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Title: Classic John Williams non-movie music
Review: If you like John Williams' movie scores and like modern classical music, you will enjoy this CD. If you like his movie music then you *might* enjoy it. The Cello Concerto is particularly entertaining. The music is a great example of the master orchestrator at his best, where he finds invents some good themes and hangs the orchestra around them It's similar in quality to his other "for the concert hall" pieces that I know (particularly his Violin Concerto and Bassoon Concerto). The CD leaves me with one question in my mind: Why wasn't a well-known orchestra used? The name of the orchesta (which I've never heard of) leads me to believe that the composer used an pickup orchesta normally used to record by the studios to record film scores.
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