Disk 1 z 21
Under the Double Eagle
1 Josef Franz Wagner: Original Version
Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 in G, Op.39, No.4
2 Edward Elgar: Original Version
3 Edward Elgar: Original Version
4 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Coronation March
5 William Walton: Orb And Sceptre
Strike Up the Band
6 George & Ira Gershwin: Original Version
7 William Christopher Handy: St. Louis Blues March
Midway
8 John Williams: March (Original Version)
The Music Man
9 Meredith Willson: Seventy-Six Trombones (Original Version)
10 South Rampart Street Parade
11 Conquest
Disk 2 z 21
Superman
1 John Williams: March (Original Version)
2 John Williams: Love Theme (Original Version)
The Empire Strikes Back
3 John Williams: The Asteroid Field (Original Version)
4 John Williams: Yoda's Theme (Original Version)
5 John Williams: The Imperial March (Original Version)
Star Wars
6 John Williams: Main Title (Original Version)
7 John Williams: Princess Leia's Theme (Original Version)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - Suite
8 John Williams: Original Version
Disk 3 z 21
That's Entertainment
1 Arthur Schwarz: Arr. Richard Hayman
Fiddler on the Roof
2 If I were a Rich Man (Adapted by John Williams)
A Little Night Music
3 Stephen Sondheim: Night Waltz (arr. Jonathan Tunick)
Lover
4 Richard Rodgers: Arr. Leroy Anderson as "Richard Rogers Waltzes"
A Chorus line
5 Marvin Hamlisch: One (Arr. Ralph Burns)
Gigi
6 Frederick Loewe: The Night they invented Champagne (Arr. Ralph Burns)
Disk 4 z 21
We wish you a Merry Christmas
1 Anonymous: Arr. Arthur Harris
2 The Traditional: Christmas Festival
3 Alfred Burt: A Christmas Greeting
4 Jule Styne: Holiday Cheer - Medley
A Christmas Carol
5 Charles Ives: Original Version
6 Anonymous: Carol Of The Drum
The twelve days of Christmas
7 Arr. Billy May
Disk 5 z 21
1 Dimitri Kabalewsky: Overture Colas Breugnon, Op. 24
Boccaccio
2 Overture (Original Version)
The Bronze Horse Le cheval de bronze
3 Overture (Original Version)
Overture Russlan and Ludmilla
4 Michael Glinka: Original Version
5 John Williams: The Cowboys: Overture
L'italiana in Algeri
6 Gioacchino Rossini: Overture (Original Version)
7 Leonard Bernstein: Overture Candide
Disk 6 z 21
E.T.
1 Flying Theme (Original Version)
2 Vangelis: Chariots Of Fire: Main Theme
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3 John Williams: March (Original Version)
Yes, Giorgio
4 John Williams: If we were in love (Original Version)
5 Main Theme (From "New York, New York")
6 Max Steiner: Tara's Theme (From "Gone With The Wind")
Over The Rainbow From: The Wizard of Oz
7 Harold Arlen: Original Version
8 Singin' In The Rain
9 Dimitri Tiomkin: Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
10 The Trolley Song (From "Meet Me In St. Louis")
Disk 7 z 21
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176
1 Richard Strauss: Original Version
E.T.
2 Adventures on Earth (Original Version)
Alien
3 Jerry Goldsmith: Closing Title (Arr. Jerry Goldsmith)
Star Trek - The Television Show
4 Alexander Courage: Arr. A. Courage
Battlestar Galactica: Main Title
5 Arr. Stu Philips
Star Trek: Main Title
6 Arr. Jerry Goldsmith
Twilight Zone
7 Marius Constant: Theme and Variations (Arr. Stu Philips)
Return of the Jedi
8 John Williams: Parade of the Ewoks (Original Version)
9 John Williams: Luke and Leia Theme (Original Version)
10 John Williams: Jabba the Hutt (Original Version)
11 John Williams: The Forest Battle (Original Version)
Disk 8 z 21
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
1 Serge Prokofieff: Narration in English/Text adapted by Larry Gelbart
Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a
2 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 1. Miniature Overture (Original Version)
3 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2a. March (Original Version)
4 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2b. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (Original Version)
5 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2c. Russian Dance Trepak (Original Version)
6 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2d. Arabian Dance Coffee (Original Version)
7 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2e. Chinese Dance Tea (Original Version)
8 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 2f. Dance of the Reed-Pipes Mirlitons (Original Version)
9 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: 3. Waltz Of The Flowers (Original Version)
Disk 9 z 21
1 Richard Rodgers: Falling In Love With Love (From "The Boys From Syracuse")
In The Still of the Night "Rosalie"
2 Cole Porter: arr. Reisman
Spring is here
3 Richard Rodgers: arr. Reisman
4 Jerome Kern: I'm Old Fashioned (From "You Were Never Lovelier")
5 Harold Arlen: A Sleepin' Bee (From "House Of Flowers")
6 Cole Porter: I Love Paris (From "Can-Can")
7 Jerome Kern: The Song Is You (From "Music In The Air")
8 Cole Porter: I Love You (From "Mexican Hayride")
Love Is Here To Stay - From: Goldwyn Follies
9 George & Ira Gershwin: Original Version
Very Warm for May
10 Jerome Kern: All the Things you are (Arr. Hyman)
11 Goldwyn Follies: Love Walked In (From "Goldwyn Follies")
With a Song in my Heart
12 Richard Rodgers: arr. Courage
Disk 10 z 21
Opus One
1 Sy Oliver: Original Version
Begin the Beguine
2 Original Version
3 Frankie Carle: Sunrise Serenade
4 Julian Dash: Tuxedo Junction
5 Satin Doll
6 Joseph C. Garland: In The Mood
Sing, Sing, Sing
7 Louis Prima: Original Version
8 Stompin' At The Savoy
Moonlight Serenade
9 Glenn Miller: Original Version
A String of Pearls
10 Original Version
11 Eric Coates: By The Sleepy Lagoon
12 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: Song Of India
13 Claude Thornhill: Snowfall
14 John Williams: Swing, Swing, Swing
Disk 11 z 21
Fanfare for the Common Man
1 Aaron Copland: Original Version
2 John Williams: America, The Dream Goes On
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
3 Anonymous: Attributed to W. Steffe/Arranged by P. Wilhousky
4 Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land
America The Beautiful
5 Samuel Augustus Ward: Original Version
Rodeo
6 4. Hoe-Down (Original Version)
7 Morton Gould: American Salute
On the Town
8 New York, New York (Original Version)
9 Anonymous: When The Saints Go Marchin' In
10 Anonymous: Prayer Of Thanksgiving
Disk 12 z 21
1 Irving Berlin: There's No Business Like Showbusiness
A Chorus line
2 Marvin Hamlisch: Overture (Arr. Marvin Hamlisch)
Here you come again
3 Barry Mann: Arr. Don Sebesky
4 Sophisticated Ladies
Cats
5 Memory (Arr. Eric Knight)
6 Irving Berlin: A Salute To Fred Astaire
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
7 Richard Rodgers: Arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Disk 13 z 21
West Side Story
1 Leonard Bernstein: Selection (Original Version)
From Mass: Simple Song
2 Leonard Bernstein: Original Version
On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
3 1. The great lover Allegro pesante (Original Version)
4 2. Lonely town: Pas de deux Andante sostenuto (Original Version)
5 3. Times Square: 1944 Allegro (Original Version)
8 Divertimentos for Orchestra
6 Leonard Bernstein: 1. Sennets and Tuckets Allegro non troppo, ma con brio (Original Version)
7 Leonard Bernstein: 2. Waltz Allegretto, con grazia (Original Version)
8 Leonard Bernstein: 3. Mazurka Mesto Molto moderato (Original Version)
9 Leonard Bernstein: 4. Samba Allegro giusto (Original Version)
10 Leonard Bernstein: 5. Turkey Trot Allegretto, ben misurato (Original Version)
11 Leonard Bernstein: 6. Sphinxes Adagio lugubre (Original Version)
12 Leonard Bernstein: 7. Blues Slow blues tempo (Original Version)
13 Leonard Bernstein: 8. March: "the Bso Forever" Andante In Memoriam - Doppio Movimento Alla Marcia (Original Version)
14 Leonard Bernstein: From Wonderful Town: Selection
Disk 14 z 21
Pavane, Op. 50
1 Original Version
Suite bergamasque, L. 75
2 Clair de lune (arr.Henri Pierre Edouard Moutonb1917&Walter Piston1894-1976)
Adagio in G Minor for Organ and Strings Formerly Attrib. Albinoni
3 Tomaso Albinoni: Original Version
Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125
4 Camille Saint-Saens: Le Cygne (Original Version)
Gymnopédie No.1
5 Erik Satie: orch. Debussy (Original Version)
String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11
6 II. Andante cantabile (Original Version)
La fille aux cheveux de lin
7 Claude Debussy: Arr. Jerome Cohen
Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
8 Maurice Ravel: Original Version
Gymnopédie No.2
9 Erik Satie: Original Version
Canon and Gigue in D Major, P. 37
10 Johann Pachelbel: Arr. Robert Bockholt
Fantasia on Greensleeves
11 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Original Version
Disk 15 z 21
The Planets, Op.32
1 Gustav Holst: 1. Mars, the Bringer of War (Original Version)
2 Gustav Holst: 2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace (Original Version)
3 Gustav Holst: 3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger (Original Version)
4 Gustav Holst: 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Original Version)
5 Gustav Holst: 5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (Original Version)
6 Gustav Holst: 6. Uranus, the Magician (Original Version)
7 Gustav Holst: 7. Neptune, the Mystic (Original Version)
Disk 16 z 21
Those Were The Days
1 Gene Raskin: Arr. Glenn Osser
Never on Sunday
2 Mános Hadjidákis: Arr. Richard Hayman
More from "Mondo Cane"
3 Arr. Richard Hayman
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
4 Jimmy Webb: Arr. Richard Hayman
The Girl from Ipanema
5 Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim: Arr. Patrick Hollenbeck
From Summer of '42: The summer knows
6 Arr. Eric Knight
Die Dreigroschenoper
7 Mack the Knife (Arr. Jack Mason)
8 Georges Auric: Where Is Your Heart (From "Moulin Rouge")
Classical Gas
9 Mason Williams: Arr. Glenn Osser
The Pink Panther
10 Henry Mancini: Main Theme (Original Version)
Ebb Tide
11 Robert Maxwell: Arr. Angela Morley
Tijuana Taxi
12 Cy Coleman: Arr. Richard Hayman
Days of Wine and Roses
13 Henry Mancini: Arr. Richard Hayman
A Summer Place
14 Max Steiner: Love Theme (Arr. Lee Holderidge)
15 Alex North: Unchained Melody
Ciribiribin
16 Alberto Pestalozza: Arr. Glenn Osser
Love is a Many Splendoured Thing
17 Sammy Fain: Arr. Angela Morley
Disk 17 z 21
Lover
1 Richard Rodgers: Original Version
2 I Will Wait For You
3 Kurt Weill: My Ship
But Not For Me - From: Girl Crazy
4 Original Version
Falling in Love with Love from "The Boys from Syracuse"
5 Richard Rodgers: Original Version
6 Leonard Bernstein: Lonely Town
Knickerbocker Holiday
7 Kurt Weill: September Song (Original Version)
8 Frederick Loewe: Show Me (From "My Fair Lady")
9 Michel Legrand: Where Is It Written
10 Billy Joel: Just the Way You Are
11 Michel Legrand: Papa, Can You Hear Me? (From "Yentl")
Speak Low
12 Original Version
Lucky To Be Me
13 Leonard Bernstein: Original Version
Disk 18 z 21
1 Richard A. Whiting: Hooray For Hollywood
When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinocchio
2 Leigh Harline: Arr. Morton Stevens
An American Tail
3 James Horner: Somewhere out there (Arr. Glen Osser)
Over The Rainbow From: The Wizard of Oz
4 Harold Arlen: Arr. Morton Stevens
The Witches of Eastwick
5 John Williams: Balloon Sequence - Devil's Dance (Original Version)
Out of Africa
6 John Barry: Love Theme (Original Version)
7 William Clauson: La Bamba
8 David Raksin: The Bad And The Beautiful: Theme
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
9 Irving Berlin: Arr. Sid Ramin
Disk 19 z 21
Mlada
1 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: Procession of the Nobles (Original Version)
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
2 Alexander Borodin: Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens Presto (Arranged by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908)
3 Alexander Borodin: Andantino (Arranged by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908)
4 Alexander Borodin: Allegro (Arranged by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908)
5 Alexander Borodin: Presto (Arranged by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908)
None But The Lonely Heart, Op.6, No.6 Nyet, tolko tot, kto znal
6 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Original Version
The Snow Maiden
7 Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: Danse des Bouffons (Suite)
A Night on the Bare Mountain
8 Modest Mussorgsky: Original Version
Lieutenant Kijé, Symphonic Suite, Op.60
9 4. Troïka (Original Version)
Gayaneh
10 Aram Khachaturian: Dance of the Rose Maidens (Original Version)
11 Aram Khachaturian: Lullaby (Original Version)
12 Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (Original Version)
String Quartet No.2 in D
13 Alexander Borodin: Nocturne - Andante (Arr. For String Orchestra by Sir Malcolm Sargent)
The Golden Age
14 Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Iii. Polka (Original Version)
The Red Poppy
15 Reinhold Gliere: Dance of the Russian Sailors (Original Version)
Disk 20 z 21
An American in Paris
1 George & Ira Gershwin: revised by F. Campbell-Watson
Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Suite
2 George & Ira Gershwin: Arr. R.R. Bennett & A. Courage
3 George & Ira Gershwin: Selections From "Girl Crazy"
Rhapsody in Blue
4 George & Ira Gershwin: Arr. F.Grofé
Disk 21 z 21
1 John Williams: Liberty Fanfare
1941
2 John Williams: March (Original Version)
3 John Williams: Mission Theme: Theme from N.B.C. News
4 John Williams: Olympic Fanfare And Theme
Jaws
5 John Williams: Theme (Original Version)
Jane Eyre
6 John Williams: 1. At Lowood (Original Version)
7 John Williams: 2. To Thornfield (Original Version)
8 John Williams: 3. The return (Original Version)
9 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
10 Frederick Delius: Brigg Fair
Irish tune from County Derry: Danny boy
11 Arr. Percy Aldridge Grainger
Molly on the Shore
12 Percy Grainger: Original Version
Scotland the Brave
13 Anonymous: Arr. P. Hollenbeck
o mark his 90th birthday in 2022, Decca Classics is releasing a 21-CD set of the greatest works by and with John Williams.
Williams is revered as the composer par excellence for some of Hollywood's most beloved film scores. This has somewhat eclipsed another facet of his career that is no less significant: John Williams as a concert conductor. As conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, he legitimized the film music repertoire in the concert hall. He also commissioned new orchestral arrangements of popular classics and, of course, wrote them himself, expanding the orchestra's core classical repertoire. His legacy with the Boston Pops is superbly represented in this box set, which collects albums recorded for Philips from his first decade at the helm of the orchestra.
Rounding out the set is an intimate project with the unforgettable Jessye Norman, as Williams returns to his roots as a pianist, accompanying Norman on songs by Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe and Billy Joel. The Philip Classics recordings are one of the most important testaments to the significance of Williams' tenure with the Boston Pops, and the most comprehensive presentation of the musical skills, interpretive acumen, and stylistic range of the great conductor John Williams.