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MOZART / FLOTOW / WAGNER / CORNELIUS / J. STRAUSS II / KALMAN / LEHAR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fritz Wunderlich: The Very Best Of Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2003 ] "I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set...one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1988) Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti, Éva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Sherrill Milnes / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 30/May/2008 ] "The best justification for buying this issue is to see and hear Pavarotti nearer to his vocal peak in a role which his strong lyric voice and clear diction is ideally suited" (MusicWeb) |
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 |
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Barber of Seville, The [Il barbiere di Siviglia] complete studio recording of the opera recorded in 1972 Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Hermann Prey, Enzo Dara / Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 21/Jun/2005 ] In the 1970s, the era from which this production emanates, the director Jean Pierre Ponnelle was reaching the height of his powers. In his 1972 production at Milan's La Scala, Ponnelle designed a realistic set that still feels fresh. |
LEOS JANACEK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janacek: Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba (with Shostakovich: 'The Age of Gold' Suite Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Sir Charles Mackerras / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 29/Apr/1991 ] Much as the name Charles Mackerras is rightly associated with Janácek's music, when it comes to the pairing of his two greatest orchestral works, Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba, this recording remains a favourite. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel for the Holidays (Incls 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' & Water Music Suite No 1) Academy of St Martins, English Baroque Soloists, I Musici, Antiqua Musica, etc [ Philips Lifestyle / CD - released 5/Dec/2001 ] Handel makes your party a celebration! |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos: Nos 20 & 23 / 2 Concert Rondos Alfred Brendel (piano) / Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Mozart Collection / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced "some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (arr. for three guitars) Amsterdam Guitar Trio [ Red Red Seal / CD - released 3/Jan/1984 ] Recorded October 1983 in The Old Catholic Church, Utrecht, Netherlands. |
HANDEL / MOZART / BRAHMS / BACH / FAURE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: Wings of a Dove Anthony Way (treble), with Barbara Bonney, Tabitha Watling, Choir of Uppingham School [ Decca / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. Wings of a Dove was originally released in 1997. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano Kristóf Baráti (violin) Klára Würtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2012 ] Sonatas for piano with violin, Beethoven thought of them, and the early set of three Op. 12 does seem to look back towards the early Classical, even late-Baroque emphasis on the multi-voiced part to which the violin adds emphasis or decoration as... |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Bernard Roberts (piano) / Chilingirian String Quartet [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 23/Jun/1994 ] Classics recordings from EMI at budget price |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bernstein conducts Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1. & 2 Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Lukas Foss (piano) / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Recorded in Tel Aviv. October 1978 |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Complete Opera) Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry / London Symphony Orchestra, Istavan Kertesz [ Decca The Classic Sound / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "In 1965 Kertesz set new standards in his version of Bluebeard's Castle with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry, not only in the playing of the LSO at its peak, in the firm... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: 'Elias', Op. 70 / 'Paulus', Op. 36 (Rec 1994) Christine Schafer (soprano) Cornelia Kallisch (alto) / Andreas Schmidt (bass) Czech Philharmonic / Helmuth Rilling [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Is this a Bargain of the Month? That's for the Editor to decide. For my money, this is set fair to be a Bargain of the Year. Urgently recommended." (MusicWeb April 2003) |
BEETHOVEN / SZYMANOWSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / FRANCK / MOZART / LALO / TANEIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les introuvables de David Oistrakh David Oistrakh (violin), with Lev Oborin (piano), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), various orchestras [ EMI Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "For many, Oistrakh remains the violinistic ideal," wrote The Strad magazine in 2019. "His winning combination of tonal sumptuousness, clear interpretative focus, musical humility and effortless technical poise across a broad repertoire remains... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wolfgang Schene, Julia Hamari, Peter Schreier, Tatiana Troyanos / Munchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter [ Deutsche Grammophon Opera House / 4 CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 'Tatiana Troyanos copes marvellously well with Cleopatra's essentially soprano part' (Gramophone) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Golden Mountains / Trilogy About Maxim Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Michail Jurowski [ Capriccio / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Original recordings from 1994 |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Dresden Opera / Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Tomasz Konieczny, Georg Zeppenfeld / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Sep/2017 ] Previously at home in French and Italian lyric tenor roles, Piotr Beczala was expanding his repertory in a direction that many opera fans had long wanted him to explore, while Anna Netrebko was undertaking her first Wagnerian role. |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow, with Norma Burrowes, James Bowman, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd [ EMI Classics For Pleasure / CD - released 24/Sep/1990 ] Purcell's odes for Queen Mary show him at his best. A glorious succession of overtures, choruses, arias and delicious ritornelli display astonishing imagination and ingenuity: whilst overtly celebratory, never far beneath the surface lies the sense... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Blu-ray) Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly [ Accentus Music Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Sep/2014 ] "The playing of Chailly's Gewandhaus Orchestra is unarguably superb and it is fair to say that not even Abbado or Boulez reveal more in the way of instrumental substrata...Mahler's rural interludes glisten in decidedly novel fashion, sounding as much... |
