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COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited Vol. V - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Ann Hampton Calloway, Arthur Siegel, Sandy Stewart, Tommy Tune, Julie Wilson, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
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Kevin Martin & The HiWatts
MARBECKS RARE: The Possibility Of Being [ Tympanic Records / CD ] |
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LEOPOLD KOZELUH / FRANZ JOSEPH FROHLICHh
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kozeluh/Frohlich: Concertos For One Piano Four Hands And Orchestra Kölner Klavier-Duo Kalvelage/Krücker, Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Florian Merz [ Koch Schwann / CD - released 22/Sep/1998 ] Recorded: IV. 1997 |
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COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Porter: You Never Know Kristin Chenoweth, David Garrison, Harry Groener / World Premiere Cast Recording [ Fynsworth Alley / Varese Sarabande / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] You Never Know is set in Paris in the heady days of 1929 just before the stock market crash. It takes place one evening in Baron Rommer's elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. Baron Rommer (Harry Groener) and his Butler, Gaston (David Garrison) |
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GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Violin Sonatas Krysia Osostowicz (violin) / Susan Tomes (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/Feb/2006 ] 'Two outstanding performances. A marvellous disc, both as a performance and as a recording' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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PURCELL / HANDEL / GLUCK / BACH / WAGNER / GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kristen Flagstad: Legendary Voices 3 Kristen Flagstad, with Elisabeth Höngen (mezzo-soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra - Warwick Braithwaite [ Preiser Legendary Voices \ / CD ] Called "the voice of the century", Kirsten ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century. Desmond Shawe-Taylor wrote of her in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera: "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of... |
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The Lemonheads
MARBECKS RARE: Come On Feel The Lemonheads [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 12/Oct/1993 ] |
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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... |
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PYOTR IL'YICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: The Three Piano Sonatas Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] 'Much stirring music, some unexpected delicacies, and generally walloping performances' (The Observer) |
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Liz Phair
MARBECKS RARE: Liz Phair [ EMI Music / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] A very strong self-titled 4th album from the queen of alternative |
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Luscious Jackson
MARBECKS RARE: Electric Honey [ Grand Royal / Capitol / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Australasian issue. |
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GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Holst: Choral Symphony / Choral Fantasia Lynne Dawson (soprano) / Guildford Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic, Wetton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] "Lynne Dawson colours her deliciously pure-toned soprano according to the text's different moods, while Wetton directs both chorus and orchestra with persuasive style and eloquence." ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (June 2002) |
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Mamaku
MARBECKS RARE: Twigs Of Gold [ Mamaku Project / CD - released 24/Jan/2014 ] Mamaku Project's celebrated electro-organic sessions have crystallized into a compelling new album with a wide emotional spectrum, drawing on trip-hop, quirky grooves, and chanson. The lush sound palette, organically electronic, carries tender... |
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Marc Hurtado & Alan Vega
MARBECKS RARE: Sniper [ Le Son du Maquis / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
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Mark de Clive-Lowe
MARBECKS RARE: Tide's Arising [ Antipodean Records / CD - released 15/Mar/2005 ] A veritable smorgasbord of tasty broken soul, fusing nu-jazz, the rhythms of world music and fresh urban grooves into an outstanding, unheralded 21st century flavour. |
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HOWARD FERGUSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ferguson: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra / Amore langueo (with Finzi: Eclogue) Martyn Hill (tenor) Howard Shelley (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/1987 ] Belfast-born Ferguson's reputation as a composer rests on the nineteen published works that he wrote between 1928 and 1959. Rhythmic energy endows his music with its exciting sense of momentum, underpinned by his command of Baroque and Classical... |
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GERLAD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain (Songs by Gerald Finzi to words of Thomas Hardy) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "You can't go wrong with this recording of these immensely beautiful and brilliantly-crafted songs." (MusicWeb Oct 2010) |
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SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Mats Lidstrom (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "These artists radiate total conviction and a life-enhancing vitality and sensitivity" Penguin Guide |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / FRANZ LISZT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Stephen Kovacevich II Stephen Kovacevich (piano) with BBC Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol 61 / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Stephen Kovacevich made his concert debut as a pianist at the age of 11; then, at the age of 18 he moved to London to study under Dame Myra Hess on a scholarship and has been a London resident ever since, currently living in Hampstead. In 1961 he... |
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Micah P. Hinson
MARBECKS RARE: Micah P. Hinson and The Red Empire Orchestra [ Inertia Music / CD - released 14/Jul/2008 ] "Against such rich, variegated moods, this could well be his best yet."-UNCUT (4 stars). "Contemplative country reveries to ease you gently into that good night."-MOJO. |