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FRANZ BERWALD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berwald: Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No. 4 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt [ Decca / CD - released 20/Nov/1993 ] Franz Berwald was a one-off, who only achieved renown in his native Sweden near the end of his life but whose five symphonies (one early, then four numbered, mature works each with an evocative subtitle) absorb influences such as Mendelssohn and... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten at Aldeburgh - Schubert: Piano Duets Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Benjamin Britten (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 10/Jun/2000 ] From the BBC Radio archives! |
ANTONIN DVORAK / CESAR FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A / Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor Sir Clifford Curzon (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jun/1988 ] "The Op. 81 Quintet (in a classic recording with pianist Sir Clifford Curzon) brims over with melodic inspiration." (BBC Music) |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2 / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] "Solti's way with the First Symphony is certainly exciting - some might say excitable...vivid, urgent and exciting." MusicWeb |
ZOLTAN KODALY / BELA BARTOK / LEO WEINER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sir Georg Solti - The Last Recording (Limited Edition Souvenir Booklet) Sir Georg Solti, conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra & Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV [ Decca / CD - released 20/Oct/1998 ] This disc was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Awards for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Choral Performance." A portion of the proceeds from sales of this disc will be given to the Solti Foundation.. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, J S: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069 Stuttgarter Kammerorchester [Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra], Karl Munchinger [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 1/Nov/1986 ] The Four Orchestral Suites on one CD! Immaculate performances by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Karl Munchinger. |
OFFENBACH / DAVID / GRETRY / BALFE / MESSAGER / DELIBES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sumi Jo - Carnival! Sumi Jo (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 15/Sep/1994 ] Jo was born Jo Su-gyeong in Changwon, South Korea. Her mother was an amateur singer and pianist who had been unable to pursue her own professional music studies because of politics in Korea during the 1950s. Determined to provide her daughter with... |
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 |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Honegger: Le Roi David Suzanne Danco, Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Pauline Martin / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] The DECCA ANSERMET LEGACY has been systematically releasing the vast recorded legacy of Ernest Ansermet, a key Decca artist in the 1950s and 1960s. It has become one of the most sought-after and praised of all reissue series. |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Honegger: Symphonies / Le Roi David / Pacific 231 / etc (with Frank Martin - In terra pax) Suzanne Danco, Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Pauline Martin / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "This double CD set is almost worth its cost for the performance of Pacific 231 - one of the most vividly descriptive tone-poems of the twentieth century...Ansermet's is perhaps the finest ever committed to disc: it has a powerful, cumulative effect... |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et Bergamasques Suzanne Danco (soprano), Gerald Souzay (tenor) / L'Union Chorale de la tour de Peilz / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] 'Ansermet's version [of the Requiem] is technically immaculate' … 'sympathetic and stylish performances [of the orchestral works], highly regarded in their day and still sounding well' Penguin Guide |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Sylvia Greenberg, James Bowman, Stephen Roberts / RSO Berlin und Chor, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1984 ] "...in recognition of the stunning range and brilliance of the Decca recording as presented on CD with bass drum at the very start shatteringly real-sounding in its specific focus." Gramophone |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Giordano: Andrea Chenier (complete opera) Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e cora dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Originally recorded 1957 |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera with full libretto) Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming, Ann Murray, Michele Pertusi / London Philhmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1997 ] "It is as finely disciplined as any other Solti performance, the orchestral playing is excellent, and the rhythms are crisp, strong and tautly held. There is a sense of spaciousness to the direction that is unusual these days...But there is certainly... |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Thais (Complete Opera with libretto) Thomas Hampson, Renee Fleming, Giuseppe Sabbatini / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Nov/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Opera |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Choral Masterpieces Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ) Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. David Hill [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] Superbly recorded, "massive" performances (in the main) of music for choir and orchestra by Vaughan Williams and Walton. The thrilling music here - Old hundredth psalm, Coronation Te Deum and Orb and sceptre - contrast well with the more intimate... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6 BWV 825-830 / Italian Concerto BWV 971 / French Overture BWV 831 / Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Trevor Pinnock (harpischord) [ Archiv Trio / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/May/2003 ] "captures every sound (musical and otherwise) of the Ruckers instrument with the utmost fidelityis pure pleasure." Gramophone, 08/1995 reviewing the Goldberg Variations |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Handel Gold Various Artists: Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD - released 9/Mar/2009 ] "This is not really an issue to ponder too much in depth, rather lean back, shut one's eyes and just enjoy. Those who find the repertoire to their liking can rest assured that the performances are fully worthy of the music." (MusicWeb June 2009) |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen (explanation and analysis by Deryck Cooke) Various Artists from the Georg Solti recordings [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "The discourse is riveting; the music examples, many of them specially prepared, are clumsily inserted, but this is still a thoroughly worthwhile acquisition for those who already have recordings of the operas." Penguin Guide |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Urecht Te Deum & Jubilate / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / etc Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, James Bowman, Paul Elliot, Martyn Hill / Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca / 2 CD ] Recording locations: All Saints Church, Tooting, London, December 1977 (Anthem, Ode) St Jude's Church, Hampstead, London, July 1979 (Te Deum & Jubilate, Alceste) |
