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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas Christian Zacharias (piano) [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 21/Aug/2011 ] "His variety of touch and inflection throughout the C major K. 330 sonata approximates the registral differentiation and piquant timbres characterizing the pianos of Mozart's time." ClassicsToday |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, J. S.: Motets / Easter Oratorio BWV 249 Christine Brenk (soprano) Anne Greiling (alto) Frank Bossert (tenor) Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) / Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2007 ] It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving ones associated with him. There is a case for regarding the six motets catalogued BWV 225-230 as... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: 'Elias', Op. 70 / 'Paulus', Op. 36 (Rec 1994) Christine Schafer (soprano) Cornelia Kallisch (alto) / Andreas Schmidt (bass) Czech Philharmonic / Helmuth Rilling [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Is this a Bargain of the Month? That's for the Editor to decide. For my money, this is set fair to be a Bargain of the Year. Urgently recommended." (MusicWeb April 2003) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Moses und Aron [complete opera] David Pittman-Jennings, Chris Merritt / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Deutsch Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Sep/1996 ] Schoenberg's most comprehensive score, it represents the climax of his association with the dodecaphonic method of composition, described by Schoenberg himself as 'a method of composition with twelve notes related only to each other |
RAVEL / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / WAGNER / FRANCK / FAURE / BEETHOVEN / etc
Paul Paray - The Mercury Masters: Volume 1 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, with Marcel Dupré (organ) [ Mercury Living Presence Eloquence / 23 CD Box Set - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Covering the first five years of their partnership on Mercury, this edition celebrates the legacy of French conductor, Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Recorded from 1953 to 1957, during the golden era of the orchestra. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1993 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
SAMUEL ADLER
Adler: One Lives But Once, A 90th Birthday Celebration Eastman School of Music, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Emily Freeman Brown [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/Feb/2018 ] March 4th 2018 marks the 90th birthday of one of the twenty-first century's most influential and prolific composers: Samuel Adler. This three-disc boxed set provides a cohesive overview of his output and includes many premiere recordings. |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / GLUCK / R. STRAUSS / WOLF / SCHUMANN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Recital Carnegie Hall 25th November, 1956 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), George Reeves (piano) [ EMI References / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Jun/1988 ] Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Melodies / Lieder Elly Ameling (soprano), Gerard Souzay (baritone) & Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ EMI Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Originally recorded in 1974 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Songs Evelina Dobraceva, Ekaterina Siurina (sopranos), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko, Rodion Pogossov (baritone [ Delphian / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2014 ] "there are distinct pluses to this new Delphian set. One of them is unquestionably the pianism of Iain Burnside, who recognises the integral expressive role of the piano in these songs...Practically everything...rings true in this set." Gramophone |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius,Op. 38 [with Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens; I was glad] Felicity Palmer (sop) Arthur Davies (ten) Gwynne Howell (bass) / London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/1988 ] "...Howell is an imposing vocal presence...The choral singing is as good as any I've heard on disc...The playing of the LSO is superb throughout" MusicWeb International, 25th September 2013 |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (complete opera recorded in 1984) Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Barbara Bonney / Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2007 ] 'Solti gives Schoenberg's masterly score a dynamism and warmth which set it firmly - if perhaps surprisingly - in the grand romantic tradition...As Aaron, Philip Langridge is lighter and more lyrical." Penguin Guide |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (complete opera) Freddie de Tommaso, Saioa Hernández, Lester Lynch, Elisabeth Kulman / [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "De Tommaso turns out to be the real deal, singing with a confidence and ease that seem astonishing for a singer who was only 28 at the time of the recording, His is a real *spinto* tenor: bright yet intensely masculine." BBC Music Opera Choice |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (complete operas with libretto) Mirella Freni, Julia Varady, Ingvar Wixwwll, Luciano Pavarotti / National Philharmonic, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Patane [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2010 ] Leoncavallo was a little-known composer when Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana premiered around 1890. After seeing Mascagni's success, Leoncavallo decided to write an opera in response: one act composed in the verismo style. |
W. A. MOZART
Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne - Mozart Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Audrey Mildmay, Heddle Nash, John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Sena Jurinac, Alexander Young, Richard Lewis / Fritz Busch (cond) [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 8/Jul/2017 ] Fritz Busch (1890-1951) was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. |
DUPRÉ / FRANCK / COUPERIN / BRUHNS / BACH / MESSIAEN
Gillian Weir: A Celebration Gillian Weir (organ) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 22 CD Box Set - released 12/Feb/2021 ] 'Dame Gillian is one of the greatest of living artists; her playing shows a perfect mixture of hand and heart, a true musician with the technique to tackle anything.' - JOHN AMIS, WRITER AND CRITIC |
CLERAMBAULT / BRUHNS / WIDOR / VIERNE / DUPRE / BACH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: King of Instruments: The Art of Gillian Weir Gillian Weir (organ) [ Argo / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2005 ] 'There is an aristocratic poise and restraint which illuminate Weir's readings of Clerambault's two Suites' BBC Music Magazine |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1957) Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Franco Calabrese / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Tullio Serafin [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/1985 ] "In general this is Callas at her most girlish: light-voiced, lyrical and with the power to make the dramatic climaxes thrilling." MusicWeb |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Complete Opera recorded at the New Zealand Festival 2000) Gordon Hawkins, Vladimir Vaneev, Yaron Windmuller, Nuccia Focile / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, Marco Guidarini [ Trust / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2006 ] Verdi's sombre and powerful operatic masterpiece, with its themes of love, hate, treachery and reconciliation, is brought to life in this production from the 2000 New Zealand Festival, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Chapman... |
