The only two recordings I know of the complete overture are these:
1. On the LP A Little Sondheim Music, performed by a group called the Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble, issued on EMI Angel in 1984. The singers are accompanied by two pianos throughout the LP.
2. On the TER/JAY studio-cast recording, which used the orchestration employed in the 1989 Chichester Festival production, which moved to London, where it ran for four-and-a-half months. John Owen Edwards, one of JAY's regular conductors, conducted that production and created the orchestration (based closely on Tunick's), which was for 12 players. A percussionist was added for the recording. There is sometimes a misconception that the JAY recording is a cast recording of that Chichester-London production but it's really not, as the cast on the recording features only six or seven people who were in that production, depending on how you count them (the quintet, the Charlotte, and the Carl-Magnus, who switched to Fredrik for the recording).
Yes, the complete original overture with the full orchestration was in that City Opera production. |
