Highly Recommended Album: SONDHEIM IN THE CITY
“’Emotional, authentic, stirring, and gracious with sophisticated interpretations,’ is what I called Errico’s romantic, inward-turning Sondheim Sublime (released in 2018). Now, her new tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Sondheim In The City, changes tone to offer us a more outwarddriven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the […]
‘Sondheim in the City’ in The New York Times
“Sondheim in the City,” Melissa Errico’s tribute to Sondheim’s urbanity, feels like a New York house tour of thrill and heartbreak. In songs like the jangly “Another Hundred People,” the exuberant “What More Do I Need?” and the dry, disappointed “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” Errico, one of Sondheim’s deepest-hearted yet lightest-touch interpreters, evokes both […]