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add to cart $25.00 Low Stock GILBERT and SULLIVAN MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete), Henry VIII-Incidental Music, Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide.
add to cart $30.00 Low Stock GILBERT and SULLIVAN MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1993 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide.
add to cart $20.00 Low Stock GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel - Opera Arias Vol. 1 Drew Minter (countertenor) / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/May/2001 ] "Endowed with a beautiful voice, a fine technique, and sensitive musicality, Minter demonstrates the full scope of Handel's writing in the Italian style, from the brilliantly dramatic to the lyrically tender." - Stereo Review
add to cart $20.00 Low Stock GIUSEPPE VERDI / GAETANO DONIZETTI MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Classic Recitals - Elena Souliotis sings Verdi and Donizetti Elena Souliotis (soprano) / Orchestra dell'Opera di Roma. Oliviero de Fabritiis [ Decca Classic Recitals / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] Greek-born Elena Souliotis enjoyed a short but meteoric career in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She had first appeared as Santuzza in Naples in 1964 and this was followed by her American debut two years later when she sang Helen of Troy...
add to cart $40.00 Low Stock W. A. MOZART MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (Complete Opera recorded in 1963 with libretto) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Hanny Steffek / Philharmonia Orchestra / Karl Bohm [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/1988 ] "The two sisters are gloriously sung - Schwarzkopf and Ludwig bring their immeasurable talents as Lieder singers to this sparkling score and overlay them with a rare comic touch." RECOMMENDED RECORDING (Classical Good CD Guide 2004)
add to cart $32.00 Low Stock FRANZ LEHAR MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lehar: Die lustige Witwe [Merry Widow] / Das Land des Lachelns [Land of Smiles] (operettas) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Nicolai Gedda / Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra / Otto Ackermann [ Warner Classics The Opera Series / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] The Record Guide described Schwarzkopf in Die lustige Witwe as 'enchanting from end to end' and said that in Das Land des Lächelns it is her 'radiant loveliness of tone that enchants us first, but also the consummate, irresistible artistry'
add to cart $20.00 Low Stock W. A. MOZART / VERDI / LEHAR / J. STRAUSS II / RICHARD STRAUSS MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Opera arias Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), with Karl Schmitt-Walter (bar) / Philharmonia Orchestra. Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Recordings from 1950, Le Nozze di Figaro, to, 1959, Capriccio.
add to cart $20.00 Low Stock WAGNER / WEBER / SMETANA / TCHAIKOVSKY MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf - Romantic Opera Arias Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) / Philharmonia & London Symphony Orchestras, various conductors. with Christa Ludwig (mezzo) [ EMI Studio / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/1986 ] Original recordings from 1956 - 1958
add to cart $40.00 Low Stock DOMENICO CIMAROSA MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (Complete opera recorded in 1957) Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti, Ebe Stignati, Luigi Alva, Franco Calabrese / Teatro alla Scala, Nino Sanzogno [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1997 ] Note: This is extremely rare. American websites are asking $43US.
add to cart $27.00 Low Stock RICHARD STRAUSS MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Der Rosenkavalier (Complete opera recorded in 1976) Evelyn Lear, Frederica von Stade, Jules Bastin / Rotterdam Philharmonic Opera, Edo de Waart (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Evelyn Lear as the Marschallin and Frederica von Stade as her lover Octavian lead a strong cast as Edo de Waart's complete recording of Der Rosenkavalier returns to the catalogue.
add to cart $23.00 Low Stock MODEST MUSSORGSKY / NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / RYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Galina Vishnevskaya - Songs and Dances of Death / Songs & Opera arias by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (Recorded 1 Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) / London Philharmonic orchestra. Mistislav Rostropovich [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2003 ] "In this, the first ever recording of the Songs and Dances of Death in Shostakovich's orchestration, Vishnevskaya's art is quite exceptionally imaginative and magnetic." (Gramophone)
add to cart $30.00 Low Stock 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, etc [ 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.
add to cart $40.00 Low Stock GIACOMO PUCCINI MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1957) Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Tullio Serafin [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/1985 ] "In general this is Callas at her most girlish: light-voiced, lyrical and with the power to make the dramatic climaxes thrilling." MusicWeb
add to cart $35.00 Low Stock W. A. MOZART MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro [The Marriage Of Figaro] (Complete Opera recorded in 1994) Glyndebourne Opera / Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renee Fleming / Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "Pure magic….Bernard Haitink conducted the LPO in an eloquent performance, beautifully played…….One listened, as Haitink, Hagley, and Finley lifted a loving, carefully prepared performance to greatness" Opera Magazine
add to cart $45.00 Low Stock W. A. MOZART MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2006) Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Anke Vondung / Ivan Fischer (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/May/2007 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera
add to cart $16.00 Low Stock JOSEPH HAYDN MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) - highlights Gundula Janowitz, Werner Hollweg, Walter Berry / Chor der Deutschen. Opera Berlin. Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Encore / CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] Original recording made in 1973
add to cart $40.00 Low Stock ARNOLD SCHOENBERG MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Moses und Aron [complete opera] Gunter Reich, Richard Cassilly, Felicity Palmer / BBC Singers, Orpheus Boys' Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Recorded: November 30 & December 3, 5 & 6, 1974, West Ham Central Mission, London (Moses Und Aron)
add to cart $16.00 Low Stock GIOACHINO ROSSINI MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Highlights) Hakan Hagegard, Jennifer Larmore, Raul Gimanez, Samuel Ramey / Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Jesus Lapez-Cobos [ Teldec / CD - released 1/Jul/1994 ] "Barbara Frittoli makes a good showing in her aria and Jennifer Larmore seems sublimely unfazed by the conductor's fast tempi. The voice is always full and warm, the coloratura flawless and the characterization vivid." (MusicWeb July 2004)
add to cart $30.00 Low Stock W. A. MOZART MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (Complete opera) Hakan Hagegard, Gilles Cachemaille, Arleen Auger, Della Jones / Drottningholm Court Theatre, Arnold Ostman [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Even those who have never been to Drottningholm and experienced Arnold Ostman's Mozart in the flesh will know exactly what it is that makes his recorded performances live." (Gramophone)
add to cart $60.00 Low Stock RICHARD WAGNER MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 2003) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Richard Berkeley-Steele / Falk Struckmann / Linda Watson / Bertrand de Billy (cond) [ Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2003, Harry Kupfer's acclaimed production, first staged in Berlin, numbers among the greatest productions of modern times and is recorded in sumptuous surround sound.