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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: La Mer / Prélude À L'après-Midi D'un Faune / Nocturnes / Printemps Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson, with Francois Laurent (flute) [ EMI Classics Encore / CD - released 1/May/1989 ] "Duchâble's recordings are considered a "splendid collaboration" with the conductor." Gramophone |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens - Symphony No 3 Organ / Phaeton Op 39 / Le Rouet d'Omphale Op 31 Orchestre National de France. Seiji Ozawa [ EMI Redline / CD - released 18/Feb/2001 ] "The symphony is distinguished by...rich string playing...vivid clarity of detail...and a great sense of enjoyment." - Gramophone |
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CHARLES KOECHLIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Koechlin: The Jungle Book Johan Botha (tenor) Ralf Lukas (baritone) iris Vermillion (mezzo) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra [ RCA / 2 CD - released 3/Nov/1994 ] CD released in 1994; DDD recordings from June 1993. |
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GUILLAUME LEKEU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lekeu: Orchestral Works [Æuvres Orchestrales] Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege, Pierre Bartholomee [ Ricercar / CD - released 14/Aug/2015 ] Admirer of Beethoven and Wagner, disciple of Franck, and protégé of Ysaÿe, Lekeu had, in his last compositions, opened a new way that was neither French nor Germanic. |
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BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin Suite / String Quartet No 3 - Moderato allegro) (Rec 1989-1991) ORF Symphony Orchestra, Milan Horvat / Zagreb String Quartet [ United Audio International / CD - released 16/Aug/1998 ] Bartók is a "national" composer insofar that he collected authentic folk music by going into the deepest provinces of the country with his phonograph, recording folk songs and dances, and preserving them for eternity. This music he incorporated into... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Enigma Variations / Organ Sonata Organ of The Temple Church, London / Keith John (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'a technically brilliant performance that employs the instrument's full range of colours and sonorities' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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JERRY ROSS / RICHARD ADLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Damn Yankees Original cast recording with Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglas, Ray Walston & Robert Shafer [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] Gwen Verdon headlining the original cast of "Damn Yankees." Re-issue of original 1955 release. |
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Original Soundtrack, with Topol, Leonard Frey, Norma Crane, Paul Mann / score conducted by John Williams
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fiddler On The Roof (30th anniversary edition) [ EMI / CD - released 15/Oct/1986 ] Topol's London stage production of the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock musical led movie director Norman Jewison to cast him in the film version, for which he won an Academy Award®, ensuring his popularity worldwide. |
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ANONYMOUS / DOMINIQUE PHINOT / ANTOINE BRUMEL / JOHANNES LUPI / WALTER FRYE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry The Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Feb/2006 ] ""…this gorgeous package is like a CD-sized hardback book, full of beautiful medieval paintings and photographs of surviving gardens. …performances are of the high standard expected from the Orlando Consort." BBC Music Five Stars |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: String Quartets Orlando Quartet [ Philips / CD - released 10/Nov/1989 ] "The Ravel quartet is wonderfully passionate in the Orlando's hands and they press it to greater expressive extremes than do the Melos Quartet of Stuttgart on DG" Gramophone |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Serenade in E flat K.375 / Serenade in C minor K.388 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Dec/1992 ] "They are played so stylishly and with so much refinement and variety that one never becomes satiated with wind tone, as can happen with more ordinary performances" (Gramophone) |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht / Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Jan/2006 ] "Love it or hate it - i love it - this is a staggering display of orchestral control and structural mastery.(Gramophone) |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet-Suites 1 & 2 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ EMI Classics Nipper Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/2002 ] Original recording from 1988 |
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EDMUND RUBBRA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubbra: Violin Sonatas Krysia Osotowicz (violin) Michael Dussek (piano) [ Dutton / CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] "An invaluable and enormously rewarding release, in sum, enthusiastically recommended...Osostowicz and Dussek form an outstandingly sympathetic partnership." The Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2000 |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Der Freischutz (complete opera with libretto) Hermann Prey, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa Otto, Rudolf Schock / Berlin Philharmonic, Joseph Keilberth [ EMI Studio / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1989 ] "All soloists in this effort shine like the stars. Particularly the lovely (as always) Elisabeth Grummer...my God this lady was wonderful, and is, I am sure, greatly missed by all the great German opera houses today." (review) |
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RICHARD ARNELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnell: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 2 "Fufus" David Owen Norris (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 19/Feb/2007 ] "... Yates draws superb playing from the RSNO ... and all in all this is a very welcome release. Music of this quality manifestly does not deserve the long-time neglect which has befallen it." International Record Review, May 2007 |
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NICHOLAS MAW
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maw: Hymnus / Little Concert / Shahnama Oxford Bach Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, NicholasCleobury, with Nicolas Daniel (oboe) [ ASV / CD - released 24/May/1999 ] Born in 1935 in Grantham, Nicholas Maw studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1955 to 1958 with Lennox Berkeley and Paul Steinitz, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. Nicholas passed away in 2009. |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music For Maunday Thursday Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Feb/1998 ] "these singers are well on the way to achieving perfection here... overall this is a well-thought-out and moving performance" Gramophone [on another Palestrina recording with the same choir] |
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ALBERT KETELBEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Grand Passions of Albert W. Ketelbey (Including 'In a Persian Market '; 'Bells across the Meadows' & 'Sanctuary of the Heart The Palm Court Theatre Orchestra, directed by Anthony Godwin [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] 'The performances are all one could ask, the recording is excellent, the notes and the packaging are very good.' - American Record guide |