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Tracklist
CD 1
Hamilton~Alexander Hamilton (03:56) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Aaron Burr, Sir (02:36) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~My Shot (05:33) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Story of Tonight (01:31) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Schuyler Sisters (03:06) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Farmer Refuted (01:52) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~You'll Be Back (03:28) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Right Hand Man (05:21) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~A Winter's Ball (01:09) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Helpless (04:09) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Satisfied (05:29) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Story of Tonight (Reprise) (01:55) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Wait for It (03:13) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Stay Alive (02:39) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Ten Duel Commandments (01:46) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Meet Me Inside (01:23) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~That Would Be Enough (02:58) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Guns and Ships (02:07) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~History Has Its Eyes on You (01:37) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (04:02) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~What Comes Next? (01:39) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Dear Theodosia (03:03) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Non-Stop (06:25) Lin-Manuel Miranda
CD 2
Hamilton~What'd I Miss (03:56) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Cabinet Battle #1 (03:35) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Take a Break (04:46) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Say No to This (04:02) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Room Where It Happens (05:18) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Schuyler Defeated (01:03) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Cabinet Battle #2 (02:22) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Washington On Your Side (03:01) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~One Last Time (04:56) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~I Know Him (01:37) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Adams Administration (00:54) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~We Know (02:22) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Hurricane (02:23) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Reynolds Pamphlet (02:08) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Burn (03:45) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Blow Us All Away (02:53) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Stay Alive (Reprise) (01:51) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~It's Quiet Uptown (04:30) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The Election of 1800 (03:57) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Your Obedient Servant (02:30) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Best of Wives and Best of Women (00:47) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~The World was Wide Enough (05:02) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton~Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (03:37) Lin-Manuel Miranda
Review
Inspired by the Ron Chernow biography, Hamilton: An American Musical is an innovative, hip-hop-charged stage musical about U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton. That's right, hip-hop (and ethnically diverse casting) meet the 18th century. Its creator, book writer, composer-lyricist, and lead actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, had his Broadway breakthrough in 2008 with Into the Heights, a musical about the Latino-American Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights that also incorporated rap music into its rambunctious songbook. Miranda won a Tony and a Grammy for his songwriting for the Best Musical winner. With Hamilton, he draws on rap, contemporary R&B, pop, and classic show tunes for a dynamic style that isn't just ambitious but accessible and catchy -- and there's plenty of conventional melody. The well-over-two-hour production does a good job of balancing tone and styles, so for those who find rap, or rather theater balladry, something to be endured, relief is just around the corner. Recorded with care over several days instead of the usual single recording session, and with production oversight by Questlove and Black Thought of the Roots, the cast recording opens with alternately rapped and sung exposition on "Alexander Hamilton." Sure, the concept of rapping historical figures can take some adjusting to, but where vocals are concerned, rapping isn't that much different from recitative (between arias) in opera, chant, or any other type of rhythmic speaking ("Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man). It's the decidedly non-period R&B/21st century pop-flavored music and modern vernacular (with explicit language) in the distant setting that takes some suspension of disbelief. Once that happens, and the listener is confronted with the device quickly and impressively, it's smooth sailing. The rhythm and word plays are at such high levels -- lyrics are often delivered rapid-fire with interruptions occurring seamlessly in rhyme and in tempo -- it's hard not to be won over pretty much from the start, especially with lyrics like the sung political advice, "Talk less, smile more/Don't let them know what you're against or for" and meticulous, smile-inducing rap rhymes ("skill with the quill," etc.). Hamilton's verbosity is a running joke in the show, which comes to an apex in the "Cabinet Battles," exercises in rhetorical grandiloquence executed via a rap smackdown between Hamilton (Miranda) and, among others, Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs). Another standout is the tender pop ballad "Wait for It" by Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr, and the cast. If there's a significant knock on the show, it's that there's so much information communicated in the songs -- facts, reading of documents, summaries of events -- it would certainly be tedious if not accompanied by an unusually entertaining presentation, and some will decide that it still is. However, given the musical's fairly radical rendering and the limited access to the show -- any Broadway show -- this recording seems a vital one, and time will tell if the musical is a watershed in big-budget musical theater. ~ Marcy Donelson
Contributors
Artist Lin-Manuel Miranda
Label Atlantic
Director Thomas Kail
Product Details
DUIN A9AOQ5GN7T3
GTIN 0075678668432
Release Date 16.10.2015
Product type CD
Track Count 46