Post #764702 by Bam Bam on Sun, Jun 5, 2016 7:38 PM

Finally gave the album a listen - thanks to the upload at Tam Tam & Melodie! Its ups & downs are typical for a Ferrante & Teicher album, but I don't think you could say there is any bad music on here by a long shot. Misty and Clair De Lune rather stick out a bit, but they are still excellent arrangements on their own. (Then again, I have always been a sucker for a good French Horn countermelody.) The more exotic tracks almost have an Esquivel vibe to them. Taboo in particular is striking - it almost sounds like they were mimicking a steam boat clicking away in the intro, on the search for some lost, forbidden world. I also love how they had to squeeze in just one more piano effect right at the end of Moon of Manakoora. This is far from your average, schmaltzy piano-and-strings offerings they produced later on in their careers.

On 2006-08-09 09:09, bb moondog wrote:
Ferrante & Teicher are TWIN LIBERACES of the piano

You say that like it's necessarily a bad thing. Both F&T and Liberace were master arrangers and masters of their instrument.