ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico, op.3 / 4 Concertos for Wind Instruments Alan Loveday (violin) William Bennett (flute) Martin Gatt (bassoon) Neil Black (oboe) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/1994 ] The many recordings Neville Marriner made with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and originally released on the ARGO label include several albums of Vivaldi. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) (Complete Oratorio in German) Alastair Miles, Jard van Nes, Helen Donath / Israel Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Teldec / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1993 ] Contains comprehensive book and translations |
GEORGE LLOYD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lloyd: Eleventh Symphony Albany Symphony Orchestra, George Lloyd [ Albany / CD - released 2/Jul/1990 ] "The performance has all the power and freshness of discovery of a masterwork and the recording is splendidly worthy of the music" Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: String Quartets Vol 1 [No 14 K.387 & No 15 K.421] Alberni Quartet [ IMP Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/1992 ] "The recorded sound and balance are impeccable." |
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." |
ERIC SATIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Inspirations insolites Eric Satie Aldo Ciccolini, Michel Legrand, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mady Mesple, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc [ Erato / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1990 ] The music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful - and surprising - as ever. These 2 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw together more unusual and rarely recorded repertoire. |
CESAR FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck: Preludes / Symphonic Variations Aldo Ciccolini (piano), with Liège Orchestra, Paul Strauss [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/1995 ] Ciccolini was a celebrated interpreter and advocate of the piano music of the French composers. |
BRUSSELMANS / SCHOEMAKER / De JONG / ABSIL / ROUSSEL / De BOECK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Flemish Rhapsodies BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra (Brussels), Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 12/Jan/2009 ] There are some interesting similitudes in all these orchestral Rhapsodies - other than the fact that all of them were written in an 8-year span (from Absil 1928 to Roussel 1936), except for August de Boeck's Dahomeyan Rhapsody (1893): they are loud,... |
ALEXANDER SCARLATTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scarlatti: Alexandre Tharaud plays Scarlatti Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] "Tharaud brings all of the resources of the modern grand piano to Scarlatti's music and is unapologetically pianistic in his approach." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb March 2011) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Piano Works [Incls 'Suite Bergamasque' and 'Children's Corner'] Alexis Weissenberg (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] In 1947, Weissenberg made his New York City debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and George Szell in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and with Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy. |
BACH / CHOPIN / DEBUSSY / PROKOFIEV / STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alexis Weissenberg Alexis Weissenberg (piano) [ EMI / BMG / Philips / Sony / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] In 1947, Weissenberg made his New York City debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and George Szell in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and with Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy, with which Weissenberg won the Leventritt... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 29 "Hammerklavier" & 26 "Les adieux" Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Original recording 1994 and 1995 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Brendel II Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Brendel frequently performed the music of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. He has played relatively few 20th century works but has performed Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Piano Concerto No.2 in A major / Legendes / La lugubre Gondola Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 20/Feb/1982 ] Recorded: London, 6/1981. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos: Nos 20 & 23 / 2 Concert Rondos Alfred Brendel (piano) / Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Mozart Collection / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced "some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and... |
BRAHMS / BUSONI / CHOPIN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / MENDELSSOHN / WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Brendel III Alfred Brendel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "Brendel actually revels in the gorgeous fabrics of sound from the Années de pèlerinage numbers and somehow balances the muscle-flexing virtuosity of Totentanz with a respect for its novel ideas-there's both surface and substance here." |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Mozart in Paris Orcestre de Chambre Fernand Oubradous, Fernand Oubradous, with various soloists [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "This recording of all of Mozart's compositions from his visits to Paris in 1763 & 1778 & performed by the Fernand Oubradous Orchestra has long been seen to be the definitive recording of these pieces" |
HENRY KRIEGER
Krieger: Side Show Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner / Original 1997 Broadway Cast [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Side Show is a musical by Bill Russell (book and lyrics) and Henry Krieger (music) based on the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who became famous stage performers in the 1930s. |
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) |
MANUEL de FALLA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Falla: Obras para piano Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 21/Jul/1992 ] De Larrocha made numerous recordings of the solo piano repertoire and in particular the works of composers of her native Spain. She is best known for her recordings of the music of Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou, and Isaac... |