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GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carmen Jones Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Sharon Benson, Damon Evans, Michael Austin, Gregg Baker / Original London Cast [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/1991 ] The first London production from April 1991. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete Operetta) (Rec 1960) Wilma Lipp, Gerda Scheyrer, Christa Ludwig / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Ackermann [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2000 ] "The performance bubbles with affection and good spirits from start to finish. It has top-flight singers, out to enjoy themselves, aided and abetted by perhaps the best recording orchestra and chorus of its time." MusicWeb |
DVORAK / BERNSTEIN / GADE / ELGAR / KODALY / GADE / ALFVEN / SIBELIUS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: World Encores: music from around the world Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Mariss Jansons [ EMI Music / CD - released 7/May/1998 ] "I am delighted to introduce and play these excerpts of music. Although they come from different countries around the world, they unite our souls" Mariss Jansons |
ALBENIZS / GOSS / TARREGA / GRANADOS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Xuefei Yang - 40 Degrees North Xuefei Yang (guitar) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "Aficionados of fine music, irrespective of specific disposition, will not be disappointed by this excellent recording." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
MOZART / MASCAGNI / CHOPIN / VIVALDI / OFFENBACH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Best-Loved Classics Volume 3 Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) Dmitri Alexeev (piano) Placido Domingo (tenor) & others [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/1988 ] The perfect introduction to the world's most popular classics with recordings drawn from the vast EMI catalogue. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2005) Zurich Opera / Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Elena Mosuc, Marcello Giordani, Cheyne Davidson / Franz Welser-Most (cond) [ EMI Classics / DVD - released 26/Mar/2007 ] The Belgian director of this production, Philippe Sireuil, was heavily inspired by Aki Kaurismäki's film version of Henri Murger's novel "Scènes de la vie de Bohème". |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 & 3 St Lawrence String Quartet [ EMI Music / CD - released 10/May/2001 ] "This is an excellent performance, and the recording is good too, an unqualified success after the qualified success of the First Quartet. This is altogether a splendid disc, although the recording by the Borodin Quartet is better still." MusicWeb |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (German Requiem arranged by the composer for two pianos and voices) Susan Gritton (soprano) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (baritone) / King's College Choir / Jose Gallardo and Evgenia Rubinova (pianos) / Stephen Cleobury [ EMI / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "This is, in general, a well produced performance and an excellent recording which can safely be recommended to aficionados and curious newcomers alike." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
PETER ALLEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Allen: The Boy from OZ Todd McKenney & Jill Perryman / Original Cast Recording [ EMI Australia / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] The Boy from Oz is an Australian jukebox musical based on the life of singer and songwriter Peter Allen, featuring songs written by him. The book commissioned for the musical is by Nick Enright. |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Bidu Sayao (soprano) Oscar Ghiglia (guitar) Magda Tagliaferro (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Villa-Lobos played with many local Brazilian street-music bands; he was also influenced by the cinema and Ernesto Nazareth's improvised tangos and polkas. For a time Villa-Lobos became a cellist in a Rio opera company. |
Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins), Instrumental Ensemble, Max Harris
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strictly For The Birds [ EMI Classics For Pleasure / CD - released 17/Dec/1980 ] Original recording made at Abbey Road Studios, London, November 1979 |
