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ELGAR / MAXWELL DAVIES / TURANGE / MacMILLAN / BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britannia (Includes Britten's Requiem & Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Telarc Records / CD - released 2/Nov/2007 ] Donald Runnicles leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Britannia, a new Telarc recording of 20th-century British Isles music from the land of his Scottish heritage. Recorded in Atlanta this past April, the album opens and closes with Edward Elgar's... |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks (sop) Jeffrey Black (baritone) Michael Chance (countertenor) / London Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Sep/1990 ] No other 20th century work delights music-lovers as much as Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". The opening number, "Oh Fortuna", is a huge classical hit in its own right. |
HANDEL / GLUCK / MOZART / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI / BELLINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vesselina Kasarova - A Portrait Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo) / Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 6/Oct/1996 ] Kasarova won the "Female Singer of the Year" in 2003 Echo Klassik. In 2005 she won the Merkur Preis and was named Bavarian Kammersängerin. She was also named Österreichische Kammersängerin in April 2010. (Wiki) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 Nigel Kennedy (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt [ EMI Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Classic 1991 recording of the Brahms from Kennedy |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: The Waltzes Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ RCA Red Seal The Chopin Collection / CD Box Set - released 25/May/1984 ] Many aficionados consider these the definitive performances of the Chopin repertoire. Rubinstein died December 20, 1982, at the age of 95. |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Barber: Quiet City / 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson (with music and songs of Barber) Barbara Hendricks (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra. Michael Tilson Thomas [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] Encore - a specially priced reissued label |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bernstein: Candide Overture / On the Town / Facsimile / Prelude, Fugue and Riffs / etc Barbara Lieberman (piano) / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin / City of Birmingham Symphony, Paavo Javi [ EMI American Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] The American composer, conductor, pianist and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history. |
BACH / GNATTALI / FERREIRA / PIXINGUINHA / VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach In Brazil - Baroque meets Bossa Nova & Samba Camerata Brasil, Henrique Cazes [ Warner Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2015 ] Bach with Brazilian flair: In his famous Bachianas Brasileiras, Brazil's greatest composer and ardent Bach admirer Heitor Villa-Lobos fused elements of the European Baroque with the sensual rhythms of Brazilian folk music. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Johannes-Passion John Mark Ainsley, Stephen Richardson, Catherine Bott, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Stephen Varcoe / Choir Of King's College, Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD/DVD Box Set - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Bach produced his St John Passion in 1724, and it was his first setting of the Passion story. The premiere of the first version took place on Good Friday in Leipzig at the Nicolaikirche. Johann Kuhnau had introduced the tradition of Passion oratorios... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS / MICHAEL GLINKA / EMIL HARTMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven/Glinka/Brahms/Hartmann: Trio in B major / Trio Pathetique, etc Copenhagen Clarinet Trio [ Scandinavian Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2002 ] "Each of the players in the trio plays with ample technical ability and execute their respective parts without incident. As a group, they seem to have a shared vision of the music they are playing and perform with unified articulation and intonation" |
