Music
Songs include Prelude & Legend (based on Grieg's A Minor Concerto) Freddy and His Fiddle (based on Norwegian Dance No.2), Now (based on Second Violin Sonata and Waltz), Strange Music (based on Wedding in Troldhaugen), Midsummer's Eve (Scherzo in E), and I Love You (Ich Liebe Dich).
The original Broadway cast recording was released by Decca Records on 6 78-rpm 12 inch discs. Irra Petina was under contract to a competing record label (Columbia), so her part in the “original cast” was sung by Kitty Carlisle, who never actually played the part on Broadway. Decca later released a 331⁄3 rpm single disc LP, with some edits to fit the single-disc medium. In 2004 Decca finally dug the master tapes out of the vault and released the full original album on CD. Columbia Records made a recording in 1959 of the Jones Beach production (which opened in June 1958), which was released on CD by Masterworks Broadway.
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