Various Artists - Passion

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