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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, Daniela Barcellona, Mirco Palazzi, Barry Banks, Gianluca Buratto / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Opera |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Paria (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, Misha Kiria, Marko Mimica / Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Jan/2021 ] "The music is splendid, well worth discovering...Shagimuratova is superb...Barbera is breathtakingly wonderful...Elder conducts with his customary zeal. Subtlety, too." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos: Nos 20 & 23 / 2 Concert Rondos Alfred Brendel (piano) / Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Mozart Collection / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced "some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and... |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / etc
The Farewell Concerts Alfred Brendel (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "There is greatness to be found in every bar of these two discs, and that goes not only for the music but the musician too." Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 |
W. A. MOZART
Alicia de Larrocha Plays Mozart Alicia de Larrocha (piano), André Previn (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Sir Colin Davis [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "...this is a profound reading with many subtleties of touch and altogether a more weighty approach, especially evident in the slow movement. K491 is predictably dramatic. Marriner's orchestra is excellent." classical-music |
GLUCK / PERGOLESI / HANDEL / HASSE / VIVALDI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Andreas Scholl Andreas Scholl (countertenor) orchestras conducted by Paul Dyer, Paul McCreesh, Sir Roger Norrington and Christophe Rousset [ Decca Records / CD - released 19/May/2003 ] Andreas Scholl has been heralded as the greatest countertenor performing today. |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) - From the Royal Albert Hall 1989 Anne Sofie Von Otter, Keith Lewis, Jose Van Dam, Peter Rose / The Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ AWD DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berlioz's concert cantata. |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius in Norway [incls 'On hearing the first cuckoo in spring' & 'Eventyr'] Ann-Helen Moen (soprano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "A string of orchestral and vocal works inspired by the composer's love for the landscape of the Scandinavian country" Financial Times |
BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the Dvořák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |
LUDWIG van BEEtHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Schnabel Artur Schnabel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Philips / EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "All true Schnabelians will want to snap up this set, if only for the alternative recordings of the late sonatas" Gramophone |
JOSEF SUK / BOHUSLAV MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Suk: Serenade for Strings / Martinu: Sinfonietta Giocosa Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Conifer Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/1989 ] Recorded in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, December 1988 |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / GYORGY LIGETI / ALBAN BERG / ANTON WEBERN
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabe / etc (Blu-ray/DVD) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live DVD + BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] Sir Simon Rattle is joined by virtuosic soprano Barbara Hannigan for a modernist programme that showcases the immense capabilities of the London Symphony Orchestra. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Symphonies, Divertmento, etc BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] The Symphony in C was conceived in Paris in the late 1930s, but completed in America in 1940, and is dedicated to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premièred in... |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Caroline Mathilde (concert suite) / Threnody on a Plainsong for Michael Vyner / etc BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Originally recorded in 1991 |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 1 BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "very good modern recordings and fine playing...Great fun; a reminder of the composer's relaxed, more genial side" MusicWeb |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded by arrangement with BBC North at Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, September 23-24, 1993. |
REINGOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Symphony No.3 In B minor 'Il'ya Murometz' BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] "If not the symphony's first outing on disc, it remains the best...Chandos's recordings still sound glorious and the orchestra's manifest engagement with the music shines through." Gramophone |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Appalachia / The Song of the High Hills BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "This is a magnificent, clear-edged recording of two challenging, problematic works, performed here with vibrancy and confidence...Davis's diligent control of this extraordinary material makes for compelling listening." (Gramophone Award Finalist... |
WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Violin Concerto / Coronation Te Deum Benjamin Luxon (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti / Kyung Wha Chung (violin) London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Decca The World of British Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/1994 ] Three classic performances on one budget CD |
