HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hindegard von Bingen: The Sacred Fire - Atmospheres Heather Lee (soprano), Kim Cunio (lute), Cantillation [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2007 ] The eternal music of medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen is brought together on this album, part of the Atmospheres series from ABC Classics. Featuring a variety of world music instruments as well as singers and spoken tracks, The Sacred Fire is... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano Heinz Holliger (oboe) & Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 1/Jun/1990 ] Late in the 1840s, Schumann entered a chamber music phase. It was, it is said, motivated partly by financial reasons - creating a body of chamber works that could be played by talented amateurs in their own homes. |
C. P. E. BACH / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN / ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Oboe Concertos Heinz Holliger (oboe) Christine Jaccottet (harpsichord) Thomas Demenga (cello) [ Philips / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Recorded at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, October 1987 |
W. A. MOZART / J. C. BACH / J. M. HAYDN /
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chamber music for Oboe and Strings Heinz Holliger (oboe & English horn)) with Antonio Salvatore (violin) Massimo Paris (viola) Vito Paternoster (cello) & Lucio Buccarella (bass) [ Denon Recorded and Pressed in Japan / CD - released 12/Dec/1983 ] Recorded in november 1979, Nippon Columbia Studio 1, Tokyo (JAP). |
ALBINONI / CIMAROSA / LOTTI / MARCELLO / SAMMARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Concerti per Oboe Heinz Holliger (oboe) / I Musici [ Philips / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] Recorded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 7/1986 |
TOMASO ALBINONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Albinoni: 6 Oboe Concertos Heinz Holliger (oboe) Maurice Bourgue (oboe) / I Musici [ Philips Insignia / CD - released 12/Jun/1992 ] This recording features the great oboist Heinz Holliger along with Maurice Bourgue in the double concertos |
J. S. BACH / C. P. E. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Oboe Concertos Heinz Holliger (oboe & oboe d'amore) / Camerata Bern [ Philips / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: La Finta Semplice (complete opera recorded in 1983) Helen Donath, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Holl, Teresa Berganza / Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager(cond) [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "Helen Donath is her usual bright-toned and fluent self and she has a fine trill; Teresa Berganza is lovely too, nuanced as always and still in creamy voice. Light and springy, even more delectable is Jutta-Renate Ihloff in the soubrette role." |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: The Great Masses (D678 & D 950) Helen Donath, Peter Schreier, Ingeborg Springer, Theo Adam, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wolfgagng Sawallisch [ Philips / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Schubert's six masses cover the period 1814-28 and deserve to be much better known than they are at present. |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha (complete opera with libretto) Helen Field, Arthur Davies, Bryn Terfel / Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn [ Argo / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/Nov/2007 ] "The performance is both spirited and sensitive...Bryn Terfel is splendid in his dramatic strength and sharpness of focus" Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs for Courtiers and Cavaliers [recorded 1956 - 1958] Helen Watts (contralto), Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Philomusica of London [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] Three L'Oiseau-Lyre LPs celebrating the art of a much-loved contralto, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time, including material new to CD. |
WALTER BRAUNFELS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Braunfels: Die Vogel [The Birds] (complete opera ) Hellen Kwon, Endrik Wottrich, Michael Kraus, Marita Posselt, Wolfgang Holzmair, Matthias Görne / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Zagrosek's reading and the performances by his cast and orchestra are gripping and more than do justice to this wonderful score. Wottrich and Kraus are impressive in the male leads." ClassicalNet |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Charles Ives - Songs Vol 2 Henry herford (baritone) Robin Bowman (piano) [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Herford and Bowman are adept with the rough-and-tumble of Ives's songs, where the piano is not mere accompanist but a contestant for the limelight." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Horn Concertos Hermann Baumann (horn) / St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman [ Philips / CD - released 14/Jul/1985 ] "(Baumann) produces a broad stream of richly lyrical tone on his wide-bore German instrument... The new performances are warmly expressive and always musical" Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Horn Concertos Hermann Baumann (horn) / St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman [ Philips Laser Line Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/1990 ] "(Baumann) produces a broad stream of richly lyrical tone on his wide-bore German instrument... The new performances are warmly expressive and always musical" Gramophone |
LEOPOLD MOZART / JEAN-JOSEPH MOURET / JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart (L.),Fasch,Mouret: Concerti da caccia Hermann Baumann, Radovan Vlatkovic (horns) / Les Trompes de France, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields [ Philips / CD - released 11/Jan/1986 ] After starting his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer Hermann Baumann switched to horn at the age of 17. He studied with Fritz Huth at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and then played principal horn in various orchestras for 12 years,... |
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / KEISER / GLUCK / TCHAIKOVSKY / KORNGOLD / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Herman Prey - A Life In Song Hermann Prey (baritone) with Sylvia Geszty, Erika Koth, Anneliese Rothenberger, Karl Engel, etc [ EMI Classics Icon / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2011 ] Hermann Prey (11 July 1929 - 22 July 1998) was a German lyric baritone, who was equally at home in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires. His American debut was in November 1952, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy, and his... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (with Saint-Saens: The Carnival of the Animals. Verses by Ogden Nash) Hermoine Gingold (narrator) / Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos) / Vienna Philaharmonic Orchestra, Karl Bohm [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1982 ] KArl Bohm conducts 'Peter and the Wolf' the exciting tale of bravery for children with music by Prokofiev. Also includes the rare Odgen Nash verses for 'The Carnival of the Animals' narrated by Hermoine Gingold. |
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 |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Violin & Voice: Arias and Duets for soprano and bass with Violino Obligato Hilary Hahn (violin), Christine Schäfer (soprano) Matthias Goerne (baritone) / Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 25/Jan/2010 ] "There is something touchingly old-fashioned about this attractive collection of Bach arias that feature the violin, and it has clearly been a labour of love for young violinist Hilary Hahn to draw together friends and colleagues for the project."... |