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RICHARD STRAUSS / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Violin Sonata in E flat / Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) & Krystian Zimerman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "A confident reminder of why Chung is so highly placed in the pantheon of violinists." (MusicWeb May 2015) |
EDWARD ELGAR / FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Piano Quintet / Sospiri / The Farm Yard / Delius: Violin Sonatas 1, 2, & 3 / Cello Sonata Alexander Barantschik, Janice Graham (violins), Israela Margalit (piano), Moray Welsh (cello), and soloists of the London Symphony Orchestra [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2000 ] "The performers are not a named group but, apart from the pianist, are all orchestral players from the LSO. They give a committed reading with a thoughtful approach to this contemplative, dignified work of Elgar's later years. " MusicWeb |
GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (complete opera) Alvy Powell / Marquita Lister / Nicole Cabell / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / John Mauceri [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/Aug/2006 ] First Ever Recording of Gershwin's original 1935 production version. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / La Mer / Nocturnes / etc Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari, with Jan van Reeth (flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] "Rahbari is a sensitive and perceptive Debussian." Gramophone |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Benita Valente (soprano) & Maureen Forrester (contralto) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Ardwyn Singers, BBC Welsh Chorus, Gilbert Kaplan [ Conifer The Kaplan Mahler Edition / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/1998 ] Gilbert Kaplan is a man with a mania and the means to indulge it. A wealthy publisher, he became obsessed with Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, learned to conduct it, hired an orchestra and choruses, and did a quite respectable job with it. |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Symphony No 2 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Recorded in Watford Town Hall, Herts. - April 1980 |
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TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bryn Terfel - At His Very Best [2 CD set] Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) with Rhys Meirion & various choirs [ Metro / 2 CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Here are 2CDs from the celebrated Welsh opera and concert singer Bryn Terfel. At His Very Best takes in recordings from his recent duet album with tenor Rhys Meirion, two of Bryn's earlier albums and a recording of a newly commissioned work performed... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 4 (with bonus disc) Camilla Tilling (soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra. Benjamin Zander [ Telarc Records / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2001 ] Benjamin Zander continues to garner extraordinary worldwide acclaim for his series of Mahler symphonies, with insightful bonus discussion discs, on Telarc. Now he makes his third exciting Mahler recording joined by ethereal soprano Camilla Tilling in... |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: The String Quartets The Lydian String Quartet [ Centaur / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Since its formation in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has embraced the full range of the string quartet repertory with curiosity, virtuosity and dedication to the highest artistic ideals of music making. In its formative years, the quartet studied... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lieder aus der Jugendzeit Charlotte Margiono (soprano) Bernd Weikl (baritone) Friedrich Haider (piano) with Wolfgang Vladar (horn - track 14) [ Nightingale / CD - released 2/Sep/1995 ] The Dutch soprano Charlotte Margiono (Amsterdam, 1955) studied with Aafje Heynis at the conservatory of Arnhem. In 1984 she made her debut with De Nederlandse Opera as a flower girl in Parsifal. Her international opera career started in 1988. |
PARRY / WESLEY / GOSS / CLARKE / MENDELSSOHN / OUSELEY / SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Cathedral Anthems Vol 7 The Choir of Chichester Cathedral, Alan Thurlow. with James Thomas (organ) [ Priory / CD ] Chichester Cathedral Choir sings at many of the services, concerts and other events held here. Performing on roughly 300 occasions each year. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich / Philharmonia & New Philharmonia, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 22/Aug/1998 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "....not likely to be outshone for a long time" (Gramophone) |
GELINEK / LISZT / CZERNY /BEETHOVEN /THALBERG / BIZET / FISCHER / KEMPFF / KATSARIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozartiana - Piano Transcriptions Cyprien Katsaris (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/May/1992 ] Cyprien Katsaris is a French pianist and composer of Cypriot descend who was born in Marseilles on 5 May 1951. He first performed in public on 8 May 1966 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris as a "knight" of a young performer competition. |
HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8, & 13 Danubius Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "I love to write quartets. One could say that it is a mania." Villa-Lobos made this confession, quoted by Pierre Vidal, in Paris in the spring of 1958. He had completed his seventeenth and final quartet the year before. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantata No.147 / Chorales & Choral Preludes for Advent and Christmas / Motets Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. King's College Choir, Cambridge. David Willcocks [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] Original recordings from 1968 & 1972 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht [ EMI Classics / CD - released 27/Oct/2001 ] Frank Peter Zimmermann was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Gary Graffman (piano) / The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Great Performances / CD - released 1/Aug/1964 ] "No finer modern performance of these standard pieces can be found on disc." High Fidelity |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 59 No 2 & Op. 74 "Harp" Gewandhaus Quarett [ NCA New Classical Adventure / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Recorded in June 2002 at the Rathaussaal, Leipzig-Markleeberg |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 130 & Op. 133 'Grosse Fugue' Gewandhaus Quarett [ NCA New Classical Adventure / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Recorded: - Andreaskirche, Berlin, November 1997 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 95 & Op. 127 Gewandhaus Quarett [ NCA New Classical Adventure / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Recorded: May 1996, Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche Leipzig |
