Name: Stages
Brand: One Source Disticor
SKU: 60859861
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Stages

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Album: Stages
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Pure Imagination (From "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory")	More Info...
2)	What I Did For Love (From "A Chorus Line")	More Info...
3)	Bring Him Home (From "Les Misérables")	More Info...
4)	Le Temps Des Cathédrales (From "Notre-Dame de Paris")	More Info...
5)	All I Ask Of You (duet with Kelly Clarkson) [From "The Phantom Of The Opera"]	More Info...
6)	Try To Remember (From "The Fantasticks")	More Info...
7)	Over The Rainbow (From "The Wizard Of Oz")	More Info...
8)	Children Will Listen / Not While I'm Around (From "Into The Woods" / "Sweeney Todd")	More Info...
9)	You'll Never Walk Alone (From "Carousel")	More Info...
10)	Old Devil Moon (feat. Chris Botti) [From "Finian's Rainbow"]	More Info...
11)	Finishing The Hat (From "Sunday In The Park With George")	More Info...
12)	If I Loved You (duet with Audra McDonald) [From "Carousel"]	More Info...
13)	Anthem (From "Chess")	More Info...

Album: Stages
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Pure Imagination (From "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory")	More Info...
2)	What I Did For Love (From "A Chorus Line")	More Info...
3)	Bring Him Home (From "Les Misérables")	More Info...
4)	Le Temps Des Cathédrales (From "Notre-Dame de Paris")	More Info...
5)	All I Ask Of You (duet with Kelly Clarkson) [From "The Phantom Of The Opera"]	More Info...
6)	Try To Remember (From "The Fantasticks")	More Info...
7)	Over The Rainbow (From "The Wizard Of Oz")	More Info...
8)	Children Will Listen / Not While I'm Around (From "Into The Woods" / "Sweeney Todd")	More Info...
9)	You'll Never Walk Alone (From "Carousel")	More Info...
10)	Old Devil Moon (feat. Chris Botti) [From "Finian's Rainbow"]	More Info...
11)	Finishing The Hat (From "Sunday In The Park With George")	More Info...
12)	If I Loved You (duet with Audra McDonald) [From "Carousel"]	More Info...
13)	Anthem (From "Chess")	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixers: Humberto Gatica; Martin Nessi.
Recording information: Abbey Road, London, England; Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN; Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; Lionshare Studios, Hollywood, CA; MSR, New York, NY; Sony Scoring Stage, Culver City, CA; SoulFuel Studios, Nashville, TN; Tal Bergman Studios, Los Angeles, CA; United Recording, Hollywood, CA; Westlake Studios, West Hollywood, CA.
Photographer: James Dimmock.
Josh Groban always skirted the edges of middlebrow pop so it's a certain relief to hear the classical singer go all in on 2015's Stages, a tribute to the great songs of the Great White Way. He throws a few movie tunes in for good measure, including the opening "Pure Imagination" from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and "Over the Rainbow," but the concentration is on A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, The Fantasticks, Into the Woods, and Sunday in the Park with George -- lots of Sondheim, lots of musicals from after the peak of '60s crossover. Nevertheless, in its handsome deliberation, Stages does feel like a throwback to '60s LPs comprised of tunes everybody knows, sung by singers everybody knows. Groban in some ways benefits from a less operatic setting, as it naturally scales back his soaring excess, and the record is also nicely modulated -- a mellow, attractive journey to the middle of the road, a place that seems to suit Groban just fine. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine