The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Really Useful Records and Polydor on LP (with a gatefold cover), cassette and CD. The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a 1988 compilation album, bringing together some of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's best known compositions at the time of release. It includes songs from the musicals "The Phantom of the Opera", "Tell Me on a Sunday", "Evita", "Cats", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Starlight Express" and "Requiem". Co-writers of the songs include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart and Trevor Nunn. The album spent two weeks at
Oberon (Weber) from the finale of Act II ("Hark, the mermaids") in his own overture to the Midsummer Night's Dream. It is not clear whether Mendelssohn planned his entire overture as a tribute to Weber. The most famous numbers are the overture (passages of which are quoted by Berlioz in his "Treatise on Instrumentation") based on themes from within the opera including the magic horn call, which is played regularly in the concert hall, and Reiza's soprano aria "Ocean, thou Mighty Monster" (Ozean, du Ungeheuer). Notes Sources Oberon (Weber) Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath is a 3-act romantic opera in English