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Customer Reviews
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Some Enchanting Music......
Great music does not age, and like fine wine can only get better with time; Mantovani's music is a great example.
This album is a collection of fabulous music, and contains the best version of "Summer Time in Venice" I have ever heard.
I'm a very rich woman to have this CD and this kind of music in my collection, but in a world seemingly devoid of taste, I don't think many will agree with me.
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Again the Strings Cascade
Mantovani has become synonymous with "elevator music." Aside from the fact that about as many elevators still carry music as they do operators, this is cruel injustice. Arguably more than anyone else, Mantovani perfected a particular kind of "light classicism" in the 1950s and early 60s. The arrangements he commissioned were at once lush yet restrained. At the podium he was an exacting taskmaster, and his talented musicians rose to the maestro's challenge. The result, in this CD, is a dozen of his best-known covers--and this is Mantovani, not simply the eponymous orchestra that would later travel under his name.
Duke Ellington said that there is, finally, only two kinds of music: good and bad. Of its kind, this is very, very good. If this is "lounge music," then show me the way. I could lounge here for a very long time.
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WONDERFUL... The Mantovani way!
Mantovani was of the best! We had almost everything Mantovani did on 33 1/3 until Katrina washed it away. I am delighted to be able to get this on a CD. If you don't want to become a Mantovani devotee, don't listen to this as it will entrance you. WONDERFUL music...
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Painfully dull, cluelessly retro
It's possible that someone out there might still find favor with the over-orchestrated, over-produced music here - the kind that was once commonly used in dentist's offices and elevators to soothe the listener's nerves. These days, while other retro music like Martin Denny can have an agreeably continental flair, Mantovani is just plain dull. This is music of the worst possible type: drained of personality and soul, where even the occasional more modern song (mid sixties) comes off as stilted. This kind of thing has long been replaced by easy-listening jazz; not even the uncoolest of the Star Search generation would be caught dead with this in their closet.
This kind of dreck gives you sympathy for the poor listener whose musical background is so impoverished as to make this music an option.
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Lifting the heart
Takes you back to a time when really good music was coming from car radios. Believe it or not, these fine tunes were big hits even with younger listeners.
