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Marbecks Classical Picks

Beethoven: Piano Trios - Archduke, The Ghost cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios - Archduke, The Ghost
Renaud Capuçon (violin) Gautier Capuçon (cello) Frank Braley (piano)
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley, well established as chamber-music partners, perform...
$30.00
Nos 4 saisons [Four Seasons] cover
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Nos 4 saisons [Four Seasons]
Camille & Julie Berthollet (violin, cello, voice, piano) / String Ensemble of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
"We are so excited and thrilled to finally reveal this project, which we have been imagining and developing...
$27.00

BBC Music Choices March 2020

Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Symphonieorchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons $32.00
Clytemnestra - Orchestral Songs cover
SAMUEL / BERG / MAHLER
Clytemnestra - Orchestral Songs
Ruby Hughes (soprano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen $35.00
Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers cover
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers
Vox Luminis / A Nocte Temporis / Lionel Meunier / Reinoud Van Mechelen $35.00
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 cover
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8
Steven Osborne (piano) $30.00

Harmonia Mundi - new titles

Gesualdo: Madrigali, books 1 & 2 cover
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali, books 1 & 2
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew $43.00
Schoenberg: Violin concerto / Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night] cover
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Violin concerto / Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night]
Isabelle Faust (violin) / Daniel Harding, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, A. Tamestit & J-G. Queyras $35.00
Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 2 & 5
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 2 & 5 "Emperor"
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado & Freiburger Barockorchester $35.00
Bach & Bartok Suites cover
J. S. BACH / BELA BARTOK
Bach & Bartok Suites
Julien Libeer $35.00

New titles from Hyperion

Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces cover
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces
Stephen Hough (piano) $30.00
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 6 cover
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 6
Julia Kleiter (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) $30.00
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 3 'Pastoral' & 4 cover
RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 3 'Pastoral' & 4
David Butt Philip (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins $30.00
Bartók & Korngold: Piano Quintets cover
BELA BARTOK / ERICH KORNGOLD
Bartók & Korngold: Piano Quintets
Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet $30.00
» Great artists. Great recordings.

Discover the great composers!

50 Best Wagner (3 CD set) cover
RICHARD WAGNER
50 Best Wagner (3 CD set)
Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Helga Dernesch, Cheryl Studer, Birgit Nilsson, Marjana Lipovsek, Christa Ludwig, etc $25.00
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price] cover
W. A. MOZART
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price]
Thomas Allen, Cheryl Studer, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sabine Meyer, Neville Marriner, etc $25.00
50 Best Handel cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
50 Best Handel
Various Artists incls Arleen Auger, Max Emaanuel Cencic, Alan Curtis, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Emmanuelle Haim, Richard Hickox, etc $25.00
50 Best Bach (3 CDs special price) cover
J. S. BACH
50 Best Bach (3 CDs special price)
Nancy Argenta, Bob van Asperen, Fabio Biondi, Ian Bostridge, Philippe Herreweghe, Monica Huggett, etc $25.00

Coming soon from Hyperion

Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets cover
EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets
Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano) $30.00
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 cover
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) $30.00
MacMillan: Symphony No 4 / Viola Concerto cover
JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: Symphony No 4 / Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor) $30.00
Parry: Songs of farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood cover
PARRY / STANFORD / GRAY / WOOD
Parry: Songs of farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor) $30.00
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Gramophone Picks March 2020

Passions cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Passions
Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain $35.00
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera) cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera)
Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Biagio Pizzuti, Franco Fagioli, Andrea Mastroni, Jakub Józef Orliński / l Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev $55.00
Litolff: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 cover
HENRY LITOLFF
Litolff: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
Leonore Piano Trio $30.00
Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 10 cover
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 10
Albion Quartet $35.00

Marbecks Collectables

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Silent Noon - English Songs cover
BRITTEN / STANFORD / QUILTER / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WARLOCK / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Silent Noon - English Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-Baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) $32.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Complete Chamber Works [9 CD set] cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Complete Chamber Works [9 CD set]
Celia Nicklin, Neil Black (oboes) Kenneth Sillito, Malcolm Latchem (violins) Graham Sheen (recorder) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensem $90.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Emil Gilels II cover
BACH / LISZT / MEDTNER / PROKOFIEV / STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Emil Gilels II
Emil Gilels (piano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel $35.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Instrumental Music cover
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Instrumental Music
Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock $20.00
» Marbecks has a great range of collectable recordings. Here is a selection featuring the piano

Beethoven recomendations

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Andras Schiff (pianos) $45.00
Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas cover
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas
Igor Levit (piano) $30.00
Beethoven: Late Quartets Opus 95, 127, 130-133, 135 cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Late Quartets Opus 95, 127, 130-133, 135
Takacs Quartet $65.00
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Maria João Pires (piano) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding $32.00
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