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For reasons both nostalgic (it was the first real musical I ever saw) and qualitative (it might just be the best musical ever written), I am a big fan of My Fair Lady. There isn't a dull moment or a less-than-wonderful song in it. I am therefore delighted with a new, recently-recorded and recently-released CD of it. It's by Sinfonia of London and it's the first complete recording, including all of the incidental music and several pieces that were cut from the show during its outta-town tryouts.

Here's a little preview of it. If it makes you want to order it from Amazon, here's a link to order it from Amazon. Right now, you can sample many of the numbers from it on that page and you can hear the overture in the video embed after this one…

And now, this is the one with the overture…