The Best Ever Mantovani Collection
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The Best Ever Mantovani Collection
Music Price: $38.99
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| Studio | Decca |
| Release Date | September 5, 2005 |
| UPC Code | 602498288085 |
| Buy this item | $38.99 at Amazon.com
As of Jul 25 17:38 EDT (details)
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About The Best Ever Mantovani Collection
Australian pressing. 3 CD set. The ultimate Mantovani collection capturing the unique sound of his strings. 48 total tracks. ABC Classics. 2005. Album Description
Tracks
Disc 1
- Charmaine
- September Song
- Stardust
- Cara Mia
- Moon River
- Around the World
- Try to Remember
- Misty
- Walk in the Black Forest
- Moulin Rouge
- Vie en Rose
- Almost There
- As Time Goes By
- Warsaw Concerto
- Swedish Rhapsody
- Autumn Leaves
- More
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Till
Disc 2
- Some Enchanted Evening
- And I Love You
- I Wish You Love
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Lonely Ballerina
- Legends of the Glass Mountain
- Exodus (Main Theme)
- Big Country
- Elizabethan Serenade
- Tenderly
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Way You Look Tonight
- Fool (You Don't Have to Hurt Her)
- How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
- Londonderry Air
- Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing
- My Way
- Very Thought of You
- Tonight (From West Side Story)
Disc 3
- Merry Widow/Waltz
- Chocolate Soldier/My Hero
- Countess Maritza/Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies
- Frederica/Oh Maiden, My Maiden
- Gypsy Princess/Waltz
- Count of Luxembourg/Waltz
- Frasquita/Serenade
- Gypsy Love/Waltz
- Music of the Spheres: Waltz
- Die Fledermauz: Overture
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User Reviews
Average user review: 
(2 reviews)
This isn't quite "music" - it's closer to the kind of bloodless, overproduced orchestral music made popular in the 50s and 60s for older people who lacked a background in the classics, yet enjoy sentimental easy listening. This sort of thing has long been replaced by the likes of easy rock and easy listeing jazz, though it's possible that there are still listeners who haven't been exposed to much else, or otherwise have depressed standards in their popular music. Even Lawrence Welk had more variety and personal style in his presentation of music for older people.
This isn't even nostalgic anymore - just dull.
April 28, 2007 |  | Mantovani's Music is the Best Ever! |  |
This is a wonderful three-CD compilation of some of the best original recordings made by the Grand Master of Light Orchestral music. But it also contains an added bonus: one of the CD's reproduces in its entirety the 1960 LP "Operetta Memories" which, although hard to find on CD, is by far one of Mantovani's finest albums of sound artistry which charted in the top 40 for 3 months in 1961. Today's marketing teams might have entitled this LP, "Strauss Waltzes ..And More" because it followed a few years after the phenomenally successful stereo LP recording of Strauss Waltzes (1958) and included the great studio version of "the hymn to champagne" Die Fledermaus Overture, and another Mantovani concert favorite, the Gypsy Baron Waltz, also known as the Sweetheart Waltz which has the Blue Danube running right through the melody as only the genius of Mantovani could create. The "more" is represented by extraordinary arrangements of popular operetta music by Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kalman. Mantovani's inventive sounds and synchronized strings are nothing short of spectacular on Kalman's Gypsy Princess Waltz and Lehar's Count of Luxembourg Waltz and Merry Widow Waltz. All ten tracks are time-honored melodies that you will keep you humming and remembering how incomparable the Mantovani sound is and will always be. Purchase this CD set for 48 tracks of the very best of Mantovani's prolific discography.
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