Artist: Mantovani
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Other
Classical
Discography:
Y su Sonido
Year: 2001
Tracks: 85
The Very Best of Mantovani CD2
Year:
Tracks: 19
The Very Best of Mantovani (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 19
Great Tunes Of Classic Music
Year:
Tracks: 1
70 Songs
Year:
Tracks: 70
Conductor, composer, fiddler, and piano player Mantovani was one of the well-nigh pop and fecund easy listening artists of all time. His hallmark "cascading strings" (or "tumbling strings") effect gave him an instantly recognizable sound, and his heavy trust on the string section in general helped map out the pattern for much of the short orchestral music that followed in his wake. His repertory did feature film original compositions, just was built principally on profuse adaptations of familiar melodies: TV and moving-picture show themes, record tunes, come out hits (primarily of the MOR miscellanea), classic material, and the like. Starting his career in the '20s, Mantovani was very much a product of the recording historic period: he focused well-nigh wholly on recording, instead of live performance; he was one of the first base artists to use the LP as a primary medium for his releases (as opposed to singles); he was one of the first base popular artists to manipulation stereophonic system recording technology, and probable the starting time to sell o'er a 1000000 records in the stereo system arrange. Fascinated by the studio recording process, he experimented restlessly with miking methods and other technical nuances over the course of an astoundingly large discography -- more than 50 albums from the early '50s until his decease in 1980 (not tally his legion 78 rpm records, geological dating back to the recent '20s). Annunzio Paolo Mantovani was born November 15, 1905, in Venice, Italy. His father was an established fiddler wHO performed at the legendary Milan opera house La Scala under the instruction of Arturo Toscanini. Mantovani himself began piano and music theory lessons at a thomas Young historic period. In 1912, the class touched to England, where Mantovani's father took over guidance of the Covent Garden Orchestra. At age 14, Mantovani switched from piano to fiddle; although the latter became his instrument of option, he would keep up his piano work for the sake of composing. Just two years later on, he made his professional debut with a performance of Anton Bruch's "Violin Concerto No. 1." He joined a touring orchestra and quickly became a featured soloist; by years 20, he was starring the occupier Hotel Metropole Orchestra, and made a few recordings with the grouping in 1928. He gave high profile recitals in 1930 and 1931, performing Saint-Saëns' "Violin Concerto in B Minor" at the latter, and began to make a constitute for himself. Around the like clip, he formed a new group, the Tipica Orchestra, and started a series of regular wireless broadcasts from London's high profile Monseigneur restaurant.Mantovani and the Tipica Orchestra made highly successful appearances all over England, and recorded for Sterno, Regal Zonophone, and Columbia from 1932-1936; two of those records, "Redness Sails in the Sunset" and "Divertimento to the Night," were hits in the U.S. in 1935 and 1936, respectively. Columbia changed the billing on his records to Mantovani & His Orchestra in 1937, and in 1940 he moved over to Decca. By World War II, he was one of the well-nigh pop orchestra leadership in England, and in the '40s he as well prongy out into theater, helping as musical director for a number of productions including several by Noel Coward. Once World War II complete, Mantovani threw his vim into recording, and step by step touched away from live performances all. He experimented with different styles over a series of popular 78s for Decca, and hit upon his signature sound when he connected with organizer Ronald Binge, who'd once played squeeze box in the Tipica Orchestra. Binge was likely the military personnel wHO devised Mantovani's dramatic "cascading strings" effect, which the deuce first employed on the 1951 single "Charmaine," a song originally written 25 years earlier. "Charmaine" was a major hit, marketing over a one thousand thousand copies and definitively snap open the U.S. grocery for Mantovani's music.A steady stream of hit singles followed in the early '50s, including "WY" (1951), "Greensleeves" (1952), the U.K. number i "Vocal From Moulin Rouge" (1953), "Swedish Rhapsody" (1953), "The Lonely Ballerina" (1954), "Toy Shop Ballet" (1956; it helped him win the U.K.'s Ivor Novello Award), and "Around the World" (1957). Additionally, Mantovani arranged, co-wrote, and backed David Whitfield on his U.K. chart-topper (and U.S. Top Ten) "Cara Mia" in 1954. Starting in 1953, he recorded what proved to be a torrent of LPs for Decca and its London subsidiary. The advent of rock & roll stunted his success on the singles charts, merely his albums sold like hotcakes in America. From 1955 to 1972, well over 40 Mantovani albums reached the U.S. pop charts; 27 of those reached the Top 40, and 11 made the Top Ten. His biggest peter Sellers included Christmastide Carols (1953; it re-entered the charts several times), Richard Strauss Waltzes (1953), Song Hits From Theatreland (1955), Photographic film Encores (1957; his lonely number one record album), Gems Forever (1958), Mantovani Stereo Showcase (1960), Italian Republic Mia (1961), and the smash Mantovani Plays Music From "Book of Exodus" and Other Great Themes (1961), a number iI strike that sold over a billion copies and stayed on the charts for nearly a class. His variant of the "Exodus" root word was merely one of several successful recordings (others were by Ferrante & Teicher and jazzman Eddie Harris).As the '60s wore on, Mantovani's make of pleasant, light orchestral music progressively diverged from mainstream tastes in pop, and his graph placings slipped get down and lower (his last ingress was 1972's Annunzio Paolo Mantovani). Still, he stayed dead on target to his own esthetic, only adopting those contemporary trends that he could translate on his possess price. His transcription activities were curtailed subsequently the Decca label was dissolved and absorbed into MCA in 1973, though he continued to compose for several geezerhood later. He passed away on March 30, 1980, in his land home in Tunbridge Wells, England.
