Album Features
UPC: 089408018329
Artist: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel (Conductor)
Format: CD
Release Year: 1989
Record Label: Telarc Distribution
Genre: Easy Listening, Orchestral
Track Listing
1. The Pink Panther
2. Moon River
3. Days of Wine and Roses
4. It Had Better Be Tonight - (from "The Pink Panther")
5. Arctic Whale Hunt - (from "The White Dawn")
6. Mr. Lucky (Theme)
7. Hatari (Theme)
8. The (Theme) Thorn Birds
9. Charade
10. Moment to Moment
11. Symphonic Soul
12. Drummer's Delight
13. The Great Waldo Pepper
14. Two For the Road
15. The (Theme) Molly Maguires
16. Dear Heart
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Theme)
18. Speedy Gonzales (Mr. Lucky)
19. Punch and Judy (Charade)
20. March With Mancini Medley: Timothy / March Of The Cue Balls / The Swing March / The Great Race (March)
21. Baby Elephant Walk (Hatari)
22. Peter Gunn (Theme)
23. Strings on Fire!
24. Victor Victoria (Finale) / The Shady Dame From Seville / Crazy World / You and Me / Le Jazz Hot
Details
Playing Time: 68 min.
Producer: Robert Woods
Distributor: Fontana Distribution
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
Album Notes
Recorded at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 13 and 16, 1988.With the unmistakably sneaky lope of the notorious "Pink Panther Theme," Erich Kunzel's survey of the music of Henry Mancini begins in the best possible way -- perhaps the only possible way for some. Yet the misadventures of Inspector Clouseau play only a small part not only in this album, but also in Mancini's gigantic film output, which includes marches on par with any -- zany scherzos, injections of jazz, outbreaks of a lively musical wit, and, of course, a massive quantity of memorable tunes. There is no specific credit in the booklet for the arrangements, but they sound like Mancini's own, especially the cooing choral charts. However, some of the identical titles that Mancini recorded with the RPO Pops for Denon a year earlier are markedly different from these arrangements, while others ("The Thorn Birds") are virtually the same. The film themes, some of which are among the most inventive ever conceived for celluloid, come at you in airplay-sized shots, seldom over three minutes in length -- and when they are, sometimes it's because Kunzel's tempos are slower than those of Mancini himself. At times, this could have been a sequel to Mancini's long string of best-selling easy listening RCA Victor albums of the mid-century -- albeit with larger orchestral forces (the Cincinnati Pops) and really superb digital sound in a fine concert hall (the Cincinnati Music Hall). Yet, Kunzel does take listeners off the beaten path now and then in order to include some of Mancini's short, symphonic concert pieces like "Symphonic Soul," "Strings on Fire," and "Drummers' Delight" -- pleasing miniatures that are not all that removed in style from his film scores. The irrepressible Kunzel is able to persuade his large orchestra to swing the jazzier numbers, and they give the big tunes their lush due. ~ Richard S. Ginell
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