Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Mancini's Greatest Hits

A Disney Spectacular

Walt Disney favourites

Trumpet Spectacular

Tonight Show trumpeter and bandleader Doc Severinsen proves himself a man for all seasons by joining Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in a spectacular “greatest hits” program of classical and light classical pieces for virtuoso trumpet and orchestra. Trumpet Spectacular is a memorable tour through the trumpet repertoire by one of the most gifted and eclectic musicians working today. The recording includes such demanding warhorses as Bellstedt’s arrangement of Napoli, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ingeniously descriptive Flight of the Bumblebee, and Del Staiger’s arrangement of Carnival of Venice.

Christmas With The Pops: Traditional Christmas Favorites

Pops Play Puccini:Arrangements For Orchestra

For their thirty-second release on the Telarc label, Erich Kunzel and the Cincy Pops made a splendid recording of orchestral transcriptions from Puccini's best-known and most-loved operas, following the example set by Andre Kostelanetz in his recordings from the early "50s. Included are all-instrumental versions of three arias and two duets from La Boheme; selections from Madama Butterfly; duets and arias from Tosca; the lyrical "O mio babbino caro," from Gianni Schicchi ; and "In quelle trine morbide," from Manon Lescaut.

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook For Orchestra

Copland: The Music Of America

In honor of the Gershwin centennial year, conductor Erich Kunzel worked in cooperation with Gershwin scholar Edward Jablonski, the Music Division of the Library of Congress, and John Andrew Johnson at Harvard University to create his own performing edition of the one-act opera Blue Monday, heard here for the first time with its original orchestration by Will H. Vodery. Kunzel's sources included the original piano sketches by Gershwin, the Vodery orchestration, and the original Buddy De Sylva text, all of which are housed in the Library of Congress. The recording of legendary performer Cab Calloway singing "It Ain't Necessarily So," was made about one year before he died. This is the only available performance on disc of him singing a selection from his signature role. Maestro Kunzel also discovered, at the Library of Congress, previously unrecorded dialogue from Act III, Scene I of Porgy and Bess, which leads into the duet between Bess and Serena, "Lonely Boy," also never before recorded. Gershwin discarded the duet for reasons of length (and thus never orchestrated it), substituting the aria, "Summertime," sung here by radiant soprano Harolyn Blackwell, making her Telarc debut. The duet is heard in an orchestration provided by Steven Reinke.

On Broadway

Includes music from Rent, Miss Saigon, Grand Hotel, Titantic and Ragtime

Nice 'n' Easy

Celebrating Sinatra