Passion / Various Passion / Various CD

Two CD set. 2013 production of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine's 1994 Tony Award winning Best Musical. Directed by the innovative John Doyle, who has been celebrated for his revelatory reinterpretations of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company, Passion stars Judy Kuhn as Fosca, Melissa Errico as Clara, and Ryan Silverman as Giorgio performing under the baton of Rob Berman to new orchestrations by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick. The New York Daily News proclaimed 'Musical theater scores don't come more glorious!'

1. Happiness 2. Ah, Captain Bachetti 3. First Letter 4. That's Signora Fosca Playing 5. Second Letter 6. Don't Be Alarmed 7. Third Letter 8. Late for Breakfast, Captain Bachetti 9. Fourth Letter 10. I Read 11. Some Flowers for Your Room 12. Transition ("How Can I Describe Her?") 13. Garden Sequence 14. Transition ("All the Time I Watched from My Room...") 15. Fifth Letter 16. I Hope We Can Still Take Hands 17. Three Weeks 18. Signora Fosca Has Taken a Turn for the Worse 19. I Never Thought You Would Come 20. I Wish I Could Forget You 21. Soldiers' Gossip I 22. Flashback 23. Sunrise Letter 24. Are You Running Away from Me? 25. Is This What You Call Love? 26. Soldiers' Gossip II 27. Nightmare 28. She Was Dragging Me Down 29. Transition ("To Feel a Woman's Touch...") 30. Forty Days 31. How Dare You Follow Me?! 32. Loving You 33. Soldiers' Gossip III 34. Milan 35. I'm Only Staying Four Days 36. Christmas Music 37. Thank You for Coming, Captain 38. Farewell Letter 39. I Discovered This Letter at My Cousin's Bedside 40. No One Has Ever Loved Me 41. Duel 42. Finale