Album Review: Sondheim in the City

“The CD reflects both [Sondheim’s] and Errico’s New York. Eschewing Broadway arrangements, Errico and music director Tedd Firth chose jazz as a fresh way to present this material with flash eliminated, bounce minimized, volume restrained, and melodies embroidered. Errico’s warmth and maturity are pervasive. Her lyric interpretation of the lyrics comes from experience. Songs that have quite often arrived upset are here tempered with perspective. Expectations are fewer, appreciation greater. Errico doesn’t sound insensitive, she sounds fortified. There’s even a touch of sophisticated ennui…Melissa Errico knows who she is now, and it shows.”