Fiedler Encores

Release Date: 9th Mar 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4828792
Label: Eloquence
Length: 78 minutes

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Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

Work length8:39

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1977-06-17
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Excerpt, Smetana: Má Vlast

Work length14:27

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1977-06-17
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

2. Vltava (The Moldau)

Track length14:27

Excerpt, Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8, Op. 46 Nos. 1-8

Work length7:53

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1977-06-17
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

No.1 in C (Presto)

Track length4:23

No.7 in C (Allegro assai)

Track length3:30

Excerpt, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61

Work length5:42

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Wedding March

Track length5:42

Excerpt, Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel

Work length9:19

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Pantomime

Track length9:19

Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

Work length10:31

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Ballet Music

Track length10:31

Chopin: Polonaise No.3 in A, Op.40 No.1 - "Military" - orch. Alexander Glazunov

Work length4:28

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Williams, John: Star Wars

Work length3:47

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Sondheim: A Little Night Music - Arr. Eric Knight

Work length4:39

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Send in the clowns

Track length4:39

Williams, John: Jaws: Main Theme

Work length1:58

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Streisand: Evergreen

Work length4:18

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Boston, MA

Sedaka: Love Will Keep Us Together

Work length3:17

Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Recorded: 1979
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

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One of the last century’s great popularisers of art music, who introduced the names of Mozart and Strauss to millions, Arthur Fiedler recorded for several labels during his half century as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Eloquence has already reissued the Deutsche Grammophon ‘Sleigh Ride’ album (480 6715) of festive-themed treats by Handel, Humperdinck and Tchaikovsky. Here are two Decca albums, reissued and compiled together for the first time on a single, generously filled (79-minute) CD. ‘Fiedler Encores’ was a 1978 album of substantial works somewhat belying its title, and displaying Fiedler’s gifts as a fiery, sympathetic interpreter of core-classical repertoire: included here are the roistering Finlandia of Sibelius and the equally fervent nationalism of Smetana in ‘Vltava’ from Ma vlast. The remainder of the album covers a still wider range of repertoire, encapsulated by the original title of the Decca LP (also recorded in Phase 4 stereo), ‘The Two Sides of Fiedler’. There are charming classical miniatures by Dvorak (two Slavonic Dances), Mendelssohn (the Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and balletic extracts from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Verdi’s Aida.

The disc is rounded off in style by smooth arrangements of film and popular music, the kind of hits that kept the crowds coming to Boston Pops concert, with Fiedler the ever-genial bandmaster, throughout the postwar decades. John Williams’s themes for Spielberg’s Jaws and Star Wars; a swoony instrumental version of Sondheim’s ‘Send in the clowns’; and even songs by Streisand (Evergreen) and Neil Sedaka (Love will keep us together). As Fiedler himself remarked, quoted by Raymond Tuttle in the compilation’s new booklet essay, ‘One thing I have always believed in is music as a universal language, and my years with the Boston Pops reflect the range and scope of this interest as we work our way through a vast repertoire from Country to Classics. this span of musical poles truly accents the universality of music.’ It’s a disc to remind any listener of how and why, by 1963, Fiedler records had already sold over two million copies.

‘Collections of encores do not usually show such originality in compilation as this well-balanced programme … Fiedler invests Finlandia with an imposing sonority.’ Gramophone, June 1978

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