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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress (complete opera recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Frankfurt Opera / Asmik Grigorian, Iain MacNeil, Claudia Mahnke, Alexander Mikhailov / Valentin Uryupin [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 11/Nov/2022 ] "Discover one of Tchaikovsky's least-known, least-performed mature operas in a fine production from Frankfurt Opera". © 2024 Gramophone |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Frankfurt Opera / Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 11/Nov/2022 ] "Loy masses his choral scenes with gusto, and draws the characters with compassion and wit. It's the mixture of cheerfulness and melancholy that makes this opera sing, and Loy walks the line without compromise to his own aesthetic." Gramophone |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Piano Concerti (with Debussy: Fantaisie pour piano & orchestre François-René Duchâble (piano) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/May/1996 ] "Duchâble's recordings are considered a "splendid collaboration" with the conductor." Gramophone |
VIVALDI / BACH, J.S. / SAINT-SAENS / HAYDN / SCHUMANN / etc
Charming Cello - Best loved classical cello music Franz Bartolomey Michael Grebanier, Janet Guggenheim; Havenith, Raimund; Hurvey, Keith; Madoka Inui; Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson; Maria Kliegel (cello [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] The ancient origins of the modern cello came from India and the Far East, arriving in Europe through Arab trade routes. By the time of the instrument's advanced construction in the mid-18th century, the greater volume of sound and versatility that... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex - Opera/Oratorio in two acts after Sophocles Franz Grundheber, Gabriele Schnaut, Gunter von Kannen, Peter Svensson / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] Originally recorded June 1993 |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (complete opera recorded in 1984) Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Barbara Bonney / Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2007 ] 'Solti gives Schoenberg's masterly score a dynamism and warmth which set it firmly - if perhaps surprisingly - in the grand romantic tradition...As Aaron, Philip Langridge is lighter and more lyrical." Penguin Guide |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (complete opera) Freddie de Tommaso, Saioa Hernández, Lester Lynch, Elisabeth Kulman / [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "De Tommaso turns out to be the real deal, singing with a confidence and ease that seem astonishing for a singer who was only 28 at the time of the recording, His is a real *spinto* tenor: bright yet intensely masculine." BBC Music Opera Choice |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: The Lighter Elgar / From the Bavarian Highlands / Serenade for Strings (with works by Sanford & Parry) Frederick Harvey (baritone) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Northern Sinfonia, Neville Marriner / Royal Philharmonic, Lawrence Collingwood / etc [ EMI British Composers / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A 5CD set containing titles from the acclaimed EMI British Composers series, based around the music of Sir Edward Elgar and his contemporaries; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry. |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (complete operas with libretto) Mirella Freni, Julia Varady, Ingvar Wixwwll, Luciano Pavarotti / National Philharmonic, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Patane [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2010 ] Leoncavallo was a little-known composer when Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana premiered around 1890. After seeing Mascagni's success, Leoncavallo decided to write an opera in response: one act composed in the verismo style. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Alio Modo (keyboard works transcribed for viols) Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Dec/2005 ] "Fretwork play with a gorgeous simplicity of expression and deep musicality." - The Independent, UK |
W. A. MOZART
Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne - Mozart Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Audrey Mildmay, Heddle Nash, John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Sena Jurinac, Alexander Young, Richard Lewis / Fritz Busch (cond) [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 8/Jul/2017 ] Fritz Busch (1890-1951) was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. |
MOZART / FLOTOW / WAGNER / CORNELIUS / J. STRAUSS II / KALMAN / LEHAR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fritz Wunderlich: The Very Best Of Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2003 ] "I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set...one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb) |
GABRIELI & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Gabrieli: A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Virgin Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2003 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 1990 |
CRISTOBAL de MORALES / ALONSO LOBO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Morales: Requiem for Philip II Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 1/Aug/1998 ] Recorded At - Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland |
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LEOS JANACEK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janacek: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2 [with Smetana - String QuartetNo. 1] Gabrieli String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] "They have authority and imagination and they are as faithful to the score as I can judge … I admire the way they succeed in sustaining magic without inflating the rhetoric and over-emphasizing the bizarre." Gramophone |
FERDINAND RIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ries: Cello Sonatas Gaetona Nasillo (cello) Allessandro Commellato (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Best known now as a young friend and ever-patient amanuensis to the increasingly cantankerous Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries was himself the most talented member in a distinguished family of musicians. |
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) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Octet Gaudier Ensemble [ ASV / CD - released 27/Feb/1990 ] First Choice - BBC 'Building a Library' |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Geoffrey Tozer (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1995 ] Originally recorded in 1994 |
SIR JOHN BLACKWOOD McEWEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: McEwen: Three Preludes, Sonata in E minor, Four Sketches, etc Geoffrey Tozer (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jun/2001 ] 'But the chief quality of McEwen's piano music is a sense of international flavour... It would all be for naught but for the always scintillating playing of Tozer...' - Fanfare |
