Search Results: Rare Collectable
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ROSSINI / CIMAROSA / OFFENBACH / LULLY / SAINT-SAENS / PERGOLESI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fernando Corena Fernando Corena (bass) / Orchestra della RTSI, Leopold Casella, Edwin Loehrer, Marc Andreae, etc [ Ermitage / CD - released 1/Mar/1997 ] "Corena - more a bass-baritone than a bass - wasn't a great singer, but he wasn't a dull one either and he is caught here in good form" (MusicWeb April 2006) |
BEETHOVEN / LISZT / MIASKOVSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Grigory Ginsburg Grigory Ginsburg (piano) [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 37 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw I International Chopin Piano Competition. |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: A Self Portrait: The Music Makers / Dream Children / Froissart / etc Jane Irwin (Mezzo) / Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder [ ASV Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] This is the first time in a decade that this music has been recorded, and the different works perfectly illustrate the different aspects of Elgar's personality. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Complete Hyperion Schubert Edition: The Final Year John Mark Ainsley, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Schade (tenors) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 37 / CD - released 20/Sep/2000 ] The final volume in the Schubert Hyperion series |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Sonata in G, D.894 / Sonata in B flat, D.960 (Op.post.) Jorg Demus (fortepiano) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Sep/1995 ] Recorded At - Museum Of Musical History, Stockholm |
BACH / BUSONI / CHOPIN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / STRAUSS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jorge Bolet I Jorge Bolet (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Philips / BMG / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "The first volume of Bolet is a tour de force. Its centerpiece was the Carnegie Hall recital from 1974, and few live recordings match that one for animal excitement." ClassicalNet |
BEETHOVEN / DOHNANYI / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen II Julius Katchen (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen's career ended prematurely when cancer claimed him at age 42. |
ARENSKY / BUSONI / MOZART / POULENC / RACHMANINOFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov Lyubov Bruk, Mark Taimanov (pianos) / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold Katz / Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, Lazar Gozman [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol 15 / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] Taimanov was a top concert pianist in the Soviet Union. With his first wife, Lyubov Bruk, he formed a piano duo, some of whose recordings were included in the Phillips and Steinway series Great Pianists of the 20th Century. |
BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci (complete opera with libretto) Roberta Alexander, Stefan Stoll, Simon Estes, Della Jones / Berlin Radio Chorus, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/1995 ] "The cast is a strong one, dominated by the burnished tone of Roberta Alexander in the title role of the abused daughter. Della Jones as her stepmother Lucrezia is equally fine" BBC Music |
GOUNOD / MASSENET / DONIZETTI / RABAUD / ROSSINI / CILEA / VERDI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Roberto Alagna Roberto Alagna (tenor) / The London Philharmonic, Richard Armstrong [ EMI Music / CD - released 1/Dec/1995 ] Very rare - Now currently unavailable |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Rudolf Serkin Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Adolf Busch Chmaber Players / London Symphony Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [ Deutsche Grammophon / EMI / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 - 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century. |
J.S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Triple Concerto BWV1044; Harpsichord Cto. BWV 1052 Akademie far Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Oct/2002 ] "the gestures bold and the virtuosity glittering." - International Record Review |
ALEXANDER BLECHINGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Blechinger: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto Alexander Blechinger (violin) Igo Koch (piano) / Philharmonic Bohuslav Martinu, ORF Symphonieorchester, Paul Polivnick [ Antes / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Recorded in 1997 |
GERSHWIN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Andre Watts Andre Watts (piano) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol 96 / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] A compilation of works performed by Andre Watts. There is some dazzling yet thoughtful Liszt, including Totentanz, and a spirited performance of the First Piano Concerto. |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited Vol. III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Georgia Engel, Helen Gallagher, Dolores Gray, Lynn Redgrave, Arthur Siegel, Elaine Stritch, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
BOB MERRILL
Merrill: Carnival Anna Maria Alberghetti & James Mitchell / Original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording [ Polydor / CD - released 12/Jul/1989 ] Carnival is a musical, originally produced by David Merrick on Broadway in 1961, with the book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1953 film Lili. |
RALPH BLANE
Blane: Three Wishes for Jamie Anne Jeffreys, John Raitt / Original Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Three Wishes for Jamie is a musical with a book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Ralph Blane. |
MONTY NORMAN
Norman: Songbook Anton Rodgers & Gemma Craven / Original 1979 London Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book and lyrics by Monty Norman and Julian More. The musical tells the improbable life story of a fictional songwriter, born in Liverpool in 1908, who... |
Art Pepper (alto sax), with Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Russ Freeman, Gerald Wiggins (piano), Leroy Vinnegar, Ben Tucker (bass), Shelly Manne (drums), etc
The Return of Art Pepper - The complete Art Pepper Aladdin recordings - Volume One [ Blue Note / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] "Pepper sounds surprisingly good for having been away from recording nearly two years. At this point, he retained the cool and dry tone which would later give way to the torrential playing of his final comeback. The music is vintage West Coast cool,... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Rubinstein I Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ Philips / RCA / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Few soloists have owned composers as definitively as Artur Rubinstein could claim Chopin. Rubinstein's delivery of the composer has struck many speechless for its clarity--assurance at once that this is extraordinary, complex music and that it's... |
CHOPIN / GRIEG / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUMANN / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Rubinstein II Artur Rubinstein (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Symphony of the Air [ Philips / RCA / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] Few soloists have owned composers as definitively as Artur Rubinstein could claim |
LUDWIG van BEEtHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Schnabel Artur Schnabel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Philips / EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "All true Schnabelians will want to snap up this set, if only for the alternative recordings of the late sonatas" Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / MOMPOU / SCUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli II Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) [ Philips / EMI / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (5 January 1920 - 12 June 1995) was an Italian classical pianist. He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Sinfonia Domestica / Tod und Verklarung Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] Very rare and hard to find! |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded live in 2002) BLU-RAY AUDIO Bayerische State Opera / Waltraud Meier, Peter Seiffert, Kurt Rydl, John Tomlinson, Mihoko Fujimura / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ Farao Classics Pure Audio Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2014 ] When Zubin Mehta took over the position of Bavarian General Music Director in 1998, heralding a new era in the history of Germany's most venerable opera orchestra, this first cyclic performance of the Ring was a triumph for conductor and musicians. |
Benny Carter (saxophone), with Oscar Peterson, Gerry Wiggins (piano), Barney Kessel, Jack Marshall (guitar), Buddy Rich (drums), etc
Benny Carter - New Jazz Sounds: The Urbane Sessions [ Verve / CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] The remarkable Benny Carter, who had first recorded 25 years earlier, was not even halfway through with his career when he started making sessions for Verve. This double CD wraps up the complete reissuance of all of his Verve albums. The distinctive... |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens - and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert's D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her serenading awash with fellow female songsters, and harp." |
VERNON DUKE / OGDEN NASH
Duke: Two's Company Bette Davis, Bill Callahan / Original Broadway Cast [ Sepia / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Two's Company is a musical revue with principal sketches by Charles Sherman and Peter DeVries, principal lyrics by Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn, and principal music by Vernon Duke. |
The Bill Perkins Octet (featuring Bud Shank, alto saxophone, and Bill Perkins (tenor Saxophone)
On Stage: The Bill Perkins Octet [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 4/Oct/1999 ] Recorded at the Music Box Theatre in Los Angeles on February 9 (1-4, 9) and February 16 (5-8), 1956. |
COLE PORTER / RICHARD RODGERS
Porter: Aladdin / Rodgers: Cinderella Bob Monkhouse, Doretta Morrow, Elizabeth Larner / Original 1959 London Casts [ Sepia / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] First time on CD and in stereo for this 1960 original London cast recording of Cole Porter's Aladdin. Starring Britain's much loved performer Bob Monkhouse in the title role supported by Broadway's Doretta Morrow as the Princess. |
Bob Wilber (clarinet) and the Tuxedo Big.Band
Benny Goodman Arrangements Volume Two - More Never Recorded [ Arbors / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band from Toulouse, France under the direction of Paul Cheron |
Bob Wilkerson (tenor sax), with Grant Green (guitar), Sonny Clark (piano, Butch Warren (bass), Billy Higgins (drums) & others
Don Wilkerson: The Complete Blue Note Sessions [ Blue Note / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] This CD features Texas tenor man Don Wilkerson working out with such noted Blue Note sidemen as pianist Sonny Clark, guitarist Grant Green, bassist Butch Warren, organist John Patton and drummer Billy Higgins.. |
ROBERT SIMPSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Simpson: Symphony No.9 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Hyperion / CD ] 'As hypnotic as the star-filled night sky … so utterly absorbing is this symphony that I have hardly given a thought to the performance or the recording … which is surely the best possible tribute to all concerned' (Gramophone) |
MICHAEL VALENTI
Valenti: Oh, Brother! Bruce Adler, David-James Carroll / Original 1881 Broadway Cast [ OC Recordings / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] A Musical Comedy in One Act. Book and lyrics by Donald Driver. (Suggested by William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" and the comedies of Plautus.) Music by Michael Valenti. |
VINCENT YOUMANS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vincent Youmans Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Cab Calloway, Blosson Dearie, Gloria De Haven, Maureen Stapleton, Charles Rydell, Dorothy Loudon, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1993 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Music (Incls Poeme Op 25 & Piano Trio in G minor) Chilingirian Quartet with Pascal Devoyon (piano), Philippe Graffin (violin) and Charles Neidich (clarinet) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Aug/2006 ] 'It is truly like hearing it for the first time, at least in this performance, which is far more than just technically superb' (American Record Guide) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Kramerspiegel / Das Schloss am Meere / Enoch Arden Christian Ivaldi (piano) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) Rene Schirrer (speaker) [ Ades / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Christian Ivaldi was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Février and took a Premier Prix in piano performance, as well as in chamber music, counterpoint, and accompaniment. |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUMANN / HAYDN / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Christoph Escenbach Christoph Eschenbach (piano) with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 24 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "Christoph Eschenbach is perhaps fortunate to have secured a niche in this particular pantheon. His career as a solo pianist featured a brilliant exposition but little in the way of a development or recapitulation." Gramophone |
JOHN IRELAND / DEREK BOURGEOIS / PERCY GRAINER / JOSEPH HOROVITZ / GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Masters Volume 2 City of London Wind Ensemble, Geoffrey Brand, with Christian Lindberg (trombone) & City of London Brass Quartet [ LDR / CD - released 24/Jul/1989 ] Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London on July 7th and 8th 1989 |
