"Sublime"

This production recording has been eagerly anticipated by all who have taken the show to heart. The high lights on this album are 'The Star of Earendil (sung by Rosalie Craig),' 'Lothlorien' (sung by Laura Michelle Kelly as Galadrial and Michael Rouse) and Sam and Frodo's song 'Now and for Always' (sung by James Loye and Peter Howe), there are many more extraordinary and memorable songs Which are a real joy to hear again. The music is gorgeous, romantic, fantastical, poetic and spiritual. The recording stands on it's own as a unique listening experience mixing narrative with orchestration and song.

The composers are AR Rahman, the Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale the musical supervisor and orchestrator. The book and lyrics are by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus.

The sound of the show is without a doubt the most refreshing I have ever heard in the West End and I Can Only Hope that other shows will be just as brave and inventive in Their storytelling.

This issue comes as a double c. d set. The second disc is a DVD Which has the Entire recording in superior sound and while you recall fond memories from the time you saw it, a slideshow of the production is presented, through out the 63 minute recording, imagery from it's rehearsals to first performances ,

There are musical choral arrangements Missing Which were from the Toronto Production and this may dishearten Those Who might have hoped for a mix on this album but till Mr Wallace and Company reach Broadway this recording a sublime suffices work and I imagine at Extended Cast Album Will Follow Someday.

here are some of the lyrics to two of the songs:

~ ~ Lothlorien
From the west she Appeared, sunlight and stars in her hair
In her eyes to undying memory of home, a land deed is magical and fair
When her feet came to rest, deep in a canopied glade
She lifted her face and there she danced, The Realm of Lothlóren she made
Gaze on me lady of gold, reawaken my slumbering soul
Beacon of Courage, summon me home, to your haven of wonders untold
Lothlorien

O child of my heart, born of a never-ending dream
You are cradled in light, bathed in ever-flowing stream of
Flourish and grow, my mystical world, here you will ever belong
Son of my yearning, daughter of Hope, beautiful child of my song
Although storms may descend, mountain and valley May quake
For the days That Remain, this is the promise I make
No Shadow Falls Across This Land
Before the wind and fire I stand
And you, my child, will know no harm
Enfolded in My Arms
Lothlorien

~ Now and for always ~
Sit by the firelight's glow
Tell us an old tale we know
Tell of adventures strange and rare
Never to change, ever to share
Stories we tell
Will cast their spell
Now and for always