Latest Release

- SEP 8, 2023
- 32 Songs
- Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast) · 2007
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2007
- Into the Woods (2014 Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2014
- I'm Breathless (Music from and Inspired By the Film Dick Tracy) · 1990
- Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast) · 2007
- Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast) · 2007
- Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast) · 2007
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording) · 2023
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording) · 2023
- Not While I'm Around (2023 Broadway Cast Recording) - EP · 2023
Essential Albums
- It's nearly alarming how charming West Side Story remains long after the film's 1961 release. Composer Leonard Bernstein and tyro lyricist Stephen Sondheim update Romeo and Juliet with beautiful balladry ("Maria," "Tonight," "Somewhere") and songs that deliver incisive social commentary with complex rhymes and plenty of jokes ("Jet Song," "America," "Gee, Officer Krupke"). The New York Philharmonic gives the Broadway classic a special kick, especially during Bernstein's lively Stravinsky-influenced instrumentals, including "Prologue," "The Rumble," and the memorable "Dance at the Gym."
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Modernizing musical theater with a love of language.
Singles & EPs
Appears On
- John Riesen & Jonathan Estabrooks
About Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim proved that musical theater could adapt to any era. A favorite composer and lyricist of those suspicious of melodrama—and of musicals in general—the native New Yorker brought a revolutionary's spirit to Broadway, and his stylistic daring left an unmistakable stamp on everyone from Lin-Manuel Miranda to indie-pop maestro Stephin Merritt. Sondheim grew up studying the Great American Songbook masters, learning their seat-filling tricks as a precocious theater-goer in the '40s, but he was already yearning to push into new political, musical, and emotional territory when he made his own debut in the '50s. His lyrics smuggled the social dramas of the day into seemingly escapist entertainment (West Side Story), merging the slang-infused wit of city life with a love of finely wrought poetry. He had a range like no one else; his shows could be formally audacious (Assassins), emotionally wrenching (Company), or uproariously farcical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), yet his melodies were both instantly memorable and subtly radical. And his sophisticated modern standards, like "Send in the Clowns,” reached far outside Broadway’s orbit, having been endlessly reinterpreted by rockers, folkies, and soul singers. The key to his success? As Sondheim told Miranda when he was workshopping Hamilton: “Variety, variety, variety, Lin. Don’t let up for a second. Surprise us." Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, at the age of 91.
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- 1930