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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Schwanengesang - Schubert's Last Songs Bo Skovhus (baritone) Helmut Deutsch (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Sep/1995 ] Originally recorded in September 1994 |
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MOZART / BRAHMS / PISTON / SCHUBERT / MILHAUD / HINDEMITH / etc
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players - The complete RCA album collection 1964-68 Boston Symphony Chamber Players [ Sony / RCA Red Seal / 10 CD Box Set - released 26/Aug/2023 ] Sony Classical are pleased to present a stunning new 10 CD boxset - the complete RCA Victor Recordings of The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, presented for the first time on CD. |
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GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martucci: La canzone dei ricordi [Song of Memories] / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Carlo Bruno (piano) Mirella Freni (soprano) / Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Muti [ Sony / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] "It's a forcefully dramatic reading: Muti coaxes some searing solo playing from his La Scala orchestra: the dark clarinets of 'Fior di ginestra', faintly echoed at the close, are superbly savage. The drawback (some will love it) is that more... |
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Charlotte Church
Voice Of An Angel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
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WALTER MARKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marks: Bajour Chita Rivera, Nancy Dussault & Herschel Bernardi / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker. The title is allegedly a Romani... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann - Myrthen Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] "Certainly a top choice for this wonderful cycle." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Solo Vocal |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33 Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Apr/2017 ] "(Gerhaher's) colouring is more precise and apt than I've ever heard from him. And that's saying a lot...Gerhaher and Huber make the piece something you can take to your heart" Gramophone Magazine, March 2017 |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann - Frage Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Solo Vocal |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart's Violin - The Complete Violin Concertos Christoph Koncz (violin) / Les Musiciens du Louvre [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "...not only for Mozart's glowing cantabile but for the special tonal proclivities of the Klotz violin." BBC Music |
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell [ Sony Essential Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/1992 ] Wagner: Ring Excerpts by Szell - The Greatest Recordings EVER! - Television reviewer Dave Hurwitz |
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DANNY ELFMAN
Danny Elfman: Percussion Concerto / Wunderkammer Colin Currie (percussion) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/May/2024 ] " After 115-plus movies Elfman can't help but make pictures of sound and the fabulous engineering here certainly makes them pop." Gramophone |
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CARL NIELSEN / EDVARD GRIEG
Nielsen: Concerto for Clarinet / Grieg: Lyric Pieces Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Christoph Traxler (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Ádám Fische [ Sony Classical / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The Clarinet Concerto by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen is one of the absolute pillars of the repertoire for clarinet and orchestra. Austrian clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer associates very special memories with this work as 2009 winner of The Carl... |
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LUCIANO BERIO
Luciano Berio - Transformation Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Sophia Burgos (soprano), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] "It all provides a revealing sidelight on one of the outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century." Guardian |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Hungarian Dances & Waltzes for Piano, Four Hands Duo Tal & Groethuysen [ Sony / CD - released 15/Sep/1993 ] Since 1985 tTal and Andreas have been performing worldwide as piano duo and have appeared at musical centers and renowned festivals. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands Duo Tal & Groethuysen (piano) [ Sony / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/1994 ] Since 1985 tTal and Andreas have been performing worldwide as piano duo and have appeared at musical centers and renowned festivals. Extensive CD recording makes up an important part of their career: the Duo has released recordings of four-hand... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol. 2 Duo Tal & Groethuysen (piano) [ Sony / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/1995 ] Since 1985 tTal and Andreas have been performing worldwide as piano duo and have appeared at musical centers and renowned festivals. Extensive CD recording makes up an important part of their career: the Duo has released recordings of four-hand... |
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JACOB SHEA & OTHERS
Arctic Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Frode Fjellheim (vocal) / Arctic Philharmonic [ Sony Classical / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "The six movements of Jacob Shea's Arctic Suite certainly evoke the world of film music...It 's left to the oldsters Palmgren and Ole Bull to show how memorable a good melody can actually be." BBC Music Five Stars |
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ANDERS HILLBORG
Hillborg: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Liquid Marble Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] At the occasion of the 70th birthday of Swedish contemporary composer Anders Hillborg, the award-winning conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra release an album with some of his most recognizable works. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg/Liszt: Piano Concertos Emanuel Ax (piano) The Philharmonia, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/1993 ] Emanuel Ax has been classed among the master pianists ever since his victory at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 1974. His long association with RCA/Sony began the very next year, with a spellbinding disc of Chopin and Liszt... |
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GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti: Cello Concerto / Piano Concerto / Chamber Concerto Ensemble Modern [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Jun/1994 ] Recorded at the Bartók Hall, Szombathely, Hungary, August 2 & 3 (1-2) and August 4 & 5 (3-7), 1990 |