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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 in A minor 'Scottish' / Symphony No.4 in A major 'Italian' London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Decca Originals / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] 'Abbado's outstanding Scottish Symphony is beautifully played and the LSO responds to his direction with the greatest delicacy of feeling, while the Italian Symphony has a comparable lightness of touch, matched with lyrical warmth' Penguin Guide |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 / Marche Slave London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) [ IMP Classics / CD - released 13/Dec/2005 ] "A first-class ...recording of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony...a very striking performance, Russian in feeling yet ..never going over the top." Gramophone |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (Complete opera) Lora Haywood, John Dobson, Donald Maxwell, with James Rainbird as Amahl. Royal Opera House Covent Garden. David Syrus [ That's Entertainment / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "Recorded under the supervision of the composer himself, this is a fresh and highly dramatic performance, very well sung and marked by atmospheric digital sound of striking realism." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: Symphonies 1-4 / Orchestral Sets 1 & 2 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta / The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Christoph von Dohnanyi [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 12/Jul/2000 ] Orchestral works by this most significant and influential American composer! |
KARL GOLDMARK / ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony / Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 72 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Original recordings from 1981 (Rustic Wedding Symphony), and, 1984 (Slavinic Dances) |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 / Chamber Symphony / Variations for Orchestra / Erwartung, Op. 17 / etc Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta / The Cleveland Orchestra, VIenna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi / Anja Silja (soprano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/1996 ] "I find myself swept along by their ecstatic playing over those last ten minutes, where suddenly the orchestra seems galvanised into recapturing the spirit of Stokie for Mehta." MusicWeb on Verklarte Nacht |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man / Appalachian Spring / Rodeo (with Barber: Adagio) Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] "Mehta's performance of Appalachian Spring is one of the most distinguished of several fine recordings he made for Decca in the late 1970s, which also included the spectacular Fanfare for a Common Man" (Penguin Guide) |
ERNEST BLOCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh) Louis Berkman (baritone) / The Zemel Choir / Members of the London Chorale and the London Concord Singers / London Symphony Orchestra / Geoffrey Simon [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/1988 ] "Apart from the language of its ritual, the Sacred Service often sounds like Vaughan Williams. The music is four-square and at times obsessively contrapuntal, yet the scoring has a deftness and luminosity that may come as a surprise." Gramophone |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: War Requiem (complete with libretto) Luba Orgonasova, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Boje Skovhus / The Monteverdi Choir, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/1993 ] "Gardiner seems intent above all to lay before us the work's musical attributes, so we marvel anew at its taut construction...It is a unique achievement here made manifest by one of the most perceptive interpreters of the day." Gramophone |
ALEXANDER von ZEMLINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony in seven songs to poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Op. 1 / 6 Lieder Luba Orgonasova (soprano) Bo Skovhus (tenor) Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Claus Peter Flor [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 26/May/1996 ] The Lyric Symphony was begun in April 1922. In a letter to his publishers of 19 September 1922, Zemlinsky described the work-in-progress as "...something along the lines of [Mahler's] Das Lied von der Erde". The orchestration was completed in August... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, London Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt / Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 16/Jun/1987 ] Most of Mahler's vocal output was inspired by "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Boy's Magic Horn), an early 19th-Century anthology of folk poems from all over German-speaking Europe. The "Wunderhorn" had earlier inspired Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann.... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Opera Festival (Le Nozze di Figaro, Die ZauberflAte, CosA fan tutte, etc) (Rec 1971) Lucia Popp (soprano) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Werner Krenn (tenor) Tom Krause (baritone) / Wiener Haydn-Orchester / Istvan Kertesz [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 13/Jul/2005 ] In 1971, István Kertész went into the studio with an array of opera singers he enjoyed performing with to make a recording of arias, duets and ensembles from Mozart's most popular operas. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Complete Schubert Edition: Schubert in 1816 Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 17 / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] 'Piano-playing, notes and recording all enhance the virtues of this rewarding disc, which will surely be a thing of joy for many years to come' - Gramophone |
SMETANA / GRIEG / DVORAK / ORFF / MAHLER / MOZART / STRAUSS / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lucia Popp-The Very Best Of Lucia Popp (soprano) with various orchestras and accompanists [ EMI Very Best of Singers / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] The esteemed Czech-born Austrian soprano Lucia Popp began her career by training as an actress. Only then did she begin studying music and singing at the Conservatories of Brünn and Prague. |
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pavarotti - Ti Adoro [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Oct/2003 ] A shining star in Pavarotti's esteemed career, "Ti Adoro" showcases his total range, and also features guitar legend, Jeff Beck! |
PUCCINI / VERDI / GIORDANO / TCHAIKOVSKY / BIZET / GOUNOD / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Your Hundred best Opera Tunes 1 (features 'Nessun dorma') Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Kiri te Kanawa, Nicolai Ghiaurov, etc [ Decca / CD - released 9/Jan/1991 ] Your Hundred Best Opera Tunes Features fifteen tracks of popular arias which we all know and love |
VERDI / BELLINI / PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pavarotti in Concert Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / London / CD - released 30/Jun/1986 ] Record at the Bologna Opera House, July 5th-9th 1973 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pavarotti: Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (Incl.s Nessun dorma & La Donna e Mobile) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) with various accompanists and guest artists [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 23/Sep/2002 ] This 2CD set features the very best of the Decca recordings of Pavarotti (1935-2007). All the hits are here - popular opera arias, along with your favourite Italian folk songs. |
EMMANUEL CHABRIER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chabrier: Complete Melodies Ludovic de San (baritone), Diane Andersen (piano), with Luc Loubry (bassoon1) [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] Recorded in 1993 - EMS Studios Brussels |
MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / HAYDN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER / REGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joseph Keilberth: The Postwar Telefunken Recordings - 1953-1963 Ludwig Hoelscher (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Joseph Keilberth [ Warner Classics Icon / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] 20 July 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of the German conductor Joseph Keilberth. His name is perhaps not so widely remembered as some of his contemporaries, but he was an important figure in the musical life of Germany in the mid-20th |
