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SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartet No.2 / The Heart's Assurance / Boyhood's End / Songs for Ariel (with Seiber: Quartetto lirico) Amadeus Quartet / Sir Peter Pears (tenor) / Noel Mewton-Wood, Benjamin Britten piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] EMI has issued numerous, and excellent, single-disc releases. One offers another view of three of the song-cycles ("Boyhood's End", "The Heart's Assurance" and "Songs for Ariel"). The tenor is Peter Pears. (ClassicalSource) |
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ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
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JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Myaskovsky: String Quartets Nos 12 & 13 Taneyev Quartet [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] From the St. Petersburg Musical Archive |
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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Myaskovsky: String Quartets Nos 2, 6 & 10 Taneyev Quartet [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] From the St. Petersburg Musical Archive |
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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Myaskovsky: String Quartets Nos 3 & 5 Taneyev Quartet [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] From the St. Petersburg Musical Archive |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 59, No. 1 "Rasumovsky" / Bartok: Quartet No. 2 Vogler Quartett [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 30/Jul/1992 ] "..these players' Bartók is among the most musical and lucid I have heard. With a fine recording, the disc is recommended to anyone attracted by this pairing of works." Classical-music.com |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Quintets, Quartets, Movements & Fragments Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Grumiaux Trio, with William Bennett (Flute) [ Philips Complete Mozart Edition Vol 10 / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/1991 ] .Recordings made 1970-1991 |
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LOUIS SPOHR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Spohr: Double Quartets Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/1986 ] Recorded on 8, 9 January 1984. |
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ALBAN BERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berg String quartet Op. 3 / Lyric Suite - for string quartet Alban Berg Quartet [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/1994 ] Alban Berg (1885-1935) is, arguably, the most approachable of the three great serialist composers who were working in Vienna at the turn of the century - Schoenberg and Webern being the other two. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor / Schubert: String Quartet No.13 in A minor 'Rosamunde' Alban Berg Quartett [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "In terms of technical finesse the Alban Berg Quartett remain in a class of their own..." Gramophone |
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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." |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: String Quartets D887 & D353 Allegri String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Recorded in 1979 and 1981 |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: 6 String Quartets Op. 64 / "The Seven Last Words", Op. 51 Amadeus Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2009 ] "This is poised and civilised music-making, much of which is familiar and all of it intensely thoughtful and revealing...the playing of slow movements especially seems to anticipate the profundity of Beethoven." The Guardian |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: String Quartet Concerto / Strauss, (R.): Divertimento for Small Orchestra American String Quartet / New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Warner Classics Apex / CD - released 1/May/1987 ] Recordings: - Schoenberg at the Grand Lodge Room of the Masonic Hall, New York City in March 1987 - Strauss at the Manhattan Center in September 1986. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Vol 1 Belcea Quartet [ Zig Zag / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Chamber |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: String Quartet No 1 / String Quintet No 2 Belcea Quartet, with Thomas Kakuska, viola [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The highly praised Belcea turn to Brahms and their standards are as high as ever" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2004) |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Dutilleux/Ravel: String Quartets Belcea Quartet [ EMI Debut / CD - released 8/Feb/2002 ] Gramophone Awards 2001: Record of the Year Finalist |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Bernard Roberts (piano) / Chilingirian String Quartet [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 23/Jun/1994 ] Classics recordings from EMI at budget price |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 10, 13 & 14 Borodin Quartet [ EMI / CD - released 1/Oct/1987 ] Original recordings from 1982 made by Melodiya |