The following classical CD titles are thoroughly recommended by the team at Marbecks.
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets [Special price 7 CD set]
Artemis Quartet
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[ Virgin Classics / 7 CD Box Set ] Release Date: Monday, 7 November, 2011 "This is 21st Century Beethoven: contrasts and disjunctions vividly emphasised; supremely faithful to the outrageous demands Beethoven makes; precise in ensemble, accentuation and intonation; the resonances of early music brought to the fore in the strange slow movements of the late quartets; in sum totally convincing new interpretations of what these masterpieces... |
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER
In My Element
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) with other artists and accompaniments
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[ Deutsche Grammophon Portrait of an Artist / 2 CD ] Release Date: Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 A portrait of Sweden's superb mezzo soprano. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Collection (special price 2 CD set)
Sumi Jo (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors
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[ Warner Classics / 2 CD ] Release Date: Friday, 25 November, 2011 Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generations' most sought-after sopranos. She has been consistently greeted with exceptional accolades, by public and press alike, for her performances in the most important opera houses and concert halls throughout... |
SAARIAHO
D'Om le Vrai Sens / Laterna Magica / Leino Songs
Kari Kriikku (clarinet) / Anu Komsi (soprano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
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[ Ondine / CD ] Release Date: Thursday, 20 October, 2011 Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - December 2011 |
GOUNOD / VERDI / BIZET / MASCAGNI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / etc.
50 Best Choruses
Choeurs du Capitole de Toulouse / Chorus del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Ambrosian Opera Chorus / etc.
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[ EMI Classics / 3 CD ] Release Date: Monday, 12 December, 2011 This three-CD set contains a collection of 50 operatic choruses performed by some of the world's leading ensembles. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 23
Helene Grimaud (piano) / Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 31 October, 2011 This album marks two 'firsts' for Hélène Grimaud - her first live DG recording and her first ever Mozart concerto recording - the Piano Concertos Nos. 19 in F, and 23 in A. Hélène Grimaud considers the concerto in A major "probably the most sublime concerto Mozart ever wrote", with a slow movement that is "an extremely deep and painful expression of longing,... |

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