THE GREAT WALTZ � (1993)



John Mauceri & Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
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The Never Ending Waltz � (2006)



Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
──────────────────────────────In 1991 the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association recreated the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for him [Mauceri], which had not existed for forty years. He made it a great orchestra able to perform virtually any kind of music. This led to his Hollywood Bowl Orchestra series of recordings of film and stage music for Philips, of which this is an example. It's 75 minutes of pure charm, excitement and pleasure, all in 3/4 time. Most are from Hollywood and Broadway but he also includes a suite of waltzes from Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella and Ravel's La Valse, three works that greatly influenced the style, tonality and orchestration of the later waltzes.

There's every kind of mood in these waltzes from the boisterous Murder on the Orient Express with its train-like opening, to the carousel style waltz from A Little Night Music and the big, dark minor chords of Prokofiev's Cinderella waltz and the little cafe waltz from Hotel Berlin. The Johann Strauss waltzes are presented in their film orchestrations instead of the original, making them sound less familiar. If you remember the films you will easily picture the smashing of the windows at the end of the Madame Bovary ball sequence or Bette Davis in Jezebel waltzing in her scandalous red dress.

(From a review by Johnf in Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2QYBECM2Z0NEM/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00000417A))

The Never Ending Waltz is a purposeful designation; this is Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra performing the traditional Strauss waltzes not in a concert format, but pulled together into strings of medleys. This is exactly how one would experience Strauss' (and other) waltzes at a ball in Vienna where the waltz is still danced in the traditional manner, and indeed how the Strausses themselves would have arranged them for such purpose. (...) Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, old hands in this music, performs it in a warm, no-nonsense fashion. Every waltz flows into the next -- the first medley consists of six waltzes and takes nine minutes to play, whereas the uncut concert version of Tales from the Vienna Woods alone takes some 12-13 minutes to play.

(From a review by Uncle Dave Lewis in AllMusic (https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-never-ending-waltz-mw0001845809))
Track lists:



John Mauceri & Hollywood Bowl Orchestra - The Great Waltz (1h 13' 38'')

01 The Great Waltz: Main Title / Wiener Blut Waltzes Dimitri Tiomkin / Johann Strauss II
02 Murder On The Orient Express: Waltz Richard Rodney Bennett
03 Der Rosenkavalier: "Mit Mir" Waltz Richard Strauss
04 The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: The Memory Waltz Bernard Herrmann
05 Gigi: Main Title / Fountain Scene / Chez Maxim Waltz Frederic Loewe
06 Cinderella: Waltz Sergei Prokofiev
07 A Litle Night Music: The Night Waltzes Stephen Sondheim
08 Candide: Paris Waltz Leonard Bernstein
09 Madame Bovary: Waltz Mikl�s R�zsa
10 Hotel Berlin: Cafe Waltzes Franz Waxman
11 Jezebel: Waltz Max Steiner
12 The Prince And The Pauper: Flirtation Erich Wolfgang Korngold
13 La Valse Maurice Ravel
14 The Great Waltz: Blue Danube / Final Sequence Johann Strauss II / Dimitri Tiomkin


Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - The Never-Ending Waltz (56' 13'')

01 Johann Strauss, Jr. Waltzes:
Tales From The Vienna Woods Waltz Johann Strauss II
Wiener Blut "
Emperor's Waltzes "
Artist's Life "
On The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz "
Roses From The South "
Wine, Woman And Song "

02 Vienna Waltzes:
Hofball-T�nze Walzer Joseph Lanner
Donauwellen Walzer Ion Ivanovici
Liebesleid Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler
Sph�ren-Kl�nge Walzer Josef Strauss
Walzertr�ume Oscar Nathan Straus
Zwei Herzen Im Dreivierteltakt Robert Elizabeth Stolz
Gold And Silver Waltz Franz Leh�r
Vienna, City Of My Dreams Rudolf Sieczyński

03 Operetta Waltzes:
Overture To The Gypsy Baron Johann Strauss II
Ballsirenen-Walzer No. 2 Franz Christian Leh�r
Ballsirenen-Walzer No. 1 Franz Christian Leh�r
Count Of Luxembourg Walzer Franz Christian Leh�r
G�it� Parisienne, No. 14: Valse Jacques Offenbach
G�it� Parisienne, No. 8: Valse Lento Jacques Offenbach
Die Fledermaus: Overture Johann Strauss II
La Belle H�l�ne: Overture Jacques Offenbach

04 Opera Waltzes:
Waltzes From Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss
La Traviata: Sempre Libera Degg'io Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata, Act I: No. 4 Waltz Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata: Brindisi Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: La Donna � Mobile Giuseppe Verdi
Rom�o Et Juliette: Je Veux Vivre Charles Gounod
Faust: Waltz Charles Gounod

05 Waldteufel Waltzes:
The Skater's Waltz Emile Waldteufel
Estudiantina Emile Waldteufel

06 Concert Waltzes:
Concert Waltz No. 1 In D Major Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov
Symphonie Fantastique: At The Ball Hector Berlioz
Liebeslieder Waltz Johannes Brahms
Concert Waltz No. 2 In F Major Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov
Invitation To The Dance Carl Maria von Weber

07 Ballet Waltzes:
Don Quixote: Pas De Deux Ludwig Minkus
Copp�lia, Act I: Waltz Cl�ment Philibert L�o Delibes

08 Tchaikovsky Waltzes:
Eugene Onegin: Waltz Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade For Strings In C Major: Waltz "
The Nutcracker: Waltz Of The Flowers "
The Swan Lake: Waltz "
The Sleeping Beauty: Waltz "

Download links:


The Great Waltz
FLAC (https://ulozto.net/!oqjQSrfkvMjG/tgw-7z) (353.7 MiB) - MP3 320 kbps (https://ulozto.net/!du8uF8JiBybx/tgwm-7z) (167.9 MiB) - Password: mauceribowlwaltz
Booklet pictures (https://ulozto.net/!CLFrX2BHSobr/booklet-john-mauceri-hollywood-bowl-orchestra-the-great-waltz-1993-zip) (4.6 MiB) kindly shared by maelstrom6969 (Thank him (http://forums.ffshrine.org/reputation.php?do=addreputation&p=3861448)).
 
The Never Ending Waltz
FLAC (https://ulozto.net/!bN7llV0P8IrU/tnew-7z) (263.3 MiB) - MP3 320 kbps (https://ulozto.net/!BEWgALAbldJf/tnewm-7z) (129.4 MiB) - Password: ballinvienna

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The Great Waltz was always one of my favorite CDs - the Tiomkin Strauss arrangements are truly amazing! Thanks!

Yes, there are surprising twists, aren't there?. Out of curiosity, I looked for the 1938 movie, to possibly spot filmic reasons for his arrangements, with no luck. But they probably existed, as Tiomkin did things like this:


from Wikipedia:
Tiomkin paid careful attention to the voices of the actors when composing. According to Epstein, he "found that in addition to the timbre of the voice, the pitch of the speaking voice must be very carefully considered ..." To accomplish this, Tiomkin would go to the set during filming and would listen to each of the actors. He would also talk with them individually, noting the pitch and color of their voices.

Wow.

After some fight with a broken scanner and other nuisances, maelstrom6969 took smartphone pics of the booklet of The Great Waltz to share with us. There are abundant liner notes, with comments for each track.

The link is added to the first post. Thank you very much, maelstrom6969!

A verrrrrry belated THANK YOU for sharing these, kooke! They're terrific, and I very much appreciate your sharing these.

Very cool- thanks for these!

I don't know how I missed this thread.

Thank you very much for a Telarc title I do not have! Appreciate the Phillips CD title as well as I don't have that one,either.

Thank you!

Many thanks for these. :)

Thank you so very much!!!