PAULINE VLARDOT
Mélodies: Chopin Mazurkas and other Songs Marina Comparato (mezzo soprano) & Elisa Triulzi (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] "This is a most welcome release." (MusicWeb Oct 2014) |
RACHMANINOV
Music for Cello & Piano Marina Tarasova (cello) Alexander Polezhaev (piano) [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
KABALEVSKY
Cello Concertos 1, 2 / Improvisato (violin & piano) / Rondo (violin & piano) Marina Tarasova (cello) Natalia Likhopoi (violin) Ludmilla Kuritskaya (piano) / Symphony Orchestra of Russia [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "These are successful performances that are impressive for Tarasova's sense of flow and colour as well as for the mercurial fantasy and power of Likhopoi." (MusicWeb Jan 2011) |
KHACHATURIAN
Cello Concerto in E minor / Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello in D min Marina Tarasova (cello), Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Veronika Dudarova [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Tarasova plays both works with great eloquence and expressive vehemence: she has a big tone and impeccable technique" (Penguin Guide) |
KARL DAVIDOV
Davidov: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Marina Tarasova(cello) / Alexander Polzhaev (pno) / Davydov Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Krimetz [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 8 / Três Abstrações Marina Martins (cello) Denise de Freitas (mezzo-soprano) / Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The 1960s proved to be a significant decade in Claudio Santoro's ever-eventful life. The charged atmosphere of the Cello Concerto can be attributed to his experiences in East Berlin at the moment construction started on the Berlin Wall. Despite its... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Mass In D & Te Deum Ewa Biegas (soprano), Marina Rodríguez-Cusí (mezzo), Javier Tomé (tenor), José Antonio López (baritone) / Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2017 ] "The score's orchestral colours are vividly etched and matched by splendidly ebullient choral singing" Gramophone |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo [cantata] Joshua Stewart (Tenor) Leonor Bonilla (Soprano) ...Marina Comparato (Mezzo-soprano), etc / Virtuosi Brunensis, Pietro Rizzo [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Rossini composed Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, an allegorical cantata on the theme of the wedding between the sea goddess Thetis and the hero Peleus. |
Marina
Love + Fear [ Parlophone / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Love + Fear is an album set split into two eight-song collections and lands as MARINA's fourth full-length record. Love + Fear are both lush, vibrant and powerful representations of the two main emotional driving forces behind human... |
Marina Mesheriakova
Soprano Arias [ Naxos / CD - released 31/May/2004 ] |
AARON JAY KERNIS
Kernis: Flute Concerto / Air / Second Symphony Marina Piccinini (flute) / Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "Piccinini's performance of Air will take your breath away. I was also left breathless at the brilliance and precision of the Peabody Orchestra." Fanfare |
MANUEL de FALLA
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three Cornered Hat) / El Amor Brujo / etc Teresa Berganza (soprano) Marina de Gabarin (mezzo-soprano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Legends / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] During the war, Falla wrote a pantomime ballet titled El Corregidor y la Molinera ('The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife') based on a novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, was at the 1917 premiere.... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tribute to David Oistrakh Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Nicholas Walker (piano) / Marina Gusak-Grin (piano) / Clifford Benson (piano) / Julian Milford (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] David Oistrakh, one of the most famous violin virtuosos of the last century, made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous works for violin. Among the many violin virtuosi of the younger generation whom he inspired is Lydia Mordkovitch, one... |
DVORAK
Mass Op 86 / Te Deum Op 103 [with free Chandos catalogue] Marina Meshcheriakov (soprano) Sergei Miasnikov (bass) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD/Book - released 20/Mar/2003 ] |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Duets & Arias) Andrea Bocelli / Marina Domashenko/ Eva Mei / Bryn Terfel / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Myung-Whun Chung [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Jul/2010 ] "The Carmen herself will, for most of us, be a remarkable discovery. Her voice is an opulent contralto with an ample range upwards, and she knows how to lighten, how to smile and keep the music on its toes with a keen sense of rhythm." (Gramophone) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
The very best of Rachmaninov: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Idil Biret (piano) Bernd Glemser (piano) Michael Grebanier (cello) Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Janet Guggenheim (piano) Marina Mescheriakova (cello) & ma [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
VERDI
The Ultimate Opera Album [2 CD set] Jitka Saparova, Yordy Ramiro, Miriam Gauci, Marina Mescheriakova, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This highly dramatic album includes the most famous moments from Verdi's ever-popular operas, in which public splendour and private pathos, true love and tragedy, vie for supremacy at every turn. |
Marina
Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] |
Michelle Breedt, soprano / Renato Girolami, bass / Judith Halasz, soprano / Alexander Klinger, tenor / Peter Koves, bass / Marina Mescheriakova, sopra
Mozart, W.A. - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) K. 492 (Highlights) [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "The MArriage of Figaro" won considerable success both in Vienna and subsequently in Prague, and was revived in the former in 1789, when two... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle Marina Rebeka, Sara Mingardo, Francesco Meli, Alex Esposito / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2013 ] The Sunday Times wrote, "Pappano lives the text like the great opera conductor he is, bringing consolation as well as fire and brimstone to Rossini's heady spiritual brew." |