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Alex North, Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein
Hollywood's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Fanfare
2. Ben-Hur: Prelude
3. The Ten Commandments: Prelude
4. Friendly Persuasion: Thee I Love
5. Picnic: Moonglow And Theme
6. Around The World In 80 Days: Theme
7. Mutiny On The Bounty: Main Title
8. Spartacus: Love Theme
9. Zorba The Greek: Theme
10. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg: I Will Wait For You
11. Valley Of The Dolls: Theme
12. Midnight Cowboy: Theme
13. The Godfather: Theme
14. Modern Times: Smile
15. Dances With Wolves: Themes
16. Far And Away: Book Of Days
17. Grand Canyon: Theme

No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: KUNZEL,ERICH Title: VOL. 2-HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST HI Street Release Date: 06/22/1993

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All Artists: Alex North, Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, Dimitri Tiomkin, George Duning, Victor Young, Bronislaw Kaper, Mikis Theodorakis, Michel Legrand, Andre Previn, John [1] Barry, Nino Rota, Charlie [1] Chaplin, Roma Enya / Ryan, James Newton Howard, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Title: Hollywood's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Telarc
Original Release Date: 6/25/1993
Re-Release Date: 6/29/1993
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks
Style: Easy Listening
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 089408031922

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No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: KUNZEL,ERICH
Title: VOL. 2-HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST HI
Street Release Date: 06/22/1993

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CD Reviews

A great album

G. Sawaged | Canada | 01/28/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Erich Kunzel, once again comes through with another terrific album of movie music. On this album you will find preludes, themes and main title music from some of Hollywood's most loved movies. Films from as early as 1936's "Modern Times", through to 1992's "Far and Away", are represented here. The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra are as wonderful as ever, and the 20-bit digital sound system makes for unequalled sound quality. A pleasing highlight for me, is the wonderful "Moonglow" which starts off track 5. The jazz trio of piano, bass and drums eventually is joined by the orchestra for the theme from "Picnic". Then we have the beautiful waltz from "Around the world in eighty days". With the wonderful accordion solo, you can imagine being on a merry-go-round. This is truly a beautiful album...a must for lovers of orcestral music."

An Interesting and Gratifying Volume 2

gobirds2 | New England | 06/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops' treatment of film scores on this second tribute to Hollywood are somewhat more pleasing than Volume I. The selections are more intriguing and demonstrate a more positive approach to film scores and their value as true musical art forms. There is quite a diverse representation of music here. The incredibly powerful main title to MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (Bronislaw Kaper) juxtaposed with the bittersweet and romantic love theme to SPARTACUS (Alex North) and the intimately tender love theme to FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Dimitri Tiomkin) are masterfully achieved. I have never been that enamored with this CD's 20-bit digital recording but it has grown on me. Still, I highly recommend and enjoy this CD.

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Better than the First Volume

hille2000 | USA | 08/04/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There is a great collection of music to be found here. There are many great renditions. The "2001, a Space Odyssey Fanfare" was outstanding. "Book of Days" from "Far and Away" had a very unique approach. I recommend this one deeply, oh yes I do, by far and away!

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Sheila from Savannah, Georgia

S. Johnson | Savannah, Ga. | 01/14/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this cd. It is the greatest. Moonglow and Midnight Cowboy are my favorites."

Wonderful Early Kunzel recording

Aaron Rogers | Framingham, MA | 04/05/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I watched a ton of movies growing up through middle & highschool, so these Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops CDs were like gold for me. They were released before the age of the crappy Silva compilations. Telarc was, at the time, THE standard for early digital audio and it shows. The production values on these CDs were big, bold, and full of ear pleasing sound even on some of the lesser quality themes.

Most recently for me, the most stand-out tracks here are the popular Maurice Jarre works (who passed the week before I'm writing this review). We get the best sounding re-recordings of "Lara's Theme" from Dr Zhivago and an interesting concert arrangement of "Lawrence of Arabia". These are beautiful samplings of Jarre's works and make a fascinating unintentional tribute to the composer.

For the most part however, this CD offers up standard fare. We get Chariots of Fire which sounds interesting and a bit bolder performed by a full orchestra rather than the original Vangelis synths. We also get rather uninspired pops-style performance of Goldfinger that sounds like its performed by a highschool football band, complete with overly done percussion.

There's the standard film lover's tracks too.. Rocky, Ben Hur, Exodus, Love Story, A Summer Place, the continuously misused Jaws theme, and John Barry's lovely Out of Africa.

My personal gem beyond the Jarre tracks are Michael Gore's wonderful piano score for Terms of Endearment. One of the few chick flicks that I can actually sit through and almost shed a tear. Gore's theme is lovely and very hummable after the first listen.

For film music noobs, Kunzel's compilations are a must. They present the music with a huge symphonic range of sound that is very professional and dead on.

For fans of the music it's great to listen to somebody else's interpretation of the scores, but we'd all much rather have the original recordings. That is if we can afford them all in today's tough times."