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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Tara Erraught, Kate Royal, Lars Woldt, Michael Kraus / Robin Ticciati (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Strauss's musically ravishing comic masterpiece is given a visual updating in director Richard Jones's stylish and 'gently subversive' Glyndebourne staging, one which offers 'a dreamlike distortion not just of Vienna's 18th-century past, but also of... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu / Luca Pisaroni / Miah Persson / Anke Vondung / Ivan Fischer (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Blu-Ray 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera |
GUILLAUME DUFAY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dufay: Music for St James the Greater Gothic Voices / Christopher Page (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE GRAMOPHONE AWARDS WINNER |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1985) Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Justino Diaz / Vienna State Opera Choir & Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deusche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] This famous film of the world's best-loved opera, directed by Herbert von karajan, features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time. - "overwhelming in its truthfulness to the tragic vision of Carmen", wrote the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: My Spirit Sang all Day The Graduate Choir, NZ / Terence Maskell, conductor / Claire Caldwell, piano [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 11/Aug/2005 ] In March, 2001, a few singers met to formalise an idea which had been growing for some time - that was to establish a choir which would have as its nucleus a number of singers who had been former members of the acclaimed choirs of Aorere College,... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Organ Music of Herbert Howells Graham Barber plays the Organ of Hereford Cathedral [ Priory / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Recorded in Hereford Cathedral on 10/11 January 1995 |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Falstaff / Froissart / Romance for Bassoon & Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, with Graham Sheen (bassoon) [ Teldec Apex / CD - released 4/Jul/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine: Re-issue of the Month - August 2005 |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Manon (complete opera recorded in 2007) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Natalie Dessay/ Rolando Villazon / Samuel Ramey / Victor Pablo Perez (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/Apr/2008 ] G : - "Natalie Dessay and Rolando Villazón bring to their characters the generosity of their commitment...the French soprano Natalie Dessay is poised to succeeding brilliantly her evolution towards the repertoire of lyric sopranos" www.forumopera.com |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Dancer's Dream: Romeo & Juliet The great ballet productions by Rudolf Nureyev. [ Arthaus / DVD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] A documentary dedicated to the great ballet productions by Rudolf Nureyev. Romeo and Juliet, composed by Serge Prokofieff in 1935, is one of the few long great ballets that are also known to a broader public. In contrast to Swan Lake, Sleeping... |
ANTONIN DVOARK / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos (with Bruch: Kol nidrei) Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy [ Sony Masterworks Heritage / CD - released 6/Dec/1997 ] Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro in Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a child, he was taught violin and piano by his father. After seeing and hearing the cello, he was determined to become a cellist and was given his first... |
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J. S. BACH / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sokolov - Complete Naive recordings [10 CD set] Grigory Sokolov (Piano) [ Naive / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "[Grigory Sokolov] has gained an almost mythical status amongst music-lovers and pianophiles throughout the world, and is now considered by many to be the world's greatest living pianist." (Musicweb) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Serenades Op. 8 & Op. 25 Grumiaux Trio, with Maxence Larrieu (flute) [ Philips Duo / CD - released 20/Mar/1990 ] Recorded: The Netherlands, 1/1968 (Op. 8); 5/1968 (Op. 25) |
VARIOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; The Hoffnung Festival of Music - Royal Festival Hall 1988 Guests include Bill Oddie, Jane Glover, Jill Gormez, Robin Ashby, Felicity Lott, Joseph Horovitz,, Richard Watkins, etc [ Double Decca / CD - released 27/Aug/2014 ] On February 12th & 13th, 1988, two reprise concerts were performed and recorded at the Royal Festival Hall and released by Decca. Many distinguished guests appeared, including Donald Swann, Annetta Hoffnung (playing the role of "orchestral maid"),... |
ROBIN MILFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milford: Fishing by Moonlight Guildhall Strings, with Julian Sperry (flute) Julian Milford (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Aug/2004 ] 'This is music for an English summer evening, rewarding in its unpretentious, melodious, nicely crafted way; especially when played with sympathy and elegance by Robert Salter and the excellent Guildhall Strings' Gramophone |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation] - Highlights Gundula Janowitz, Fritz Wunderlich, Werner Krenn, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Wiener Singverein, Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Herbert v [ Deutsche Grammophon Classikon / CD - released 30/Aug/1994 ] Recorded Berlin - Jesus-Christus-Kirche 2/1966, 9 & 11 1968, 4/1969 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 [Complete 1963 recordings on CD & Blu-ray audio] Gundula Janowitz, Hilde Rassel Majdan, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Gramophone / 6 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Jul/2022 ] The classic recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies conducted by master Karajan with the addition of a Blu-ray audio of all the symphonies plus rehearsals. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete Opera recorded in 1969) Gundula Janowitz, James King, Peter Schrier, Hermann Prey / Straatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe [ EMI Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/1992 ] "Gundula Janowitz sings the role of Ariadne with incomparable line and style. Her knowledge of Strauss singing has never been bettered." (review) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (recorded live in 2004) The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts / DVD - released 12/Jan/2005 ] Quite simply one of the best performances of this great work I've ever come across: moving, intense and with Abbado's long experience of conducting this work fully apparent despite the youth of the players. Beautifully and accurately played... |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gyorgy Sandor Plays Bartok Gyorgy Sandor (piano) / Vienna Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio, Baden-Baden, Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg [ Vox Legends / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Sándor remained friends with Bartók throughout his life, and was one of only ten people who attended Bartók's funeral in 1945. Sándor played the premiere of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 on 8 February 1946. |
BACH / CHOPIN / HAYDN / MOZART / SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Ingrid Haebler Ingrid Haebler (piano) / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra [ Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "Ingrid was always admired for the grace and shapeliness of her phrasing, her pellucid cantabile touch and her crystalline articulation, all of which can be heard in the Mozart items on these discs." Gramophone |
