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GORECKI / PART / MARTIN / BARBER / SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Evocation of the Spirit Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw director [ Telarc Records / CD - released 22/Sep/1995 ] "No one has done more than Shaw to raise the standards of choral singing" ClassicalNet |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (complete opera recorded in 1971) Robert Tear, Elizabeth Harwood, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Luxon / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Meredith Davies [ EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] "Elizabeth Harwood and Robert Tear are both excellent as Vreli and Sali, winningly characterful and clearly focused...[Shirley-Quirk] is firm and forthright with an apt hint of the sinister" Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Theodora HWV68 (complete oratorio recorded in 1991) Roberta Alexander, Jochen Kowalski, Jard van Nes, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/1991 ] "Harnoncourt treats this, the most operatic of Handel's oratorios, with considerable drama - including some eccentric tempos." BBC Music |
GOUNOD / FRANCK / ADAM / FAURE / BERLIOZ / BOULANGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sanctus - Sacred Songs Roberto Alagna (tenor) / City Of Toulouse Choir, Les Petits Chanteurs À La Croix Potencée, City Of Toulouse Orchestra, Michel Olasson [ EMI Music / CD - released 1/Dec/1996 ] Recorded : Toulouse, Eglise Notre-Dame de la Daurade, 2-6.V.1996 |
ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Caldara - In dolce amore Robin Johannsen (soprano) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/May/2014 ] "Academia Montis Regalis and Alessandro De Marchi accompany with robust directness or lighter delicacy as required, and Johannsen's versatile singing helps to reveal an enriching glimpse of Caldara's virtues." Gramophone |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Concertos pour Violoncelle (for cello) Roel Dieltiens (cello) / Richte van der Meer (cello) / Ensemble Explorations / Roel Dieltiens [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "An excellent soloist, a creative band playing one-to-a-part and a beautifully rounded recorded sound. This is an exceptional release." Early Music Review |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda / Arie e duetti Rolando Villazon, Topi Lehtipuu, Patrizia Ciofi / Le Concert Astree / Emmanuelle Haim [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) "The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi's beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2007) |
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PUCCINI / GOUNOD / DONIZETTI / VERDI / MASSENET / TCHAIKOVSKY / CILEA / BIZET / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Viva Villazon! - Best Of Rolando Villazon [with bonus DVD - Live in Prague] Rolando Villazon (tenor) [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD/DVD - released 12/Nov/2007 ] The most exciting tenor during the first decade of the new millennium has undoubtedly been Rolando Villazón. He has a charming appearance, is a good actor, has a voice that besides brilliance and beauty can also express all kinds of nuance, he has... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Rosalyn Tureck I Rosalyn Tureck (piano) [ Philips / EMI / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2006 ] This collection of Rosalyn Tureck's Bach partitas was, until now, a long-sought gem. The recordings, dating from the 1950s and recorded for EMI, have won praise from all corners for their mix of erudition and comfortable, at-ease command. Tureck, one... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2002 at the Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin) Dorothea Roschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Werner Gura / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ TDK/Euroarts DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "It is very well performed. All the singers are on good form, and work well together in this most ensemble-based of Mozart operas. The picture quality and sound quality are both excellent, and there are loads of index points." (MusicWeb) |
PHILLIPS / DELIUS / RUTTER / ARNOLD / WOOD / COATES / ADDINSELL / SMYTH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Halcyon Days - A Treasury of British Light Music (Five CD set) Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Barry Wordsworth, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, City of Prague Philharmonic, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherl [ ASV White Line / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2003 ] "There is much to enjoy in this well-filled, spiritedly performed tray of musical canapes." - Gramophone Sept 2001 |
JOHN ANSELL / DAVID GOW / PETER HOPE / WILLIAM ALWYN / GARETH GLYN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Overtures Vol 2 (Including 'The Moor Of Venice' & 'A Snowdon Overture' Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/2003 ] "This is the second disc in another excellent series devoted to the rich seam of British Light Overtures, an area in which the composers from this sceptred isle were extremely prolific." ClassicalNet |
ARNOLD / BENNETT / RUTTER / BLEZARD / HURD / FANSHAWE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Music Discoveries Vol 4 Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "There is much to enjoy in this well-filled, spiritedly performed tray of musical canapes." - Gramophone Sept 2001 |
MALCOLM ARNOLD / WILLIAM ALWYN / MALCOLM SARGENT / RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT / GORDON JACOB / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Music - World Premieres Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/1999 ] ".... a digestible selection of the unfamiliar and the established. Well up to the now expected standard, it hardly need be said. I enjoyed this disc as much as the others in the series. These are lithe and insightful traversals." MusicWeb (on an... |
GARETH WALTERS / MICHAEL ROBERTS / FREDERICK DELIUS / WILLIAM WALTON / JOHN ADDISON / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British String Miniatures I (Including 'Two Aquarelles' & 'Fiddler's Green'' Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/2003 ] "Well up to the now expected standard, it hardly need be said. I enjoyed this disc as much as the others in the series. These are lithe and insightful traversals." MusicWeb |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 25/Mar/1993 ] Recorded in Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, June 1991 |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: The London Symphonies: Nos 94 'Surprise', 100 'Military', 104 'London' Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 1/Jan/1982 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1761-1800) Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guide |
ARNOLD BAX / RICHARD ARNELL / STEPHEN DODGSON / NORMAN DEL MAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: English Music for Strings Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra; Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "To avoid sounding mawkish, this kind of idiom needs a really focused sound in performance: Martin Yates conjures exactly that from the RLPO string section, which responds with serious class" Classic FM |
COATES / BINGE / DUNN / KETELBEY /GRAINGER / DUNCAN / FARNON / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Classics (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Portrait of a Flirt') Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves / Studio Two Concert Orchestra, Reginald Kilbey / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Lanchbery [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] "This is music to cherish and enjoy and these performances are top notch. The sound is generally very good...Don't be without this scrumptious disk." (MusicWeb Nov 2008) |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Brigg Fair / Koanga / Hassan / A Song Before Sunrise / etc Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Seaman [ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] "This latest release in the Royal Philharmonic Collection is good value as a basic introduction to a range of Delius's orchestral music....there are excellent solos from the principals, and a luxuriant Song before Sunrise." BBC |
