Percy Faith - Bouquet / Bouquet of Love
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Artist: Percy FaithEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-08-31
Music Label: Collectables
Soundtracks:
- Bouquet
- Tenderly
- Laura
- The Song From Moulin Rouge
- Beyond The Sea
- Autumn Leaves
- Speak Low
- Solitude
- Deep Purple
- Intermezzo
- Ebb Tide
- Fascination
- Blue Moon
- Duet
- Easy To Love
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- Soft Lights And Sweet Music
- How High The Moon
- Invitation
- If I Loved You
- Stella By Starlight
Music reviews of Bouquet / Bouquet of Love
Music Review: The "Mother of all CD's of Romantic Music"
Rating: 5 Stars
I have never studied music but during my childhood and adolescence I was grown listening the now old vinyl LP which belonged to my parents who were fans of Lehar, Herbert, Berlin, Porter, Kern, Romberg, Friml, etc. as well as Lecuona, Lara, Barroso, etc., as we are latins. Never before until now, I had found a CD with so many of the best instrumental romantic compositions, as this one by Percy Faith, named "Bouquet/Bouquet of Love". I think that Faith is the best arranger of easy listening music because of the charming harmony of his musical arrangements for his string orchestra. Indeed I was feeling as covered by dreams when listening to such succession of rhythmical melodies:"Speak Low" by Kurt Weill,"Easy to Love" by Porter, and "Soft Lights & Sweet Music" by Berlin, then I was imaginatively moved to a ballroom where I was dancing with Leslie Caron or Cyd Charisse, as in those old movies of the 40's and 50's. Those Faith's arrangements, where it is audible a dialogue between strings, the harp, the piano, the celesta, or carillon which embellish the main theme of the song, are insuperable. The "Intermezzo" by Provost with the lyric romanticism of the violin solo, tugged at my heartstrings. The melodies "Ebb Tide" and "Beyond the Sea" which are counted among the most beautiful romantic compositions and that actually convey the sensation that the listener is in a calm sea surrounded by angels. The same happens with the velvety songs "Tenderly" by Gross, "Blue Moon" by Rodgers and "Bouquet" by Faith, which invites to dance accompained by a lady. Nowadays the celesta or carillon is not frequently played in easy listening compositions and in addition to Faith, I only remember that Otto Cesana (and occasionally Mantovani) used it to play their romantic songs.
Such soft and inspiring musical composition "Invitation" by Webster & Kaper (that I have always think that it is an ethereal prelude almost spectral) where the strings seems to imitate a female choir dialoguing with the piano and the celesta, make my heart tremble; and in the sweet and rhythmical "How High the Moon", the strings also seem to imitate a choir that incites me to be out of this world. All the songs of this CD have perfect and beautiful musical arrangements as only Percy Faith knew how to do, and that get the top with the "Mother of all romantic songs", the inmortal "Stella by Starlight" by Victor Young, where a beautiful profusion of harmony can be noted between the piano, the strings, violin solo, celesta and carillon, that makes me to remember the attractive Gail Russell at the edge of a cliff in a starry night, of the old movie The Uninvited of the 40's. I would like to learn music so I may be able to achieve better understanding of the works of those great composers and arrangers of easy listening instrumentals.
According to many international musicians it is recognized that Stella by Starlight, Ebb Tide,and Intermezzo are among the 20 best romantic songs of the 20th Century and Stella by Starlight among the three on the top. Congratulations for having edited this excellent CD that invited me to dream.
Carlos A. Perez E.,"Arkangel", from Panama.
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