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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Complete opera recorded in 1967) Alfred Deller, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley,Owen Brannigan, Josephine Veasey, Robert Tear / London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Jan/2002 ] "...Britten again proves himself an ideal interpreter of his own music." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartet No.2 / The Heart's Assurance / Boyhood's End / Songs for Ariel (with Seiber: Quartetto lirico) Amadeus Quartet / Sir Peter Pears (tenor) / Noel Mewton-Wood, Benjamin Britten piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] EMI has issued numerous, and excellent, single-disc releases. One offers another view of three of the song-cycles ("Boyhood's End", "The Heart's Assurance" and "Songs for Ariel"). The tenor is Peter Pears. (ClassicalSource) |
BERLIOZ / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / DVORAK / GOUNOD / MOZART / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anna Netrebko - Opera Arias Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ Deutsche Grammophon First Choice / CD - released 15/Mar/2012 ] "This solo recital, conducted by an old colleague from the Kirov, Gianandea Noseda, makes a fine portrait of a lovely singer." (Gramophone) |
GEORGE LLOYD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus, George Lloyd [ Albany / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] "....another important choral work from this century, perhaps George Lloyd's best work yet: varied in color, elegiac and triumphant, introspective, and celebratory all at the same time" Fanfare |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
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BIZET / CAPUA / DONIZETTI / OFFENBACH / BERNSTEIN / MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Contre-Tenors [The Counter Tenors] Dominique Visse, Andreas Scholl, Pascal Bertin (countertenors) / Orchestre Philhamonique de Camargle, Reinhardt Wagner [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Three countertenors having fun, back in 1995, hot on the heels of the original Three Tenors! Dominique Visse, Andreas Scholl, Pascal Bertin: three distinctive and outstanding voices are showcased singing pieces they would not normally perform... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Clarinet Quintet Jack Brymer (clarinet) / Allegri Quartet / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Solo / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Originally recorded in London in 1964 & 1969 |
BRAHMS / FAURE / FINZI / SCHUBERT / IRELAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jonathan Lemalu - Song Recital Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ EMI Encore / CD - released 7/Jul/2012 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH (Gramophone Magazine August 2002) - "A major new singing talent destined for greatness." (Gramophone) |
MASSENET / TOSELLI / ALBENIZ / DENZA / TCHAIKOVSKY / MORERA / COSTA / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jose Carreras - malinconia d'amore - songs of longing and love Jose Carreras (tenor), with Lorenzo Bavaj (piano) / Ensemble Wien [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Jun/1999 ] In the 2000s Carreras's recording and live concert repertoire had moved largely to art song, Neapolitan songs, the light classical genre, and 'easy-listening'. He has also increasingly performed and recorded with artists from outside the classical... |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / CILEA / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joseph Calleja - Tenor arias Joseph Calleja (tenor) with the orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2004)- Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (May 2004) |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Norma Burrowes, Louis Devos, John Shirley-Quirk / Brighton Festival Chorus, Southend Boy's Choir, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Carmina Burana is one of those pieces that almost always goes well. In fact, you have to work at giving a bad performance. Dorati's reading is one that makes a good case for Orff's masterpiece, even if it doesn't aspire to the heights of Eugen... |
CILEA / PUCCINI / MASSENET / JANACEK / KORNGOLD / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Homage: The Age of the Diva Renee Fleming (soprano) / Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg, Valery Gergiev [ Decca / CD - released 20/Nov/2006 ] 2008 Grammy Award nomination for Best Classical Album |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Renee Fleming sings Handel Renee Fleming (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket [ Decca Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] Gramophone Editors Choice - November 2004 |
LEROY ANDERSON / GEORGE GERSHWIN / LOUIS GOTTSCHALK / SCOTT JOPLIN / MORTON GOULD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: American Piano Classics Stewart Goodyear (piano) Keith Lockhart (piano) William Tritt (piano) / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] "If, like me, you don't seem to have enough music at the classical/jazz interface, then this disc should be high on your wish list. Even if you do, it is still highly recommendable." MusicWeb May 2004 |
NELSON / SPOLIANSKY / HOLLAENDER / GOLDSCHMIDT / TUCHOLSKY / SCHIFFER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlin Cabaret Songs Ute Lemper / The Matrix Ensemble, Robert Ziegler [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 7/Oct/1996 ] The German chanteuse, Ute Lemper has long mined the cabaret songs of the '20s and '30s - this European imported CD compilation features all her best interpretations of numbers from that era in Berlin. |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Fennimore and Gerda (complete opera in German with comprehensive booklet) Peter Coleman-Wright, Judith Howarth, Randi Stene, Aage Haugland, Annette Simonsen, / Danish National Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Aug/1997 ] "Stene sings so beautifully and projects the allure and the predicament of Fennimore so strongly that it might be renamed 'Fennimore: a tragedy':" Gramophone |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (complete opera with libretto) Francois Le Roux, Jose van Dam, Maria Ewing, Christa Ludwig / Wiener Philharmoniker Chor et Orchestre, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "The superb Abbado which is hands-down a first choice among modern sets." MusicWeb |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Quintets, Quartets, Movements & Fragments Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Grumiaux Trio, with William Bennett (Flute) [ Philips Complete Mozart Edition Vol 10 / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/1991 ] .Recordings made 1970-1991 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Quintet in C Op. 29 / Sextet in E flat Op. 71 / Sextete in E flat Op. 81b Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, incls Kenneth Sillito (violin) Andrew Marriner (clarinet) Stephen Orton (violin) Timothy Brown (h [ Philips / CD - released 10/Apr/1993 ] The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) Chamber Ensemble, particularly in their Philips recordings from the 1980s/early 1990s, is generally praised for creating fresh, polished, and elegant interpretations of Beethoven's chamber works.... |
GEORGES BIZET / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Symphony In C / Prokofiev: 'Classical' Symphony / Stravinsky: Pulcinella Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 20/Jun/1987 ] Original recordings from 1968 & 1973 |
ERNEST BLOCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Complete Chamber Works Vol. 1 - The 2 Violin Sonatas Alexis Galperine (violin) / Frederic Aguessy (piano) [ Adda / CD - released 6/Mar/1987 ] "...the Galperine/Aguessy performances set a new standard in recordings of the two magnificent violin sonatas...Especially impressive is the superb Galperine/Augessy performance of the Sonata No. 1 , a passionate, visionary work that ranks with the... |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Volume II [Nos 9, 15, 22, 25, 27] Alfred Brendel (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] "Alfred Brendel's Mozart concerto recordings for Philips remain among the most respected modern interpretations of these works." ClassicsToday |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: The Last Three Piano Sonatas D958, 959, 960 Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] Building a Library First Choice - June 2006 |
ROBERT SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 9, 18, 20, & 21 (Rec 2000) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips / 2 CD ] Gramophone Magazine Disc of the Month - March 2001 |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: 6 String Quartets Op. 64 / "The Seven Last Words", Op. 51 Amadeus Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2009 ] "This is poised and civilised music-making, much of which is familiar and all of it intensely thoughtful and revealing...the playing of slow movements especially seems to anticipate the profundity of Beethoven." The Guardian |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte [Songs without Words] Andras Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 25/May/1988 ] Mendelssohn composed 48 pieces for solo piano in six books under the title Songs without words. These pieces resemble song-melodies with accompaniment and many of them have famous "names" (though most of these "names" were not given by Mendelssohn).... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (Arias and Duets) Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon,Thomas Hampson ,/ Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Rizzi [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Nov/2005 ] "With talent and looks to burn, she has the world at her feet... she is such a singing actress, you thought mainly of Violetta, not of Anna Netrebko." (New York Sun) |
BERLIOZ / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / DVORAK / GOUNOD / MOZART / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anna Netrebko - Opera Arias Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Gianandrea Noseda [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "A rising star shows off her fine voice: the personal touch is still to come." (Gramophone) |
BENNY ANDERSSON / BJORN ULVAEUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: I let the music speak: A celebration of the music of ABBA Anne-Sofie von Otter (soprano) Benny Andersson (piano) / Fleshquartet and others [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] Anne Sofie von Otter's present album was born from her passion for the music of Benny Andersson - a long-standing admiration that dates back more than two decades. |
ANDRE PREVIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Previn: Violin Concerto (with Bernstein-Serenade) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] 2005 Grammy Award Winner: Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubinstein: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op. 10: Nos. 13 - 24 Joseph Banowetz (piano) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 6/Jul/2011 ] "They are, as one would expect, salon pieces, written to amuse and doubtless gently flatter, cast in what would be idioms familiar to the court from Rubinstein's playing." Gramophone |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 161 - BWV 164 Arleen Auger, Edith Wiens, Helen Watts, Adalbert Kraus, Wolfgang Schone / Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmut Rilling [ Hanssler / CD - released 11/Aug/1999 ] Contains full notes and translations |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Violin Sonata / Cello Sonata / Syrinx / Sonata for flute, viola & harp Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Istvan Hajdu (piano) / Maurice Gendron (cello), Jean Francaix (piano) Roger Bourdin (flute) Annie Challan (harp), Colette Le [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 10/Nov/1989 ] The two Debussy sonatas, for violin and for cello, date from late in the composer's life and are wistful pieces, though not without humour. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: String Quartet No 1 / String Quintet No 2 Belcea Quartet, with Thomas Kakuska, viola [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The highly praised Belcea turn to Brahms and their standards are as high as ever" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2004) |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Benjamin Grosvenor: Liszt Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe: suite (with works by Debussy) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / CD - released 4/Aug/1991 ] Original recording from 1965 |
FRANZ WAXMAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Waxman: The Spirit Of St.Louis / Ruth - re-recorded soundtracks Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, with George Shirley (speaker) [ Capriccio / CD ] Two Symphonic poems for narrator and orchestra by James Forsyth |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos.1 & 6 Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] , Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/1991 ] "This is Karajan at his finest..very strongly recommended" (*** Penguin Stereo Guide) |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Manon (Complete opera recorded in 1970) Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Garard Souzay, Gabriel Bacquier./ New Philharmonia Orchestra. Julius Rudel [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Jun/2004 ] "Julius Rudel leads a more-than-complete score, with an additional aria for Manon in the Cours de la Reine scene that Massenet added for another soprano, and the orchestral playing is all you'd want it to be." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: String Quartets no 2, 3, 7, 8 & 12 Borodin Quartet [ Virgin de Virgin / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] "this set provides an inexpensive way of acquiring a nice cross-section of Shostakovich's quartets without having to buy a whole cycle." (Classics Today) |
