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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Music From The Films 'Zoya' and 'The Young Guard' Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, Walter Mnatsakanov [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1996 ] Rare recordings of these Shostakovich Russian film scores. |
JOHN RUTTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rutter: Requiem / Magnificat The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
JOHN RUTTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rutter: Requiem / I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes The Cambridge Singers, The City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
JAMES MacMILLAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories / Missa Brevis / Strathclyde Motets Cappella Nova [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Effortlessly high-floating sopranos, honeyed altos, trumpet-like tenor singing and basses entering so as to give the impression of organ-stops being drawn out" - The Daily Telegraph |
ROBERT FAYRFAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fayrfax: Missa O Quam Glorifica The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood [ ASV Gaudeamus / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] 1995 Gramophone Award Winner |
RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Complete opera with libretto) Carlo Bergonzi, Joan Carlyle, Giuseppe Taddei, Ugo Benelli / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "..long-breathed, expansible tempi and the minimum of exaggeration. Karajan's choice of soloists was clearly aimed to help that...rarely if ever on record has the La Scala Orchestra played with such beautiful feeling for tone-colour." - Penguin Guide |
PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / VERDI / CILEA / MEYERBEER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Bergonzi Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) with Fernando Corena, Libero Arbace & Sylvia Stahlman [ Decca Grandi Voci / CD - released 14/Aug/1994 ] One of the century's defining operatic tenors, Carlo Bergonzi, died after a short illness on 26th July at the age of 90. Celebrated for his interpretations of the great Verdi roles in particular. |
ELGAR / PARRY / WESLEY / COCKER / WHITLOCK / LEMARE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Curley - Organ Imperial Carlo Curley (organ of teh Church of St Mary redcliffe, Bristol)) [ Decca Argo / CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] Carlo Curley was the resident organist at the Alexandra Palace in the 1970s and was the first classical organist to perform a solo organ recital at the White House for President Jimmy Carter. He also played before several European heads of state and... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera with libretto) Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Placido Domingo (tenor), Rosalind Plowright (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) etc... [ Deusche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 20/Sep/1984 ] Il trovatore ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's most successful... |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MANUEL de FALLA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / de Falla: El amor vrujo & Noches en los jardines de Espana Carlos Bonell (guitar), Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, London Philharmonic, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "Carlos Bonell plays the cadenza of the Adagio of the Concierto de Aranjuez most sensitively, and the weight of the orchestral contribution is judged to a nicety throughout." (Gramophone) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (the complete opera recorded in 1994) Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Kurt Moll / Carlos Kleiber (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] "Lightly Handled, well-played Strauss. Strongly recommended." -Gramophone June 2001 |
de BORNELH / deMEAUX / RUDEL / BRULE / Le BARTARD / de VENTADORN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sweet is the song - Music of the Troubadours & Trouveres Catherine Bott (soprano) [ L'Oiseau Lyre / CD - released 1/Oct/1996 ] Catherine Bott is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Her footballing skills, however, are negligible. (Wiki) |
LIONEL MONCKTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs from the shows (Incls 'The Arcadians', 'The Toreador' & 'The Quaker Girl') Catherine Bott (soprano) Richard Suart (baritone) / New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] 'Both Bott and Suart demonstrate a natural aptitude for the material. Ronald Corp conducts the New London Orchestra and Light Opera Chorus with obvious affection. Listening to this CD made me feel ridiculously happy' (Gramophone) |
FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: The complete melodies Catherine Dubosc (soprano) Felicity Lott (soprano) Gilles Cachemaille (baritone) Francois Le Roux (baritone) Urszula Kryger (mezzo) Pascal Roge (pia [ Decca Collectors Edition / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Aug/1998 ] "Consistently refined and idiomatic performances...Lott is a stylist par excellence and her sympathy for and affinity with the songs of Poulenc is long-standing." Penguin Guide, 2011 edition |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gluck: Italian Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin [ Decca / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2002 - Recital |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca / CD - released 4/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Vocal |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Blu-ray) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2012 ] "Bartoli's programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones." Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics / CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2012 ] "Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter" (The Times) |
GIACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Cantatas Vol.2 Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Juan Diego FlArez (tenor) / Filarmonica Della / Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 5/May/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine June 2001 |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / various orchestras & pianists [ Decca / - released 19/Apr/1995 ] Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
