An original Broadway cast recording of the 1973 musical A Little Night Music was made in the same year by Columbia. Released on LP, it peaked at number 94 on Billboards Top LPs chart and won the Grammy in the "Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album" category.
Background Produced by Goddard Lieberson with Thomas Z. Shepard, the album was recorded in 1973 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review on AllMusic, William Ruhlmann commends the recording, saying that it "captured the performances with amazing fidelity and immediacy for its time" and calling the LP "a marvel".
Back in 1963, Billboard picked the album for its "Radio action and pick LPs" section, calling the musical and the recording "unusually elegant adult entertainment" and singling out the song "Send in the Clowns" as the "best cut".
Chart performance The album reached number 94 on the Billboards Top LPs chart.
Track listing LP – Columbia KS 32265
Personnel Harold Hastings – musical direction Jonathan Tunick – orchestration
Charts Chart (1973) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs 94
Awards Year Award type Categories Results 1974 Grammy Awards Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album
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