John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra - Complete Philips Recordings

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John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra - Complete Philips Recordings

21CD compilation by Decca consisting on as many albums This is the listing for the discs from 11 to 21.
The first 10 discs are listed in the Part 1 of this page.


CD 11: AMERICA, THE DREAM GOES ON
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 412 627-2 (1984)
  1. Fanfare for the Common Man (3:01) (Aaron Copland)
  2. America, The Dream Goes On (4:30) (John Williams - Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
  3. Battle Hymn of the Republic (5:03) (William Steffe - Julia Ward Howe / Arr. Peter Wilhousky)
  4. This Land Is Your Land (3:30) (Woody Guthrie - Stuart Philips)
  5. America The Beautiful (3:09) (Samuel A. Ward - Katherine Lee Bates / Arr. Alexander Courage)
  6. Hoe-Down from "Rodeo" (3:29) (Aaron Copland)
  7. American Salute (4:30) (Morton Gould)
  8. American Medley: New York, New York / Lonely Town / America (7:40) (Leonard Bernstein / Arr. Sid Ramin)
  9. When The Saints Go Marchin' In (4:28) (Traditional / Arr. Billy May)
  10. Prayer of Thanksgiving (2:46) (Traditional / Arr. Billy May)

CD 12: ON STAGE
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 412 132-2 (1983)
  1. Annie Get Your Gun: There's No Business Like Show Business (3:25)
    (Irving Berlin / Arr. Morton Stevens)
  2. A Chorus Line: Overture (9:13) (Marvin Hamlich)
  3. Dancin': Here You Come Again (Barry Mann & Cinthia Weil / Arr. Don Sebesky)
  4. Sophisticated Ladies: A Tribute to Duke Ellington: (8:23) Arranged by Ralph Burns
    a. Sophisticated Ladies (Duke Ellington)
    b. Take The "A" Train (Billy Strayhorn)
    c. Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington - Albany Bigard - Irving Mills)
    d. It Don't Mean A Thing (Duke Ellington)
  5. Cats: Memory (4:34) (Andrew Lloyd Webber / Arr. Eric Knight)
  6. A Salute to Fred Astaire: (8:29) Arranged by Alexander Courage
    a. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (Irving Berlin)
    b. The Carioca (Vincent Youmans)
    c. Dancing in the Dark (Arthur Schwartz)
    d. I Won't Dance (Jerome Kern)
    e. The Continental (Con Conrad)
  7. On Your Toes: Slaughter On Tenth Avenue (8:46)
    (Richard Rodgers / Arr. Robert Russel Bennett)

CD 13: BERNSTEIN BY BOSTON
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 416 360-2 (1985)
  1. West Side Story (selection) (9:09)
  2. Simple song from "Mass" (4:10)
  3. The Great lover (Allegro Pesante) from "On the Town" (1:54)
  4. Lonely Town: Pas de Deux (Andante - Sostenuto) from "On the Town" (3:01)
  5. Times Square: 1944 (Allegro) from "On the Town" (5:19)
  6. Overture "Candide" (4:15)
    Divertimento for Orchestra:
  7. I. Sennets and Tuckets (Allegro non troppo, ma con brio) (1:18)
  8. II. Waltz (Allegro, con grazia) (1:58)
  9. III. Mazurka (Mesto (Molto moderato)) (2:02)
  10. IV. Samba (allegro giusto) (0:57)
  11. V. Turkey Trot (allegretto, ben misurato) (1:52)
  12. VI. Sphinxes (adagio lugubre) (0:59)
  13. VII. Blues (Slow blues tempo) (1:21)
  14. VIII. March: "The BSO forever" (Andante (In memoriam) - Doppio movimento (Alla marcia)) (3:25)
  15. Wonderful Town (Selection) (6:22)

CD 14: POPS IN LOVE
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 416 361-2 (1985)
  1. Pavane (6:28) (Gabriel Fauré) (1845-1924) Leone Buyse, flute
  2. Clair de Lune from "Suite Bergamasque" (4:35) (Claude Debussy)(1862-1918) (Arr. H. Mouton & Walter Piston)
  3. Adagio in G minor (6:23) (Tomaso Albinoni) (1971-1751) / Remo Giazotto (1910) Max Hobart, violin
  4. Le Cygne (The Swan) from "Le carnaval des animaux" (3:06) (Camille Saint-Saens) (1835-1921) (Arr. Paul Vidal)
    Martha Babcock, cello
  5. Gymnopédie nº. 1 (orig. Nº. 3) (2:34) (Erik Satie) (1866-1925) (Orch. Claude Debussy) Alfred Genovese, oboe
  6. Andante cantabile from String Quartet, Op. 11 (7:13) (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) (1840-1893)
  7. La fille aux cheveux de lin fom Préludes Book I (2:34) (Claude Debussy / Arr. Jerome Cohen)
  8. Pavane pour une infante défunte (6:08) (Maurice Ravel) (1875-1937)
    Richard Sebring, trumpet
  9. Gymnopédie nº. 2 (orig. Nº. 1) (3:17) (Erik Satie) (Orch. Claude Debussy)
    Alfred Genovese, oboe
  10. Canon (5:00) (Johann Pachelbel) (1653-1706) (Arr. Robert Bockholt)
  11. Fantasia on Greensleeves (4:41) (Ralph Vaughan Williams) (1872-1958) (Adapted by Ralph Greaves) Leone Buyse, flute

CD 15: HOLST: THE PLANETS
THE ORIGINAL CD RELEASE PHILIPS 420 177-2 (1986)
  1. Mars, The Bringer of War (4:45)
  2. Venus, The Bringer of Peace (8:19)
  3. Mercury, The Winged Messenger (4:11)
  4. Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity (7:53)
  5. Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age (8:24)
  6. Uranus, The Magician (5:55)
  7. Neptune, The Mystic (8:21) with 6-part chorus of female voices, Women's voices of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus with John Oliver as director)

CD 16: DIGITAL JUKEBOX
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 422 064-2 (1988)
  1. Those Were The Days (3:02) (Gene Raskin / Arr. Glenn Osser)
  2. Never on Sunday (2:48) (Manos Hadjidakis / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  3. More from "Mondo Cane" (3:31) (Riz Ortolani & G. Oliviero / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  4. By The Time I Get To Phoenix (2:30) (Jimmy Webb / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  5. The Girl from Ipanema (3:19) (Antonio Carlos Jobim / Arr. Patrick Hollenbeck)
  6. Summer of '42 (The Summer Knows) (3:49) (Michel Legrand / Arr. Eric Knight)
  7. Mack The Knife (3:10) (Kurt Weill / Arr. Jack Mason)
  8. Where is your Heart (from "Moulin Rouge") (3:04) (Georges Auric)
  9. Classical Gas (3:39) (Mason Williams / Arr. Glenn Osser)
  10. Theme from "The Pink Panther" (3:13) (Henry Mancini)
  11. Ebb Tide (4:02) (Robert Maxwell / Arr. Angela Morley)
  12. Tijuana Taxi (2:48) (Ervan F. "Bud" Coleman / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  13. Days of Wine and Roses (3:31) (Henry Mancini / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  14. Theme from "A Summer Place" (2:38) (Max Steiner / Arr. Lee Holdridge)
  15. Unchained Melody (3:40) (Alex North / Arr. Lee Holdridge)
  16. Ciribiribin (2:51) (Albert Pestaloza / Arr. Glenn Osser)
  17. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (3:30) (Sammy Fain / Arr. Angela Morley)

Lucky to Be MeCD 17: LUCKY TO BE ME
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 422 401-2 (1992)

With soprano: Jessye Norman - John Williams on piano, but without an orchestra.

  1. Lover from "Love Me Tonight" (2:48) (Rodgers - Hart)
  2. I will wait for you from "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (3:56) (Legrand - Demy - Gimbel)
  3. My ship from "Lady in the Dark" (5:27) (Weill - Gershwin)
  4. But Not for Me from "Girl Crazy" (4:06) (Gershwin - Gershwin)
  5. Falling in love with love from "The Boys from Syracuse" (2:29) (Rodgers - Hart)
  6. Lonely Town from "On the Town" (3:20) (Bernstein - Comden - Green)
  7. September Song from "Knickerbocker Holiday" (5:20) (Weill - Anderson)
  8. Show Me from "My Fair Lady" (1:50) (Loewe - Lerner)
  9. Where Is It Written from "Yentl" (5:30) (Legrand - Bergman)
  10. Just the Way You Are (3:12) (Joel)
  11. Papa can you hear me? from "Yentl" (5:23) (Legrand -Bergman)
  12. Speak Low from "One Touch of Venus" (4:06) (Weill - Nash)
  13. Lucky To Be Me from "On the Town" (4:56) (Bernstein - Comden - Green)

CD 18: SALUTE TO HOLLYWOOD
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 422 385-2 (1988)
  1. Hooray for Hollywood (3:28) (Richard Whiting / Arr. John Williams)
  2. Pops Salutes the Oscars: (10:50) Arranged by Morton Stevens
    a. When You Wish Upon a Star (Leight Harline)
    b. Swingin' on a Star (Jimmy van Heusen)
    c. Moon River (Henry Mancini)
    d. Raindrops Keep Falling In My Head (Burt Bacharach)
    e. Theme from "The Way We Were" (Marvin Hamlich)
    f. The Shadow of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel)
  3. Somewhere Out There (3:42) (Barry Mann, James Horner, Cynthia Weil / Arr. Glen Osser)
  4. A Tribute to Judy Garland: (10:59) Arranged by Morton Stevens
    a. Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
    b. We're Off to See the Wizard (Harold Arlen)
    c. You Made Me Love You (James Monaco, Joe McCarty)
    d. Be a Clown (Cole Porter)
    e. Get Happy (Harold Arlen)
    f. The Man That Got Away (Harold Arlen)
  5. Balloon Sequence from The Witches of Eastwick - Devil's Dance from The Witches of Eastwick (9:53) (John Williams)
  6. Love Theme from Out of Africa (2:56) (John Barry / Arr. Joseph Reisman))
  7. La Bamba (4:44) (William Clauson / Arr. Richard Hayman)
  8. Theme from The Bad and The Beautiful (5:37) (David Raksin / Arr. Herbert Spencer)
  9. Dancing With Fred Astaire Arranged by Sid Ramin
    a. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (Irving Berlin)
    b. I Won't Dance (Jerome Kern)
    c. Dancing in the Dark (Arthur Schwartz)
    d. The Continental (Con Conrad)
    e. Change Partners (Irving Berlin)
    f. The Carioca (Vincent Youmans)

CD 19: POPS A LA RUSE
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 426 247-2 (1988)
  1. Mlada: Procession of the Nobles (4:25) (Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Prince Igor: Polovtisian dances:
  2. Presto (Dance of the Maidens) (2:20) (Alexander Borodin)
  3. Andantino (Dance with chorus) (3:47) (Alexander Borodin)
  4. Allegro (2:16) (Alexander Borodin)
  5. Presto (5:44) (Alexander Borodin)
  6. None But The Lonely Heart (3:46) (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
  7. The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Buffons (3:42) (Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
  8. Night on the Bare Mountain (11:37) (Modest Moussorgsky)
  9. Lieutenant Kije: Troika (3:01) (Serge Prokofiev)
  10. Gayaneh (Aram Khachaturian)

CD20: Pops by GershwinCD 20: POPS BY GERSHWIN
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 426 404-2 (1989)
  1. An American In Paris (18:39) (George Gershwin / Rev. F. Campbell-Watson)
  2. Suite from Porgy and Bess: (17:01)
    (George Gershwin / Arr. R.R.Bennett & A.Courage)
    a. Prelude
    b. Summertime
    c. I Got Plenty O'nuttin'
    d. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
    e. I Can't Sit Down
    f. It Ain't Necessarily So
    g. I Loves You Porgy
    h. There's A Boat dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
    i. O Lawd, I'm On My Way
  3. Selection from Girl Crazy (5:47) (George Gershwin / Arr. Leroy Anderson)
    a. I Got Rhythm
    b. Embreaceble You
    c. Bidin' My Time
    d. But Not For Me
    e. I Got Rhythm
  4. Rhapsody In Blue (16:04) (George Gershwin / Orch. Ferde Grofé)
    Misha Dichter, piano

By Request / Pops BritanniaCD 21: BY REQUEST / POPS BRITANNIA
ORIGINAL RELEASE PHILIPS 420 178-2 (1987) / 420 946-2 (1988)
BY REQUEST:
  1. Liberty Fanfare (4:14) (John Williams)
  2. March from "1941" (4:25) (John Williams)
  3. Mission Theme (Theme for NBC News) (3:23) (John Williams)
  4. Olympic Fanfare & Theme (4:24) (John Williams)
  5. Theme from Jaws (2:49) (John Williams)
    POPS BRITANNIA:
    Jane Eyre suite:
  6. I. At Lowood (4:16) (John Williams)
  7. II. To Thornfield (3:02) (John Williams)
  8. III. The Return (6:06) (John Williams)
  9. An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (14:00) (Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)
    Max Hobart, violin and Nancy Crutcher, solo bagpipes
  10. Brigg Fair (15:47) (Frederick Delius)
  11. Danny Boy (3:45) (Traditional Irish "Londonberry Air" / Arr. Percy Grainger)
  12. Molly on the Shore (4:22) (Percy Grainger)
  13. Scotland the Brave (2:00) (Traditional Scottish / Arr. Patrick Hollenbeck)
    Bay State Pipes and Drums, Iain Massie, pipe major



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