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