Search Results: Collectable Decca
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 13 Andreas Schiff (piano) Camerata Academica des Mozarteums, Salzburg, Sandor Vagh [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Jan/1990 ] "The Mozart were immaculate performances, played with consummate musicality, using a palette of wonderfully translucent colours." The Guardian on a live performance |
GLUCK / PERGOLESI / HANDEL / HASSE / VIVALDI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Andreas Scholl Andreas Scholl (countertenor) orchestras conducted by Paul Dyer, Paul McCreesh, Sir Roger Norrington and Christophe Rousset [ Decca Records / CD - released 19/May/2003 ] Andreas Scholl has been heralded as the greatest countertenor performing today. |
VERDI / BELLINI / MASSENET / PUCCINI / DONIZETTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu - Arias Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/1996 ] "Gheorghiu displays her Verdian skills, her formidable technique and expressive power pushed to their limits but ultimately convincing." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu: Verdi Heroines Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Muti [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/2000 ] "Not only is Angela Gheorghiu in resplendent voice, the tone richer than for some time, but the beauty of her high notes is floated with Elysian, transcendental beauty." MusicWeb |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSK / WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE:Szymanowski: Symphonies 2 & 3 / Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra, Paroles tisées Antal Dorati, Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit, Paul Kletzki, Peter Pears, Witold Lutoslawski, Peter Jablonski, etc [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2006 ] "Chantal Juillet plays marvelously, and Charles Dutoit and his Montréal forces are happily on top form here. A really rewarding disc, especially if you have been waiting (like me) for these fine readings to return to circulation." ClassicalNet |
HANDEL / MOZART / BRAHMS / BACH / FAURE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: Wings of a Dove Anthony Way (treble), with Barbara Bonney, Tabitha Watling, Choir of Uppingham School [ Decca / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. Wings of a Dove was originally released in 1997. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky/Schumann: Piano Concertos Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel & Uri Segal [ Decca / CD - released 9/Apr/1986 ] "...the Tchaikovsky gets sonic and interpretive first prize. Its famous opening alone encapsulates everything that's good here: a razor-sharp orchestra...a pianist whose controlled bravura never turns the music into a stunt." ClassicsToday |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Four Last Songs / 15 Lieder Barbara Bonney (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] Recording location: Studio 1, The Warehouse, London, 7-10 & 21 June 1998 |
DOWLAND / PURCELL / MOZART / SCHUMANN / SIBELIUS / R. STRAUSS / LLOYD WEBBER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The radiant voice of Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Talens Lyriques, The English Concert & others [ Decca / CD - released 11/Jun/2001 ] "Barbara Bonney has a lovely voice and she knows how to use its relatively light but extremely agile qualities to fine effect. She's accurate in intonation and tasteful in expressive mannerisms...how pretty everything is-it's really a pleasant sound... |
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete Opera with full libretto) Barbara Frittoli, Jose Cura, Carlos Alvarez, Simon Keenlyside / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 10/Mar/2000 ] 'The recording is rich, spacious and brilliant with glorious orchestral playing, making one marvel at the beauty and subtlety of Leoncavallo's orchestration.' A Key Recording, from The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. (I Pagliacci) |
KNECHTL / REINHARDT / QUANTZ / GRAUN / ROLLIG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque Horn Concertos Barry Tuckwell (horn) with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Decca / CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] Tuckwell was born in Melbourne and studied in Sydney. His first appointments were when he was just fifteen and he played with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Leaving Australia for England in 1950 he held various posts and in 1955 was... |
VINCENZO BELLINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI / GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), James Levine (piano) [ Decca / CD ] Recorded August 1996, Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth |
TRADITIONAL
Voices - Chants From Avignon The Benediction Nuns [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 18/Nov/2010 ] "Decca searched high and low (70 convents across several continents) for the female equivalent of successful recent releases by the Priests and sundry chanting monks, before settling upon the Benedictine nuns of Abbaye Notre Dame de L'Annonciation,... |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Benjamin Grosvenor: Liszt Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD STRAYSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms / R. Strauss: Violin Concertos Boris Belkin (violin) / London Symphony Orxchestra, Ivan Fischer / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 24/Mar/1996 ] Boris Belkin was hailed as a wonderful violinist after he won the 1976 Tchaikovsky Competition. He was quickly snapped up under contract to Decca. He then recorded a few discs, notable among these being the Brahms Concerto with Fischer and the LSO. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Lieder Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/Jun/1992 ] In addition to her operatic work, Fassbaender has performed in the concert hall as a Lieder singer and in movies, singing the role of Prince Orlofsky in the 1984 film production of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. (Wiki) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: La Cetra - 12 concerti, Op. 9 / Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes, RV 535 / etc Iona Brown, Neil Black, Celia Nicklin / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Penguin Guide Rosette Winner |
PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / VERDI / CILEA / MEYERBEER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Bergonzi Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) with Fernando Corena, Libero Arbace & Sylvia Stahlman [ Decca Grandi Voci / CD - released 14/Aug/1994 ] One of the century's defining operatic tenors, Carlo Bergonzi, died after a short illness on 26th July at the age of 90. Celebrated for his interpretations of the great Verdi roles in particular. |
ELGAR / PARRY / WESLEY / COCKER / WHITLOCK / LEMARE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Curley - Organ Imperial Carlo Curley (organ of the Church of St Mary redcliffe, Bristol)) [ Decca Argo / CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] Carlo Curley was the resident organist at the Alexandra Palace in the 1970s and was the first classical organist to perform a solo organ recital at the White House for President Jimmy Carter. He also played before several European heads of state and... |
