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GABRIEL FAURE / MAURICE DURUFLE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure/Durufle: Requiems Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Bryn Terfel (baritone) / Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia, Myung-Whun Chung [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Jun/2000 ] "Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel sing with fervour, bringing out the word-meaning dramatically to defy any idea that these are just sweetly reflective pieces." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Psalms From St.Paul's Vol.8 Choir Of St Paul's Cathedral, John Scott, with Andrew Lucas (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Hyperion is to be congratulated a gem; beautiful language, wonderful music, superb accompaniments, magnificent singing. Buy this and relish in its freshness (Cathedral Music). |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: 'Elias', Op. 70 / 'Paulus', Op. 36 (Rec 1994) Christine Schafer (soprano) Cornelia Kallisch (alto) / Andreas Schmidt (bass) Czech Philharmonic / Helmuth Rilling [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Is this a Bargain of the Month? That's for the Editor to decide. For my money, this is set fair to be a Bargain of the Year. Urgently recommended." (MusicWeb April 2003) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) [ Aparté / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "[Rousset's] is a grounded, incontestably considered reading, exuding a quiet, unflappable authority reminiscent of Gustav Leonhardt…he untangles Bach's protean polyphony with the informed illumination of a seasoned tour guide." BBC Music |
DARIUS MILHAUD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milhaud: Le Carnaval d'Aix / Le boeuf sur le toit / la creation du monde / Concertos Claude Helffer (piano) Frederique Cambreling (harp) / Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon [ Warner Classics Erato / 2 CD - released 16/Nov/1998 ] Distinctively French, yet cosmopolitan in his personal and artistic horizons, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was adventurous, prominent, and prolific. A pupil of Dukas and d'Indy, he became a member of Les Six and a distinguished teacher in the USA and... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Telemann: Darmstadter Ouverturn & Tafelmusik (Overtures & Concertos) [3 CD set] Concerto Amsterdam, Frans Bruggen / Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/1989 ] "Telemann's Table Music is a wonderful, compendious work in three "productions", each of which consists of an overture, a quartet, a concerto, a trio, a sonata, and an orchestral conclusion. The music is amazingly varied and consistently delightful"... |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces / Five Take-Offs / etc Continuum [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2005 ] "All in all, this makes a fine, characteristic anthology, splendidly realized...In many of the pieces Ives's habit of including a phrase or two of deliberate banality amid the wildness adds piquancy, well caught in these performances" Penguin Guide |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies No. 3 / Elegy / The Lament For Beowulf Eastman-Rochester Orchestra / Eastman School of Music Chorus. Howard Hanson [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1991 ] Recorded 1957 - 1963 The original Three Track original recording |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Three Concertos Eric Parkin (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/1993 ] Dyson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. Studied with Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music (he later became director of that institution) and traveled to Germany and Italy on A Mendelssohn Scholarship. |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ / MANUEL de FALLA / ENRIQUE GRANADOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Spanish Piano Music [6 CD set] Esteban Sanchez, Benita Meshulam, Cristina Ortiz (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2012 ] A collection of quintessential Spanish piano works, presenting the three Giants of Spain in their best and most popular works: the colossal piano cycle Iberia by Albeniz, the complete piano music of De Falla and the popular Goyescas by Granados. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Blu-ray) Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly [ Accentus Music Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Sep/2014 ] "The playing of Chailly's Gewandhaus Orchestra is unarguably superb and it is fair to say that not even Abbado or Boulez reveal more in the way of instrumental substrata...Mahler's rural interludes glisten in decidedly novel fashion, sounding as much... |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Mozart [5 DVD set] Gil Shaham / Sharon Kam / Sandrine Piau / Dorothea Roschmann / Daniel Barenboim / and more [ EuroArts DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] MediciArts offers a DVD box full of the most sparkling of Mozart's compositions. Performed by instrumentalists, orchestras, conductors and singers, among the best interpreters of his works, this representative selection... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2006) Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Anke Vondung / Ivan Fischer (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/May/2007 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: La Finta Semplice (complete opera recorded in 1983) Helen Donath, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Holl, Teresa Berganza / Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager(cond) [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "Helen Donath is her usual bright-toned and fluent self and she has a fine trill; Teresa Berganza is lovely too, nuanced as always and still in creamy voice. Light and springy, even more delectable is Jutta-Renate Ihloff in the soubrette role." |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Symphonies 1 & 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Above all, these are real performances without any of the inhibitions of 'studio' recording." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Symphony/ Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2001 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Concerto |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019 |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Historical Scenes, Op. 25 & 66 / En Saga, Op. 9 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] Recording data: 1985-02-04/05 at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: The Tempest (incidental music) / etc Gothenberg Symphpony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1989 ] Recorded at the Gothenberg Concert Hall, Sweden in 1987 & 1989 |
EDUARD TUBIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tubin: Symphonies Nos 3 & 8 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1987 ] Recorded September 16-19, 1986 at the Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden |
