MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch: Trio in C minor, Op. 5 / 8 Pieces, Op. 83 Ensemble Instrumental "Contrasts", with Freddy Arteel (clarinet) [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Recorded in Belgium |
PARRY / BYRD / HAYDN / MOZART / TOMKINS / FRANCK / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Eton College Chapel Choir, - Hear my words Eton College Chapel Choir, with David Goode-organ [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "..the chief impression one is left with after hearing this disc is the excellence and polish of the choir ... this is a fine and very enjoyable disc. The performance standard is uniformly very high" MusicWeb International |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 1980 with complete libretto) Eva Czapò, Benedetta Pecchioli, Gastone Sarti, Gino Orlandini, Mario Chiappi / Coro Della Radio Televisione Della Svizzera Italiana, Bruno Rigacci [ Nuova Era / 2 CD Box Set - released 21/Jun/1997 ] Recording Date: October 26, 1980 Recording Location: Lugano, Svizzera, Auditorio RSI |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Corelli: Concerto Grossi, Op. 6 Genesis Baroque [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Sumptuous and refined…Genesis Baroque is a unique and polished - and importantly, welcome - voice in the vibrant Melbourne Baroque music scene." CutCommon |
PIAZZOLLA / ELGAR / SARASATE / MOZART / RAVEL / BERNSTEIN / RANEAU / SAINT-SAENS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: BBC Proms 99 - Artists and music from BBC Proms 1999 Gidon Kremer, Maxim Venerov (violin) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Dawn Upshaw, Deborah Voigt (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Teldec / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] This double CD features artists appearing in the BBC Proms 1999. Note that these are recordings taken from previously released material and are note recorded from the actual proms. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 "Elvira Madigan" & 24 Glenn Gould (piano), CBC Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind / Rosina Lhevinne (piano), The Juilliard Orchestra, Jean Morel [ CBS Masterworks / CD - released 12/Nov/1985 ] Recorded in 1960 & 1962 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Preludes Book 1 / Images Oubliees / Deux Arabesques Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) [ ASV / CD - released 1/Jul/1990 ] Fergus-Thompson has been a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music since 1996. He was awarded a FRCM in May 2010. He has given masterclasses throughout the UK, USA, Australia and the Far East (Wiki) |
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,... |
ALBINONI / CIMAROSA / LOTTI / MARCELLO / SAMMARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Concerti per Oboe Heinz Holliger (oboe) / I Musici [ Philips / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] Recorded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 7/1986 |
TOMASO ALBINONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Albinoni: 6 Oboe Concertos Heinz Holliger (oboe) Maurice Bourgue (oboe) / I Musici [ Philips Insignia / CD - released 12/Jun/1992 ] This recording features the great oboist Heinz Holliger along with Maurice Bourgue in the double concertos |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: La Finta Semplice (complete opera recorded in 1983) Helen Donath, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Holl, Teresa Berganza / Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager(cond) [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "Helen Donath is her usual bright-toned and fluent self and she has a fine trill; Teresa Berganza is lovely too, nuanced as always and still in creamy voice. Light and springy, even more delectable is Jutta-Renate Ihloff in the soubrette role." |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas / Masses Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe/ [ Virgin Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 8/Nov/1999 ] 'Wonderful works, affectionately realized with solo contributions of distinction... strongly recommended.' (Gramophone) |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schutz: Opus ultimate (Der Schwanengesang) The Hilliard Ensemble, Knabenchor Hannover, London Baroque, Heinz Hennig [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Mar/1996 ] The male-voice Hilliard Ensemble was founded in 1974 and was disbanded after 40 years in 2014. Its singers were praised by Gramophone: "the superlative purity of their vibrato-free tone, perfect blend and balance of voices and immaculate intonation" |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Athalia Dominique Horwitz, Ruth Ziesak, Jana Buchner / MDR Symphony Orchestra & Choir. Jun Markl [ Mdr Klassik / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Incidental music for the French play Athalie by Jean Racine. The original score included an overture, a famous "War March of the Priests," and vocal pieces, originally for female voices and piano, later scored for full orchestra. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: Preludes Op.28 Ivo Pogorelich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Pogorelić won the Casagrande Competition in Terni, Italy in 1978 and the Montreal International Musical Competition in 1980. In 1980 he entered the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw but was eliminated in the third round... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE- Shostakovich: String Quartets No.1, 4 & 9 Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] The Jerusalem Quartet was founded in 1993, and began its training in Jerusalem, under the direction of the violinist Avi Abramovitch. |
BOHM / de GRIGNY / C.P.E. BACH / J.S. BACH / MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Phelps Organ at Hexham John Green (at the Phelps Organ at Hexham) [ The Classical Recording Company / CD - released 5/Aug/1997 ] " The 1974 Phelps organ is obviously a delight to both performer and sound-recordist alike." Review |
LUKAS FOSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foss: Piano Concertos / Elegy for Anne Frank Jon Nakamatsu, Yakov Kasman (piano) / Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St.Clair, with Lukas Foss (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/May/2001 ] Featuring Cliburn medalists Jon Nakamatsu (gold) and Yakov Kasman (silver) |
BACH / BRAHMS / MAHLER / SCHUMANN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kathleen Ferrier Edition (the complete recordings) Kathleen Ferrier (alto) with various orchestras and accompanists [ Decca Collector's Edition / 10 CD Box Set - released 2/Jul/2004 ] This collector edition now makes available in a compact form the 10 CDs which formed the Ferrier Edition which was first released just over 10 years ago; several of these CDs have not been available for some time now. |