GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: L'Arlesienne [complete incidental music] / Jeux d'enfants Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] Currently selling for $35 (US) on Amazon |
ANTON BRUCKNER / PAUL HINDEMITH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No.1 / Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony (recorded 1965 & 1983) Grand Symphony Orchestra of Radio & Television, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky & Eugeny Svetlanov [ Russian Revelation / CD - released 1/Jul/1996 ] The Revelation catalogue represents one of the most important cultural discoveries of the century - over 4000,000 tapes, most of them never heard before. Seventy years worth of repressed Russian recordings featuring some of the world's best musicians |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Egmont Op. 84 [Complete incidental music] / Leonora Overture No 3 Miriam Gauci (soprano) Dirk Schortemeier (speaker) / Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "His performance of the complete Egmont music is what one would expect from a Swarowsky pupil: complete command over his forces, a sweeping style and good attention to detail." |
Television
Adventure (LP) [ Warner / LP - released 12/Sep/2014 ] |
Television
Marquee Moon [ Rhino Records / CD - released 23/Sep/2003 ] Starkly spare but structurally complex, emotionally without pretense but blazing with punk angst! Digitally re-mastered, with 5 bonus tracks & deluxe packaging |
Television
Marquee Moon (LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 30/Nov/2012 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. Marquee Moon is a revolutionary album, but it's a subtle, understated revolution. Without question, it is a guitar rock album -- it's astonishing to hear the interplay between Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd -- but it... |
SERGEI TANEYEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Taneyev: Symphony No. 2 & 4 USSR Radio And Television Large Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev • Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold Katz [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/1993 ] Taneyev graduated in 1875, the first student in the history of the Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing (piano). He was also the first person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal. |
EVGENI SVETLANOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Svetlanov: Piano Concerto / Red Guelder-rose / Preludes USSU Radio & television Large Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich / USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov (cond/piano) [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/1994 ] Classic recordings from the Russian archieves. |
The Television Personalities
A Memory Is Better Than Nothing [ Rocket Girl / CD - released 7/Jun/2010 ] |
Television
The Blow Up - Live [ ROIR / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] The definitive live release from 1978, collated from Tom Verlaine's personal archives, no less |