Since you are interested in MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 / Wedding Cake Caprice Valse / Africa Fant, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Trios Opp.3, 8 & 9. Itzhak Perlman (violin) Pinchas Zukerman (viola) Lynn Harrell (cello) [ Warner Classics Perlman Complete Warner Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Beethoven's string trios - for violin, viola and cello - are early works, all written before 1800. In these live recordings from New York, Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Lynn Harrell exude intense, youthful energy, taking an often witty delight in the... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts [Requiem Mass] Robert Tear (tenor) / London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics Original Masters / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Berlioz's magnificent setting of the Requiem Mass, with its mighty orchestral and choral forces, is ideally suited to André Previn's acute senses for dramatic structure and colour. The terror and awe of the Day of Judgement, the thundering climaxes... |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet) (with Lovenskjold - La Sylphide) London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ EMI Ballet Edition / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "The performance is fresh and has a lively spontaneity. It is particularly good in the famous dances of Act 2, which have the orchestra on their toes.... excellent value." (Gramophone) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 / La mort de Cleopatre Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Gabriel Bacquier / Chœurs de 'Opera de Paris, Orchestre de Paris & LSO / Georges Pretre & Alexander Gibson [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Prêtre's "Damnation de Faust"...does have some of the finest singers of the day. Nicolai Gedda and Gabriel Bacquier both turn in excellent professional performances. Dame Janet Baker was evidently determined to stretch herself no matter what the... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (with Dvorak - Slavonic Dances) Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard (pianos) [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Brahms recommended DvoĆák, eight years his junior, to his publisher, Simrock, in 1877 and the following year duly published the first set of Slavonic Dances which they commissioned. |