CY COLEMAN / NEIL DIAMOND / KANDER & EBB / RICHARD ADLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fosse Valarie Pettiford, Jane Lanier / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. The musical was conceived by Richard Maltby Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking. |
CRISTOFARO CARESANA / GAETANO VENEZIANO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tenebrae: Music for Holy Week in Naples Valentina Varriale / I Turchini / Antonio Florio [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "It is a tribute to Antonio Florio's direction that one never notices his interference with the natural flow of these fine performances." Gramophone |
Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Richard van Allan, Judy Kaye / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kismet - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1990 |
W. A. MOZART / SAMUEL BARBER / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Van Cliburn - Mozart, Barber & Debussy Van Cliburn (piano) [ RCA Victor Van Cliburn Collection / CD - released 25/Sep/1992 ] .Recordings from 1965 - 1972 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / 5 Intermezzi Van Cliburn (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Victor Van Cliburn Collectation / CD - released 20/May/1988 ] "Van Cliburn's triumph at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and his unprecedented ticker-tape welcome home was a story that made front pages worldwide. What other pianist has inspired that kind of coverage?" Gramophone |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann/Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Van Cliburn (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz reiner & Walter Hendl [ RCA Victor / CD - released 25/Sep/1992 ] In the remastering process, sophisticated digital transfer technology was employed to reveal the full bandwidth and dynamic range of the original master tapes. What you hear is the pure performance, presented in the original splendor. |
JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kander/Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman - The musical Vanessa Williams & Howard McGillin / New 1994 Broadway Cast Recording [ Mercury / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. Directed by Harold Prince, the musical had runs in the West End (1992)... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Orchestral Works (Incls Sinfonia da Requiem, Simple Symphony & Prince of the Pagodas) Leif Ove Andsnes, Peter Donohoe, Simon Rattle, Paavo Berglund, Oliver Knussen, etc [ EMI Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 4/Feb/2013 ] "And there are no duds and some real winners among these performances, which bid fair to rival Britten's own survey for Decca." MusicWeb |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / WILLIAM WALTON / MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten/Walton/Tippett: British Composers [Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber Music] Dame Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, Ida Haendel, Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, Paavo Berglund, Neville Marriner, Andre Previn [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2011 ] "The Britten-Walton-Tippett set is an exemplar of the excellence found in the EMI house tradition. There are whoopingly good recordings of the Spring Symphony and the Four Sea Interludes - sadly the Grimes - Passacaglia is not included. What a... |
ANTONIO ROSETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rosetti: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Dieter Klocker (clarinet), Klaus Wallendorf, Sarah Willis (horns) SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Holga Schröter-Seebeck [ CPO / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "Clarinetist Dieter Klöcker in particular deserves credit for reviving so much unknown wind music of the classical period." ClassicsToday |
PHILIPS GATES / FRANK BRIDGE / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gates Bridge Barber - String Quartets The Eberle Quartet [ Naim / CD - released 30/Jul/2001 ] Recorded at the Jacqueline de Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford, January 1997 |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Handel Gold Various Artists: Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD - released 9/Mar/2009 ] "This is not really an issue to ponder too much in depth, rather lean back, shut one's eyes and just enjoy. Those who find the repertoire to their liking can rest assured that the performances are fully worthy of the music." (MusicWeb June 2009) |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Music of Howard Hanson (Incls Symphonies 2 "Romantic", 4 "Requiem", 6 & 7) Carol Rosenberger (piano) Judith Mendenhall (flute) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Delos / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Composer, teacher, and one of the most influential musical figures in the United States between the world wars, Howard Hanson studied in New York with conservative composer Percy Goetschius and at Northwestern University, outside Chicago. Somewhat of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen (explanation and analysis by Deryck Cooke) Various Artists from the Georg Solti recordings [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "The discourse is riveting; the music examples, many of them specially prepared, are clumsily inserted, but this is still a thoroughly worthwhile acquisition for those who already have recordings of the operas." Penguin Guide |
MASSENET / VERDI / PUCCINI / WAGNER / LEONCAVALLO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Legendary Baritones Lucien Fugère, Victor Maurel, Antonio Magini-Coletti, Elsa Petri, Mattia Battistini, Mario Ancona, Maurice Renaud, Eugenio Giraldoni, Riccardo Stracci [ Nimbus Prima Voce / CD ] "Prizes for all here ... a prize-giving here would have something for (almost) everybody, including those responsible for the transfers and booklet, for the choice of singers and their matching up with arias" Gramophone |
BEDRICH SMETANA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Smetana: Libuse (Festive Opera In 3 Acts) Eva Urbanová, Vratislav Kriz, Ludek Vele, Helena Kaupová / Prague National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi [ Supraphon / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2009 ] "The cast is splendid, reflecting that the extraordinary musical traditions of the Czech's (Europe's most musical nation?) are alive and well. The whole performance captures the sense of occasion." MusicWeb |
JERRY HERMAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hermann: Miss Spectacular Christine Baranski & Michael Feinstein / The Concept album [ DRG Theater / CD - released 17/Jun/2002 ] Miss Spectacular is an unproduced musical with a libretto by Robert L. Freedman, lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and additional lyrics by Steve Lawrence and Michael Feinstein. |
Original Cast Album, with Ellen Greene & Lee Wilkof
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Little Shop Of Horrors [ Geffen / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman. The story follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is loosely... |
Various performers including Eydie Alyson, Brent Barrett, Ripert Holmes, Crista Moore, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lost In Boston Vol 4 - Songs you have never heard from 'Sweet Charity', 'Little Shop of Horrors', 'Pippin' and more [ Varese Sarabande / CD - released 5/May/1997 ] The final in the famed Lost in Boston CD series. Lost in Boston IV is subtitled "The End of the Road." Previous CDs in the series rescued songs cut from famous musicals, including West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, The Music Man and The... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Urecht Te Deum & Jubilate / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / etc Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, James Bowman, Paul Elliot, Martyn Hill / Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca / 2 CD ] Recording locations: All Saints Church, Tooting, London, December 1977 (Anthem, Ode) St Jude's Church, Hampstead, London, July 1979 (Te Deum & Jubilate, Alceste) |