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PETER SCULTHORPE
Sun Music I-IV / Irkanda IV / Piano Concerto / Small Town Leonard Dommett (violin) Anthony Fogg (piano) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins & Myer Fredman [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Arleen Augar, John van Kesteren, Jonathan Summers / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra. Riccardo Muti [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 7/Feb/2005 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn Records / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] The magnificent Orchestral Suites, known as Ouvertüren in German, form the final instalment in Dunedin Consort's long-running Bach Masterworks series for Linn, a series lauded as 'nothing short of sensational' by Gramophone. The intricate... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie Baiba Skride (violin) Danish National Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Orfeo / CD - released 2/Sep/2013 ] These works were written in the last three years of Schumann's life, and it was a stroke of ill luck that the Violin Concerto in D Minor was completed in 1854 just as Schumann succumbed to mental illness. Baiba Skride now offers her performer's... |
The Band of the Coldstream Guards, John Mackenzie Rogan
Ballet 1902-22 [ British Military Music Archive / CD - released 10/Dec/2016 ] The Band of the Coldstream Guards, formed by the Duke of York over two centuries ago, has a recorded catalogue over 125 years old. The earliest recordings in the BMMA, heard in this series, date from 1902; later recordings were broadcast on the air... |
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FRANZ LEHAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lehar: The Merry Widow [Die Lustige Witwe] Barbara Bonney, Bo Skovhus, Bryn Terfel, Cheryl Studer / Monteverdi Choir / Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "A great reasonably modern Merry Widow with great acoustics...Great Conducting by Gardiner, the singers in the main parts are enjoyable." Review |
BURTON LANE
Lane: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) Barbara Harris & John Cullum / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1926 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Arias Kathleen Battle (soprano) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / Orchestra of St. Lukes, John Nelson [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Arias for soprano and violin |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded live in 2002) BLU-RAY AUDIO Bayerische State Opera / Waltraud Meier, Peter Seiffert, Kurt Rydl, John Tomlinson, Mihoko Fujimura / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ Farao Classics Pure Audio Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2014 ] When Zubin Mehta took over the position of Bavarian General Music Director in 1998, heralding a new era in the history of Germany's most venerable opera orchestra, this first cyclic performance of the Ring was a triumph for conductor and musicians. |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Das Rheingold (recorded 1992) Bayreuther Festspiele / John Tomlinson, Bodo Brinkmann, Kurt Schreibmayer, Graham Clark, Linda Finnie / Daniel Barenboim (con) [ Warner Music Vision / Unitel DVD / DVD Box Set - released 1/May/2010 ] "Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian virtuosity, huge rits, pauses and all, tailor-made to the stage drama." Gramophone 2007 |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Anthiel: Symphony No. 1, etc BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] In this their third volume of orchestral works of Antheil, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic present a collection of scores spanning the whole of Antheil's compositional life. Written in the early 1920s, the First Symphony is full of Antheil's... |
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Orchestral Works, Volume 3 [Incls 'Three Men Suite' & 'Dam Busters March'] BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] "The BBC Philharmonic plays with buoyancy and style. The booklet notes are invaluable: a slice of British history compressed into a few well chosen words." Guardian |
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ERIC COATES
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works Vol. 1 [Incls 'The Jester at the Wedding' & 'London Suite'] BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "With good recording, especially as heard in 24-bit sound, I'm very much looking forward to Volume 2. Did I mention the snazzy cover?" MusicWeb Recommended |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Antheil: Symphonies 4 & 5 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 12/May/2017 ] "A brilliant recording all around, and an important one. Bring on the next instalment." Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2017 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 12 & 15 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "Another terrific release from this source." Gramophone |
BELLINI / GLINKA / LOEWE / MENDELSSOHN / NIEDERMEYER / etc
Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 2, 1820-1830 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Luis Gomes (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor) Anush Hovhanissyan (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo) Christopher Maltman (bass) [ Vivat / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "The second instalment in a perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs" MusicWeb International, May 2017 |
BERNSTEIN / KANDER / STEINER / COPLAND / SONDHEIM / MANCINI / WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: American Classics The Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] This compilation was released 2001 with original recordings from 1981 to 1988 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
O Praise the Lord of Heaven: Music of rejoicing and reflection The Cambridge Singers & City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] |
BRITTEN / SCHUMANN / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / POULENC
The Cambridge Singers - A Cappella The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter |
JOHN RUTTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rutter: Requiem / I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes The Cambridge Singers, The City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
