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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 59, No. 1 "Rasumovsky" / Bartok: Quartet No. 2 Vogler Quartett [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 30/Jul/1992 ] "..these players' Bartók is among the most musical and lucid I have heard. With a fine recording, the disc is recommended to anyone attracted by this pairing of works." Classical-music.com |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland: Billy the Kid / Rodeo (Suites) (plus Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite) (Rec 1957 & 1960) Morton Gould and his orchestra [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 26/Mar/1980 ] "I would recommend it very highly to anyone interested in these works." (MusicWeb May 2006) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No 9 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 14/Dec/2014 ] "...this live Salzburg Ninth is glorious. There's no sense here of fallible rhythms or a conductor not being able to see the wood for the trees...the Teldex engineers..make the Grosses Festspielhaus sound like one of the great Bruckner halls" Penguin |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Hungarian Sketches Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 45) - BBC MUSIC |
ANTONIN DVOARK / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Walton: Cello Concertos Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ RCA Victor / CD - released 6/Dec/1993 ] Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav into a Jewish family. As a child, he was taught violin and piano by his father. After seeing and hearing the cello, he was determined to become a cellist and was given his first cello when he was seven. |
MILHAUD / RODNEY BENNETT / ROSAURO / MIYOSHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Evelyn Glennie: Rebounds: Concertos for Percussion Evelyn Glennie (percussion) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Daniel [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1992 ] "Percussion virtuosi are among the latest to join the ranks of concertizing soloists. Evelyn Glennie, soloist with leading orchestras in Great Britain, Australia, Japan and the United States, advances the art of percussion playing on her debut album. |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Complete opera recorded in 1976 with libretto) Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, Jean Kraft, Sherrill Milnes / National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine [ RCA Opera Series / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/1977 ] "for Scotto's sake and to a slightly lesser extent for Domingo's, I think I would choose RCA" Gramophone This set is currently unavailable |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jorge Bolet ReDiscovered - Liszt recital Jorge Bolet (piano) [ RCA / BMG / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] Even before he was famous, he was already a legend among piano aficionados. Not until he won a 1985 Gramophone award for a Liszt album did Jorge Bolet, then already 70, graduate from insider tip to household name. |
J. S. BACH / SANZ / SOR / VISEE / WEISS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Julian Bream - Baroque Guitar Julian Bream (guitar) [ Rca Red Seal / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Julian Alexander Bream CBE (15 July 1933 - 14 August 2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public... |
CHARLES KOECHLIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Koechlin: The Jungle Book Johan Botha (tenor) Ralf Lukas (baritone) iris Vermillion (mezzo) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra [ RCA / 2 CD - released 3/Nov/1994 ] CD released in 1994; DDD recordings from June 1993. |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Waltraud Meier sings Wagner Waltraud Meier (mezzo soprano) with Bayerischen Rundfunks, Lorin Maazel [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Mar/1997 ] Song masterpieces performed with magnificent drama by major Wagnerians of our time |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Hungarian Fantasy Gerhard Oppitz (piano) / Bamberger Symphoniker, Roberto Abbado [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/1992 ] "Mr. Oppitz plays with the same virtuosity that I imagine Liszt did while never losing sight of Liszt's macabre sensibility." Review |
ALBAN BERG / GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berg: Lyric Suite / Verdi: String Quartet Vogler Quartett [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] Originally released Feb 2007 |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
MARBECKS CLASSICAL: Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 "Antar" State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Evgeny Svetlanov [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded in July 1993. Metz, France |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Fighting The Waves Martyn Hill (tenor) Jagdish Mistry (violin) Hermann Kretzschmar (piano) / Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 24/May/1996 ] "It's always faintly depressed me how some concert-goers feel compelled to listen to music stony-faced, while some works abound with musical jokes. Antheil's musical pickpocketing is a riot." Gramophone |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anything Goes New Broadway Cast Recording, with Patti LuPone & Howard McGlinn [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] One of the leaders in the trend of big splashy revivals in the late 1980s and early '90s, Lincoln Center's 1987 production of Anything Goes was the perfect evocation of the 1930s, from the period pit band to James McMullan's striking poster art to... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (recorded in 1952) Jascha Heifetz (violin) [ RCA Victor / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/1988 ] "The late Jascha Heifetz was a mature musician of 50 when these recordings were made in 1952." Gramophone |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 Kyoko Takezawa (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / CD - released 1/Jun/1993 ] Born in Ōbu, Aichi, she started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School (1989) where her teacher was Dorothy DeLay. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B Flat Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" / Andante Favori Barry Douglas (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Apr/1988 ] Originally recorded in December 1987 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Serenade Op 25 / Sonata in B flat / Serenade Op 8 James Galway (flute) with Joseph Swensen (violin) Paul Newbauer (viola) Phillip Moll (piano) (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 25/May/1990 ] The living legend of the flute, Sir James Galway, is widely considered the supreme interpreter of classical flute repertoire and a consummate entertainer whose appeal transcends musical boundaries. His virtuosity on the flute is equalled only by his... |
