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WILHELM STENHAMMAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor / Serenade In F / Ballad Janos Solyom (piano) Ingvar Wixell (baritone) / Münchner Philharmoniker, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Stig Westerberg [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/1994 ] Stenhammar the conductor and pianist was a leading figure in the musical life of Sweden and Scandinavia, but in his role as composer he struggled with self-doubt, feeling that his knowledge of musical theory was insufficient. |
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GRIEG / SIBELIUS / STENHAMMAR / ALFVEN / SJOBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Diamonds in the Snow Barbara Bonney (soprano) Antonio Pappano (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2000 ] Gramophone Magazine 2000 Winner - Vocal |
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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
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GRANDOS / RODRIGO / NIN / GUASTAVINO / GINASTERA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Canciones amatorias Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] 'Enthusiasts for song recitals should certainly investigate this disc, which offers one beautiful song after the other, running the gamut from elegant art songs to simple, folk-like tunes' (Fanfare) |
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BRITTEN / STANFORD / QUILTER / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WARLOCK / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Silent Noon - English Songs Bryn Terfel (bass-Baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ] "The singer's dynamic range is quite superb. He can float his voice delicately and effortlessly like a seagull on a thermal as in Gurney's Sleep and Parry's Love is a bable. Where necessary he can build up with an organic power akin to a volcano... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: An die Musik: Favourite Schubert Lieder (Songs) Bryn Terfel (Baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "Throughout, Martineau's at once vigorous and subtle playing is an apt support: his accompaniment in Erlkonig is arrestingly clear and precise...this one is pure pleasure" (Gramophone) |
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BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Byron Janis I Byron Janis (piano) [ Philips / BMG / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "This is a fine installment of this important collection of 20th-century pianists." Arkivmusic |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Complete Schubert Edition: A Goethe Schubertiad Christine Shafer (soprano) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Simon Keenlyside (baritone) Michael George (bass) / The London Chorale / Stephen Layton (dir) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 24 / CD - released 2/Feb/2002 ] 'The whole record is priceless … renewed praise … an engrossing and invaluable addition to this series' (Gramophone) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Songs of 1816 Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 23 / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] 'Prégardien is a prince among tenors' (Gramophone) GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / POULENC / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: David Daniels - Serenade David Daniels (counter-tenor) / Martin Katz (piano) [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2000 ] * * * * * 5 Stars - BBC Music Magazine (June 2000) - * * * * * five stars - Classic CD (July 2000) |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Piano Concerto (Completed Walker) / The Immortial Legions / Spanish Serenade op.23 / etc David Owen-Norris (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra (David Lloyd Jones) & the BBC Singers [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] "Concerto: majestic, extremely impressive ... captured with craggy mastery. Enthusiastically recommended to Elgarians everywhere" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 'Spring', 7 & 8 Dene Olding (violin), Max Olding (piano). [ ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2000 ] Maxwell Charles Olding AM was born on 4 July 1929. His career has embraced conducting symphonic, choral, operatic and theatre works as well as teaching, administration and as organist and choirmaster. In 1950, at age 21, he was appointed an... |
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SCOTT JOPLIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joplin: Piano Works 1899 - 1904 (Incls 'Maple Leaf Rag' & 'The Entertainer') Dick Hyman (piano) [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Scott Joplin (c. 1867/68 or November 24, 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime... |
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BORODIN / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dmitri Hvorostovsky: My Restless Soul Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) Mikhail Arkadiev (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 20/Feb/1995 ] Recorded: The Hit Factory, London, 2/1993 |
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SIR ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Panufnik: Symphony No 9 / Piano Concerto Ewa Pobłocka (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Panufnik [ Conifer / CD - released 20/May/1991 ] "These two recordings were made at Panufnik's last recording sessions. He died in October 1991." MusicWeb |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Melancholie [Lieder] Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / Sony / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] "With his bright, burnished high baritone, expressive diction and alert, unexaggerated response to mood and nuance, Gerhaher confirms his credentials as one of the most probing Lieder singers of the younger generation" Gramophone |
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BEETHOVEN / LISZT / MIASKOVSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Grigory Ginsburg Grigory Ginsburg (piano) [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 37 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw I International Chopin Piano Competition. |
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ERNEST BLOCH / SAMUEL FEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Symphony For Trombone & Orchestra / Feinberg: Piano Concerto No 3 Grigory Khersonsky (trombone) USSR Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kozhukar / Vladimir Bunin (piano) Ostankino Large Symphony, Gennadi Cherkasov [ Consonance / CD - released 22/Feb/1994 ] Recorded 1988 & 1990 |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 6 (Incls 'Lieder und Gersänge', Op. 32) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Bostridge's fans have no need to hesitate either, and the virtues of his distinctive Lieder-singing art are very much in evidence." Gramophone |