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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem Op 48 / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 (with Pierre Villette & Roger-Ducasse - Motets) Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hil [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "This recording gives us what can be described as the 'original' version, in that it uses a small orchestra and all-male chorus as in its first performance. Hill takes an approach which cleverly combines austerity with expressive flexibility; the... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 - Nos 1, 2, 4, 6 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato / CD - released 24/Apr/1987 ] A transformative force in historically informed performance, Ton Koopman is renowned as a conductor, harpsichordist and organist. In 1979, aged 35, he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in the city where he had studied with the great Dutch... |
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JANACEK / LISZT / LYAPUNOV / GRIEG etc
Good Night! (LP) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 2/Oct/2020 ] The sixteen lullabies - or berceuses - that pianist Bertrand Chamayou has chosen for Good Night! form a captivatingly varied album. His programme embraces a diversity of eras and musical cultures: Chopin, Liszt, Grieg and, of course, Brahms through... |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (Oratorio in two parts) Catherine Bott, Christine Batty, Gerard Lesne / Les musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Erato / CD - released 1/May/1992 ] Penguin Stereo Guide Rosette Recording |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Canatas / Magnificat BWV243 Jennifer Smith, Anthony Rolf-Johnson, Jose van Dam / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz / Scottish Philharmonic Singers, Raymond Leppard [ Erato Collection / CD - released 14/Nov/1995 ] Original recordings from 1979 & 1984 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Libera Libera [ Erato Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2000 ] American imported disc. |
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CHOPIN
14 Waltzes Maria-Joao Pires (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/1996 ] German import (catalog 0630107092) |
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GOUNOD / MOZART / DONIZETTI / DELIBES / OFFENBACH / HANDEL / etc
Natalie Dessay: La Chanteuse D'Opéra Natalie Dessay (soprano), with Delphine Haidan (mezzo-soprano) Laurent Naouri (baritone) Roberto Alagna (tenor) Albert Shagidullin (baritone), etc [ Erato / 3 CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] "This collection showcases Natalie Dessay, an accomplished performer of absolute conviction and limitless energy." MusicWeb |
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GEORGE ENESCU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Enescu: Romanian Rhapsodies / Suites 1- 3 / Symphonie concertante Franco Maggio-Ormezowski (cello) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster [ Erato Ultima / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/1991 ] For most music lovers, George Enescu still amounts to Romanian Rhapsody No.1. That exhilarating squib has been recorded scores of times, but it's only recently that the great Romanian's later output has made international inroads. - MusicWeb |
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ANTONIN DVORAK / BEDRICH SMETANA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Smetana: Suites & Serenades Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Alain Lombard [ Erato Bonsai / CD - released 8/Apr/1988 ] Original recording made in 1979 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10 (Complete) Renaud Capucon (violin) & Frank Braley (piano) [ Erato Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2011 ] "These are among the smoothest and most beautiful-sounding Beethoven duo-sonata performances to have come my way in recent years." (Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2011) |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / GLUCK / MASSENET / KRIELER / MENDELSSOHN / FAURE / etc
Renaud Capucon - Le violon Roi Renaud Capucon (violin) with Gautier Capucon (cello) Frank Braley (piano) Martha Argerich (piano) Mischa Maisky (cello), etc [ Erato Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds. He was awarded first prize for chamber music in 1992 and first prize for violin with a special... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] "With Nagano taking a light, airy view and using the most scholarly text available, this new version certainly has its place." (Gramophone) |
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PURCELL
Purcell Edition (The Indian Queen, The Tempest, Dioclesian, Timon of Athens) Rosemary Hardy, Dinah Harris, Jennifer Smith, Lynne Dawson, Rogers Covey-Crump etc / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists, John Elliot Gardiner [ Warner Erato / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The choral singing is especially fine, with the close of the work movingly expressive… for The Tempest, Gardiner demonstrates how delightful it is, a masterly collection, in performances both polished and stylish and with excellent solo and choral... |
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Stacey Kent, Bernard Lavilliers Quatuor Ebène
Brazil [ Erato / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] On this latest album from the Ébène Quartet, it's Brazil as you've never heard it before..the Ébène Quartet have made a mixture of bossa nova and samba, shaken up into an intoxicating cocktail of rhythms and melodies from a diverse range of cultures |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Truls Mork (cello) [ Erato Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Jan/2006 ] "these are commanding performances, inspired by the composer's own unquenchable spirit." Gramophone Magazine February 2006 Editor's Choice |
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GIUSEPPE TARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tartini: Violin Concertos Uto Ughi (violin) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone [ Erato Basic Edition / CD - released 7/May/2001 ] Original recording from 1985 |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas 1 & 2 / 5 Melodies Op 35b Vadim Repin (violin) Boris Berezovsky (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 6/Oct/1995 ] Repin performs on the magnificent Stradivarius "Ruby" 1708 by kind permission of the Stradivarius Society of Chicago. |