Louise Pitre, Stephanie Martin, Jerome Pradon, Marie Zamora, Julien Combey (Act I)/Pierre-Yves Duchesne (u/s, Act II), Laurent Gendron, Virginie Ramirez (u/s)
Act I and Act II recorded on two different nights.
A
London, April 16, 1993
Mark McKerracher, Andrew C. Wadsworth, Claire Moore, Tony Rouse, Claudia Bradley (u/s), Nicky Adams, David Malek, Mark White, Jenny Galloway
Soundboard. Excellent quality audio. Very MINOR amount of hiss from the analog transfer.
A
Broadway, September 26, 1998
Fred Inkley (Valjean), Robert Gallagher (Javert), Alice Ripley (Fantine), Sutton Foster (u/s Eponine), Chris Diamonotopoulos (u/s Marius)
B
Toronto, Canada December 26, 1998
Colm Wilkinson, Todd Alan Johnson, Susan Gilmour, J. P. Dougherty, Sharron Mathews, Jessica Snow – Wilson, Tim Howar, Regan Thiel, Kurt Kovalenko, Stephen Bishop
(On my old list, I have a footnote on a different Toronto Audio as this being the Third National Tour. If so, it sure stayed in Toronto a LONG time)
Absolutely gorgeous audio for the time period, puts some newer ones to shame. Not 100% sure on the cast, I couldn't find a description to match the date, and this seems to have been the primary cast in Toronto around that time. I am sure on Wilkinson, though.
A
Broadway, January 18 2001
Ron Sharpe (u/s), Shuler Hensley, Jane Bodle, Dana Meller (u/s), Peter Lockyer, Tobi Foster, Christopher Mark Peterson, Nick Wyman, Betsy Joslyn
Early version of the cuts. Has a moderate amount of hiss overlaying the audio, obviously this was an analog transfer. Without the hiss I'd call this an A ... but ...
B
London, November 30, 2002
Mike Sterling, Jerome Pradon, Sophie Ravagelas, Hadley Fraser
Has an odd echo to it (Very similar to what I'd always hear in London POTO recordings of this time period) and a mild amount of hiss. Still, a very good audio.
A
Berlin, 2003
Olegg Vynnyk, Uwe Kröger, Ann-Christin Elvernum, Vera Bolten, Lucius Wolter, Valerie Link, Martin Pasching, Ulrich Wiggers, Betty Vermeulen
Soundboard. Really sounds like it's cast recording quality.
A
US Tour, January 5, 2006
3NT, National Theatre, Washington, DC
Randal Keith (Valjean), Robert Hunt (Javert), Joan Almedilla (Fantine), David McDonald (M. Thénardier), Jennifer Butt (Mme. Thénardier), Melissa Lyons (Eponine), Victor Wallace (Enjolras), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Sierra Boggess (Cosette u/s), Rachel Schier (Young Cosette), Austyn Myers (Gavroche)
Sierra Boggess' first time as Cosette. There is an intermittant mechanical noise - it starts and stops - which kind of makes me think that the taper had another device of some kind with him or her. What's strange though is whatever that other device is, it's NOISY! I can't imagine not getting caught with that sound, because if the audio device picked it up, the people surrounding the taper had to have heard it!
Other than that noise, good quality audio.
A
London, April 11, 2007
Jacob Chapman (u/s Valjean), Hans-Peter Janssens (Javert), Joanna Ampil (Fantine), Jon Lee (Marius), Gina Beck (Cosette), Sabrina Aloueche (Eponine), David Thaxton (u/s Enjolras), Chris Vincent (Thenardier), Tracie Bennett (Madame Thenardier)
Not quite the quality I'd have expected from an audio made after 2005. VERY quiet, some hiss as well.
B
London, September 15, 2007
Stephen John Davis (u/s Valjean), Hans Peter Janssens, Jo Ampil, Gary Watson, Edward Baruwa, Rachel Louis Miller (u/s Eponine), Claire-Marie Hall, Chris Vincent, Melanie La Barrie
A
US Regional Production
Philadelphia Walnut St Theatre, May 17, 2008
Hugh Panaro, Paul Schoeffler, Jessica Bogart, Christina DeCicco, Josh Young, Julie Craig, Jeffrey Coon, Scott Greer, Dawn Spence, Laura Gwynne Yaros (Young Cosette), Dante Mignucci (Gavroche)
Seriously picked this up strictly to hear Hugh Panaro's Valjean ... OMG *Drools* ...
Very nice quality recording.
A
London, November 26, 2009
Simon Bowman, Jeff Nicholson (First Cover), Rebecca Seale, Alistair Brammer, Emily Bull, Nancy Sullivan, David Thaxton, Martin Ball, Lorraine Bruce
One track per act.
A