CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
HANDEL / GLUCK / VIVALDI / MOZART / ROSSINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Bryn Terfel (bass) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Oct/2002 ] "Reaching out to the ears and to the heart, a fine round-up of Bartoli's opera triumphs." (Gramophone) |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera with full libretto recorded in 1992) Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara, Alessandro Corbelli / Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] "All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart W.A.- Don Giovanni (Highlights) Cesare Siepi, Leontyne Price, Birgit Nilsson, Fernando Corena / Vienna Philharmonic, Erich Leinsdorf [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] "Siepi and Corena as man and master make a very fine pair...such easy authority and perfect enunciation...Leontyne Price is splendid as Elvira and Birgt Nilsson is thrillingly dramatic." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies 31, 39, 40, 41 / Schubert: Symphony No. 4 Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Philharmonic, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony are performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Wiener Musikvereinsaal in 1984. Harnoncourt goes back to Schubert's original manuscripts. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi Chamber Concertos Chandos Baroque Players [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] 'As refreshing a package of out-of-the-way Vivaldi as has recently come my way' (The Magic Flute, USA) |
STUCKY / TAVENER / RANDS / ZHOU LONG / CHEN YI /THOMAS / SAMETZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Colours Of Love - New Choral Music Chanticleer [ Teldec / CD - released 24/May/1999 ] Grammy Awards 42nd Awards (1999) Best Chamber Music Recording |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Goldberg Variations Charles Rosen (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Feb/1992 ] Besides establishing himself as one of the most influential musical writers of the 20th century, Charles Rosen remained a world-class pianist of exceptional musical insight and formidable if unostentatious virtuosity. Many of his most highly praised... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Mass in C major / Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] "As in the Missa solemnis, an outstanding contribution is made by the Monteverdi Choir. Splendidly athletic, for instance, are the leaps of a seventh in the fugal "Hosanna". Distinction is certainly a word to use of the record as a whole." (Gramophone) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: String Quartets (complete) Cherubini Quartet [ EMI Triples / 3 CD Box Set - released 14/Oct/2007 ] 'The Cherubini Quartet respond to every expressive innuendo in a performance of great immediacy... They make the music enough their own to hold you captive thoughout.' Gramophone |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Hérodiade (complete opera with libretto) Cheryl Studer, Jose van Dam, Nadine Denize, Thomas Hampson/ Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] During the Belle Époque, Jules Massenet rose to become France's leading composer of opera, as notable for his acute dramatic sense as for the refined sensuality of his music. NOTE: Outer cover has some very minor wear |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings / Percussion and Celesta / etc Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2002 ] The great works from Béla Bartók at a special price |
WALTER MARKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marks: Bajour Chita Rivera, Nancy Dussault & Herschel Bernardi / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker. The title is allegedly a Romani... |
BRYD / TALLIS / DESPREZ / WHYTE / LIGETI / WOOD / HILDEGARD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Illumina Choir of Clare College, Cambridge,Timothy Brown (director) [ Collegium / CD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] "The choir sings with precise diction and radiant tone. This is a beautifully modulated journey" - Sunday Times |
TRADITIONAL / RUTTER / ADES / MENDELSSOHN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols [1999 recording] Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Celebration of Herbert Howells Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ Argo / CD - released 21/Jun/1992 ] Recorded March, 1989 in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / A Boy was Born / Songs from 'Friday Afternoons', Psalm 150 Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Stephen Cleobury. [ Decca / London / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] An ethereal collection of three of Benjamin Britten's most celebrated choral works. The recordings capture the full flavour of various Choristers and Choirs. |
HOWELLS / RADCLIFFE / PARRY / ELGAR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Choral Evensong Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ EMI Classics Encore / CD - released 21/Jun/2008 ] "It goes without saying that the singing is superb: Stephen Cleobury and the choir could probably sing Evensong in their sleep, but they are certainly wide awake here." MusicWeb |
WILLIAM BYRD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Byrd: The Great Service The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, with Richard Farnes (organ) [ EMI / CD - released 20/Dec/1987 ] Recorded: 13.-14 XII. 1985, King's College Chapel, Cambridge. |