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Best of the Mantovani Orchestra | 
 enlarge | Creators: Hugo Alfven, Anonymous, Ronald Binge, Alessandro Cicognini, Maurice Jarre, Scott Joplin, Joseph Kosma, Franz Lehar, Mitchell Leigh, Frederick Loewe, Johnny Alfred Mandel, Ronald N. / Murden, Orlando Miller, Riz Ortolani, Lew Pollack, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Johann Ii Strauss, Jule Styne, Irish Traditional, Unspecified
Label: Madacy Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 147738
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 5406
UPC: 056775540623
EAN: 0056775540623
ASIN: B000000L5X
Release Date: September 12, 1994
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Some Enchanted Evening | | • | Three Coins In The Fountain | | • | The Impossible Dream | | • | More | | • | Send In The Clowns | | • | Charmaine | | • | Somewhere My Love | | • | Elizabethan Serenade | | • | Carnival Of Venice | | • | Overture-Die Fledermaus | | • | Merry Widow Waltz | | • | Summertime In Venice |
Disc 2
| • | The Shadow Of Your Smile | | • | The Sound Of Music | | • | Italian Fantasy | | • | For Once In My Life | | • | Swedish Rhapsody | | • | I've Grown Accustomed To His Face | | • | The Entertainer | | • | For Once In My Life | | • | Skater's Waltz | | • | Tales From The Vienna Woods | | • | Londonderry Air | | • | Autumn Leaves |
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| Customer Reviews:
 It contains songs not on other CD. January 1, 2007
I am pretty happy with the CD I have. I noticed that these songs are not on other CD. Summer Time in Venice, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Impossible Dream, Send in The Clown, Somewhere My Love and Elizabethan Serenade. The sound quality is acceptable.
The Best Of The Mantovani Orchestra April 13, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This cd is an ok collection of tunes from Mantovani.It's not the best but it's ok.This 2 cd set features songs such as three coins in a fountain,send in the clowns,skater's waltz,for once in my life and others.This isn't the only version of for once in my life Mantovani did.This version is light strings.Manti's other version is with a harpsicord and heavy strings.It is on Mantovani Scene/Mantovani Sound which has just come out from Vocolion.It also has such songs as dear heart,both sides now,honey and a lot of others.Amazon doesn't have this yet but I have just recieved my copy from another website.Like the other viewer said unfortuanly the sound quality is bad on the best of collection.I even heard somebody coughing on one track and there is some tape hiss from the transfer.I would like to recommend a 2 cd set by John Fox going under the name of the starry night orchestra that is put out by yestermusic(good music group)and has 30 tracks by Mr.Fox.Every song has a heavy string contingment and it states that these were played on beautiful music stations.John Foxes Strings are so beautiful.
The John Fox I'm talking about isn't the same John Fox that is a commedian that is sold on this site.
 The Best of the Mantovani Orchestra (vol 1 & 2) September 14, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Madacy Label has betrayed Mantovani's genious, and substituted poor recordings in these 2 CD's. I have immediately
cancelled all Madacy Label orders with everyone, and will investigate all future items with a Canadian origin prior to purchase.Joseph C. Jernigan
Poor Recording September 5, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The quality of the recording is poor. You can hear flutter in the string passages, which is 90% of Mantovani's music! There is also hiss noise, and pops in piece transitions... Amateur transcription from tape to CD's, is my guess. Someone else made bad reviews regarding the poor recording on the same record label, so my suggestion is to stay away from the label Madacy Records.
Top of the "Beautiful Music" Heap February 19, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This CD has a nice collection of Mantovani's work. The combination of older standards with "newer" (such as Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life")is great. This is the stuff that is usually mocked as "elevator music" but also considered by many good romancing background music. Many of these arrangements were heard on a local Beautiful Music FM station where I live before the format change. The only negative I have is for a "box set" there is no write-up on the Orchestra. It would have been nice to read about Mantovani and what inspired his arrangements, and the orchestra personnell. My copy was made in Canada by Madacy. Maybe someone who has contact with that company could recommend a booklet for any future copies made.
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