The Collection

by Ferrante & Teicher

Overview

Although The Collection implies an anthology that might be a best of, or at least cover a wide period of time, it's actually recordings of twin piano solos done in 1983. This includes versions of some of the numbers Ferrante & Teicher had hits with in the early 1960s, like "Exodus" and "Theme from "The Apartment"," and plenty of Broadway themes, movie themes, and standards, like "West Side Story Overture," "Greensleeves," "Chariots of Fire," and "Send in the Clowns." The main thing to worry about in recordings by artists long past their commercial prime that include remakes of old favorites is that they will be encumbered by inappropriately modern arrangements. Fortunately, that turns out not to be the case here; it's just twin-piano. The liner notes contain the mysterious sentence "The genius of this piano-pair is attested to as they incorporate the sounds of 50 studio musicians into specially adapted twin-piano arrangements," but the aural evidence indicates that most or all of the time, it's just Ferrante & Teicher; nobody else. The versions are well-executed and well-recorded, and probably won't disappoint fans of the duo. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	04/21/1998
Label:	Var?Se Vintage / Varese
UPC:	0030206591927
Rank:	47595

Tracks

1. West Side Story Overture
2. Theme from Love Story
3. Chariots of Fire
4. Ol' Man River
5. Greensleeves
6. African Echoes
7. Theme from "The Apartment"
8. Oye Negra
9. Ravel's Bolero
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Malague¿¿a
12. Highlights from Borodin
13. Memory
14. Exodus

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ferrante & Teicher   Primary Artist,Piano
Lou Teicher   Piano
Art Ferrante   Piano

Technical Credits

Scott Smith   Producer
Ferrante & Teicher   Arranger,Producer,Adaptation
Cary E. Mansfield   Producer
Francis Lai   Composer
Ernest Gold   Composer
Lou Teicher   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Carl Sigman   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer
Paul Elmore   Digital Remastering
Art Ferrante   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Vangelis   Composer
Marty Wekser   Producer
Maurice Ravel   Composer
Craig Rettmer   Digital Sequencing
Scott W. Smith   Producer,Remixing,Liner Notes
Charles Williams   Composer
Michael Caprio   Design
T.S. Eliot   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Ernesto Lecuona   Composer
Trevor Nunn   Composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber   Composer