GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Incidental Music & Orchestral Music (Incls 'Pelleas et Melisande', 'Masques et Bergamasques' & 'Alegie') Frederica von Stade (soprano) Nicolai Gedda (tenor) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "Plasson shows himself to be a particularly sensitive interpreter of Faure." - Gramophone Magazine |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Telemann: Suites / Concerto in E minor Freiburg Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Nov/1994 ] "I was reminded time and again that Telemann's music is extraordinarily good, and amazed at the quality of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra's performances. This is an unmitigated joy." Gramophone .. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete opera with libretto) Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, José van Dam, Nicolai Ghiaurov / La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "one of the most beautiful Verdi sets ever made. The playing of the orchestra is brilliantly incisive as well as refined, so that the drama is underlined by extra sharpness of focus..with electrifying choral singing as well." (Penguin Guide) |
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 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 'Emperor ' Friedrich Gulda (piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Horst Stein [ Decca Karussell / CD - released 20/Jan/1993 ] This CD features two Beethoven concertos by one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century Recorded: Sofiensaal, Vienna, 1970 & 1971 |
FRITZ BRUN
Brun: Complete Orchestral Works Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2019 ] "...if you have yet to explore the music of this Swiss master, this release affords a very reasonably priced way of immersing yourself into the gorgeous musical world of Fritz Brun." Fanfare |
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. |
OFFENBACH / BIZET / VERDI / PUCCINI / MOZART / etc
Opera auf Deutsch Fritz Wunderlich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ernst Haefliger, Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Sándor Kónya, Ingeborg Hallstein, + [ Deutsche Grammophon / 15 CD Box Set - released 22/Mar/2020 ] This collection is a real treasure trove for opera lovers and tells the astonishing story of an era when all the many municipal opera houses in the German-speaking world performed the standard opera repertoire in the local language only. |
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bantock: Cello Sonatas Andrew Fuller (cello) Michael Dussek (piano) Lucy Wakeford (harp) [ Dutton / CD - released 23/Oct/2000 ] "With eminently truthful sound and balance throughout, this enterprising collection deserves a warm welcome." Andrew Aschenbach, The Gramophone |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: St.Matthew Passion (recorded in 1954) Anton Dermota, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Grummer, Otto Edlemann / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/1995 ] "Furtwangler mustered a conspicuously fine group of soloists, notable among whom in the context of this work are Anton Dermota and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Their contributions perhaps provide the strongest reasons for wanting this St Matthew" Gramop |
RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / de FALLA / GRANDOS / GINASTERA / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Recital & Improvisations Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2005 ] "No matter how jaw-dropping her miraculously clean-fingered negotiation of such as Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, it's what happens between the notes, the way she grippingly characterises everything she plays." BBC Music October 2005 Instrumental Choice |
LECUONA / MONTERO / ESTEVEZ / GINASTERA / CARRENO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gabriela Montero - Solatino Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Montero has a phenomenal as an improviser...And what these amount to is a charming palimpsest from the Latin American classical tradition...everything has the freshness of novelty" BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gabriela Montero - Bach & Beyond: Improvisations on themes Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Music / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] One of the world's most exciting new talents lends her unique improvisational skills to the work of J S Bach. |
GABRIELI / BENDINELLI / etc
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Early Music |
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 |
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 |
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) |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Monteverdi: Orfeo (complete opera with libretto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Julianne Baird, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Nancy Argenta / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gard [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1987 ] "This is an impressively musical Orfeo. With John Eliot Gardiner in charge of such a strong cast of singers and players, it could hardly have been otherwise. Most enigmatic of all is Anthony Rolfe Johnson's acting of the central role." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Requiem / Quattro Pezzi Sacri [Four Sacred Pieces] Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luca Canonici, Alastair Miles, Donna Brown / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Philips / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "Gardiner, using period forces, is searingly dramatic and superbly recorded, with fine detail, combining transparent textures, weight and atmospheric bloom...The soloists make a characterful quartet." Penguin Guide |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Octet Gaudier Ensemble [ ASV / CD - released 27/Feb/1990 ] First Choice - BBC 'Building a Library' |