Lykke Li
Marbecks Rare: Wounded Rhymes [ Warner Music U.K. / CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] Tremendous! With 'Wounded Rhymes', Lykke Li has created a ten song album that sounds like no other. |
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 ] |
ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo Maria Cristina Kiehr, Rosa Dominguez, Bernarda Fink, Andreas Scholl / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra / RenAC Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - "...among [the arias] is a hypnotic contralto solo, sung beautifully by Bernarda Fink...[and] two florid arias by the outstanding alto Andreas Scholl...René Jacobs has a well-nigh... |
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
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 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) |
The Mission
MARBECKS RARE: God's Own Medicine [ Umc / CD - released 21/May/2007 ] Even though the Cult had already mastered the art of mashing goth with more traditional elements of classic rock, the Mission's debut, God's Own Medicine, was the marker for goth rock's invasion of the U.K. charts for a good chunk of the late '80s.... |
The Naked and Famous
MARBECKS RARE: This Machine [ Round Trip Mars Music New Zealand / CD - released 8/May/2008 ] Quite possibly the best Auckland band you've never heard (yet), The Naked and Famous are based around the ferociously talented pairing of composer / control freak Thom Powers and vocal siren / lyricist Alisa Xayalith, though they operate as a 4 piece... |
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... |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Medtner: Piano works (Incls Sonaten-Triade, Op 11 & Theme and variations in C sharp minor, Op 55) Nikolai Demidenko (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "I must be careful not to make this sound like an indiscriminate rave review, but what do you do when a disc of this calibre drops through your letterbox? An exceptionally fine disc indeed" Gramophone Magazine |
Of Montreal
MARBECKS RARE: Skeletal Lamping [ Pop Frenzy / CD - released 8/Dec/2008 ] The ninth studio album by Athens, Georgia-based group Of Montreal may be bizarre, complicated, and dense, but it's also packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. |