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VERDI / BELLINI / GIORDANO / MASCAGNI / PUCCINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franco Corelli - Heroes Franco Corelli (tenor) with Corinna Vozza (mezzo), Antonietta Stella (soprano) & Gabriella Tucci (soprano) / Various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Classics / CD - released 14/Jun/1997 ] Original Recordings from 1960 to 1968 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht [ EMI / CD Box Set - released 27/Oct/2007 ] Frank Peter Zimmermann was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. |
ROGERS & HART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: My Funny Valentine: Songs from the Shows Frederica von Stade (soprano) / Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] The songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart was one of the most successful on Broadway from the '20s until Hart's death in 1943. They met in 1919, whilst attending Columbia University and had their first success in 1925 with the... |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Incidental Music & Orchestral Music (Incls 'Pelleas et Melisande', 'Masques et Bergamasques' & 'Alegie') Frederica von Stade (soprano) Nicolai Gedda (tenor) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "Plasson shows himself to be a particularly sensitive interpreter of Faure." - Gramophone Magazine |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: The Lighter Elgar / From the Bavarian Highlands / Serenade for Strings (with works by Sanford & Parry) Frederick Harvey (baritone) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Northern Sinfonia, Neville Marriner / Royal Philharmonic, Lawrence Collingwood / etc [ EMI British Composers / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A 5CD set containing titles from the acclaimed EMI British Composers series, based around the music of Sir Edward Elgar and his contemporaries; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry. |
MOZART / FLOTOW / WAGNER / CORNELIUS / J. STRAUSS II / KALMAN / LEHAR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fritz Wunderlich: The Very Best Of Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2003 ] "I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set...one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb) |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: St.Matthew Passion (recorded in 1954) Anton Dermota, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Grummer, Otto Edlemann / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/1995 ] "Furtwangler mustered a conspicuously fine group of soloists, notable among whom in the context of this work are Anton Dermota and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Their contributions perhaps provide the strongest reasons for wanting this St Matthew" Gramop |
RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / de FALLA / GRANDOS / GINASTERA / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Recital & Improvisations Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2005 ] "No matter how jaw-dropping her miraculously clean-fingered negotiation of such as Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, it's what happens between the notes, the way she grippingly characterises everything she plays." BBC Music October 2005 Instrumental Choice |
LECUONA / MONTERO / ESTEVEZ / GINASTERA / CARRENO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gabriela Montero - Solatino Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Montero has a phenomenal as an improviser...And what these amount to is a charming palimpsest from the Latin American classical tradition...everything has the freshness of novelty" BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gabriela Montero - Bach & Beyond: Improvisations on themes Gabriela Montero (piano) [ EMI Music / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] One of the world's most exciting new talents lends her unique improvisational skills to the work of J S Bach. |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / RYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Galina Vishnevskaya - Songs and Dances of Death / Songs & Opera arias by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (Recorded 1 Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) / London Philharmonic orchestra. Mistislav Rostropovich [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2003 ] "In this, the first ever recording of the Songs and Dances of Death in Shostakovich's orchestration, Vishnevskaya's art is quite exceptionally imaginative and magnetic." (Gramophone) |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10183/10183389.jpg)
MENDELSSOHN / VERDI / CHOPIN / SATIE / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set] Garrick Ohlsson (piano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Ballet Edition / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] Sir Frederick Ashton appropriates Mendelssohn's exquisite incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Satie's haunting Gymnopédies; John Cranko, ably abetted by Sir Charles Mackerras, cherry-picks from the early operas of Verdi. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: 10 (ten) Hungarian Rhapsodies Georges Cziffra (piano) [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 1/Nov/2001 ] "Cziffra, with his superb technique, Hungarian birthright and virtuoso flair, is the ideal exponent of this music and, predictably, there are wonderful things in these performances" Gramophone |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano works [Incls 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10189/10189037.jpg)
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano works [Incls 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'] Georges Cziffra (piano) [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "Cziffra, with his superb technique, Hungarian birthright and virtuoso flair, is the ideal exponent of this music and, predictably, there are wonderful things in these performances" Gramophone on the Hungarian Rhapsodies |
VERDI / SAINT-SAENS / PUCCINI / GIORDANO / OFFENBACH / DVORAK / MOZART / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever! Roberto Alagna, Mirella freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Mady Mesple, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, etc [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] This CD set presents an extensive opera sampler of mostly arias, with some famous choruses as well, such as Va, Pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco. |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Weihnachtsgeschichte [The Christmas Story] / Alpine Christmas Songs cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10593/10593713.jpg)
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Weihnachtsgeschichte [The Christmas Story] / Alpine Christmas Songs Tolzer Boys Choir, Die Hammerauer Musikanten, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden / Collegium Pro Musica Innsbruck [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] Original recordings from 1985 & 1989 |
EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Orchestral Works Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli / Bournemouth Symphony, Paavo Berglund / Royal Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham / Northern Sinfonia, Paul Torteli [ EMI Classics Gemini / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London. 1969 & 1970 (Halle) Guildhall, Southampton 1981 (Bournemouth) Abbey Road Studios, London. 1973 & 1955 (Northern Sinfonia & Royal Philharmonic) |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Thomas Hampson sings Cole Porter - Night & Day Thomas Hampson (baritone) with Ambrosian Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, John McClinn [ Emi Classics / CD - released 8/May/2006 ] "One suspects that Hampson dislikes being described as a "crossover" singer, as he sometimes is. To cross over something, there must first be a barrier to be crossed. Hampson's career has demonstrated that many divisions in music are false, and that,... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Cello Sonata Han-Na Chang (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] "The Korean, Han-Na Chang, joins Antonio Pappano for a superb recording." Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (May 2003)- GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2003 - Concerto |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
