Music Album Review: 'Pops in Love: John Williams & the Boston Pops Orchestra'
Art Design by Dennis Mukai and Peter Nomura (C) 1986 Philips Classics Productions “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night In 1985, Philips Classics Productions, the classical music label of Philips Records (now Decca) released Pops in Love: John Williams & the Boston Pops Orchestra, an 11-track album of light classical works by Gabriel Faure, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and others. The recording was first issued in two formats – vinyl long-play (LP) records and the then-new compact disc (CD) – in the United States. Later editions were on CD and manufactured in what was then West Germany. The West German CDs later made their way to American record stores and online emporiums such as CD Now and Amazon. Millions of people know that the Boston Pops are fun. You can see that from the television shows, hear it on 50 ye...