GERLAD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain (Songs by Gerald Finzi to words of Thomas Hardy) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "You can't go wrong with this recording of these immensely beautiful and brilliantly-crafted songs." (MusicWeb Oct 2010) |
Simian Mobile Disco
MARBECKS RARE: Attack Decay Sustain Release: Limited Edition [ Shock Records / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] This is the debut full-length studio album from Simian Mobile Disco. The limited second disc contains 6 alternative versions and remixes of the album tracks. |
The Chemical Brothers
MARBECKS RARE: Surrender [ Virgin Records / CD - released 17/Jun/1999 ] Combining their rock, electronics and beats with new pop dimension. Vocalists include Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) |
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) |
Graham Brazier
MARBECKS RARE: East of Eden [ Universal Music / CD ] The third solo album from the Hello Sailor frontman. |
James Blake
MARBECKS RARE: James Blake (Repackage With Bonus Disc) [ Polydor Records U.K. / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2011 ] Repackage of the original album plus a 6-track EP 'Enough Thunder', featuring a Bon Iver collaboration and Joni Mitchell cover. |
Luscious Jackson
MARBECKS RARE: Electric Honey [ Grand Royal / Capitol / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Australasian issue. |
Mark de Clive-Lowe
MARBECKS RARE: Tide's Arising [ Antipodean Records / CD - released 15/Mar/2005 ] A veritable smorgasbord of tasty broken soul, fusing nu-jazz, the rhythms of world music and fresh urban grooves into an outstanding, unheralded 21st century flavour. |
Micah P. Hinson
MARBECKS RARE: Micah P. Hinson and The Red Empire Orchestra [ Inertia Music / CD - released 14/Jul/2008 ] "Against such rich, variegated moods, this could well be his best yet."-UNCUT (4 stars). "Contemplative country reveries to ease you gently into that good night."-MOJO. |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: L'Arlesienne (complete incidental music Op 23) (Rec 1985) Orfeon Donostiarra, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ EMI Encore / CD - released 9/Jun/2006 ] L'Arlésienne - the girl from Arles (in Provence) was composed as incidental music to a play by Daudet. Nowadays the play is little-known but Bizet's music has become very familiar from the two orchestral suites. |
Pernice Brothers
MARBECKS RARE: Yours, Mine and Ours [ Spunk / CD - released 12/Sep/2003 ] This is the third album from the much-loved Boston act - a sunny, breezy affair, with elegant melodies that are built for harmonies, superbly sung by Joe Pernice |
Ride
MARBECKS RARE: Tarantula [ Sire / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / 5 Intermezzi Van Cliburn (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Victor Van Cliburn Collectation / CD - released 20/May/1988 ] "Van Cliburn's triumph at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and his unprecedented ticker-tape welcome home was a story that made front pages worldwide. What other pianist has inspired that kind of coverage?" Gramophone |
The Woodentops
MARBECKS RARE: The BBC Sessions [ Renascent / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] |
BRUSSELMANS / SCHOEMAKER / De JONG / ABSIL / ROUSSEL / De BOECK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Flemish Rhapsodies BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra (Brussels), Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 12/Jan/2009 ] There are some interesting similitudes in all these orchestral Rhapsodies - other than the fact that all of them were written in an 8-year span (from Absil 1928 to Roussel 1936), except for August de Boeck's Dahomeyan Rhapsody (1893): they are loud,... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi Chamber Concertos Chandos Baroque Players [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'As refreshing a package of out-of-the-way Vivaldi as has recently come my way' (The Magic Flute, USA) |
The Chieftains
MARBECKS RARE: The Chieftains Collection [ Claddagh / CD - released 20/Nov/1989 ] The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous with... |
Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy
MARBECKS RARE: Wai Notes [ Sea Note / CD - released 12/Jan/2009 ] Wai Notes is the demos for The Letting Go - Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy on acoustic guitar and voice, with vocal harmonies/accompaniment from Faun Fables Dawn McCarthy. Strictly limited edition. |
RICHARD STRAUSS / GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: R. Strauss: String Quartet / Verdi: String Quartet in E minor The Delme Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2004 ] 'An eminently recommendable issue' (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
Editors
MARBECKS RARE: The Back Room [ Universal Music / CD - released 11/Aug/2005 ] "The Editors are moody and magnificent - it's like a heart-broken Chris Martin threw in his lot with Interpol" - NME |