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PHILIPS GATES / FRANK BRIDGE / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gates Bridge Barber - String Quartets The Eberle Quartet [ Naim / CD - released 30/Jul/2001 ] Recorded at the Jacqueline de Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford, January 1997 |
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JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Zaimont: Tale Of Abram & Isaac / Sacred Service Various Artists incls James Maddalena (baritone), Margaret Kohler (soprano), Everest String Quartet, Samuel Adler, Frances Lucey (soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "This is one of the most consistently rewarding of the fascinating Milken Archive series. So much so that it leaves one wanting to hear more" MusicWeb |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI / KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Varsovia Quartet play String Quartets from Poland The Varsovia Quartet [ Olympia / CD - released 1/Apr/1989 ] Recorded in Poland by Polskie Nagrania, 1982 and 1983 Front Cover: "Atma", Szymanowski's House And Museum In Zakomane, Poland |
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HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 4, 6 & 14 Danubius Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "I love to write quartets. One could say that it is a mania." Villa-Lobos made this confession...in Paris in the spring of 1958. He had completed his seventeenth and final quartet the year before. |
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VINCENT D'INDY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: D'Indy: Musique de Chambre [Incls Sextet, Op. 92] Marietta Kratz, Stefan Pintev (violins) Bernhard Gmelin, Sebastian Gaede (cellos), Susanne Kellermann, Thomas Oepen (violas), Caroline Weichert (piano [ Koch Schwann / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded on 7./11./12. 10. 1993 at NDR-Studio, Hamburg. |
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ALBAN BERG / GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berg: Lyric Suite / Verdi: String Quartet Vogler Quartett [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] Originally released Feb 2007 |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: String Quartets Op.33 4 - 6 / Fragment Op.103 Weller Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 12/Apr/1992 ] "The Haydn quartets (are) most beautifully played... buoyant and colourful." ClassicalNet |
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CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: String Quartets Volume 1 [incls Little Suite for Strings] Zapolski Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Feb/2008 ] "They are marvellous pieces and their neglect outside Scandinavia strikes me as quite unaccountable." Gramophone |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martinu: Double Concerto / Concerto for String Quartet / Sinfonietta La Jolla / etc Jean-François Heisser, Alain Planès (pianos), Jean Camosi (timpani), Brandis Quartet, French National Orchestra, James Conlon [ Erato Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/1998 ] "Conlon keeps a tight rein on things, making the most of the edgy ostinati and driving neo-classical allegros...on a purely artistic level these are pretty compelling performances." MusicWeb |
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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." |
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GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Vocal works Artemis Quartet / Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet / Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini: Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet for Strings Europa Galante/Biondi [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 12/Mar/2001 ] "All four works are attractive and the playing is superb, making the disc worth investigating." Sunday Times |
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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. |
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ERNEST BLOCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Quartet No. 1 The Portland String Quartet [ Arabesque Recordings / CD - released 10/Dec/1985 ] Arabesque's survey of Bloch's chamber music is not to be ignored. The company's attention to every detail is impressive indeed. For example in all six cases the notes are by Suzanne Bloch, the composer's daughter and dedicatee of the Fifth... |