The new orchestrations necessitated by the staging, sharpen the score to a fine point. Harold Prince's original production benefitted from the looming and dense sound. This one gasps, bursts, and sings with such pointed intensity that you're pulled even deeper into the recesses of the murderous barber's mind. "It stings a little" to borrow a phrase from the score, and it keeps stinging until its final glorious moment. Buy this recording NOW.

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