Binge, Ronald

The Best Ever Mantovani Collection
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Boring, sad
  • Mantovani's Music is the Best Ever!
The Best Ever Mantovani Collection

Manufacturer: Decca
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ASIN: B0009Z0ZVK
Release Date: 2005-09-05

Tracks:

  1. Charmaine
  2. September Song
  3. Stardust
  4. Cara Mia
  5. Moon River
  6. Around the World
  7. Try to Remember
  8. Misty
  9. Walk in the Black Forest
  10. Moulin Rouge
  11. Vie en Rose
  12. Almost There
  13. As Time Goes By
  14. Warsaw Concerto
  15. Swedish Rhapsody
  16. Autumn Leaves
  17. More
  18. Goodnight Sweetheart
  19. Till

Tracks:

  1. Some Enchanted Evening
  2. And I Love You
  3. I Wish You Love
  4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  5. Lonely Ballerina
  6. Legends of the Glass Mountain
  7. Exodus (Main Theme)
  8. Big Country
  9. Elizabethan Serenade
  10. Tenderly
  11. Days of Wine and Roses
  12. Way You Look Tonight
  13. Fool (You Don't Have to Hurt Her)
  14. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
  15. Londonderry Air
  16. Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing
  17. My Way
  18. Very Thought of You
  19. Tonight (From West Side Story)

Tracks:

  1. Merry Widow/Waltz
  2. Chocolate Soldier/My Hero
  3. Countess Maritza/Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies
  4. Frederica/Oh Maiden, My Maiden
  5. Gypsy Princess/Waltz
  6. Count of Luxembourg/Waltz
  7. Frasquita/Serenade
  8. Gypsy Love/Waltz
  9. Music of the Spheres: Waltz
  10. Die Fledermauz: Overture

Album Description

Australian pressing. 3 CD set. The ultimate Mantovani collection capturing the unique sound of his strings. 48 total tracks. ABC Classics. 2005.

Album Details

Triple CD Digitally Remastered Anthology from the King of Easy Listening Music. The Son of Arturo Toscaninni's Concertmaster, Mantovani and his Family Emigrated from Italy to England Where He Studied at the Trinity College of Music in London. After Graduated, He Formed his Own Orchestra and by the Time of World War Ii, Toured the UK as One of the Country's Most Popular Live Performers. After the War, He was Musical Conductor for Many Musicals and Plays, Primarily Those of Sir Noel Coward. His Orchestra Started Recording, Specifically Tailoring his Recordings for What was New Stereophonic Sound. With Arranger Ronnie Binge, He Developed the Cascading Strings the Are the Benchmark of his Many Hits. He Recorded for the Decca and Later London Labels, Delighting Millions of Ardent Fans. Since his Passing in 1980, Many Pop Aficionados have Concluded that his Recordings Really Define Excellence in Easy Listening. These Discs Provide a Comprehensive Overview of his Orchestra's Best Moments.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Boring, sad.......2007-04-29

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.

5 out of 5 stars Mantovani's Music is the Best Ever!.......2005-10-13

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.
Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Disc Which is Pure Delight!
  • Excellent Sampler Disc From Important Series!
Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B00000149J
Release Date: 1996-12-17

Tracks:

  1. By The Sleepy Lagoon - Slovak PO/Andrew Penny
  2. Robin Hood Ste: March Of The Bowmen - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper
  3. Bells Across The Meadows - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper
  4. Coronation Scot - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson
  5. Sketch Of A Dandy - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper
  6. The Westminster Waltz - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper
  7. Little Ste: March - Slovak PO/Andrew Penny
  8. Sailing By - Slovak RSO/Ernest Tomlinson
  9. Jamaican Rumba - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson
  10. London Ste: Knightsbridge March - Czecho-Slovak RSOAdrian Leaper
  11. In A Monastery Garden - Slovak Phil Male Chor/Adrian Leaper
  12. Little Serenade - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ernest Tomlinson
  13. Roses Of Picardy - Slovak RSO/Ernest Tomlinson
  14. Puffin' Billy - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson
  15. Elizabethan Ser - Slovak RSO/Ernest Tomlinso
  16. Tom Jones Waltz - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper
  17. Vanity Fair - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson
  18. Marigold - Slovak RSO/Gary Carpenter
  19. In A Persian Market - Slovak Phil Male Chor/Adrian Leaper
  20. The Dam Busters March - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Disc Which is Pure Delight!.......2004-03-02

This cd will lift your spirits from the first song right through to the end. I loved every song, even though I was listening to many of them for the first time. This is one of my all-time favorite albums. Try it, you'll like it!

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Sampler Disc From Important Series!.......2000-01-30

If you have always wanted to try out some of Marco Polo's British Light Music series, here is your chance, and for only pennies. This CD whets your appetite for investigating the rest of the series. At first, it seems strange that the orchestras would not be very idiomatic for this music, but the conductor makes these performances shine.There are a few favorites but many pieces that I have never heard before and are welcome in any collection. My favorites are "Sleepy Lagoon", "Dam Busters March", and "Knightsbridge March".These are by Eric Coates, the most famous person on these discs (at least to American Listeners). Fans of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops will recognize "In A Persian Market" with the chanting "Bakseesh, Bakseesh, Allah". Arthur Benjamin is represented by the Jamaican Rhumba,his popular hit (although we need more recordings of his serious music.) Edward German is represented by one work,but it would have been nice to have the Henry VIII dances on here also. You will also recognize "Sleepy Lagoon" and "Roses of Picardy" because they were turned into pop songs in America. Try this one out-it is fun!
Binge: British Light Music
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    Manufacturer: Marco Polo
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    ASIN: B000004604
    Release Date: 1994-10-04

    Tracks:

    1. Elizabethan Serenade
    2. Scottish Rhapsody
    3. Miss Melanie
    4. Las Castanuelas
    5. Madrugado
    6. The Red Sombrero
    7. Trade Winds
    8. Faire Frou-Frou
    9. String Song
    10. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Allegro spiritoso
    11. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Andante espressivo
    12. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Rondo (Allegro giocoso)
    13. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: The Watermill
    14. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Scherzo: Allegro Molto
    15. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: The Dance Of The Snowflakes
    16. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: High Stepper (The 'Aggie' Theme)
    17. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Prelude: The Whispering Valley
    18. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Venetian Carnival
    19. Concerto For E Flat Alto Saxophone: Sailing By
    British Light Music Classics - 1
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Many middlebrow masterworks in the mix
    • Fills a need for many music collections ...
    • British music we don't hear enough of
    British Light Music Classics - 1

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    ASIN: B000002ZXS
    Release Date: 1996-06-10

    Tracks:

    1. Calling All Workers
    2. The Haunted Ballroom
    3. Vanity Fair
    4. Jumping Bean
    5. Destiny
    6. The Boulevardier
    7. Pas De Quatre
    8. The Watermill
    9. The Devil's Galop
    10. Dusk
    11. Puffin' Billy
    12. Bells Across The Meadows
    13. The Old Clockmaker
    14. Dreaming
    15. Elizabethan Serenade
    16. Coronation Scot
    17. Nights Of Gladness

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Many middlebrow masterworks in the mix.......2002-06-09

    Eric Coates' "Calling All Workers" and Edward White's "Puffin' Billy" (used as Captain Kangaroo's theme music!) are the two main reasons to buy this first-rate CD. The former work, from 1940, is an elegantly rousing and structurally flawless march in symmetrical binary form, with the second section making its final appearance in augmentation, the note values doubled for wonderful dramatic effect. Such by-the-book perfection is news when encountered in Mozart or Beethoven, and it should be given its due here. The equally effective "Puffin' Billy" is breezily structured by comparison, with a minimum of thematic material transformed through theme and variation and frequent modulations into a charming and satisfyingly complete train journey. The piece is repetitious as can be, but it doesn't sound that way, and therein lies the miracle of its composition. These two works steal the CD, hands-down.

    But there are several close seconds, including the marvelous, Satie-worthy "The Boulevardier," and "The Haunted Ballroom," a piece that evokes the title in a way that is almost spooky. And there's a corny but lovely piece by Albert ("In a Persian Market") Ketelbey called "Bells Across the Meadows." Ketelbey cunningly and cleverly suggests the bells of the title through the subtlest of means--namely, bells sounding in the distance. Across the meadows, almost. But the music works, and that's all that matters.

    5 out of 5 stars Fills a need for many music collections ..........2000-11-09

    Intelligent, entertaining light orchestra music is something I find fills a great space in my collection. It's perfect for those days you just don't feel up to Mahler or Wagner, but still want some music in your life. This excellent first volume in one of Hyperion's most popular series is a great way to get started.

    All of the tunes on this generously-filled CD are written by British masters of light music and played with fizzing energy and a sense of fun by Ronald Corp and his fine orchestra. No piece outstays its welcome and some may be familiar to you -- especially "Puffin' Billy," which was used as the theme for the old Captain Kangaroo children's show! Many are probably very familiar to British listeners, having been used as openers for popular BBC radio and TV shows over the years.

    Tuneful and entertaining, this CD is a great find and could become one of your favorites. Give it a chance -- like me, you may find yourself hunting after others in the series: British Light Music Classics 2 and 3, American Light Music Classics, and European Light Music Classics.

    5 out of 5 stars British music we don't hear enough of.......2000-11-07

    This CD brings a smile to my face. Vanity Fair and the Boulevardier will make you light on your feet. Dusk is another beauty. The CD is full of wonderful, clever music. I'm looking forward to getting CDs 2 and 3. The music may have been around for a while but it is a fresh as ever.
    British Light Music Classics, Vol. 3
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Intelligent classical "pops" for lighter moods.
    British Light Music Classics, Vol. 3

    Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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    ASIN: B00004RJVA
    Release Date: 2000-03-14

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Intelligent classical "pops" for lighter moods........2000-11-08

    The "Light Music Classics" series on Hyperion, one of the highest-quality classical music labels around, has been a very pleasant surprise for me. Let's face it: some days you're just not up to the challenge of listening to Beethoven or Bruckner -- you're just looking for some light, fun, but intelligent music to enrich your day. That's where this excellent and highly popular series comes in.

    Twenty compositions are featured on Vol. 3, written by various British masters of light orchestral music including Eric Coates, Ernest Tomlinson, and Haydn Wood. All of the pieces are six minutes or under; all are skillfully composed and well-played by Ronald Corp and his orchestra, who know how to give this undemanding but highly entertaining music just the right touch -- not too heavy, not too frivolous. Plus, the disc is quite generously filled at 78 minutes and change.

    As usual, most of the pieces have tunes you'll be humming after you first hear them -- many have been used as signature pieces on British radio and television shows over the years. While I don't feel this volume has as many winning tunes as Vol. 1 or Vol. 2, it's still highly entertaining and an excellent value. This has turned into one of Hyperion's most popular series and it's not hard to understand why: it fills a niche for intelligent light music.

    Look for Volumes 1 and 2, as well as "European Light Music Classics" and "American Light Music Classics" -- all on the same label and just as excellently played by the same conductor and orchestra.
    British Light Music Classics, Vol. 2
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Very nice music, but...
    • Second volume of a highly entertaining series.
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    ASIN: B000002ZZT
    Release Date: 1997-04-10

    Tracks:

    1. London Suite: Knightsbridge
    2. Bal Masque (Valse-Caprice)
    3. The Grasshopper's Dance
    4. My Native Heath: Barwick Green
    5. Rouge et Noir
    6. The Peanut Polka
    7. Carriage And Pair
    8. London Landmarks: The Horse Guards, Whitehall
    9. A Little Suite: March
    10. Sailing By
    11. Portuguese Party
    12. Beachcomber
    13. In The Shadows
    14. Tabarinage
    15. Sanctuary Of The Heart (Meditation religieuse)
    16. The Westminster Waltz
    17. Carissima
    18. Girls In Grey
    19. The Runaway Rocking-Horse
    20. Robin Hood Suite: March Of The Bowmen

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Very nice music, but..........2005-12-28

    If you are looking for incidental (background) music used in Monty Python's Flying Circus. This CD only contains one track, and it is the wrong version. The performance is completely different.

    Knightsbridge March was The Dull Life of A City Stockbroker.

    5 out of 5 stars Second volume of a highly entertaining series........2000-11-09

    Light orchestral works are becoming something of a lost art, but the British have excelled at them -- the form is especially popular during their annual "Proms" concerts -- and this second volume of Hyperion's popular series continues in the same high-quality vein as Volume One. Twenty pieces by some of the best British light music composers on a generously-packed 78 minute CD -- no skimping here!

    These aren't meant to be challenging works, but are skillfully orchstrated, excellently played, and well recorded. The variety is tremendous -- you may even recognize a few of the pieces and say to yourself, "so THAT'S where that tune came from!"

    Perfect music for easy listening on a lazy Sunday afternoon, or anytime you need a break from the classical music heavyweights. Hyperion's packaging and booklet notes are, as usual for this premium classical label, uniformly excellent.

    For more of this refreshing series, check out Volumes One and Three, as well as European Light Music Classics and American Light Music Classics.
    Halcyon Days: A Treasury of British Light Music
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      ASIN: B0000Y37NI
      Release Date: 2004-02-24

      Tracks:

      1. Overture
      2. Lento, Ma Non Troppo
      3. Gaily, But Not Quick
      4. Cantilena
      5. Vivace
      6. Miss Melanie
      7. Raf March Past
      8. Very Slow
      9. Maestoso; Alla Marcia Funebre
      10. Fairly Slowly, But Evenly Flowing In Strict Time
      11. Allegretto Rubato
      12. Overture, Op.52
      13. Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
      14. Country Dance: Allegretto E Leggiero
      15. Burlesco: Allegro
      16. Adagio
      17. Sarabande: Maestoso
      18. Bourree: Vivace
      19. Rondo In A Flat
      20. Allegro
      21. Lento Moderato
      22. Con Brio

      Tracks:

      1. March
      2. Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture)
      3. Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square
      4. Tower Hill
      5. The Horse Guards, Whitehall
      6. Rotten Row
      7. Covent Garden
      8. Westminster
      9. Knightsbridge March
      10. No.1 Wheatly Processional
      11. No.2 Constant Billy
      12. No.4 Jockie To The Fair
      13. No.5 Ladies Of Pleasure
      14. No.6 Princess Royal
      15. Malltraeth (Pastorale)
      16. Cemaes (Scherzo)
      17. March Of The Bowmen
      18. City Of Lincoln March
      19. Overture, Op.3
      20. Londonderry Air

      Tracks:

      1. The Devil's Galop
      2. Sailing By
      3. High Adventure
      4. The Watermill
      5. Loch Laggan
      6. Psalm 23 - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
      7. Southern Rhapsody
      8. Ecce Homo - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
      9. Girls In Grey
      10. Halcyon Days
      11. March Glorious
      12. An English Overture
      13. Spitfire Prelude And Fugue
      14. Carry On Suite
      15. Carry On Up The Khyber
      16. Andante Expressivo
      17. The Dam Busters March
      18. Tarka The Otter
      19. The African Queen

      Tracks:

      1. Caramba
      2. Two Interlinked French Melodies
      3. Kanikani
      4. Preambule
      5. Barcarolle
      6. Provencale
      7. By The Sleepy Lagoon
      8. A L'ombre D'un Buissonet
      9. Triste Est Le ciel
      10. Allons Gay
      11. A Mountain Tune
      12. Tambourin
      13. Passepied
      14. Sarabande
      15. Farandole
      16. Petite Promenade
      17. Andante/Medium Beguine
      18. Song Dance
      19. Fado
      20. Kolo
      21. In The French Countryside
      22. Carpet Dance
      23. Slow Waltz
      24. End Titles

      Tracks:

      1. Miniature Overture (Help!)
      2. March (When I'm 64)
      3. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Can't Buy Me Love)
      4. Arabian Dance (It's For You)
      5. Chinese Dance (Ticket To Ride)
      6. Dance Of The Reed Flutes (She Loves You)
      7. Waltz Of The Flowers (From Me To You)
      8. Pas De Deux (All My Loving)
      9. Sarabande
      10. The Reception
      11. The Orgy (Rondo)
      12. Danza Gaya
      13. Scene 1
      14. Malaguena (Vivace)
      15. Habanera (Moderato)
      16. Tango (Vivace)
      17. The Hiring Fair
      18. Carousing
      19. Round Dance
      20. Pas De Deux
      21. Hornpipe
      22. March
      23. Doll's Dance
      24. Round Dance
      25. Bobby Shaftoe
      26. The Keel Row
      27. The 98th Jacks Listed!
      Charmaine
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        Charmaine

        Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B0000Y37E2
        Release Date: 2004-03-09

        Tracks:

        1. Charmaine
        2. Jealousy
        3. Sous Les Toits De Paris
        4. La Cucaracha
        5. Wyoming Lullaby
        6. Pavanne
        7. Diane
        8. Warsaw Concerto
        9. Caribbean Calypso
        10. Serenade
        11. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
        12. Adios, Muchachos - Concert Tango
        13. Mexicali Rose
        14. Holiday For Strings
        15. Greensleeves
        16. Hear My Song, Violetta
        17. Symphony
        18. Ramona
        19. Gypsy Legend
        20. Dreaming
        21. The Legend Of The Glass Mountain
        22. Village Swallows From Austria
        23. La Mer
        24. I Live For You
        25. Some Enchanted Evening
        Light Classics Volume 2
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Nice collection. Brilliantly restored. Recommended.
        Light Classics Volume 2

        Manufacturer: Chesky Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        3. Ravel: Boléro; Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet in Bm
        4. Wagner: Orchestral Music

        ASIN: B000003GE5
        Release Date: 1994-02-17

        Tracks:

        1. Tosca: Prelude to Act III
        2. Khovantchina: Prelude To Act I
        3. Orpheus In The Underworld: Overture
        4. Adia: Ballet Music From Adia
        5. Adia: Ballet Music From Adia
        6. Adia: Ballet Music From Adia
        7. Elizabethan Serenade
        8. In Nature's Realm: Overture
        9. Colas Breugnon: Overture
        10. The Moldau: Symphoic Poem - The Moldau

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Nice collection. Brilliantly restored. Recommended........2000-08-10

        This is Volume II of a two volume set. Volume I was dismal. This volume, however, is just the opposite. The first selection is a slow starter. The rest of the selections are excellent. Fine performance and great restoration. Sounds better than most classical CD's recorded in the last few years. First rate effort by Chesky. I am very happy with this CD. Great sound, great performance.
        Best of the Mantovani Orchestra
        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
        • It contains songs not on other CD.
        • The Best Of The Mantovani Orchestra
        • The Best of the Mantovani Orchestra (vol 1 & 2)
        • Poor Recording
        • Top of the "Beautiful Music" Heap
        Best of the Mantovani Orchestra

        Manufacturer: Madacy Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000000L5X
        Release Date: 1994-09-12

        Tracks:

        1. Some Enchanted Evening
        2. Three Coins In The Fountain
        3. The Impossible Dream
        4. More
        5. Send In The Clowns
        6. Charmaine
        7. Somewhere My Love
        8. Elizabethan Serenade
        9. Carnival Of Venice
        10. Overture-Die Fledermaus
        11. Merry Widow Waltz
        12. Summertime In Venice

        Tracks:

        1. The Shadow Of Your Smile
        2. The Sound Of Music
        3. Italian Fantasy
        4. For Once In My Life
        5. Swedish Rhapsody
        6. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
        7. The Entertainer
        8. For Once In My Life
        9. Skater's Waltz
        10. Tales From The Vienna Woods
        11. Londonderry Air
        12. Autumn Leaves

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars It contains songs not on other CD........2007-01-01

        I am pretty happy with the CD I have. I noticed that these songs are not on other CD. Summer Time in Venice, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Impossible Dream, Send in The Clown, Somewhere My Love and Elizabethan Serenade. The sound quality is acceptable.

        4 out of 5 stars The Best Of The Mantovani Orchestra.......2004-04-13

        This cd is an ok collection of tunes from Mantovani.It's not the best but it's ok.This 2 cd set features songs such as three coins in a fountain,send in the clowns,skater's waltz,for once in my life and others.This isn't the only version of for once in my life Mantovani did.This version is light strings.Manti's other version is with a harpsicord and heavy strings.It is on Mantovani Scene/Mantovani Sound which has just come out from Vocolion.It also has such songs as dear heart,both sides now,honey and a lot of others.Amazon doesn't have this yet but I have just recieved my copy from another website.Like the other viewer said unfortuanly the sound quality is bad on the best of collection.I even heard somebody coughing on one track and there is some tape hiss from the transfer.I would like to recommend a 2 cd set by John Fox going under the name of the starry night orchestra that is put out by yestermusic(good music group)and has 30 tracks by Mr.Fox.Every song has a heavy string contingment and it states that these were played on beautiful music stations.John Foxes Strings are so beautiful.
        The John Fox I'm talking about isn't the same John Fox that is a commedian that is sold on this site.

        1 out of 5 stars The Best of the Mantovani Orchestra (vol 1 & 2).......2002-09-14

        The Madacy Label has betrayed Mantovani's genious, and substituted poor recordings in these 2 CD's. I have immediately
        cancelled all Madacy Label orders with everyone, and will investigate all future items with a Canadian origin prior to purchase.

        Joseph C. Jernigan

        1 out of 5 stars Poor Recording.......2002-09-05

        The quality of the recording is poor. You can hear flutter in the string passages, which is 90% of Mantovani's music! There is also hiss noise, and pops in piece transitions... Amateur transcription from tape to CD's, is my guess. Someone else made bad reviews regarding the poor recording on the same record label, so my suggestion is to stay away from the label Madacy Records.

        4 out of 5 stars Top of the "Beautiful Music" Heap.......2001-02-19

        This CD has a nice collection of Mantovani's work. The combination of older standards with "newer" (such as Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life")is great. This is the stuff that is usually mocked as "elevator music" but also considered by many good romancing background music. Many of these arrangements were heard on a local Beautiful Music FM station where I live before the format change. The only negative I have is for a "box set" there is no write-up on the Orchestra. It would have been nice to read about Mantovani and what inspired his arrangements, and the orchestra personnell. My copy was made in Canada by Madacy. Maybe someone who has contact with that company could recommend a booklet for any future copies made.

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        1. Bingen, Hildegard Von
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        3. Bishop, Henry Rowley
        4. Bizet, Georges
        5. Blacher, Boris
        6. Bloch, Ernest
        7. Blow, John
        8. Blumenfeld, Felix Mikhailovich
        9. Boccherini, Luigi
        10. Boeck, August De

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