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Chinese name: intoxicating dusk. The best of Mantovani
English name: the. very.best.of. Mantovani <
Version: 32kbps
Release date: 1998
Album Artist: Mantovani
Region: UK
Language: English
Description:
Album Description:
Audiovisual World once called this album R2D4, which gave a very high evaluation. What is R2D4? The British and Americans often simplify TO 2, while For can be written as 4. So what are the meanings of R and D here? R is the abbreviation of Records, and d stands for Die. Obviously, R2D4 was deciphered as "Records To Die For-". Its idea comes from the American fever-level gobbledygook Stereophile, which often makes a list to incite fans to listen to some equipment and records that they think are the best, with the title R2D4.
In fact, the fans who grew up listening to "The Voice of Mantovani" for decades are by no means few. The Mantovani Light Music Orchestra has a smooth and stretched playing style, beautiful melody and gorgeous sound. Although I have never enjoyed his fascinating music, I don't see that I have to die immediately, but it is definitely the biggest regret in my music life! Mantovani is like a waterfall, with a heavy stringed sound like silk, sometimes it flies down to thousands of feet, and sometimes it seems like a vast sea with no waves. The graceful dancing can bring people the joy of soaking in the spring breeze or Chu Qing after the rain, which makes ordinary people fall in love with high-style music unconsciously.
Mantovani, the conductor of this orchestra, was born in a musical family in Venezia in 195. His father was the chief violinist of toscanini. Mantovani studied violin under the guidance of his father since childhood. When he was young, his family moved to England and was admitted to the London Conservatory of Music. At the age of 16, he publicly performed the violin concerto by bruch and Saint-Sang. At the age of 18, he organized a six-member band in Birmingham and gave professional performances in hotels and theaters, mainly playing light music. He was the main violinist of the band. His clear playing skills and beautiful and clear piano sound left people with endless aftertaste, so he had won great prestige as a violinist at that time. In 1933, Mantovani became a British citizen. After that, he reorganized a huge orchestra mainly composed of strings, which became the Mantovani Orchestra.
Mantovani found the sound with special colors from the stringed instruments of the orchestra, and this characteristic string performance became the unique musical feature of his orchestra. Since then, Mantovani has adapted a large number of elegant, popular and harmonious music, and the audience has given his orchestra the nickname "The Voice of Mantovani". Compared with those noisy and enthusiastic modern pop music, Mantovani's music is undoubtedly a refreshing agent. Mantovani's success mainly lies in his full understanding of the expression of the violin and his ability to properly control the orchestra, so that the whole orchestra can express the unique playing style of the violinist very accurately and make the audience fascinated.
In the 195s and 196s, Mantovani's performance became popular in almost every corner of the world, and became a beloved melody. His records sold well for decades, and he became the first musician in the world with stereo LP sales exceeding one million. In China, Mantovani is also the representative of foreign music with the highest broadcasting rate in radio stations around the country after the Cultural Revolution. His lyrical and fresh music rhyme made many China fans appreciate the "outside" music world, thus leaving countless beautiful memories.
As a well-known classical music brand under the Universal Polaroid Group, the British Decca record company that released the version disc may be far from the German DG in scale, history and artist lineup. However, in the eyes of lovers and enthusiasts, Decca recording has become a unique and irreplaceable golden signboard, just like its blue-and-red trademark, with its unique sense of sound stage space, beautiful timbre with first-class transparency, accurate positioning on the spot, and gorgeous natural, brilliant and not harsh range balance. In the lineup of artists, DECA is most proud of Sir georg solti, the exclusive conductor who has signed a contract with DECA for more than 4 years. He not only created The Ring for DECA, but also won the most Grammy awards in the world, and his reputation covers the sky. In addition, there are Pavarotti, the king of C tenor, Di Kanava, the famous pianist Hoskenaki, and Zheng Jinghe, the violinist, and so on. Furthermore, the fascinating light music group Mantovani, American jazz legend Duke Ellington and famous singer Harry Lillis Crosby also left precious recordings for Decca. It can be seen that Decca is the only classical record label in the British Isle that can rival the century-old EMI.
as for recording, Decca has invented a unique microphone array by K.E.Wilkinson, a senior sound recorder, in the embryonic stage of stereo recording in 195s. This "microphone tree", which was later called "The Decca Tree", is mainly composed of a group of microphones located on the left and right sides of the bracket and another microphone perpendicular to an appropriate distance. The "microphone tree" composed of these three microphones stands on the stage, and with the assistance of other microphones, the advantages and disadvantages of single-point and multi-point recording can be compromised to create a detailed, balanced and dynamic recording effect. This recording technology has established the recording style after Decca, with the most balanced range and the deepest and widest sound stage, and the sound quality is colorful and gorgeous. Mantovani Orchestra was the first orchestra to try this recording technique in that year, and then this arrangement was extended to Decca's classical orchestral and opera recording, which achieved great success.
in order to get rid of the pollution of a large number of mediocre and boring commercial pop music and regain a healthy and higher-level music taste, Decca uses advanced digital mixing equipment to rearrange the best tracks of Mantovani's golden age and compile this set of double-CD collections. The cover of this CD is the intoxicating scenery of Man's hometown Venice, Italy. In the yellow sunset, a pair of lovers embraced and kissed in a quiet harbor, which coincided with the theme of the record "intoxicating dusk".
The 19 pieces of music recorded in each CD are not only classics that fans have long been familiar with, but also many songs that have not been recorded in similar selected discs before, and some of them are even less well-known for domestic fans to hear for the first time.
The Very Best of Mantovani (selected album of Mantovani) is a masterpiece of the famous DECCA company in the era of analog recording, with extremely sweet strings and full rosin flavor. Double cd, 38 moving pieces of music, re-produced and released in 1998, should not be difficult to find in the market. Its recording effect inherits the consistent characteristics of Decca: strong bass, rich midrange, smooth treble, and its sense of space and layering is first-class.
the tracks on this disc will never be unfamiliar to you. Such as MOON RI, AROUND THE WORLD, AS TIME GOES BY, SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, AND I LOVE YOU SO, MY WAY, etc., under the magic wand of Mantovani, once again charm your ears and mind. In particular, the first "CHARMAINE" on disc A is a famous work by Mantovani. The music just started, like a waterfall pouring down, carrying a refreshing fragrance and flowing into your barren heart. In the concert of Mantovani in the past, this passage often won prolonged bursts of applause!
The cover of this disc is quite distinctive, such as the abstract painter's dream work: the harbor, birds, watchmen and lovers kissing are all in a dark yellow sunset.
album track:
cd1:
1. Charmaine
2. September Song
3. Stardust
4. Caramia
5. Moon River
6. Around the world
7. isty
9.A Walk In The Black Forest
1.Moulin Rouge
11.La Vie En Rose
12.Almost There
13.As Time Goes By
14.Warsaw Concerto
15.Swed isk Rhapsody
16.Autumn Leaves
17.more
18.goodnight sweetheart
19.Till
CD2:
1.Some Enchanted Evening
2.And I Love Yopu So
3.I Wi sh You Love
4.Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
5.Lonely Ballerina
6.The Legend Of The Glass Mountain
7.Exodus (Main Theme From 'Gold')
8.Big Country
9.Elizabethan Serenade
1.Tenderly
11.The Days Of Wine And Roses
12.The Way You Look Tonight
13.Fool (You Didn't Have To H urt Her)
14.How Are Things In Glocca Morra
15.Londonderry Air
16.Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
17.My Way
18.The Very Thought Of You
19.Tonight (From 'West Side Story')