- Artist:
- John Williams
John Williams: Complete Philips Recordings
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Release date: 12 December 2025
Decca Classics presents a 21-CD edition featuring the greatest works by and with John Williams.
Williams is revered as the composer par excellence for some of Hollywood's most popular film scores. This has somewhat overshadowed 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. In addition, he commissioned new orchestral arrangements of popular classics, wrote his own music, and expanded the orchestra's core classical repertoire.
His legacy with the Boston Pops is brought together in an outstanding way in this box set, which brings together the albums he recorded for Philips during his first decade at the helm of the orchestra. The set is rounded off by a wonderful project with the unforgettable Jessye Norman: Williams returns to his roots as a pianist and accompanies Norman on songs by Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe, and Billy Joel.
The recordings by Philips Classics are one of the most important testimonies to the significance of Williams' work with the Boston Pop. The interpretive acumen and stylistic range of the great conductor John Williams can be experienced in all their beauty in this edition.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
Pops on the March
CD 2
Pops in Space
CD 3
That's Entertainment
CD 4
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
CD 5
Pops Around the World
CD 6
Aisle Seat
CD 7
Out of this World
CD 8
Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Excerpts)
CD 9
With a Song in my Heart
CD 10
Swing, Swing, Swing
CD 11
America - The Dream Goes On
CD 12
On Stage
CD 13
Bernstein by Boston
CD 14
Pops in Love
CD 15
Holst: The Planets
CD 16
Digital Jukebox
CD 17
Luck To Be Me
CD 18
Salute To Hollywood
CD 19
Pops à la Russe
CD 20
Pops By Gershwin
CD 21
By Request
Pops Britannia
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
 