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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Recollection - Haydn Songs Martina Jankova (soprano), Gerard Wyss (piano) [ Supraphon / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Martina Janková is an accomplished singer with beautiful voice, lyrical and warm in tone...Martina already has an impressive discography and I hope to hear more from her in the future." (MusicWeb) |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martinu: Memorial to Lidice / Field Mass / Symphony No. 4 Ivan Kusnjer (baritone) / Czech Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlavek [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] "The luscious, intricately scored pages of the bighearted Fourth Symphony sound opulent in this recording...the playing is glorious, intoxicating in its richness and sure-footed poise." Gramophone |
HOWARD FERGUSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ferguson: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra / Amore langueo (with Finzi: Eclogue) Martyn Hill (tenor) Howard Shelley (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/1987 ] Belfast-born Ferguson's reputation as a composer rests on the nineteen published works that he wrote between 1928 and 1959. Rhythmic energy endows his music with its exciting sense of momentum, underpinned by his command of Baroque and Classical... |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Fighting The Waves Martyn Hill (tenor) Jagdish Mistry (violin) Hermann Kretzschmar (piano) / Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 24/May/1996 ] "It's always faintly depressed me how some concert-goers feel compelled to listen to music stony-faced, while some works abound with musical jokes. Antheil's musical pickpocketing is a riot." Gramophone |
GERLAD FINZI
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) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: If I Loved You - Love Duets from the Musicals Valerie Masterson, Thomas Allen / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards [ TER VIP Series / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] To have Valerie Masterson and Thomas Allen perform this recital of musical theater songs in the original stage orchestrations is indicative of a trend which is long overdue for the dissolution of the barriers between opera and musical theater. |
ERNEST CHAUSSON / JACQUES IBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chausson: Symphony in B flat / Ibert: Escales & Divertissement Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Mata [ Dorian / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] "Mata's performances of these highly contrasted pieces are all very fine and he gets a fine response from his orchestra...if this coupling appeals to you, you need not worry for each piece is given a highly idiomatic reading and a warm recorded sound |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No.4 Edith Mathis (soprano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] Recording: Berlin, Philharmonie, February 1979 |
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 |
J.S. BACH / J. C, BACH / von BIBER / J. SCHMELZER / J. BLOW / H. PURCELL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Matthew White - Elegeia Matthew White (countertenors) / Les Voix Baroques [ Analekta / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Recorded At - Église Saint-Augustin De Mirabel, Québec |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Matthias Goerne (Baritone), Barbara Bonney (Soprano), Sara Fulgoni (Mezzo-Soprano), Gosta Winbergh, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2003 ] "Riccardo Chailly's credentials as a Mahlerian cannot be faulted...Once more, where his own admirable orchestra is concerned, he gives a performance that is finely balanced, attentive to all-important detail and convincing as a whole." Gramophone |
HANNS EISLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie Op. 50 Matthias Goerne (baritone), Hendrikje Wangemann (soprano), Annette Markert (contralto), Peter Lika (bass) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Lothar Zagros [ Decca Records Entartete Musik / CD - released 22/Oct/1995 ] "The performance is very, very good indeed. It's not a "star turn" by any means. Zagrosek and his players direct all their energies to illuminate the work. Singers' diction is crisp." ClassicalNet |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 4: Heliopolis Matthias Goerne (baritone) Ingo Metzmacher (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "This is a simply unmissable recital, and for two prime reasons - the grave beauty of its programme and the corresponding beauty of the singer's voice." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Solo Vocal |
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Der fliegende Hollender [The Flying Dutchman] (highlights) Matti Salminen, Lisbeth Balslev, Robert Schunk, Anny Schlemm / Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele / Woldemar Nelsson [ Decca Laser line Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/1991 ] "The cast is more consistent than any, with Lisbeth Balslev as Senta firmer, sweeter and more secure than any current rival" Penguin Guide |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Brigg Fair, On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring, Summer night on the river, etc Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "A record to treasure. The greatest recordings made in stereo by the greatest British conductor at the peak of his career." - Gramophone |
HAYDN / TELEMANN / ALBINONI / HUMMEL / HANDEL / HERTEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Trumpet Concertos Maurice Andre (trumpet) / English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles MacKerras, etc [ EMI Classics Great Artists of the Century / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Maurice Andre is a superlative trumpet player...I don't remember the instrument as being anything like so docile and amenable as he makes it sound." (Gramophone) |
GABRIEL FAURE / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / CESAR FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: French Sonatas for Violin & Piano Maurice Hasson (violin) Christian Ivaldi (piano) [ IMP Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] Recorded in Cantor Recording Studio, University College, North Wales, April 1991 |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL & FRIENDS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Handel opera intermissions Maurice Steger (recorder) and Ensemble La Cetra [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] "Steger is brilliant when the music is lively. Into his fleetness he mixes zest, charm and impish humour, making you wonder how such artfulness, at such speed and with such nutty dexterity, is humanly possible." BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 13-15 Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] Reccording: Munich, Herkulessaal, 5 & 6 /1991 |
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... |
