Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever

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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever
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Released2001 (2001)
Genre Musical theatre
Label Polydor

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever is a 2001 box set compilation album of the music of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. [1]

Contents

Released in 2001 and comprising five discs in total, the album's first three discs feature a selection of between three and five tracks from each of Lloyd Webber's musicals to date, roughly in chronological order. [2] The fourth disc, entitled Hits & More, features tracks that were released as singles, and the fifth disc, The Vaults, features obscure and previously unreleased tracks. [1]

The discs are contained in a hardback book, with copious notes on the recordings and their parent shows.

The tracks' lyricists include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart, Alan Ayckbourn, Christopher Hampton, Jim Steinman, Ben Elton and the poet T. S. Eliot.

Tracklisting

Disc One

Track #TrackArtistParent Show
1Overture Jesus Christ Superstar
2 Everything's Alright Yvonne Elliman / Murray Head / Ian Gillan
3 I Don't Know How to Love Him Yvonne Elliman
4Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) Steve Balsamo
5 Superstar Murray Head with the Trinidad Singers
6 Oh What a Circus / Sing You Fools Antonio Banderas Evita
7I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You Elaine Paige / Joss Ackland
8 Another Suitcase in Another Hall Barbara Dickson
9 Don't Cry for Me Argentina Julie Covington
10High Flying, Adored Mandy Patinkin / Patti LuPone
11The Jellicle Ball Cats
12 Memory Elaine Paige
13 Gus: The Theatre Cat Susan Jane Tanner / John Mills
14 Mr Mistoffelees Paul Nicholas
15 Take That Look Off Your Face Marti Webb Song and Dance
16Tell Me on a SundayMarti Webb
17 Unexpected Song Sarah Brightman
18Nothing Like You've Ever KnownSarah Brightman
19Introduction
20 Variations 1-4

Disc Two

Track #TrackArtistParent Show
1 Starlight Express El Debarge Starlight Express
2Crazy Greg Ellis / Reva Rice / Caron Cardelle / Samantha Lane / Voyd
3Next Time You Fall in LoveReva Rice / Greg Ellis
4I Am the Starlight Lon Satton / Ray Shell
5 Light at the End of the Tunnel
6Hosanna Plácido Domingo Requiem
7 Pie Jesu Sarah Brightman / Paul Miles-Kingston
8 The Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford / Sarah Brightman The Phantom of the Opera
9 The Music of the Night Michael Crawford
10 All I Ask of You Sarah Brightman / Steve Barton
11Entr'acte
12Masquerade
13Wishing You Were Somehow Here AgainSarah Brightman
14Aspects of AspectsOrchester der Vereinigten Buehnen Wien Aspects of Love
15 Love Changes Everything Michael Ball
16Seeing is BelievingMichael Ball / Ann Crumb
17The First Man You Remember Kevin Colson / Diana Morrison
18Anything But LonelySarah Brightman
19Chanson D'EnfanceSarah Brightman

Disc Three

Track #TrackArtistParent Show
1 Any Dream Will Do Jason Donovan Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2Joseph's Coat Maria Friedman / Richard Attenborough / Donny Osmond
3 Close Every Door Donny Osmond
4Travel HopefullyJohn Scherer / Martin Jarvis / Don Stephenson By Jeeves
5When Love Arrives Steven Pacey / Diana Morrison
6Half a MomentSarah Brightman
7With One Look Glenn Close Sunset Boulevard
8New Ways to DreamGlenn Close / Alan Campbell
9The Perfect YearPatti LuPone / Kevin Anderson
10Sunset BoulevardAlan Campbell
11As If We Never Said GoodbyeGlenn Close
12Whistle Down the Wind James Graeme / Lottie Mayor Whistle Down the Wind
13Cold The Everly Brothers
14 No Matter What
15The Nature of the Beast Marcus Lovett / Lottie Mayor
16Overture The Beautiful Game
17The Beautiful Game
18 Our Kind of Love Hannah Waddingham
19Don't Like You Josie Walker / David Shannon
20Let Us Love in PeaceJosie Walker / Omagh Youth Community Choir

Disc Four: Hits & More

Track #TrackArtist
1Oh What a Circus David Essex
2Memory Betty Buckley
3The Phantom of the OperaSarah Brightman / Steve Harley
4All I Ask of YouSarah Brightman / Cliff Richard
5Love Changes EverythingMichael Ball
6Any Dream Will DoDonny Osmond
7 Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) Sarah Brightman / Jose Carreras
8As If We Never Said Goodbye Barbra Streisand
9The Perfect Year Dina Carroll
10With One Look Petula Clark
11 You Must Love Me Madonna
12 The Heart is Slow to Learn Kiri Te Kanawa
13A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to WasteThe Metal Philharmonic Orchestra
14Whistle Down the Wind Tina Arena
15No Matter What Boyzone
16The Vaults of Heaven Tom Jones with Sounds of Blackness
17Try Not to Be Afraid Boy George
18Pie Jesu Charlotte Church

Disc Five

Track #TrackArtist
1Make Believe LoveWes Sands
2Down Thru' Summer Ross Hannaman
3I'll Give All My Love to SouthendRoss Hannaman
4Believe Me I Will Sacha Distel
5Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

(1969 Radio Luxembourg Commercial)

Joseph Consortium / Pete Murray
6Try It and See Rita Pavone
7Come Back Richard Your Country Needs YouTim Rice and the Webber Group
8Goodbye Seattle Paul Raven
9John 19:41The Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra
10What A Line to Go Out OnYvonne Elliman
11Disillusion Me Gary Bond
12The Ballad of Robert and PeterTim Rice
13Christmas Dream Maynard Williams
14It's Only Your Lover Returning / All Through My Crazy and Wild Days /

Don't Cry for Me Argentina

Julie Covington
15Magdalena Tony Christie
16Buenos AiresThe Rioja Rockers
17Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle CatsAndrew Lloyd Webber
18Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

(Live at the Sydmonton Festival 1980)

Gemma Craven
19I Could Have Given You MorePetula Clark
20I've Been in Love Too LongMarti Webb
21BenediciteThe Stephen Hill Singers

Personnel

Compiled and produced by Tristram Penna

Cover drawing by Ronnie Wood

Booklet notes by James Inverne

Special thanks: Don Black, Brian Drutman, Tracey Connolly, Richard Gates, Paul Jones, George McManus, Denis McNamara, Tim Rice, Dave Robinson, Paul Tucker and Clare Wood

Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Chris Blair and Tristram Penna

Designed by Dewynters

References

  1. 1 2 "Now and Forever: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Box Set - Andrew Lloyd Webber | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. "Now and Forever". Billboard. Retrieved 3 April 2018.