Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins), Alan Claire Trio, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jealousy [ EMI Music / CD - released 26/Jul/2005 ] A classic album from these two masters of their art. Full of fun and infectious music-making, the recording is supplemented here with tracks from the 1975 LP 'Fascinatin' Rhythm'. |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / DVORAK / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / BLOCH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Yehudi Menuhin plays favourite encores Yehudi Menuhin (violin) [ Biddulph / CD - released 21/Jun/1996 ] These discs feature a collection of shorter, virtuosic pieces that Menuhin often performed at the end of concerts, with Biddulph Recordings releasing a series of these remastered recordings Piano - Ferguson Webster (tracks: 4, 9, 10, 17), Hendrik... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: The Sonatas for Cello and Piano Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Jun/1987 ] Grammy Awards 29th Awards (1986) Best Chamber Music Recording [for sonata no 4 & variation] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3 (Complete) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) Leonidas Kavakos (violin) [ Sony Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2017 ] "The quality of their playing is never in doubt, and the ensemble is faultless. There's tremendous authority in the assertive movements...but there could be something more personal in the more wistfully introspective ones." The Guardian |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / MAX BRUCH / GEORGES ENESCO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Bruch ./ Enesco Yuri Bashmet (viola) & Mikhail Muntian (piano) [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 10/Aug/1991 ] "Yuri Bashmet (viola) and Mikhail Muntian (piano) are highly praised for their RCA recordings....MusicWeb International praises their collaborative performance style, describing them as a "true duo" with "strong readings". |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: Complete Waltzes Zoltan Kocsis (piano) [ Philips Insignia / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] Zoltan Kocsis won the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition in 1970, and made his first concert tour of the United States in the following year. He received the Liszt Prize in 1973, and the Kossuth Prize in 1978 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi per due (Verdi For Two) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Roberto Alagna (tenor) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Tenor and soprano bring meltingly beautiful tone and impeccable legato" BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Famous Opera Choruses (from Aida, Carmen, Fidelio, Nabucco, Tannhauser, Il Trovatore & Die Zauberflote) Dresden State Opera Chorus / Staatskapelle Dresden / Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus / Covent Garden Royal Opera / Staatskapelle Dresden / etc [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 25/Jan/2003 ] Eloquence - the specially priced quality label from Europe |
THE STRAUSS FAMILY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: New Year's Concert 1987 Kathleen Battle (soprano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] "A splendid and indispensable issue for all admirers of Karajan and Johann Strauss.." Gramopohone |
HANDEL / ALLEGRI / TALLIS / BYRD / GIBBONS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The World of King's King's College Choir, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, with Simon Preston (organ) [ Decca Records / CD - released 13/Jan/2000 ] From the plaintive 'Miserere' to the dramatic 'Zadok The Priest', this is the best of the King's College Choir. |
LOWELL LIEBERMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liebermann: Piano Concertos Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lowell Liebermann [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "...his playing is both rich in poetic insight and alive to the tonal allure of the score … an outstanding release that can be warmly recommended' (Hi-Fi News) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis William Kendall, Charlotte Margiono, Alastair Miles, Catherine Robbin / English Baroque Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / John Elliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Gramophon Archiv / CD - released 16/Apr/1992 ] "A disc that revealed Gardiner's Beethoven credentials but which also showed off his magnificent Monterverdi Choir as it edged into the 19th century. Another Record of the Year." Gramophone [100 greatest classical recordings of all time] |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No.5, Op.47 The Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1987 ] Originally recording made at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, November 1986 |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: String Quartets Vol 3 [No 17 K.458 & No 18 K.464] Alberni Quartet [ IMP Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/1992 ] "The recorded sound and balance are impeccable." |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Piano Concerto / Works for solo piano Aldo Ciccolini (piano) / Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo, Sylvain Cambreling [ EMI Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/1992 ] "(The Concerto) is enjoyable in its way with plenty of his easy-going melodiousness, and is played with apparent conviction, or at least with professional vigour, by Ciccolini and the Monte Carlo orchestra under Cambreling." (Gramophone) |
ARNOLD SCHOENBRG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw; Six Orchestral Songs; Chamber Symphony Alessandra Marc (soprano) John Tomlinson (narrator), Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli [ Teldec Elatus / CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] Born in Venice in 1946, Giuseppe Sinopoli began studying music at the age of twelve. He later studied both music and medicine (in which he received his doctorate), as well as, in recent years, archaeology. |
FRANZ LISZT / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky/Liszt: First Piano Concertos Alice Sara Ott (piano) / Munchner Philharmoniker, Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "What makes these performances stand out is Ott's thoughtful approach to both concertos, eschewing empty display and bringing weight, detail and a range of colours to the solo parts. These bring their own rewards." (Gramophone) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 - Nos 1, 2, 4, 6 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato / CD - released 24/Apr/1987 ] A transformative force in historically informed performance, Ton Koopman is renowned as a conductor, harpsichordist and organist. In 1979, aged 35, he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in the city where he had studied with the great Dutch... |
HAYDN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Andre Watts at Carnegie Hall Andre Watts (piano) [ EMI / CD - released 15/Dec/1988 ] Recorded in performance April 6th, 1988, during the artist's 25th anniversary season. |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) / Gaspard de la Nuit / etc Andrei Gavrilov (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ EMI / CD - released 20/Apr/1985 ] When this album was originally released in 1978, Gramophone said: "... However high your expectations may be, I would be surprised to learn that they were disappointed ... This newcomer is second to none in both works," and praised the young Rattle... |