Erich Kunzel - Masters & Commanders - [CD]

The album features music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Master And Commander, Mutiny on the Bounty along with other classic seafaring films by Korngold, Waxman, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, Hans Zimmer, and more.

FROM THE ARTIST

"Cincinnati Pops fans know that I am very fond of sailing, and they are familiar with our popular `Victory At Sea' and `Sailing' albums on the Telarc label," says Kunzel. "Our latest musical adventure, Masters and Commanders, tells all kinds of tales of the high seas and captures on one album film composers of different generations and styles."

ABOUT THE ARTIST

This is the 84th Telarc recording by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. The most recent disc, Russian Nights, was praised in the March 2007 issue of Gramophone as "gorgeously played and sumptuously recorded." Recent Telarc/Pops discs also include The Never-Ending Waltz and Christmastime Is Here, both of which were released in the fall of 2006. In 2005, Telarc released Rósza: Three Choral Suites to great critical acclaim. The recording was a collection of composer Miklos Rósza's rearrangements of his original scores from three big-screen epics: Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and King of Kings. Ken Smith wrote in Gramophone, "One would have to think hard to conceive of a more memorable performance of these works."

In a remarkable 42-year association in Cincinnati, Erich Kunzel's accomplishments are almost too numerous to list. Beginning with his invitation by Max Rudolf in 1965 to conduct the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to being named Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops in 1977, Maestro Kunzel's credits include an unprecedented catalog of 83 Pops recordings on the Telarc label; four consecutive years as Billboard Magazine's Classical Crossover Artist of the Year; eight nationally televised Pops specials on PBS; and national and international appearances with the Pops including 10 Carnegie Hall concerts, two tours to Taiwan, three tours to Japan and a historic tour to China. In December 2006 he received the National Medal Arts at a White House ceremony with President Bush.

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