Boston Pops Archive

Shadows of Sirius – Music by BRYANT, PUCKETT and MACKEY/ U. of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry F. Junkin – Naxos audio-only Blu-ray
A superb surround recording of contemporary wind band music.

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris – Earl Wild, p. (Rhapsody)/ Boston Pops Orch./ Arthur Fiedler – RCA Victor/ Analogue Prod.
Terrific three-channel hi-res performances, but cheaper and with three more selections on the original RCA SACD.

Play it Again – The Classic Sound of Hollywood – Charles Gerhardt /The National Philharmonic and other orch. and conductors – TCM Masterworks (2 CDs)
A two-CD set of some of the great Charles Gerhardt movie scores and a disc of many others from various sources.

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration, Blu-ray (2013)
Tanglewood at 75 Concert.
Arthur Fiedler = Works of WAGNER; WEBER; DVORAK; MENDELSSOHN – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler – Historic-Recordings
Fiedler had a catholic knowledge of main-stream repertory, and he had the musical means to inspire uniformly smooth performances from his players.