When you think of Henry Mancini, you inevitably think of either "Peter Gunn" or "Moon River." (Well, maybe "The Pink Panther"--but that became a cartoon show, so it doesn't count!) Breakfast at Tiffany's gave the world the latter tune, and that beautiful melody recurs throughout this soundtrack LP, which remained No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts for 12 weeks in 1961. (Music for ...
Now the dust has settled somewhat around the phenomenon that is Vanessa-Mae, this three-CD re-release of recordings she made in the early 1990s as a young teenager reminds us what all the fuss was about in the first place. The discs are divided into Russian, Viennese and virtuoso albums, and the first cannily begins with the Kabalevsky Concerto, which was written to appease Stalinist criticism in ...
You just can't help enjoying 'Round Midnight. If the notion of 12 cellos sitting in a studio to play "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" is off the wall, it is but one surprise in one of the most unlikely CDs. Would you expect Sir Simon Rattle to turn up speaking a rap part? You've got to believe it. The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic started performing as a group 30 years ago with ...