Search Results: classical collectable
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Chamber Music: Trio Sonatas L'Ecole d'Orphee, with John Holloway (violin) & Philip Pickett (recorder) [ Regis Records / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] John Holloway is one of the pioneers of the modern "Early Music" movement in Britain. He played his first public concert in aid of Hungarian refugees in 1956. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms/Schumann: Piano Quintets Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Artemis Quartet [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 13/Oct/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Chamber - "Those who desire the Schumann and Brahms on one disc cannot do better than this supremely accomplished and excellently engineered release." (ClassicsToday 9/9) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17, D.850 / Lieder: Der liebliche Stern; Tiefes Lied; Auf der Bruck; Der Wanderer, etc Ian Bostridge (tenor) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) [ EMI Music / CD - released 17/Jul/2003 ] "In an imaginative move, EMI decided to fill up Leif Ove Andsnes's Schubert piano sonata series with a number of Schubert songs for which the Norwegian pianist was joined by Ian Bostridge...the gambit has paid off." Gramophone |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] "If Andsnes's playing is arresting for the quantity of relevant detail that he conveys, so too is the orchestra's." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 |
BARTOK / PAGANINI / YSAYE / ERNST / KREISLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leila Josefowicz - Solo music Leila Josefowicz (violin) [ Philips / CD - released 22/Feb/2001 ] Distinctive solo works for the violin |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: String Quartets Vol. 4: Octet & String Quartet [1823] Leipziger Streichquartett [ MDG / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "This is a fine recording of the Octet. The Leipzig Quartet is joined by four musicians of equal caliber and like musical minds." |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeni Mravinsky [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1993 ] Recorded live in the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatoire November 3, 1957 |
COPLAND / LISZT / MOZART / RAVEL / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Leon Fleisher Leon Fleisher (piano) with the Cleveland Orchestra & Baltimore Symphony [ Sony / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] In the 1950s, Fleisher signed an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Masterworks. He is particularly well known for his interpretations of the piano concerti of Brahms and Beethoven, which he recorded with George Szell and the Cleveland... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 1962) Leontyne Price, Jon Vickers, Rita Gorr, Robert Merrill / Orchestra e coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma / Sir Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 18/May/1999 ] "Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces." (BBC Music) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leontyne Price - Puccini Heroines Leontyne Price (soprano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes & Nello Santi, with Placido Domingo, Elizabeth Bainbri [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Leontyne Price's 'Vissi d'arte' s artistry incarnate… " BBC Music Magazine |
R. STRAUSS / VERDI / PUCCINI / BIZET / GERSHWIN / BERLIOZ / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Leontyne Price Leontyne Price (soprano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Rome Opera Orchestra, with Placido Domingo & Marilyn Horne [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Price attended Central State University and then Juilliard, where she had her operatic debut as Mistress Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. Having heard the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts. |
PURCELL / CROFT / BLOW / HUMFREY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Divine Hymns Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] William Christie's New Recording on Virgin Classics is a Programme of English Sacred Works Drawn Largely from the Two Volumes of Playford's Harmonia Sacra, Or Divine Hymns and Dialogues (1688/1693). The Published Pieces Are Mostly by Purcell and his... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lesley Garrett - Travelling LIght Lesley Garrett (soprano) with Bryn Terfel, Evelyn Glennie, Michael Ball & Michel Legrand [ EMI / BBC / CD - released 17/Mar/2001 ] Travelling Light is a 2001 by British soprano singer Lesley Garrett. It reached 75 on the UK general album chart. In the US it was released in February 2002. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Rapsodie Espagnole and other pieces on Spanish themes Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 45 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard is chef, artist, minstrel and matador in this Spanish spectacle. You will be delighted by the sense of spaciousness and clarity in the recorded sound, and your paella is guaranteed to be more flavoursome with this exotic accompaniment'... |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Music: An introduction Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the world's largest recording series by a solo artist. Leslie Howard took 14 years to complete the series, starting in 1985 and releasing the final volume in September 1999.. |
FRANK MARTIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martin: Maria-Triptychon / Sechs Monologue aus Jedermann / Suite from Der Sturm Linda Russell (soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Duncan Riddell (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Matthias Bamert [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Recorded: 26-27 September 1994 |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: 4 Divertimenti Linde Consort, Hans-Martin Linde [ Virgin Veritas / CD - released 20/May/1994 ] Original recordings from 1987 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 131 & Op. 135 The Lindsays [ ASV / CD - released 21/Apr/2003 ] The Lindsays' acclaimed new Beethoven series offers fresh interpretations of some of the composer's finest works for string quartet |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op.130 & Op.133 "Grosse Fuge" The Lindsays [ ASV / CD - released 21/Apr/2003 ] "....a shattering performance...." Five Stars The Independent |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18 Nos.4 and 5 / Op. 14 (arr.of Piano Sonata in E) The Lindsays [ ASV / CD - released 21/Apr/2003 ] The Lindsays' acclaimed new Beethoven series offers fresh interpretations of some of the composer's finest works for string quartet |
