The first new recording in 20 years of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Guaranteed to be a significant addition to your music library. "Splendid performance."
-- Bernard Holland, The New York Times

"The New York Philharmonic's panoramic sound... gave Sondheim's music an unsuspected grandeur..."
--Justin Davidson, Newsday

"There was not a misplaced grace-note in the troupe, from LuPone, who played Mrs. Lovett as a magnificently loopy butcher-cum-baker, to the milky sincerity of Davis Gaines as the callow sailor Anthony Hope, the perfectly calibrated distress of Heidi Grant Murphy as Sweeney's flaxen-haired daughter, Johanna, the urchin pathos of Neil Patrick Harris' Tobias Ragg and the volcanic rants of Audra McDonald's beggar woman."
-- Justin Davidson, Newsday

"Ms. LuPone's Mrs. Lovett exuded energetic charm."
-- Bernard Holland, The New York Times

"Hearn's passionate singing brought him one of the loudest ovations I have ever heard at Avery Fisher Hall. He deserved it."
-- Terry Teachout, The Daily News

"Electrifyingly conducted by Andrew Litton"
-- Terry Teachout, The Daily News

"Hearing the Philharmonic play the score for Follies in 1985 was the kind of thrill I thought I'd never have again. I feel twice blessed."
-- Stephen Sondheim

"Sweeney Todd is hard to perform in some ways - but on another level, a few chords into the show, it's as if a great hand picks you up and carries you throughout the evening. There's a tremendous humanity in the love story and in the revenge tragedy."
-- George Hearn, title role

"I've wanted to be able to try to decipher a Sondheim score all of my musical career. I've been given the chance at last - with one of the world's premier orchestras, the New York Philharmonic. What a lucky 'Broadway Baby' I am."
-- George Hearn, title role