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Marbecks Classical Picks

Janusz Wawrowski - Phoenix cover
SZYMANOWSKI / RAVEL / YSAYE / LUTOSLAWSKI
Janusz Wawrowski - Phoenix
Janusz Wawrowski (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Nowak
Janusz Wawrowski's last Warner Classics album was Hidden Violin, a celebration of Polish composers and...
$30.00
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book II cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book II
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Piotr Anderszewski takes a characteristically creative approach to Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier...
$30.00

BBC Music Award Winners 2021

Fatma Said - El Nour cover
SERRANO / de FALLA / RAVEL / BERLIOZ / LORCA / etc
Fatma Said - El Nour
Fatma Said (soprano), with Rafael Aguirre (guitar) Malcolm Martineau (piano) & others $30.00
Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz cover
JOSQUIN DES PRES
Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips $30.00
British Violin Sonatas Vol.3 cover
JOHN IRELAND / YORK BOWEN / WILLIAM ALWYN / ERIC COATES / JAMES FRANCIS BROWN
British Violin Sonatas Vol.3
Tasmin Little (violin) Piers Lane (piano) $30.00
Respighi: Pines, Fountains & Festivals of Rome cover
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Pines, Fountains & Festivals of Rome
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson $30.00

Recent Boxed Sets

Virtuoso Piano Etudes cover
CZERNY / DEBUSSY / HELLER / GLASS / CAGE / BORTKIEWICZ / RACHMANINOV / etc
Virtuoso Piano Etudes
Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Jeroen van Veen (piano) $99.00
Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies cover
SERGEY PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies
São Paulo Symphony (OSESP), Marin Alsop $70.00
Igor Stravinsky Edition cover
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Igor Stravinsky Edition
Natalie Dessay, Marie McLaughlin, Charles Dutoit, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Sabine Meyer, Alban Berg Quartett, Michael Collins, Pierre Boulez, etc $130.00
Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) $95.00

The Naxos Best Loved Series

Awesome Organ: Best loved classical organ music cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Awesome Organ: Best loved classical organ music
Wolfgang Rubsam, Simon Lindley, Stephen Tharp, Philippe Lefebvre, Robert Delcamp, Christiaan Teeuwsen, Éric Lebrun (organs) $20.00
Classic Clarinet: Best Loved Classical Clarinet Music cover
CRUSELL / SPOHR / MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / etc
Classic Clarinet: Best Loved Classical Clarinet Music
Per Billman, Peter Schmidl, Ernst Ottensamer, Boris Rener, Nikolaus Friedrich (clarinets) with Sibylla Rubens (soprano) $20.00
The Romantic Horn cover
BEETHOVEN / STRAUSS / SCHUMANN / GLAZUNOV / DUKAS / POULENC / VINTER
The Romantic Horn
Richard Watkins (horn), Julius Drake (piano) $35.00
Terrific Trumpet: Best Loved Classical Trumpet Music cover
MOURET / HAYDN / ALBINONI / HUMMEL / WEBER / etc
Terrific Trumpet: Best Loved Classical Trumpet Music
Various artists from the Naxos catalogue $20.00
» The perfect introduction to the instruments of the orchestra

New titles from Alpha Classics

And Love Said... cover
BRIDGE / POLDOWSKI / QUILTER / BRITTEN / WALTON etc
And Love Said...
Jodie Devos (soprano), Nicolas Krüger (piano) $35.00
Clair-Obscur cover
STRAUSS / BERG / ZEMLINSKY
Clair-Obscur
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier $35.00
Behzod Abduraimov - Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky cover
DEBUSSY / CHOPIN / MUSSORGSKY
Behzod Abduraimov - Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky
Behzod Abduraimov (piano) $35.00
Plaisirs Illuminés cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Plaisirs Illuminés
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello) / Camerata Bern, Francisco Coll (cond) $35.00
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April Gramophone Editors Choice

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 cover
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Anna Lucia Richter (mezzo), Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša $32.00
Ligeti: The 18 Études cover
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: The 18 Études
Danny Driver (piano) $30.00
Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande, Kzar delle Russie (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY cover
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande, Kzar delle Russie (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY
Festival Donizetti Opera / Roberto De Candia, Loriana Castellano, Paola Gradina, Nina Solodovnikova / Rinaldo Alessandrini (cond) $64.00
French Duets cover
FAURE / POULENC / DEBUSSY
French Duets
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) $30.00
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Terzo & Quarto cover
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Terzo & Quarto
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew $45.00
Lise Davidsen: Beethoven - Wagner - Verdi cover
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / RICHARD WAGNER / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Lise Davidsen: Beethoven - Wagner - Verdi
Lise Davidsen (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder $35.00
French Duets cover
FAURE / POULENC / DEBUSSY
French Duets
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano) $30.00
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata cover
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle $30.00
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Marbecks Collectables

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Malaguena, etc (with De Falla: 4 Piezas espanolas & Fantasia betica cover
ISAAC ALBENIZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Malaguena, etc (with De Falla: 4 Piezas espanolas & Fantasia betica
Alicia de Larrocha (piano) $35.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Andrei Gavrilov: Prokofiev & Ravel cover
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Andrei Gavrilov: Prokofiev & Ravel
Andrei Gavrilov (piano) $30.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Ravel: Bolero / La Valse / Rapsodie Espagnole (with Debussy: Images) cover
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Ravel: Bolero / La Valse / Rapsodie Espagnole (with Debussy: Images)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch $30.00
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also sprach Zarathustra / Ein Heldenleben cover
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also sprach Zarathustra / Ein Heldenleben
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner $30.00
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Beautiful Eloquence Boxed Sets

Rafael Kubelík - Complete Decca Recordings cover
BRAHMS / DVORAK / SMETANA / NICOLAI / MAHLER / WEBER / etc
Rafael Kubelík - Complete Decca Recordings
Wiener Philharmoniker, Israel Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik, with Pierre Fournier (cello) $130.00
Suzanne Danco - The Decca Recitals cover
DEBUSSY / MOZART / SCHUMANN / RAVEL / BRAHMS / etc
Suzanne Danco - The Decca Recitals
Suzanne Danco (soprano) / with Guido Agosti (piano) Phyllis Spurr (piano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), etc $85.00
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings cover
BERGMAN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / STRAUSS / MOZART /etc
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings
Eileen Joyce (piano) $55.00
Gillian Weir: A Celebration cover
DUPRÉ / FRANCK / COUPERIN / BRUHNS / BACH / MESSIAEN
Gillian Weir: A Celebration
Gillian Weir (organ) $190.00
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