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ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Virtuoso Cantatas Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) / Ensemble Artaserse [ Virgin Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] Forty of Vivaldi's chamber cantatas survive - short, dramatic works for solo voice and continuo on the conventional theme of unhappy love, written to order for an aristocratic audience. |
VERDI / PUCCINi / LEONCAVALLERO / GOUNOD / MASCAGNI / BIZET / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bravissimo Domingo - Arias and duets with Leontyne Price & Sherrill Milnes Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta & Nello Santi / London Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf / etc [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Oct/1985 ] A electrifying collection of arias and duets taken from the many recordings Domingo made with RCA. |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / MARX / R. STRAUSS / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Renee Fleming - Night Songs Renee Fleming (soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "[Fleming] is best where a song is actually rather hard - the long‚ sustained lines of Strauss's Ruhe‚ meine Seele! - or where she seems eager to put over a less than familiar piece: the Marx songs and Strauss's Leises Lied‚ for example." Gramophone |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Manon (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Jose van Dam, Gilles Ragon / Chorus & Orchestra of the Theatre Royal of the Monnaie, Brussels, Antonio PappanoPappan [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Mar/2000 ] "Major praise must go to Angela Gheorghiu. Not only does she draw a portrait of the irresistible, impetuous, selfish, luscious Manon from the very beginning, but she's totally in control of her vocal resources as well." ClassicsToday |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Boheme (Complete opera recorded in 1995) (with complete libretto) Roberto Alagna, Leontina Vaduva, Thomas Hampson, Ruth Ann Swenson / Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "Pappano's recording of Boheme is the finest in over 20 years or even longer - sumptuously played and recorded, and characterfully sung by a starry cast. This is a version to stand alongside the classics of the past." Rosette. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Alagna Roberto - Serenades Roberto Alagna (tenor) David Alagna, Federico Alagna (guitars) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] '...sung by a voice which is excitingly within the tradition and with temperament to match. There is not a moment when you don't listen to hear what he is going to do next' Gramophone Awards Issue 1997 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Roberto Alagna - Verdi Arias Roberto Alagna (tenor) / The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EMI Music / CD - released 1/Dec/1998 ] "In answer to all those nay-sayers concerning Alagna's talents, the tenor here shows, in the most demanding programme imaginable, that there is little if anything wrong with his technique and a great deal right with his sense of Verdian style" Gramop |
ANONYMOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Epiphany - Gregorian Chants Schola Hungarica, Janka Szendrei, with András Soós (vocals) [ Hungaroton / CD - released 5/Sep/1985 ] Recorded at Ócsa Reformed Church. |
EDVARD GREIG / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 5/May/1984 ] A highly regarded pianist, Stephen Kovacevich is particularly known for his original approach to the standard classical repertoire. Prominent in his repertoire is the music of such composers as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and, Grieg. |
MOZART / WAGNER / BORODIN / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bryn Terfel: Opera Arias Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Bryn Terfel is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro, Leporello and Don Giovanni, but has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles. |
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Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Richard van Allan, Judy Kaye / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kismet - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1990 |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Music of Howard Hanson (Incls Symphonies 2 "Romantic", 4 "Requiem", 6 & 7) Carol Rosenberger (piano) Judith Mendenhall (flute) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Delos / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Composer, teacher, and one of the most influential musical figures in the United States between the world wars, Howard Hanson studied in New York with conservative composer Percy Goetschius and at Northwestern University, outside Chicago. Somewhat of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Waltraud Meier sings Wagner Waltraud Meier (mezzo soprano) with Bayerischen Rundfunks, Lorin Maazel [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Mar/1997 ] Song masterpieces performed with magnificent drama by major Wagnerians of our time |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 & 3 St Lawrence String Quartet [ EMI Music / CD - released 10/May/2001 ] "This is an excellent performance, and the recording is good too, an unqualified success after the qualified success of the First Quartet. This is altogether a splendid disc, although the recording by the Borodin Quartet is better still." MusicWeb |
J. S. BACH / MAX BRUCH / etc
Vanessa-Mae: The Classical Album Vanessa-Mae (Violin) / The London Symphony Orchestra [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/1996 ] Vanessa Mae is a Singaporean-born British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. (Wiki) |
