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VERDI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anna Netrebko - Sempre Libera Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Aug/2004 ] "Few sopranos sing bel canto with the natural beauty she supplies." BBC Music Magazine, September 2006 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (1977 recording) Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Peter Schreier, Jose van Dam / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1977 ] Original recording from 1977 |
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W.A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos 3 K216 & No 5 K219 (rec 1978) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 20/Oct/2004 ] "This is where Mutter's recording career and relationship with DG all began: her first recording alongside Karajan, just one year after the maestro invited the young prodigy to work with him." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
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ANDRE PREVIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Previn: Violin Concerto (with Bernstein-Serenade) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] 2005 Grammy Award Winner: Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) |
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KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Hommage a Penderecki Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Lambert Orkis (piano) Roman Patkolo (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] In these intensely emotional performances, Mutter and Orkis respond to rapt audiences with playing of exceptional intimacy |
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EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Grieg/Chopin/Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Arthur Rubinstein (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "There are new discoveries in the performances… …and the visual aspect is managed with sensitivity and intelligence." - Washington Post |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / FREDERIC CHOPIN
Rubinstein in Concert Artur Rubinstein (piano) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "Rubinstein's superb form is matched by the incredible musical sensitivity of Haitink and the orchestra" New York Times |
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 1977) [CDs plus Blu-ray audio / Dolby Atmos] Teresa Berganza, Placido Domingo, Sherril Milnes, Ilena Cotrubas / Ambrosian Singers / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Jun/2020 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - Still a benchmark recording of the most famous opera of all, with an idiomatic assumption of the title role by Teresa Berganza and the young Plácido Domingo. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: The Overtures Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/Jul/2015 ] "Listening to Abbado's set... really does make you hear these works afresh, and no lover of Beethoven can fail to revel in and learn from it." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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MAURICE RAVEL / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
MARBECKKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Bolero / Rapsodie Espagnole / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/1987 ] Recording: Berlin, Philharmonie, 1985 - 1987 |
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ANTON WEBERN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Webern: Orchestral Works Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon 20th Century Classics / CD - released 25/Jan/2017 ] Original recordings from 1973 and 1974 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fiedler Encores [Includes 'Finlandia', 'Send in the Clowns' & Theme from 'Jaws'] Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2018 ] 'Collections of encores do not usually show such originality in compilation as this well-balanced programme … Fiedler invests Finlandia with an imposing sonority.' Gramophone, June 1978 |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 'The Year 1905' Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] "Nelsons keeps a firm grip on the unfolding of the drama [in the 11th]. And here, as in the Fourth, his Boston Symphony Orchestra responds with supreme virtuosity from every section." BBC Music Orchestral Choice Oct 2018 |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14, 15 & Chamber Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, with Kristine Opolais (soprano), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "No question that this latest release represents the Nelsons cycle at its best." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 202 |
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Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with guests.
Bryn Terfel: Dreams and Songs [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] "A born communicator who loves words as much as music, he has reached out to audiences way beyond the rarefied temples of opera house and recital hall." The Times |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Opera and Oratorio Arias (Judas Maccabaeus, Dettingen Te Deum, Serse +) Bryn Terfel (baritone) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Jun/2000 ] "The singing here incorporates a good deal of embellishment, some of it of Sir Charles Mackerras's devising. He is an excellent conductor for Terfel, sharing with him an appreciation of the zest in Handel." Gramophone |
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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 |
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HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & OTHERS
TÁR Cate Blanchett (piano), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, vocals), Sophie Kauer (cello) / Dresdner Philharmonia, London Contemporary Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir's music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders with snippets of Elgar and Mahler." BBC Music |
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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. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also sprach Zarathustra (with Mahler's Totenfeier) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] Of a recent Zarathustra performance, the Chicago Tribune reviewer commented: "Boulez shaped everything exactly, drawing together each episode with sonorous sweep and a natural ebb and flow of tension". |