Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color (豆瓣)

表演者: Frank Sinatra
流派: 流行
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2002-01-08
出版者: Capitol
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0724353373825

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　　by Richard Ginell
　　With his comeback secure, Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near 60-person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and a set of 12 commissions from eight composer/arrangers. With the poetry of radio writer
　　Norman Sickel
　　as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upo... (展开全部) 　　by Richard Ginell
　　With his comeback secure, Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near 60-person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and a set of 12 commissions from eight composer/arrangers. With the poetry of radio writer
　　Norman Sickel
　　as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upon, with
　　Victor Young
　　,
　　Jeff Alexander
　　,
　　Alec Wilder
　　, and
　　Nelson Riddle
　　receiving two each, and
　　Billy May
　　,
　　Gordon Jenkins
　　,
　　Elmer Bernstein
　　, and
　　André Previn
　　one apiece. What's bound to be fascinating for the Sinatra buff is to hear some of his famous arrangers operating outside their usual turf -- and there are a few surprises to be heard.
　　Jenkins
　　' "Green" is entirely characteristic of his romantic style, and
　　May
　　's "Purple" suddenly breaks through the opening strings into brassy Afro-Cuban daylight. Yet
　　Riddle
　　's "Gold" is totally unlike him, a dissonant rising crescendo that seems to depict the path of Apollo to midday (or maybe a cop on
　　Respighi
　　's "The Pines of the Appian Way"), while "Orange" adopts a habanera rhythm, then a waltz.
　　Young
　　's "White," the leadoff track, is the most enjoyable of the lot, with a fine tune and sleigh bells conjuring a winter's day, and "Black" has an even more gorgeous melody. Clearly
　　Young
　　's tone poems, coupled that year with his score for Around the World in 80 Days, suggest that he was rising to the peak of his powers after two decades of overwork in the film studios (he passed away later in 1956).
　　Alexander
　　's "Yellow" is too cute, but "Brown" is considerably more attractive; "Gray" and "Blue" find
　　Wilder
　　as wistful as ever but now more monumental and gaunt.
　　Bernstein
　　's "Silver" conjures the mood of
　　Strauss
　　' "Der Rosenkavalier" (the silver rose); and
　　Previn
　　's brash "Red" is the most harmonically daring of the set. The performances are as sure-footed and assured as on Sinatra's
　　Wilder
　　sessions, though without the restless, on-edge quality that marked Sinatra's 1945 conducting debut. Now on CD, this once-rare album certainly casts all of its participants in fascinating new colors.