The Lemonheads
MARBECKS RARE: Come On Feel The Lemonheads [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 12/Oct/1993 ] |
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) |
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. |
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 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (June 2002 |
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... |
Marc Hurtado & Alan Vega
MARBECKS RARE: Sniper [ Le Son du Maquis / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
J. S. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Maria Yudina Maria Yudina (piano) [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol 99 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Sviatoslav Richter said of her playing:..."She was immensely talented and a keen advocate of the music of her own time: she played Stravinsky, whom she adored, Hindemith, Krenek and Bartók." |
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. |
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) |
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 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / FRANZ LISZT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Maurizio Pollini I Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Maurizio Pollini (born 5 January 1942) is an Italian pianist. He is known for performances of compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, among others. He has also championed and performed works by contemporary composers such as Pierre Boulez,... |
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... |
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. |
FINZI / GURNEY / FARRAR / BROWNE / KELLY / BUTTERWORTH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: War's Embers: a legacy of songs by composers who perished or suffered in World War 1 Michael George (bass) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'If you enjoy English song, this set is a must ... The singers are Britain's best, and their excellence is matched by the accompaniments of Clifford Benson' (BBC Music Magazine) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rare Mozart Arias Nathalie Stutzmann (soprano) / Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/Jan/1999 ] Recorded July 1994 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, Germany |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Orchestral Music NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2004 ] Schmidt-Isserstedt and the NDRSO undertook the first postwar tour of the UK by a German orchestra in politically sensitive conditions during 1951. |
MARBECKS RARE: Nightmares on Wax
In a Space Outta Sound [ Warp Records / CD - released 14/Mar/2006 ] This is a contemporary and varied album of many textures, tempos and tones, with harmonic inflections from cultures beyond these shores. A personal retrospective journey that also unwittingly reflects the urban multi-cultural landscape we live in... |