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The Never-Ending Waltz. Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Telarc CD-80668.
Every album has to have a gimmick these days. With Telarc's The Never-Ending Waltz the deal is to string together snippets of famous waltzes into a continuous fifty-eight-minute stream. The music is beautifully played, and if you have an elevator in your house, it will do wonders for the ride.
As I sat listening, I couldn't help thinking of those old "101 Strings Play the Classics" records of the 1950s and 60s, where they would play about one or two minutes of every famous classical piece you could think of. The possibilities are endless, of course. With today's writable CDs and DVDs, a person could take his own favorite Beethoven symphony movements and create his own symphony. Let's see, the first movement of the Sixth, the slow movement of the Fifth, the Scherzo from Seventh, and maybe a big finale with the ending of the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Never-Ending Waltz.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)