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HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3 / Momoprecace / Fantasia for soprano saxophone / Guitar Concerto / etc Cristina Ortiz / John Harle / Angel Romero / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Double Forte / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] "A qualified recommendation then...if you want value for money you can't really go wrong with this set... the delectable Mômoprecóce on the first disc and much of the music on the second is well worth adding to your collection." MusicWeb |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 4 & 5 / Rondos / Adagio David Oistrakh (violin/conductor) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/1993 ] Original recordings from 1970 &1971 |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Yeomen of the Guard (complete operetta recorded in 1958) Denis Dowling, Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Marjorie Thomas / Glyndebourne Festival, Sir MalcolmSargent [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/1987 ] "This is a very operatic Yeomen which certainly suits the work and gives the soloists an opportunity to shine. Sir Geraint Evans makes a better Jack Point than a Ko-Ko and 'When a wooer goes a-wooing' is very moving." Mel (Marbecks) |
KURT ATTERBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Atterberg: Piano Concerto / Rhapsody / Ballade & Passacaglia Love Derwinger (piano) / Hanover Radio Philharmonia Orchetra [ CPO / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] "A feast for unashamed romantics. Grand Romantic, heart-on-sleeve stuff, over the top music, delivered in bravura performances by Derwinger and Rasilainen. Another winner in this splendid CPO Atterberg edition." MusicWeb Recording: Grosser... |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Paganini: Music for Strings and Guitar The Diaz Trio and Julioan Gray (guitar) [ Dorian / CD - released 1/Nov/1996 ] It is practically impossible to speak of the violin without mentioning Paganini. He represented a veritable milestone in the history of the instrument, in that what came before him is without doubt different from what came after him. Paganini was... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Harold en Italie / Overtures Donald McInnes (viola) / Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ EMI Double Forte / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/1999 ] "This is excellent...The French orchestra plays beautifully for Bernstein...the most interesting performance of the symphony now on record" (Gramophone on Symphonie fantastique) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor / MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] "Recommended. In many ways the coupling of one masterful work with another of wayward charm makes for an ideally complementary partnership." MusicWeb |
EDVARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANZ LISZT / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor / Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russell Stanger / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] Transfered using a customized state of the art Ampex tube tape recorder and an extraordinary analogie to digital converter with 20 bit linearily and a 128 times oversampling/digital filter, in an effort to achieve the finest quality sound. |
AARON COPLAND / GIAN CARLIO MENOTTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland/Menotti: Piano Concertos Earl Wild (piano), The Symphony of the Air, Aaron Copland, Jorge Mester (conds) [ Vanguard Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/1991 ] "The Menotti fizzes and sings with a light touch, and Jorge Mester matches Wild with an accompaniment that sparkles." ClassicalNet |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (complete opera) Ekaterina Kudriavchenko, Arkady Mishenkin, Vladislav Verestnikov / Sveshnikov Russian Academic Choir & Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Andrey Chistiakov [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 100% Russian feast - An all-Russian cast in this very Russian opera of Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the finest Russian opera composers (and still neglected in this field). |
RODRIGO / TARREGA / SEGOVIA / TORROBA / PONCE / AGUIRRE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Unforgettable Classics - Relaxing Guitar Eliot Fisk, Ernesto Bitetti, Julian Byazntin, Angel Romero (guitar) [ EMI / CD - released 1/May/1999 ] The guitar weaves its subtle and irresistible magic in each of the 19 tracks on this collection of relaxing guitar classics. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Die Wanderer Fantasy in C, Op. 15 / Piano Sonata in G, Op. 78 Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) [ Teldec / CD - released 15/Oct/1989 ] In 1964, Leonskaja began studies in the Moscow Conservatory. During her conservatory years she won prizes in the Enescu, Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud and Queen Elizabeth international piano competitions in Bucharest, Paris and Brussels. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 2 'Resurrection' Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hilde Rossl-Majdan / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 21/Aug/2000 ] 1001 Classical recording you must hear before you die (1851-1900) "A magnificent performance with excellent soloists, choir and orchestra. The recording performs miracles in reproducing the multitudinous details of this enormous score" (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs You Love (Incls 'None but the lonely heart' & 'Danny Boy') Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Gerald Moore (piano) [ EMI Great Artists of the Century / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "These Songs You Love are all beautiful ones which, as here in Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's lovely performances, deserve to be adorned with the finest art of the singer." Gramophone |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): 4 letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs) / Arabella (highlights) (Rec 1953/54) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann (Conductor) Lovro von Matacic (Conductor) with Anny Felbermayer (soprano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] (Schwarzkopf) had all the requisite vocal qualities for a first-rate singer of the music of Richard Strauss: radiance, tenderness, vocal colour, always alive to the nuances of the text, and very observant of what the composer demanded. |
HENRYK GORECKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gorecki: Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra / Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka / Good Night Elizabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) Dawn Upshaw (soprano) / London Sinfonietta, David Zinman [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Jul/1995 ] Górecki is an important figure in Polish music, and his Third Symphony is one of the great 'success stories' in all twentieth century symphonic music. This deeply moving quality permeates his other works, but he was also a more ambiguous, interesting... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: St Matthew Passion [highlights] Elly Ameling, Julia Hamari, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich, Walter Berry, Tom Krause / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Munchinger [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] 'Many will be glad to hear Peter Pears's superb performance of the Evangelist' Gramophone, March 1965 |
VIVALDI / ALBINONI / BACH / MARCELLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque Oboe Concertos Emanuel Abbuld (oboe/oboe d'amore) / Strings of Zurich, Howard Griffiths [ Aurophon / CD - released 17/Nov/1991 ] Original recording 1998 |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV1066, BWV1069 / Concerto BWV1057 The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Galleria / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] " These performances represent the peak of Pinnock's achievement as an advocate of authentic performance, with sounds that are clear and refreshing … from first to last there is no routine…Soloists are outstanding." The Penguin Guide. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV1067, BWV1068 / Triple Concerto BWV1044 The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Galleria / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] " These performances represent the peak of Pinnock's achievement as an advocate of authentic performance, with sounds that are clear and refreshing … from first to last there is no routine…Soloists are outstanding." The Penguin Guide. |
