Frank DeVol and His Orchestra - Fabulous Hollywood!

1. Tammy
2. My Foolish Heart
3. Golden Earrings
4. Love Letters
5. True Love
6. Third Man Theme
7. Unchained Melody
8. Around the World in 80 Days
9. Return to Paradise
10. Gigi
11. An Affair to Remember
12. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

Fabulous Hollywood!

Mr. Acker Bilk - Above The Stars - with The Leon Young String Chorale

1. Above The Stars
2. Soft Sands
3. Limelight
4. Lonely
5. Della
6. When You Smile
7. Sky Boat Song
8. Babette
9. Acker's Lacquer
10. And the Angels Sing
11. Londonderry Air
12. Moonlight Becomes You

Above The Stars

Mantovani & His Orchestra - Cascading Strings - Disc Four (Final)

1. Some Enchanted Evening
2. Bewitched
3. Suddenly
4. Tango Delle Rosa
5. Was It A Dream
6. On Wings of Song
7. Kisses in the Dark
8. Lover Come Back to Me
9. Deep in My Heart
10. You Will Remember Vienna
11. Serenade
12. Drinking Song
13. Softly As in A Morning  Sunrise
14. Will You Remember?
15. Begin the Beguine
16. Gypsy Legend
17. Voices of Spring
18. Moonlight Serenade
19. At Dawning
20. Love, Here Is My Heart
21. Arana De La Noche
22. Speakeasy
23. Faith
24. Dear Love, My Love

Cascading Strings - Disc Four

William Russell (Bill) Watrous - In Love Again - with The Richard Behrke Strings

1. In Love Again
2. It's All in the Game
3. Our Day Will Come
4. I Wish You Love
5. This Is All I Ask
6. Willow Weep for Me
7. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
8. Lonely Town
9. An Affair to Remember
10. Melodie D'Amour
11. Theme from La Strada
12. Softly As I Leave You

In Love Again

Bill Watrous - A Time for Love - Plays The Music of Johnny Mandel (Reupload)

1. Low Life
2. The Shadow of Your Smile
3. A Time for Love
4. Close Enough for Love
5. Emily
6. Where Do You Start
7. The Shining Sea
8. Zoot
9. Not Really the Blues

A Time For Love

In Memoriam
(1939 - 2018)

Mantovani & His Orchestra - Cascading Strings - Disc Three

1. Love's Roundabout
2. Mexicali Rose
3. Just for A While
4. Jealousy
5. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
6. The Emperor Waltz
7. I Will Bring You A Love Song
8. Wanting You
9. Stouthearted Men
10. The Desert Song
11. One Alone
12. Just We Two
13. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
14. Vola Colombia
15. Romance
16. Lazy Gondolier
17. Ramona
18. Swedish Rhapsody
19. Shadow Waltz
20. El Choclo
21. Poeme
22. It Happened in Monterey
23. So Madly in Love
24. When the Lilac Blooms Again
25. Stradivarius

Cascading Strings - Disc Three

Johnny Hodges - The Eleventh Hour - Arranged and Conducted by Oliver Nelson

1. Something to Live For
2. In A Sentimental Mood
3. I Didn't Know About You
4. Guitar Amour
5. You Blew Out the Flame (In My Heart)
6. Theme from "The Eleventh Hour"
7. Love Song from "Mutiny on the Bounty"
8. Solitude
9. Satin Doll
10. Don't Blame Me
11. Prelude to A Kiss
12. Warm Valley

The Eleventh Hour

Leonard Slatkin and The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson Favorites

1. Belle of the Ball
2. The Phantom Regiment
3. The First Day of Spring
4. Sleigh Ride
5. Plink, Plank, Plunk!
6. Blue Tango
7. Forgotten Dreams
8. Bugler's Holiday
9. The Penny-Whistle Song
10. Clarinet Candy
11. Horse and Buggy
12. A Trumpeter's Lullaby
13. Fiddle Faddle
14. Jazz Pizzicato
15. Jazz Legato
16. The Syncopated Clock
17. Sandpaper Ballet
18. The Typewriter
19. The Waltzing Cat
20. Promenade
21. Saraband
22. Serenata
23. Balladette
24. Arietta
25. Home Stretch

The Typewriter

Leonard Slatkin, a fixture of the U.S. symphonic scene, is especially noted for his performances of American, Russian, and British music, and for his numerous recordings of Haydn symphonies. He was born into a famous musical family: his father was Felix Slatkin (1915-1963), a St. Louis-born violinist who rose to become a film-score and light-music conductor and founded the Hollywood String Quartet. His mother was Eleanor Aller, cellist of the quartet. Thanks to their combined efforts, their son was trained in violin, viola, piano, and conducting.

Slatkin attended Indiana University (1962) and Los Angeles City College (1963), and studied with Walter Susskind, the music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at the Aspen Music School in 1964. He then attended Juilliard School in New York, where he studied conducting with Jean Morel, graduating in 1968 with a B. Mus. degree. In that same year he became assistant conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Susskind, and was promoted to associate conductor in 1971, associate principal conductor in 1974, and principal guest conductor in 1974. During this period he showed his career-long commitment to musical training for young people by founding the St. Louis Youth Symphony in 1969 and serving as its conductor.

In 1974 Slatkin made his European debut as a guest conductor with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and in 1978 he conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., for the first time. He was artistic adviser to the New Orleans Philharmonic (1977-1980). In 1979 he founded the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest series and served as its director for ten years.

In 1979 he was appointed music director of the St. Louis Symphony, beginning a highly successful 17-year tenure that included five triumphal international tours and many recordings for the Vox, EMI, and RCA labels. With the St. Louis orchestra he conducted a notable series of discs of music by American symphonic masters, including Bernstein, Copland, Schuman, and Piston. He also has recorded the complete Vaughan Williams and Elgar symphonies, a series of Haydn symphonies, and works of Britten, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev, among many others. He has also recorded with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, amassing well over a hundred releases. He has been nominated for Grammy awards more than 50 times and won four times.

In 1990 Slatkin became music director of the Great Woods Performing Arts Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, the summer home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From 1992 to 1999 he served as director of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Festival; the position was created so he could exercise his flair for creative and wide-ranging programming. In 1994 he was the artistic director of the Festival of American Music at London's South Bank Centre. In 1996 he took up the position of music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, and led them in successful tours and recordings. In 2000 he was appointed chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Slatkin was named music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and the Orchestre National de Lyon in 2011. He has continued his involvement with youth orchestras, and also conducts opera in many of the world's major houses and festivals.

(by Joseph Stevenson from allmusic.com)

Leroy Anderson

(1908-1975)

 

Franck Pourcel - The Sound of Magic

1. The Shadow of Your Smile
2. Around the World
3. Days of Wine and Roses
4. The Sound of Music
5. Born Free
6. Who Can Say
7. Is Paris Burning
8. Love Letters
9. Secret Love
10. The Big Country
11. This is My Song
12. Tonight

The Sound of Magic

Franck Pourcel et Son Grand Orchestre - Pourcel Pour Vous

1. Puppet on A String (Un Tout Petit Pantin)
2. L'Important C'est La Rose
3. Something Stupid (C'est Mots Stupides)
4. Je Vous Offre
5. Sunrise Sunset
6. Il Doit Faire Beau La-Bas
7. Pour Vous
8. Ta Ta Ta Ta
9. L'Amour Est Bleu
10. Penny Lane
11. Free Again (Non C'est Rien)
12. Kiss Me, Goodnight
13. La Comtesse De Hong-Kong (This Is My Song)

Pourcel Pour Vous

David Rose and His Orchestra - Quick Before It Melts

1. Theme from "Quick, Before It Melts" (The Happy Penguin)
2. Now That I Know
3. Gay Spirits
4. Looks Like A Lonely Day
5. The Stripper
6. Three O'Clock in the Morning
7. Fiddler on the Roof
8. The Sound of Music
9. The Fox
10. Two People in Paree
11. Run, Fiddle, Run
12. Hoss

Quick Before It Melts

Joe Bushkin - Blue Angels

1. Blue, Turning Grey Over You
2. Serenade in Blue
3. Blue Moon
4. Under A Blanket of Blue
5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
6. Beyond the Blue Horizon
7. Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day
8. The Blue Room
9. Blue Prelude
10. My Blue Heaven
11. Blue and Sentimental
12. Blue Angel Blues

Blue Angels

Mantovani & His Orchestra - Cascading Strings - Disc Two

1. Wyoming
2. For You
3. June Night
4. Adios Muchachos
5. Babette
6. Village Swallows
7. I Live for You
8. Indian Summer
9. To the Land of My Own Romance
10. Italian Street Song
11. A Kiss in the Dark
12. Habanera
13. Sweethearts
14. The Irish Have A Great Day Tonight
15. Dream Dream Dream
16. Belle of the Ball
17. Cradle Song
18. Royal Blue Waltz
19. Besame Mucho
20. Love's Last Word Is Spoken
21. I Love You Truly
22. Greensleeves
23. Little Swiss Waltz
24. Music Box Tango
25. Loves Dream After the Ball

Cascading Strings - Disc Two

Ronald Binge & His Orchestra - Summer Rain

1. Love Story
2. Summer Rain
3. El Condor Pasa
4. Love Is All
5. I Remember
6. Lara's Theme
7. Bridge Over Troubled Water
8. If I Were King
9. Little Flower
10. La Mer
11. Down by the River
12. Moon River

Summer Rain

The Conductor

(1910 - 1979)

Mantovani & His Orchestra - Cascading Strings - Disc One

1. Charmaine
2. Diane
3. Under the Roofs of Paris
4. La Cumparsita
5. Lovely Lady
6. Treasure Waltz
7. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
8. When Your Away
9. Neapolitan Love Song
10. March of The Toys
11. I'm Falling in Love with Someone
12. Gypsy Love Song
13. Kiss Me Again
14. Tango De Luna
15. Luxembourg Polka
16. Etude No 3 in E Major
17. Gypsy Love-Waltz
18. The Moulin Rouge Theme
19. Jamaican Rumba
20. Queen Elizabeth Waltz
21. Symphony
22. The Whistling Boy
23. The Melba Waltz
24. Beautiful Dreamer
25. We'll Gather Lilacs

Cascading Strings - Disc One

Count Basie - Basie Plays Hefti

1. Has Anyone Here Seen Basie?
2. Cute
3. Pensive Miss
4. Sloo Foot
5. It's Awfully Nice to Be with You
6. Scoot
7. A Little Tempo Please
8. Late Date
9. Count Down
10. Bag 'A Bones

Basie Plays Hefti

The Composer

The Performer