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MOZART / MEHUL / OFFENBACH / LEONCAVALLO / LEHAR / WAGNER / RAVEL / etc
Michael Spyres - BariTenor Michael Spyres (baritone/tenor) / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja, Choeur d'hommes de l'Opéra national du Rhine [ Erato Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "The range of roles is astonishing, but then so are these performances...Spyres really is a tenor - and a baritone, it seems - who has the operatic world at his feet." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Vocal & Ensemble |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Claude Debussy: A Portrait Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard, Samson François (pianos) / Quatuor Ebène / Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Jean Martinon [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] The colours of sound: With his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune of 1894, Claude Debussy found his way to a completely novel and distinctive idiom that has gone down in music history as Impressionism. Influenced more by painting than by late-romantic... |
FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Litanies a la vierge Michèle Lagrange (soprano), Choeur & Orchestre national de Lyon, Serge Baudo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "Baudo leads French forces in a highly idiomatic performance" ClassicalNet |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Litanies a la vierge Michèle Lagrange (soprano), Choeur & Orchestre national de Lyon, Serge Baudo [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Poulenc's Stabat Mater, which he described as a 'requiem without despair', was written in 1950 following the death of Christian Bérard, a leading figure of 1940s Paris who designed the sets for Cocteau's films and plays. |
PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 Mikhail Pletnev, piano, Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Mstislav Rostropovich [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] This is not only Pletnev's first concerto CD on the Yellow Label, but also his first recording ever of Prokofiev 3rd. |
TALBOT / EINAUDI / SHORE / SCHUMANN
Miloš : The Moon & The Forest Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon, National Arts Centre Orchestra Alexander Shelley [ Decca / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] 'Premiere recordings of two dazzling new concertos which offer new perspectives on the relationship between guitar and orchestra, performed with considerable conviction and élan.' Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2021 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / NIKOLAI MIASKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev/Miaskovsky: Cello Concertos Mischa Maisky (cello) / Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Mar/1996 ] Original recording made at the Moscow State Conservatory, Great Hall, November 1995 |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov / Mariss Jansons (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "Musically, standards are extremely high, led by Mariss Jansons's inspired presence in the pit...Aksenova sings a steely Lisa..Diadkova is remarkable as the Countess - singing rather than growling her role." Gramophone Blu-ray of the Month March 2018 |
MORTON GOULD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gould: Fall River Legend / Interplay / etc Morton Gould and his Orchestra / National Symphony Orchestra, Howard Mitchell [ RCA Victor Living Stereo / CD - released 1/Apr/1993 ] Gould's Fall River Legend is a warmly melodic ballet on the Lizzie Borden story. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Le Rossignol / Oedipus Rex (Complete Operas recorded 1999 & 1993) Natalie Dessay, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Marjana Lipovsek / l'Opéra National de Paris, James Conlon / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ EMI The Opera Series / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2010 ] "A fine recording of Stravinsky's colourful ballet, The Nightingale, with Natalie Dessay perfect in the title-role." (Gramophone) |
MAHLER / GERSHWIN / GINASTERA / BERNSTEIN / etc
El Sistema At The Salzburg Festival National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & White Hands Choir Venezuela, Simon Rattle, Maybeth Garcia & Luis Chinchill [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] El Sistema is the international famous phenomenon from Venezuela and the invitation of the National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the White Hands Choir to the Salzburg Festival 2013 show their musical and educational quality.... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: 7 Overtures National Philhamronic Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1983 ] riccardo Chailly was born 20 February 1953 in Milan, Italy. He was chief conductor of the Concertgebouworkest from 1988 to 2004, and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig from 2005 to 2016 |
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MOZART / PAGANINI / LISZT / WAGNER / OFFENBACH / STRAUSS / ELGAR / COPLAND / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Discovering the Classics: Classics for Eternity [4 CD set] National Philharmonic, Charles Gerhardt / New Symphony Orchestra of London, Douglas Gamley / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Reader's Digest / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1994 ] A wide reaching collection of work that acts as a good sampler for those wishing to do a bit of discovery. More like a greatest hits compilation though, so don't expect too many surprises. |
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BERNARD HERRMANN
Film Classics [incls 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad', 'Citizen Cane' & 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'] National Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2010 ] "Do not miss this rich sampling of Herrmann's extraordinarily imaginative and enjoyable film music." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month March 2011) |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker / Offenbach: Le Papillon (Complete Ballets) National Philharmonic Orchestra / London SymphonyOrchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Richard Bonynge has the feel of this music (Nutcracker) in his bones, and gives a warmly expressive performance...he plays the 'Divertissement' with splendid panache, and he is very good indeed in the Valse des Fleurs" Gramophone |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Boutique fantasque (with Britten: Musicales) National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge. [ Decca / CD - released 12/Aug/1983 ] While Richard Bonynge has long been associated with opera, particularly with that of the Bel Canto age, he has been one of the most active revivers and conductors of ballet in the 20th and 21st centuries. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER / HECTOR BERLIOZ / CHARLES LECOCQ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Invitaion to the Dance / Berlioz: Les Troyens Ballet Music / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot (Complete Ballet) National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/1985 ] A perennial best-seller in the catalogue, and much beloved of balletomanes, these vividly recorded ballet masterpieces were recorded at the Kingsway Hall, London, in 1983 |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto / Chain No. 3 / Novelette Andrezej Bauer (cello) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2002 ] "his is an excellent disc; fine music, well played and recorded, and all at the special Naxos price...the disc as a whole conveys of some of the most characterful and individual music of the last 30 years." Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 Op 60 'Leningrad' National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Teldec Basic Edition / CD - released 28/May/2001 ] Recorded At - John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Symphony No. 2 in A minor 'Norwich' / Valse Gracieuse / Welsh Rhapsody National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Sir Arthur Sullivan called Edward German 'the one man to follow me who has genius'.Notwithstanding German's success in operetta, especially with Tom Jones and Merrie England, orchestral music was.was always central to his life. |
