ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Humperdinck: Moorish Rhapsody / Sleeping Beauty / etc Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Fischer-Dieskau [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Humperdinck wrote his Moorish Rhapsody in 1898 and it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in that year. "The Elegy at Sunset" (Elegie bei Sonnenuntergang), set at Tarifa, is gently evocative, something of a Moorish atmosphere created by the use... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Ballet, Op. 71 (Excerpts) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD ] "The playing has plenty of zest and vitality." - Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 Op 63 / The tempest: Suite No. 1 The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] Recorded 2-3 November 1990 |
FRIEDRICH KUHLAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kuhlau: Overtures Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south of Lüneburg in the Uelzen district of Lower Saxony (Germany). At the age of seven, he lost his right eye when he slipped on ice and fell. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even... |
CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 'Sinfonia semplice' Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt [ EMI Classics Matrix / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] "Splendid readings and Blomstedt's lively imagination and attention to mood and instrumental detail make these recordings endlessly rewarding. They sound better than ever" (MusicWeb Sept 2004) |
Various performances, including speeches, songs and radio broadcasts from the Second World War
La Resistance [ Le Chant du Monde / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] This CD is a documentation of songs, poetry and voices from France's participation in the Second World War, finishing with the liberation of Paris. Featuring music, songs, voices and speeches from the period of the occupation. NOTE: Booklet is in... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, [The Damnation of Faust] Op. 24 Denés Gulyás, Maria Ewing, Robert Lloyd / Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, Kölner Rundfunkchor, Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart, Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] 'Inbal has a fine ear for Berlioz's orchestration, matched by sensitive recording, so that time and again details spring into dramatic life…a distinctive and intelligent performance… No lover of the work should miss hearing it.' Gramophone, July 1991 |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: Overtures Czech-Slovak Radio Symphony orchestra, Michael Dittrich [ Naxos / CD ] "Poor old Salieri, ever to be remembered-thanks to the film Amadeus - as the murderer of Mozart, rather than one of imperial Vienna's foremost composers and the teacher of Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and even Mozart's youngest son. Good then to have... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scriabin: Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 / Reverie Vladimir Krainiev (piano) / Chor des Baterischen Rundfunks, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester, Frankfurt, Dmitry Kitaenko [ RCA Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/1994 ] Recorded October 1993 (Sym 5) & January 1994 (Sym 3) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos No. 3 / Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso / etc Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Sep/2007 ] "more than just convincingly shaped; it is downright poetic... Why pay more and get less when this excellent Naxos offering is available at low cost?" - American Record Guide |
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) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Director), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Polish Radio Choir [ Linn Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Choral |
ANDERS HILLBORG
Hillborg: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Liquid Marble Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] At the occasion of the 70th birthday of Swedish contemporary composer Anders Hillborg, the award-winning conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra release an album with some of his most recognizable works. |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 / Potpourri, Op. 80 Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice; Johannes Wildner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "Ottensamer's mellow, nicely turned performances" - Penguin Guide |
BORIS LYATOSHINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No 2 in B minor / Slavic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Eugen Rzhanov (piano) / Ukrainian Radio and TV Symphony, Vladimir Gnedash / Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, Fedor Glushchenko [ Russian Disc / CD - released 12/Apr/1994 ] Recorded in 1982 & 1974 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 1980 with complete libretto) Eva Czapò, Benedetta Pecchioli, Gastone Sarti, Gino Orlandini, Mario Chiappi / Coro Della Radio Televisione Della Svizzera Italiana, Bruno Rigacci [ Nuova Era / 2 CD Box Set - released 21/Jun/1997 ] Recording Date: October 26, 1980 Recording Location: Lugano, Svizzera, Auditorio RSI |
PIETRO MASCAGNI
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Giacomo Aragall, Stefka Evstatieva, Anna di Mauro, Alzbeta Michalkova / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Recorded: 1 - 10 April 1992 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio, Bratislava |
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rautavaara: Sacred Works for mixed chorus Finnish Radio Chamber Choir [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Sung variously in Latin, Finnish, or Swedish. Recorded at the St. John's Church, Helsinki 1/1999. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 - 7 / Karelia Overture & Suite / Violin Concerto / etc Finnish Radio Symphony, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, with Joseph Swensen (violin) [ Sony / RCA / Finlandia / 8 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "His tempos grab and hold the listener, and the orchestra plays with a sure sense of style. The brasses are incisive, the woodwinds reedy and a bit nasal, the strings strident or cushioning, all as appropriate." New York Times |