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Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy [ ECM / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (piano version) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Moser (tenor) / Cyprien Katsaris (piano) [ Warner Maestro / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] "A worthwhile recording of the song-cycle that stands as the culmination of Mahler's contributions to the genre." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN & OTHERS
The Chopin Project - Essential Camille Thomas (cello), with Julien Brocal & Julien Libeer (piano), Daniel Hope (violin) & Jane Birkin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 17/Jun/2023 ] The Chopin Project is Camille Thomas's most ambitious project to date. It's a journey in three chapters to discover Chopin's life through the sound of the cello. This album is an essential selection from the entire series. |
Charles Lloyd / Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan
Trios: Chapel [ Blue Note / Verve Records / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Hérodiade (complete opera with libretto) Cheryl Studer, Jose van Dam, Nadine Denize, Thomas Hampson/ Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] During the Belle Époque, Jules Massenet rose to become France's leading composer of opera, as notable for his acute dramatic sense as for the refined sensuality of his music. NOTE: Outer cover has some very minor wear |
MAX BRUCH / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto Cho-Liang Lin (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Music / CD - released 15/Feb/1994 ] "Cho-Liang Lin is accompanied most sensitively by Slatkin and the Chicago orchestra, and this reading is totally compelling in its combination of passion and purity, strength and dark, hushed intensity. The recording is excellent." *** Penguin Guide |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, J. S.: Motets / Easter Oratorio BWV 249 Christine Brenk (soprano) Anne Greiling (alto) Frank Bossert (tenor) Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) / Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2007 ] It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving ones associated with him. There is a case for regarding the six motets catalogued BWV 225-230 as... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C D.944 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Schippers [ Vox Prima / CD - released 27/Jun/1987 ] Recorded in 1978 |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Choral Works [Incls Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs & Fantasia on Christmas Carols] (4 CD set) Corydon Singers, Matthew Best, with John Mark Ainsley, Thomas Allen, Elizabeth Connell, John Gielgud, Bryn Terfel, Sarah Walker, etc [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The performances are splendid, graced by such soloists as Thomas Allen and Bryn Terfel … The rapturous Serenade to Music has a cast of 16 singers fit to rival those of the original recording' (Sunday Times) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Missa Choralis & Via Crucis Corydon Singers, Thomas Trotter, organ, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'I find the Corydon singers' performance of 'Via Crucis' utterly compelling and truly memorable…an essential Passiontide recording'(Organists'Review) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Octet for Strings Daniel Hope (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] "The playing is consistently fine and the pairing of the concerto with the octet - with a few songs thrown in for good measure - makes for enjoyable listening. It is worth hearing this original version of the concerto, if only for interest's... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Yeomen of the Guard (complete operetta recorded in 1958) Denis Dowling, Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Marjorie Thomas / Glyndebourne Festival, Sir MalcolmSargent [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/1987 ] "This is a very operatic Yeomen which certainly suits the work and gives the soloists an opportunity to shine. Sir Geraint Evans makes a better Jack Point than a Ko-Ko and 'When a wooer goes a-wooing' is very moving." Mel (Marbecks) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Stewart, Josephine Veasey, Gundula Janowitz, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2013 ] Highlights from Herbert von Karajan's mighty 'Ring' cycle. The disc includes extended highlights from the four 'Ring' operas and allows us to sample Karajan's choice of different singers for the same character in different operas - Fischer-Dieskau's... |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Messa di Gloria Dorota Szczepánska, Anna Feith, Freya Apffelstaedt, Maia Grazia Insam, Markus Schäfer, Fang Zhi, Thomas Stimmel, Elia Merguet, Simon Mayr Chorus [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Mayr's Masses were in demand across Europe, and their composition is rooted in the Italian tradition of the messa concertata which demands division into separate vocal numbers. The Mass in E minor has long been recognised as an outstanding example of... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: A German Requiem [Ein Deutsches Requiem] Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) / Berlin Radio Choir / Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] 'This strikes me as probably the best new version of the Requiem I've heard in quite some years' Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine (April 2007) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Dorothee Mields, Damien Guillon, Thomas Hobbs, Peter Kooij / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "Some of the intimacy derives from the small forces...but it's mainly to do with the relaxed (though never sluggish) tempos...The solo team is outstanding." (BBC Music Magazine, Feb 2014) |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Opera recorded in 1971) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with John Reed, Pauline Wales, Thomas Lawlor, Christine Palmer, Ralph Mason / James Walker (cond) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "There is a real sense of staging and movement which is all to the good. The dialogue is well handled and is very much a plus factor.' Fanfare, November/December 1983 |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas reads his own poetry (Incls 'Fern Hill: Lament' & 'Child's Christmas in Wales') Dylan Thomas [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2009) Thomas Hampson, Robert Holl, Edita Gruberova, Roberta Alexander, Barbara Bonney, / Royal Concertgebouw orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "No interpretation of this endlessly fascinating work will ever hold all the answers, but this one provides a good deal of them in its lean, direct and perceptive way." Gramophone |
GRACE WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Williams: The Dancers / Two Choruses / Ave Maris Stella / Six Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Caryl Thomas (harp) / Richard Hickox Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Mar/1999 ] "The recorded sound is excellent. .. I found this a fascinating disc. Anyone interested in fine choral writing and singing - or in exploring a new pathway in music - should seek it out. And I predict we will be hearing more of Grace Williams." A.R.G. |
