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SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bantock: Sappho / Sapphic Poem Susan Bickley (mezzo) Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/May/1999 ] "No praise can be too high for Susan Bickley … [and] Tony Faulkner's stunningly natural engineering complements what is another triumphant addition to Hyperion's ongoing Bantock series" (Gramophone) |
ANDRE MESSAGER / REYNALDO HAHN / ANDRE MESSAGER / MOISES SIMONS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Susan Graham - French Operetta Arias (C'est Ça La Vie, C'est Ça L'amour...) Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) / City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Yves Abel [ Erato / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] Graham made her international début at Covent Garden in 1994, playing Massenet's Chérubin. She has also premièred several roles in contemporary operas, including John Harbison's The Great Gatsby and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking |
BRAHMS / DEBUSSY /BERG /POULENC / MESSAGER / HAHN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 4/Jul/2005 ] Recorded live at the Carnegie Hall, 14th April 2003 Susan Graham - hailed as "an artist to treasure" by the New York Times - rose to the highest echelon of international performers within just a few years of her professional debut. |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Complete opera recorded in 2003) Susan Graham (soprano) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Felicity Palmer (soprano) David Daniels (counter-tenor) / Le Concert d'Astree / Emmanuelle Haim [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Vocally strong and highly atmospheric, this is an exceptional new reading." Recording of the Month Gramophone (February 2002) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Damnation De Faust, Le (Complete) Susan Graham, Thomas Moser, Josa van Dam, Choeurs de l Opara de Lyon / Lyon Opera / Kent Nagano [ Erato / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Jun/2000 ] Magical performance of this major Berlioz work! |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Hector Berlioz - The Complete Works Véronique Gens, Renaud Capuçon, Jose van Dam, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, René Schirrer, Jessye Norman, John Aler, Laurent Naouri, Nicolas Rivenq, etc [ Erato / Warner / Philips / 27 CD Box Set - released 6/Feb/2018 ] This, the first-ever complete Berlioz edition, comprises carefully selected recordings and even includes works completely new to the catalogue. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Sacred Music Vol. 3 (Dixit Dominus RV595; Domine ad adjuvandum RV593; Beatus vir RV598; etc) Susan Gritton, Catrin Wyn-Davies (sops) Catherine Denley (alto) Charles Daniels (ten) Neal Davies, Michael George / The King's Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'Performances and recording quality are exemplary' - BBC Music Magazine |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Choral Works (Incls Mass in the Dorian Mode & Requiem) Susan Gritton (soprano) Mark Milhofer (tenor) Rachel Wheatley (soprano) William Purefoy (countertenor) / Finzi Singers (with Andrew Lumsden, organ) [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2006 ] 'The Finzi Singers, 18-strong, give a fresh and atmospheric, beautifully-moulded performance' The Penguin Complete Guide |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten Abroad: A collection of songs by Benjamin Britten set in Italian, Russian, French & German Susan Gritton (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "What an inspired idea not only to bring together Britten's mature foreign-language songs, but also to have the programme shared by two of Britain's keenest and brightest singers. …delight and spiritual depths go hand in hand." BBC Music 5 STARS |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692) Susan Hemington (sop) Timothy Wilson (counter-tenor) / Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh [ Archive / CD - released 20/Jul/1995 ] "the ensemble as a whole moves effortlessly from discretion and intimacy to the imposing timbral homogeneity of McCreesh's most extrovert Venetian exploits. His tempos are irrepressible and invigorating.' Gramophone 1995 |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Complete Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Susan Kagan and Vassily Primakov (pianos) [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Oct/2022 ] "Well recorded with an excellent booklet by the pianist." Gramophone 'Ries could not have asked for a better pianist and proponent than he has found in Susan Kagan' (Fanfare) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (complete opera with libretto) Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Giacomo Aragall, Ingvar Wixell / National Philharmonic, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set ] "Sutherland is in her element here - and what a wonderful score it is too...Horne has the odd moment of unsteadiness in the early parts of the opera, but she is impressive in the brilliant Brindisi of the last Act" Penguin Guide |
GABRIEL FAURE / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck/Debussy: Melodies Suzanne Danco (soprano) Guido Agosti (piano) [ Testament / CD - released 27/Jul/2006 ] A fine Mélisande, she is completely at home with Debussy's Villon and Bilitis; miraculously, she finds nine different shades of rapture for Fauré's La bonne chanson. |
CHOPIN / LISZT / MUSSORGSKY / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter I Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ BMG / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 -1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Sviatoslav Richter Volume 1 (LP) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Melodiya / LP - released 18/Aug/2014 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Borodin Quartet [ Philips Digital Classics / CD - released 11/Jul/1987 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (with Mozart - Violin Sonata K379) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Oleg Kagan (violin) [ Regis Records / CD - released 16/Aug/2003 ] "..considered by the finest living interpreter of Beethoven's piano works, Alfred Brendel, to be the greatest of them all" - James Murray |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter II Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling [ EMI / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / BMG / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 -1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and repertoire" |
RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN / SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter III Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Warsw Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki [ Meloydia / Philips / EMI / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 -1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast... |
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GRIEG / HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Very Best of Sviatoslav Richter [2 CDs] Sviatoslav Richter with varius orchestras [ EMI Very Best of / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] Sviatoslav Richter is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, renowned for his virtuoso technique and the depth of his interpretations. |
