FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: The Last Quartets Melos Quartett [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Jul/1995 ] |
VIVALDI / CORELLI / BIGAGLIA / BONONCINI / SAMMARTINI / MARCELLO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of the Recorder Michala Petri (recorder) George Malcolm (harpsichord) / Academy of St MArtin in the Fields / Iona Brown [ Decca Bargain Boxes / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2007 ] "Michala Petri's playing is wonderfully fresh whilst George Malcolm proves an equally imaginative partner: both artists embellish with admirable flair and taste. The Philips recording is quite perfectly balanced and wonderfully tangible.' (Penguin) |
PROKOFIEV / LISZT / BEETHOVEN / TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN / DEBUSSY / etc
Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition (Teldec & EMI recordings) Michel Beroff (piano) Boris Berezovsky (piano) Sharom Kam (clarinet) Klaus Konig (tenor) Sylvia McNair (soprano) Sarah Chang (violin), etc / Kurt Masu [ Warner Classics / 70 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Kurt Masur's achievement is defined above all by his relationships with two orchestras exemplifying vastly different traditions. This 70CD set consolidates the entirety of the catalogues that Masur built for EMI and Teldec between 1974 and 2009. |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Misha Dichter - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Misha Dichter (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] It was inevitable, perhaps, that Dichter's debut release for the label would be given over to the Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto, the same work that catapulted the competition's first winner Van Cliburn to international stardom. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St.Matthew Passion Jozef Mukk, Istvan Gati, Judit Nemeth, Ibolya Verebits / Hungarian Festival Choir, Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, Gerza Oberfrank [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set ] "A refreshingly lithe and young sounding Evangelist, Jósef Mukk, leads a team of Hungarian soloists with fresh clear voices" Penguin Guide |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos (Complete) / Rondos K382 & K 386 [12 CD set] Murray Perahia (piano & conductor) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "An indispensible set in every respect." Penguin Guide Rosette Recording / GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
BELLINI / OFFENBACH / MOZART / DELIBES / MONTEVERDI / DONIZETTI / etc
Natalie Dessay: The Opera Singer [33 CD & 19 DVDs] Natalie Dessay, with Francesco Meli, Jose Van Dam, Patricia Petibon, Sara Mingardo, Kathleen Kim, Ian Bostridge, Veronique Gens, and others [ Erato / Warner Classics / 52 CD Box Set - released 26/Feb/2021 ] "Dessay's performance is simply jaw-dropping.' BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2008: Opera [La Sonnambula] |
RICHARD STRAUSS / KROMMER / ANTHEIL / STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Complete Philips Recordings Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Edo de Waart [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 17 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] Issued complete for the first time, including several albums new to CD, is the Philips catalogue of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble - an ensemble that made a defining contribution to Dutch musical life in the 1970s. ... |
VERDI / PAER / ROSSINI / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN / etc
The Peter Maag Edition New Symphony Orchestra of London, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag, with Barry Tuckwell (horn) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 20 CD Box Set - released 5/Feb/2021 ] Newly compiled for the first time, the Decca career of a pre-eminent Mozart conductor, complemented by his recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster. |
W. A. MOZART / SCHOENBERG / SCHUBERT / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / DANZI / etc
New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists - The Decca Recordings New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Postcards from Vienna: drawn largely from the supreme players of the Wiener Philharmoniker, collected here are the Decca recordings of Viennese chamber music ensembles, including the New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists, Wiener Waldhornverein, etc |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Vol. 1 BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor & narrator) [ C Major Unitel Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 16/Dec/2018 ] Young People's Concerts Vol.1 comprises 17 episodes of the legendary series, which remains unmatched until today. 'Leonard Bernstein did this better than anyone. He was brilliant - as a musician and as an ambassador for music' (Whoopie... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Vol. 2 BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor & narrator) [ C Major Unitel Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 1/Jul/2019 ] 'There had never been a communicator about music with anywhere near Bernstein's brilliance, humour, energy, reach and importance' - New York Times. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Complete Symphonies Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo),etc / New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition / 11 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2012 ] "Thanks to a very clear and well-balanced recording, every subtlety of scoring, especially some of the lower strings's counterpoint, comes through as the conductor intended." (Gramophone on Symphony No 5) |
ANNE-LOUISE BRILLON de JOUY / HELENE de MONTGEROULT / CLARA SCHUMANN / FLORENCE PRICE / AGATHE BACKER GRONDAHL / etc
Three Centuries of Female Composers Nicolas Horvath; Alexander Kostritsa; Sara Aimee Smiseth; Alexandra Oehler; Giorgio Koukl; Tanya Ekanayaka; Ishimoto Hiroko [ Grand Piano / 10 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Ranging from the 18th century to the music of our time, this collection of critically acclaimed recordings explores the significant contribution to solo piano repertoire made by a wide variety of women composers. |
RAVEL / BERLIOZ / HONEGGER / ROUSSEL / BEETHOVEN / BLOCH / etc
Charles Munch - The Complete Warner Classics Recordings Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano) André Navarra (cello) Alfred Cortot (piano) Denise Soriano (violin) Pierre Bernac (baritone) Charles Munch (cond) [ Warner Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Prominent in the musical evolution of 20th century France, Charles Munch (1891-1968) also spent 13 epoch-making years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This collection assembles newly-remastered versions all the recordings he made for EMI and Erato... |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Great Wagner Singers [6 CD set] Hans Hotter, Gwyneth Jones, Sieglinde Wagner, Gundula Janowitz, Lauritz Melchior, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Astrid Varnay, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2013 ] "They don't make Wagner singers like that anymore" - "There has never since been a Heldentenor to match Lauritz Melchior". |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Lieder / Scnes from Goethe's Faust Olaf Bar, Dame Janet Baker, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Juliane Banse, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hampson, etc [ EMI Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Celebrating Robert Schumann's 200th Anniversary with four CD sets from EMI's catalogue performed by many of the world's leading artists, orchestras and conductors. |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glazunov: Symphonies [complete] Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2013 ] A close friend of Rimsky‐Korsakov who helped to complete many of Borodin's works and who later became Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Glazunov is one of those composers whose name repeatedly crops us but whose music still remains... |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty Op 66 (complete ballet) The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Ermler [ Conifer / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1990 ] "The orchestra respond idiomatically to Tchaikovsky dance music and with obvious familiarity and love. Ermler has a natural feeling for springing rhythms and moulding rubato persuasively." (Gramophone) |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Symphonies (Complete) / Dances Ireland National Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 29/Oct/2021 ] "These performances have the composer's imprimatur (he was present at the recording sessions) and can be cordially recommended." Penguin Guide |