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Mantovani & His Orchestra
Best Ever Mantovani Collection
Genres: Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Classical

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. Charmaine, song - Mantovani, Rapee, Erno
2. September Song, song for voice & piano (from "Knickerbocker Holiday") - Mantovani, Weill
3. Stardust - Mantovani, Carmichael, Hoagy
4. Cara mia - Mantovani, Trapani [-Mantovani
5. Moon River (for the film Breakfast at Tiffany's) - Mantovani, Mancini
6. [Excerpt] - Mantovani, Young
7. Try to Remember, song (from The Fantasticks) - Mantovani, Schmidt, Harvey
8. Misty, song - Mantovani, Garner
9. Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt (A Walk in the Black Forrest) - Mantovani, Jankowski
10. [Excerpt] - Mantovani, Auric
11. La vie en rose, song - Mantovani, Lovigny
12. Almost There - Mantovani, Keller
13. As Time Goes By, song - Mantovani, Hupfield
14. Warsaw Concerto for piano & orchestra (for the film "Dangerous Moonligh - Mantovani, Addinsell
15. [Excer - Mantovani, Alfvén
16. Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes), for voice & piano - Mantovani, Kosma
17. More, for orchestra - Mantovani, Newell
18. Goodnight, Sweetheart (for the Earl Carroll "Vanities of 1931") - Mantovani, Noble
19. Till - Mantovani, Danvers
Track Listings (19) - Disc #2
1. Some Enchanted Evening, song (from "South Pacific") - Mantovani, Rodgers, Richard
2. And I Love You So - Mantovani, McLean
3. I Wish You Love, for orchestra - Mantovani, Trenet, Charles
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, song (from "Roberta") - Mantovani, Kern, Jerome
5. Lonely Ballerina - Mantovani, Duereaux
6. The [Excerpt] - Mantovani, Rota
7. main theme - Mantovani, Gold
8. The [Excerpt] - Mantovani, Moross
9. Elizabethan Serenade - Mantovani, Binge
10. Tenderly - Mantovani, Gross, Walter [1]
11. Days of Wine and Roses (for the film The Days of Wine and Roses) - Mantovani, Mancini
12. The Way You Look Tonight, song (from the film "Swing Time") - Mantovani, Kern
13. Fool (You Didn't Have To Hurt Her), song - Mantovani, Last
14. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, song (for "Finian's Rainbow") - Mantovani, Lane
15. Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song - Mantovani, Traditional
16. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (for the film) - Mantovani, Fain
17. My Way - Mantovani, Francois, Claude
18. The Very Thought of You, song - Mantovani, Noble
19. Tonight, song (from "West Side Story") - Mantovani, Bernstein
Track Listings (10) - Disc #3
1. Waltz - Mantovani, Lehár
2. My Hero - Mantovani, Strauss, Oscar
3. Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies - Mantovani, Kálmán
4. Oh Maiden, My Maiden - Mantovani, Lehár
5. Waltz - Mantovani, Kálmán
6. Waltz - Mantovani, Lehár
7. Serenade - Mantovani, Lehár
8. Waltz - Mantovani, Lehár
9. [Excerpt] - Mantovani, Strauss, Josef
10. Die Fledermaus (The Bat), overture to the operetta (RV 503-1) - Mantovani, Strauss, Johann II

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

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All Artists: Mantovani & His Orchestra
Title: Best Ever Mantovani Collection
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Universal
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 9/5/2005
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Classical
Styles: Easy Listening, Opera & Classical Vocal, Ballets & Dances, Waltzes, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPCs: 0602498288085, 602498288085

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

CD Reviews

Mantovani's Music is the Best Ever!

Thomas E. DeJulio | Bronxville, NY USA | 10/13/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."