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ROBERT SIMPSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Simpson: String Quartet No 9 (32 variations and fugue on a theme of Haydn) Delme String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] 'When it comes to recordings of British string quartets there've been few more impressive achievements than Hyperion's Robert Simpson cycle' (BBC Record Review) |
ROSS EDWARDS / MALCOLM WILLIAMSON / PETER SCULTHORPE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Australian Piano Concertos Dennis Hennning, Malcolm Williamson, Simon Campion, Anthony Fogg (piano) / Various Orchestras [ ABC Classics Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] "Is there such a thing as an Australian Piano Concerto?, asks Dennis Hennig, one of the pianists featured in this anthology. Here are three attempts to provide an answer. In his three-movement concerto, Ross Edwards (born 1943) casts a sweet lyricism... |
KURT ATTERBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Atterberg: Piano Concerto / Rhapsody / Ballade & Passacaglia Love Derwinger (piano) / Hanover Radio Philharmonia Orchetra [ CPO / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] "A feast for unashamed romantics. Grand Romantic, heart-on-sleeve stuff, over the top music, delivered in bravura performances by Derwinger and Rasilainen. Another winner in this splendid CPO Atterberg edition." MusicWeb Recording: Grosser... |
SAMUEL BARBER / AMY BEACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Barber: Symphony No. 1 Op.9 / 'The School for Scandal' Overture / Beach: Symphony in E minor 'Gaelic' Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] "The first movement of the Second Symphony is also magnificently held together. Barber's rather lucid musings are impressively drawn by the Detroit Symphony. Aided by Chandos' detailed and clear recording, loud sections bloom magnificently while the... |
GERSHWIN / RODGERS / BERLIN / HERRMANN / SCHOENBERG / WAXMAN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg in Hollywood Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, John Mauceri [ Decca / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] "Enormously exhilarating. Mauceri certainly has his own ideas about Schoenberg's music, and they are excellently presented by the two Berlin orchestras and by Decca's lean sound." Fanfare, November 1997 (Schoenberg in Hollywood) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Ruckert-Lieder Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) / Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/1990 ] "Ozawa's 1977 Boston recording of Mahler's First Symphony is alert and clear-sighted with a fine youthful sheen to it. It was also very vividly recorded." |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin / etc Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Gerald Moore (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Schubert Masterworks / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] The partnership of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore produced some of the greatest recordings of the 20th century. Their traversal of the Schubert Lieder for male voice is a monument to the art of recording; their interpretations of the three... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1997 ] "This is the young Fischer-Dieskau, unfettered and open-hearted, the voice buoyant over that unmistakable rhythmic pulse." (The Times) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: 21 Lieder [Incls 'The Earl King] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1988 ] "leaves one with the sense of the immortal and inexhaustible beauty" Gramophone Recorded 1958 - 1965 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: 14 Waltzes / Barcarolle / Nocturne / Mazurka Dinu Lipatti (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] "...supremely elegant, tender and direct, beautifully balanced between dancing rhythms and other-worldly spirituality." BBC Music Magazine ***** |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Golden Mountains / Trilogy About Maxim Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Michail Jurowski [ Capriccio / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Original recordings from 1994 |
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BIZET / CAPUA / DONIZETTI / OFFENBACH / BERNSTEIN / MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Contre-Tenors [The Counter Tenors] Dominique Visse, Andreas Scholl, Pascal Bertin (countertenors) / Orchestre Philhamonique de Camargle, Reinhardt Wagner [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Three countertenors having fun, back in 1995, hot on the heels of the original Three Tenors! Dominique Visse, Andreas Scholl, Pascal Bertin: three distinctive and outstanding voices are showcased singing pieces they would not normally perform but... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 / Symphonic Dances Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2019 ] "It scores highly on physical brilliance and Lim follows Argerich's lead in the improvisatory way they set the scene out of which the first movement's dreamy melody emerges." Gramophone |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Messe solennelle Donna Brown (soprano) Jean-Luc Viala (tenor) / Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Philips 50 / CD - released 31/Dec/2000 ] Philips has the honour of presenting the first ever recording made of this adorable Berlioz mass after its rediscovery in 1991 and showing what a lot of absolutely beautiful surprises it has to offer. |
GOTTFRIED HEINRICH STOLZEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stölzel - Two Serenatas Dorathee Mields (sop) Elisabeth graf (alto) Knut Schoch (ten) Ekkehard Abele (bass) / Telmannisches Collegium Michaelstein, Ludger Remy [ CPO / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Recorded: 28 August - 4 September 2004 Recording Venue: Kirche St. Bonifatius, Ditfurt |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs of Robert Schumann, Vol. 07 (Incls 'Vier Duette, Op 34') Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schumann Edition / CD - released 18/Oct/2002 ] Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (Awards Issue 2002) - GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2003 - Vocal |
BOSSI / BRAHMS / HANDEL / KAIHAU / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Australasian Organs Vol 8 Douglas Mews (The Norman & Beard Organ of Wellington Town Hall, New Zealand) [ Priory / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] This fine Norman and Beard Organ stands untouched in Wellington Town Hall in New Zealand. Douglas Mews, the Town hall organist plays an exciting progamme of little recorded music to suit this fabulous instrument. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete), Henry VIII-Incidental Music, Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1993 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel - Opera Arias Vol. 1 Drew Minter (countertenor) / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/May/2001 ] "Endowed with a beautiful voice, a fine technique, and sensitive musicality, Minter demonstrates the full scope of Handel's writing in the Italian style, from the brilliantly dramatic to the lyrically tender." - Stereo Review |
