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Passion (PS Classics, two CDs). The original-cast album of John Doyle’s 2013 small-scale Classic Stage Company revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, featuring a piercingly poignant star turn by Judy Kuhn and rescored for a nine-piece chamber ensemble by Jonathan Tunick. Would that the production had been taped for telecast, but this complete recording is far more than a mere souvenir of an unforgettable night at the theater. To quote my Wall Street Journal review, “It will be a long time before we see another staging…that speaks so eloquently of the black mysteries of the human heart” (TT).