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![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Contre-Tenors [The Counter Tenors] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10560/10560917.jpg)
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 Musique d'abord / 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... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Complete opera with full dialogue) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed; Kenneth Sandford; Mary Sansom, Philip Potter / New Symphony Orchestra of London / Isidore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1989 ] "Great diction. You get to hang onto every word....Donald Adams as Colonel Calverley is dynamic and John Reed excels as Reginald." Mel@marbecks |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schnittke: Historia von D. Johann Fausten (complete opera) Eberhard Lorenz, Arno Raunig, Hanna Schwarz, Eberhard Büchner / Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Gerd Albrecht [ RCA Victor Red Seal / 2 CD Box Set - released 3/Nov/1996 ] "The Faust Cantata serves now as the third of the three acts..The performance is strong, and the recorded sound is close-up and detailed." ClassicalMusic |
JOHNANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer / 3 Quartette Op. 64 Edith Mathis, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel & Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Nov/1984 ] "The rare elegance and stylishness of Karl Engel's and Wolfgang Sawallisch's piano-playing, too, lifts the Op. 52 way above the party pieces these can so often become; they energize the bolder variety of the Op. 65 group." The Times |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schutz: Christmas Story (with Praetorius: Motets) Emma Kirkby, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas / Taverner Consort, Choir and Players / Andrew Parrott [ EMI Reflexe / CD - released 1/Nov/1987 ] "If Schutz's Christmas Story is your quarry, then this performance by the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players must be considered very carefully..it is far and away the best version available on record" Gramophone |
PIAZZOLLA / ALBINONI / BEETHOVEN / DVORAK / RACHMANINOV / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Best of Eroica Trio Eroica Trio [ EMI Classics / CD - released 12/Jan/2004 ] The Eroica Trio have toured and recorded widely, and released six recordings for Angel/EMI Classics Records, garnering multiple Grammy Award nominations. This is a selection from these recordings. |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Melancholie [Lieder] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10349/10349677.jpg)
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Melancholie [Lieder] Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / Sony / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] "With his bright, burnished high baritone, expressive diction and alert, unexaggerated response to mood and nuance, Gerhaher confirms his credentials as one of the most probing Lieder singers of the younger generation" Gramophone |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (with Wagner: Tannhäuser: Overture) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Sep/2017 ] "The orchestra is still on with a characteristic sound: warm strings and incisive woodwind, rounded and, when necessary, powerful brass." BBC Music Magazine, August 2017 |
VERDI / SAINT-SAENS / PUCCINI / GIORDANO / OFFENBACH / DVORAK / MOZART / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever! Roberto Alagna, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Mady Mesple, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, Kiri te Kanawa [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] This CD set presents an extensive opera sampler of mostly arias, with some famous choruses as well, such as Va, Pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco. |
BEETHOVEN / LISZT / MIASKOVSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Grigory Ginsburg Grigory Ginsburg (piano) [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 37 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw I International Chopin Piano Competition. |
PUCCINI / MOZART / VERDI / ROSSINI / BIZET / J. STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Incomparable Heddle Nash (Incls 'La Boheme' Act 4) Heddle Nash (tenor), with John Brownlee, Robert Alva, Dora Labbette, and others [ Dutton / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] Heddle Nash (1894 - 1961) was an English lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio in the middle decades of the twentieth century whose quality of timbre remains unsurpassed today. |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das klagende Lied [The Song of Mourning] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10619/10619546.jpg)
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das klagende Lied [The Song of Mourning] Helena Dose, Alfreda Hodgson, Robert Tear, Sean Rea / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics / CD - released 6/Nov/1986 ] Das klagende Lied conducted by Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is praised for its vividness, spontaneity, and the excellent quality of the choral and orchestral playing |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 6 (Incls 'Lieder und Gersänge', Op. 32) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Bostridge's fans have no need to hesitate either, and the virtues of his distinctive Lieder-singing art are very much in evidence." Gramophone |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Lieder Vol 1 Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) [ EMI Music / CD - released 11/May/2001 ] "Bostridge's growing band of devoted admirers are sure to be satisfied by this selection from Schubert's most popular songs." Gramophone |
ALAN PAUL / GUY WOOLFENDEN / GEOFFREY BUSH / ALAN RIDOUT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Clarinet Concertos Ian Scott (clarinet) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Barry Wordsworth [ ASV / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "Ian Scott plays beautifully throughout; and all concerned seem to enjoy themselves enormously. I cannot but recommend this attractive collection of unfamiliar, but rewarding works that all deserve much more than the occasional hearing" (MusicWeb) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Clarinet Quintet Jack Brymer (clarinet) / Allegri Quartet / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Solo / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Originally recorded in London in 1964 & 1969 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988) Metropolitan Opera / Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / DVD - released 29/Aug/2002 ] "This performance represents an above-average night at the Metropolitan in the late 1980s: three of its most popular stars, a generally distinguished cast, the house's musical director conducting its great orchestra in one of the works he does best." |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Lieder Jessye Norman (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) with Ulrich von Wrochem (viola) [ Philips / CD - released 12/May/1983 ] Recorded London, January 1980 |
PUCCINI / VERDI / DELIBES / OFFENBACH / BERLIOZ / BELLINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Operatic Duets Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario del Monaco, Mirella Freni. Christa Ludwig, April Cantelo, Hugette Tourangeau, Jane Berbié [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 5/Apr/1994 ] Decca's recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. These extracts are taken from complete recordings. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Rigoletto (Highlights from the opera) Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Huguette Tourangeau / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 27/Sep/1988 ] "[Pavarotti] is an intensely characterful Duke: an unmistakable rogue but a charmer, too...[Sutherland] is glowingly beautiful as well as supremely assured technically. Milnes makes a strong Rigoletto." Penguin Guide |
