ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Holst: The Cloud Messenger & The Hymn of Jesus Della Jones (mezzo-soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/1990 ] Recorded in St. Jude's Church, London on 4, 5 & 9 June 1990. |
SAMUEL BARBER / CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: Symphony No 1 / Barber: Three Essays for Orchestra Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1992 ] "when you throw in Chandos' richly reverberant and solidly impactful sound, Järvi's coupling is pretty hard to beat." ClassicsToday.com |
FRANZ SCHMIDT / RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schmidt: Symphony No. 1 in E major / R. Strauss: Four Symphonic Interludes from 'Intermezzo' Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1989 ] "The Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi play with a freshness and enthusiasm that are totally persuasive. They almost sound Viennese, and the recordings are very good indeed." Penguin Guide |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Järvi leads both works with his characteristic drive, transmitting his enthusiasm to a Detroit Symphony Orchestra that responds with nimble and highly energetic playing" ClassicsToday |
GRACE WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Williams: The Dancers / Two Choruses / Ave Maris Stella / Six Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Caryl Thomas (harp) / Richard Hickox Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Mar/1999 ] "The recorded sound is excellent. .. I found this a fascinating disc. Anyone interested in fine choral writing and singing - or in exploring a new pathway in music - should seek it out. And I predict we will be hearing more of Grace Williams." A.R.G. |
INGVAR LIDHOLM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lidholm: Greetings from an Old World / Toccata e Canto / Kontakion / Ritornell Elemer Lavotha (cello) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] Recording made in 1991, 1992 & 1993 |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Three Concertos Eric Parkin (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/1993 ] Dyson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. Studied with Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music (he later became director of that institution) and traveled to Germany and Italy on A Mendelssohn Scholarship. |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: Symphony No. 3 / Praeludium Faye Robinson (soprano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] "...beautifully recorded and well documented disc, can be recommended with confidence." BBC Music Magazine |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also Sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / 2 songs Felicity Lott (soprano) / Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Apr/1987 ] '..the skilled Chandos engineering ensures that the orchestral layout is very believable, heard within a natural perspective.' - The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Classic Brass John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band / Geoffrey Brand / Roy Newsome [ Chandos Brass / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] A selection of popular classics arranged for Brass ensemble |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution / 'The Tale of the Stone Flower' [excerpts] Gennady Rozhdestvensky (narrator) / Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] 'It is good to have so sharply original and refreshingly dramatic a piece complete on disc at last, and occasional disc that rises far above its first inspiration." 3 stars, Penguin Guide. |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Geoffrey Tozer (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1995 ] Originally recorded in 1994 |
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chamber Works Vol 1 Haffner Wind Ensemble of London, with Nicholas Daniel - oboe & Kate Hill - flute [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "The Haffner Wind Ensemble is very impressive indeed, both individually as personalities and as a team matching timbres expertly. Their playing is full of spontaneity and conveyed enjoyment" Gramophone |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Symphonies 3 & 4 London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD ] "Intriguing, stimulating, disturbing - this music is all these. Arnold's orchestral palette is all jewelled colours but his treatment is diamond hard. Hickox and the LSO are splendid." Classical-Music.com |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Symphonies 1 & 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Above all, these are real performances without any of the inhibitions of 'studio' recording." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
MAX BRUCH / JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch/Brahms: Violin Concertos Hideko Udagawa (violin) / The London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Originally recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, May, 1989 |
KENNETH LEIGHTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leighton: Orchestral works Vol 3 (Incls 'Symphony No 1') Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Martyn Brabbins [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Shelley proves a marvellously stylish, involving exponent and is backed to the hilt by Brabbins and the BBC NOW. Chandos's sound and balance, too, are beyond reproach." (Gramophone) |
JOSEPH HAYDN / W. A. MOZART / LUIGI BOCCHERINI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Works for Cello & Strings I Musici De Montreal, Yuli Turovsky (cello) [ Chandos / CD - released 21/Jul/1989 ] Recorded: Paroisse La Nativite, La Prairie, Quebec, May 1988 |