Decca Classics vous présente 'John Williams And The Boston Pops Orchestra Complete Philips Recordings', un coffret de 21 CD dans lequel on découvre le célèbre compositeur John Williams en tant que chef d'orchestre du Boston Pops Orchestra.
Decca Classics vous présente 'John Williams And The Boston Pops Orchestra Complete Philips Recordings', un coffret de 21 CD dans lequel on découvre le célèbre compositeur John Williams en tant que chef d'orchestre du Boston Pops Orchestra.
Sur cette édition, John Williams a introduit et associer le répertoire de la musique de film dans les salles de concert, avec de nouveaux arrangements orchestraux de répertoire populaire afin d'élargir le répertoire classique pour orchestre, fusionnant ainsi des 'sous-genres' disparates .
John Williams est considéré comme le compositeur par excellence pour certaines des musiques de films les plus appréciées d'Hollywood.
Cela a quelque peu éclipsé l'autre facette de sa carrière, qui n'a pas été moindre : John Williams en tant que chef d'orchestre de concert.
La carrière de John Williams sur le podium a explosé lors de sa nomination en tant que successeur d'Arthur Fiedler, qui, au cours de ses cinquante années de mandat, a transformé le Boston Pops Orchestra en une institution nationale et un ensemble reconnu dans le monde entier.
Face à une tâche aussi ardue, la direction de Williams devait s'avérer un choix inspiré. Williams a légitimé le répertoire de la musique de film, l'abordant avec plus de respect philologique et de sérieux qu'on ne lui en avait accordé auparavant - ce qui a eu pour effet d'élever la valeur que lui accordaient également d'autres orchestres.
Il a recomposé de nouveaux arrangements symphoniques musicalement plus sophistiqués de classiques populaires et du Great American Songbook, remplaçant les arrangements ternes et «trash» du répertoire Pops.
Il a également élargi le répertoire classique de base de l'orchestre, programmant des compositeurs européens qui n'avaient pas été annoncées auparavant, ainsi que la commande de nouvelles œuvres.
L'héritage de John Williams avec les Boston Pops est superbement représenté dans ce coffret qui rassemble les albums réalisés pour Philips lors de sa première décennie à la tête de l'orchestre.
Pour compléter le coffret, un projet intimiste avec l'inoubliable Jessye Norman: Williams revient à ses racines de pianiste en accompagnant Norman dans des chansons de Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe et Billy Joel.
Jessye Norman figure également sur un deuxième disque de cette collection avec les Pops, chantant le Great American Songbook.
Les enregistrements de Philip Classics constituent l'un des témoignages les plus saillants et l'importance du mandat de Williams dans sa période avec les Boston Pops, et la vitrine la plus complète des compétences musicales, du sens aigu de l'interprétation et de la gamme stylistique du chef d'orchestre John Williams.
CD 1
POPS ON THE MARCH
Williams pays homage to one of the most enduring and beloved repertoires of the Boston Pops: the marches. Williams expanded the repertoire with music from Europe (Walton’s Orb and Sceptre and Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance no. 4, Tchaikovsky’s Coronation March, and Joseph Franz Wagner’s Under the Double Eagle), and from Hollywood (Alfred Newman’s Conquest from the 1947 film Captain from Castile and his own The Midway March, from the 1977 film The Battle of Midway).
CD 2
POPS IN SPACE
The first Williams/Pops album released by Philip Classics, presents suites from his space-themed film scores: Superman, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, showcasing the stand-alone concert quality of film music.
CD3 THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
CD 4
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Williams’ first Christmas album with the Boston Pops and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus features arrangements and compositions by – among others – Leroy Anderson and Charles Ives, along with a new medley commissioned by Williams of the carols of Alfred Burt, one of those lesser-known composers whom he rediscovered.
CD 5
POPS AROUND THE WORLD
A selection of international overtures, from Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri, to Glinka’s Russlan and Ludmilla, to Auber’s The Bronze Horse, von Suppé’s Boccaccio, Bernstein’s Candide and Williams’ own The Cowboys.
CD 6
AISLE SEAT – GREAT FILM MUSIC
Includes: Williams’ E.T., the Extraterrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the song “If We Were in Love” written for the Luciano Pavarotti vehicle Yes, Giorgio, and the symphonic version of Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire, as well as such classics as Max Steiner’s Gone with the Wind, and Dimitri Tiomkin’s Friendly Persuasion.
CD 7
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Film music for the sci-fi genre, including Jerry Goldsmith’s own concert versions of Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as well as selections from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Return of the Jedi, plus the TV shows Battlestar Galactica, The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek.
CD 8
PROKOFIEV: PETER & THE WOLF; TCHAIKOVSKY: THE NUTCRACKER (EXCERPTS)
Williams and the Pops return to the ‘classical’ repertoire, with Prokofiev’s musical tale Peter And The Wolf with Dudley Moore narrating, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.
CD 9
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART
Jessye Norman joins Williams and the Boston Pops to apply her talent to the Great American Songbook; with works by Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and George Gershwin.
CD 10
SWING, SWING, SWING
Journey back to the big bands era, with orchestral presentations of In the Mood, Tuxedo Junction, Opus One, Begin the Beguine, Sing, Sing, Sing, plus Williams’s own tribute to the genre, “Swing, Swing, Swing”, from the film 1941.
CD 11
AMERICA, THE DREAM GOES ON
Named after a Williams composition, this album has patriotism at its core, with a line-up of such quasi national anthems as America, The Beautiful, This Land is My Land, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Fanfare for the Common Man, and American Salute.
CD 12
ON STAGE
Is dedicated to musicals, with excerpts from Annie Get Your Guns, Cats, and A Chorus Line, as well as two tribute medleys of Duke Ellington’s works and Fred Astaire’s films.
CD 13
BERNSTEIN BY BOSTON
A taster of the multifaceted output of ‘Lenny’ Bernstein, from his musicals and operettas (On the Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story, Candide), to his theatre music (Mass), to his symphonic production (Divertimento for Orchestra).
CD 14
POPS IN LOVE
gathers popular pieces in a sentimental vein by Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Debussy, Albinoni, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Pachelbel, and Vaughan-Williams.
CD 15
HOLST – THE PLANETS
CD 16
DIGITAL JUKEBOX
A pot-pourri that mixes easy-listening music from the pop-song and film repertoires: from The Girl from Ipanema, Those Were The Days, Tijuana Taxi, Mack the Knife, to the theme songs from The Pink Panther, Summer of 42, A Summer Place, Days of Wine and Roses, and Love is a Many Splendored Thing.
CD 17
LUCKY TO BE ME
John Williams accompanies Jessye Norman on the piano as they explore the song repertoire of Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe, and Billy Joel.
CD 18
SALUTE TO HOLLYWOOD
Features arrangements from film songs (La Bamba, Somewhere Out There), medley tributes to award-winning songs and to Fred Astaire’s dance numbers, and selections from symphonic film scores (John Barry’s Out of Africa, David Raksin’s The Bad and the Beautiful, and Williams’ The Witches of Eastwick). Opening the album is the first recording of Williams’ arrangement of the 1937 song Hooray for Hollywood, which became one of the regular show-openers in Williams’ concerts.
CD 19
POPS À LA RUSSE
Russian repertoire, including Khatchaturian’s Sabre Dance and Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov’s A Night on the Bare Mountain, and less renowned pieces such as Reinhold Glière’s Russian Sailor’s Dance from The Red Poppy.
CD 20
POPS BY GERSHWIN
George Gershwin: An American in Paris ∙ Rhapsody in Blue ∙ Girl Crazy (selections) ∙ Porgy and Bess (selections)
CD 21
BY REQUEST
An all-Williams collection of both film music and symphonic miniatures. POPS BRITANNIA Danny Boy, Scotland the Brave, Grainger’s Molly on the Shore, Delius’ Brigg Fair, Peter Maxwell Davies’ A Orkney Wedding: With Sunrise (an original Boston Pops commission), and Williams’ suite from the TV film Jane Eyre'
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