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TCHAIKOVSKY / MOUSSORGSKY / LIADOV / GLINKA / ALABIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH / RACHMANINOV / RUBINSTEIN / SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Souvenirs d'enfance - Memories Of Childhood - Russian music Brigitte Engerer (piano) [ Mirare / CD - released 2/Apr/2007 ] Between 1969 and 1979 Brigitte Engerer won first prizes in perhaps the world's three most important competitions: the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels. A turning point in... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Schwanengesang / 5 Lieder Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Aribert Reimann (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] " Fassbaender's daring, all-in style precisely matched, indeed encouraged by Reimann's challenging, bold piano find their ideal vehicle in the searing, searching, innovative world of Schwanengesang." Gramophone |
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FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Lieder Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/Jun/1992 ] In addition to her operatic work, Fassbaender has performed in the concert hall as a Lieder singer and in movies, singing the role of Prince Orlofsky in the 1984 film production of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. (Wiki) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (piano version) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Moser (tenor) / Cyprien Katsaris (piano) [ Warner Maestro / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] "A worthwhile recording of the song-cycle that stands as the culmination of Mahler's contributions to the genre." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15 / Variations & Fugue on the Theme by Handel, Op.24 Bruno Leonardo Gelber (piano) / Manchen Philharmoniker, Franz-Paul Decker [ EMI Encore / CD - released 30/Sep/2005 ] Brahms' first piano concerto is the crowning accomplishment of his early years. Its only close rivals are the Serenade in D, Op. 11 and the B major trio, Op. 8. |
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CAMILLO SIVORI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sivori: The Complete Trios Bruno Pignata (violin) Riccardo Agosti (cello) Franco Giacosa (piano) [ Dynamic / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Camillo Sivori, Paganini's only pupil, can be considered not only the greatest performer of the Italian violin school after Paganini, but also one of the greatest virtuosi violinists of the nineteenth century. |
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ERIC COATES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Green Hills of Somerset - The Songs of Eric Coates Bryan Rayner Cook (baritone) Raphael Terroni (piano) [ ASV White Line / CD - released 1/Jul/1993 ] London-born Brian Rayner Cook is one of England's greatest baritone singers. A former member of British operatic group the Fires of London, formerly known as the Pierrot Players, Cook appeared in the premier performances of The Martyrdom of St Magnus |
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FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Encores Byron Janis (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] The original 35 mm Magnetic Film recording made on location in Moscow in 1961 & 1962 |
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GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martucci: La canzone dei ricordi [Song of Memories] / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Carlo Bruno (piano) Mirella Freni (soprano) / Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Muti [ Sony / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] "It's a forcefully dramatic reading: Muti coaxes some searing solo playing from his La Scala orchestra: the dark clarinets of 'Fior di ginestra', faintly echoed at the close, are superbly savage. The drawback (some will love it) is that more... |
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Carmen Mcrae, with Marshall Otwell (piano), with special guest, Zoot Sims (tenor sax)
Carmen Mcrae - For Lady Day [ RCA / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Recorded live at the Blue Note Club, New York. December 31, 1983 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 57 'Appassionata' & Piano Sonata Op. 111 Carol Rosenberger (Bosendorfer Imperial Concert Grand) [ Delos Digital Master Series / CD - released 2/Feb/1981 ] We used two omni B&K condenser microphones, capsule #4134, and B&K pre-amplifier 2319S. The specially constructed low noise, low distortion power supply and line driver amplifiers were designed and built by John Meyer of Meyer.Sound Laboratories. |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Szymanowski: Masques / Etudes / Mazurkas Carol Rosenberger (piano) [ Delos / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] Recorded: Los Angeles CA, 1973 |
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HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 / Piano Concerto In G Major, Op. 36 Carol Rosenberger (piano) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Gerard Schwarz [ DELOS / CD - released 11/Oct/1992 ] The Seattle Symphony and piano soloist Carol Rosenberger play music by Howard Hanson. |
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HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies Nos 3 & 6 / Fantasy variations on a theme of Youth Carol Rosenberger (piano) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ DELOS / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] Hanson created another reflective tribute to a previous generation in his 1951 Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth. The work, written for piano and string orchestra, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of Northwestern University,... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Carnaval / Papillons / Toccata Cecile Licad (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 29/Apr/1990 ] Recorded at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989. |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Images, Suite Bergamasque, 2 Arabesques, L''Isle joyeuse, Pour le piano Cecile Ousset (piano) [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 30/Sep/1989 ] "Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist...who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she plays" Gramophone |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev/Poulenc: Piano Concertos Cecile Ousset (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/1987 ] Japanese pressing |
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CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lieder aus der Jugendzeit Charlotte Margiono (soprano) Bernd Weikl (baritone) Friedrich Haider (piano) with Wolfgang Vladar (horn - track 14) [ Nightingale / CD - released 2/Sep/1995 ] The Dutch soprano Charlotte Margiono (Amsterdam, 1955) studied with Aafje Heynis at the conservatory of Arnhem. In 1984 she made her debut with De Nederlandse Opera as a flower girl in Parsifal. Her international opera career started in 1988. |