DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / GOUNOD / BELLINI / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joan Sutherland - Live in Australia(recorded live in 1989) Joan Sutherland (Soprano) with John Alexander, Richard Cross, Elizabeth Harwood, Lucian Pavarotti & others [ Desiree Records / 2 CD - released 4/Jul/2003 ] These recordings come direct from the personal library of Joan Sutherland and various sources and were released with Joan's 'blessing'. |
GERALD FINZI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Finzie: Dies Natalis / Intimations of Immortality John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Gerald Finzi likened the creative artist to a 'coral reef insect, building his reef out of the transitory world around him and making a solid structure to last long after his own fragile and uncertain life'. 'Fragile' and 'uncertain' are the key... |
ALKAN / BUSONI / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - John Ogdon I John Ogdon (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniell Revenaugh [ Philips / EMI / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Recordings made between 1960 & 1971 |
BALAKIREV / LISZT / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - John Ogdon II John Ogdon (piano) [ Philips / EMI / Meloydia / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Piano virtuoso John Ogdon II cannot be explained simply. He cut his own path in the rigid world of concert professionals. He neither shunned the standard repertoire, nor limited himself to it. In a field of specialists, he enthusiastically embraced a... |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jorge Bolet II Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "Jorge Bolet's noble, somewhat restrained Liszt playing evokes a sound-world far removed from the pyrotechnicians who barnstorm their way through the etudes or opera transcriptions. Tempos, for instance, are never faster than Liszt's eloquent... |
W. A. MOZART / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Clifford Curzon Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz [ Decca / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "When you hear Mozart playing like this, you realize how superficial most other performances are." Gramophone |
MOZART / SCHUMANN / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne (piano) with Juilliard Orchestra, Members of the National Orchestra Assiociation [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 64 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "These discs celebrate both an incomparable partnership and two Moscow Gold Medallists who achieved a legendary status in their separate careers." Gramophone |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Concertos & Dances Kathryn Stott (piano) / Malcolm Stewart (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'Yet another definitive and indispensable addition to the recorded repertoire of British music... Go forth, purchase, and enjoy!' - Fanfare, USA |
VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Kaye Ballard, Ann Hampton Calloway, Tammy Grimes, Mary Cleere Haran, Dorothy Loudon, Sula, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] 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. |
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. |
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) |
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) |
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... |
FALCONIERI / FRESCOBALDI / MERULA / UCCELLINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Amours, Zephyrs & Sirenes La Turbulente [ Naive / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] La Turbulente: Susi Möhlmeier, Frédérique Thouvenot (recorders), Claire Giardelli (cello), Mirella Giardelli (keyboard & organ), Pascal Monteilhet (theorb & lute) |
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... |
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) |
The Libertines
MARBECKS RARE: The Libertines [ Rough Trade / Smash Music / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] |
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 |
MICHAEL HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn, (M.): 5 Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert (conductor) [ Musical Heritage Society / CD - released 1/Jun/1996 ] Musicologist Karl Geiringer has claimed that Michael Haydn has not received the recognition he deserves from posterity, taking the view that his church music, his choruses for male voices, and many of his instrumental works are on a respectable level... |
Luscious Jackson
MARBECKS RARE: Electric Honey [ Grand Royal / Capitol / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Australasian issue. |