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ALAN HOVHANESS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain (with works by Prokofiev & Stravinsky) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Living Stereo / CD - released 20/Jan/1995 ] "In a past review, I referred to Reiner's 'clarity, precision and flexible phrasing', and all are conspicuous on this disc, as is his perfect control of balance and colour." Classical-Music.com |
MAX BRUCH / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto Cho-Liang Lin (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Music / CD - released 15/Feb/1994 ] "Cho-Liang Lin is accompanied most sensitively by Slatkin and the Chicago orchestra, and this reading is totally compelling in its combination of passion and purity, strength and dark, hushed intensity. The recording is excellent." *** Penguin Guide |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet) / Bolero City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Rattle's reading is most enjoyable; it is atmospheric - sample the gorgeous 'Daybreak' opening of Part III, for instance - and often voluptuous and intoxicating, especially in the case of the final Danse générale and the dynamic Dance guerrière. MW |
JOAN TOWER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1999 ] The title of this extraordinary collection of orchestral gems suggests both parody of and homage to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. |
MAHLER / BRUCKNER / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruno Walter: The Original Jacket Collection Columbia Symphony Orchestra, New York philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter, with Mildred Miller (sop) Ernst Haefliger (ten) Maureen Forrester (contral [ Sony Classical / 13 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] To those reared on his recordings, Bruno Walter was a living link to a bygone age. Born in 1876, when Wagner was still alive and Bruckner had yet to write his last and greatest symphonies, Walter was arguably the most old-world of the many long-lived... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony No.4 & Symphony No.6 'Pastorale' Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Sony Bruno Walter The Edition / CD - released 19/May/1995 ] "The Sixth is a lovely, expansive, relaxed affair..with Walter's unerring command of rhythm coming to the fore." MusicWeb |
CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: Symphony No 1 / Sibelius: Symphony No 7 Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Okko Kamu [ Scandinavian Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] "Okko Kamu leads a refreshingly vibrant account of Nielsen's Symphony No. 1. The first movement surges with youthful vigor, aided by Kamu's light touch-crisp orchestral articulation and clear ensemble textures...a winner." ClassicsToday 10/10 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor / MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] "Recommended. In many ways the coupling of one masterful work with another of wayward charm makes for an ideally complementary partnership." MusicWeb |
EDVARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANZ LISZT / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor / Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russell Stanger / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] Transfered using a customized state of the art Ampex tube tape recorder and an extraordinary analogie to digital converter with 20 bit linearily and a 128 times oversampling/digital filter, in an effort to achieve the finest quality sound. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Hongen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann / Bayreuther Festival, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 3/Jul/1997 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ PIM DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power. |
ROGERS & HART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: My Funny Valentine: Songs from the Shows Frederica von Stade (soprano) / Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] The songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart was one of the most successful on Broadway from the '20s until Hart's death in 1943. They met in 1919, whilst attending Columbia University and had their first success in 1925 with the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Gabriela Benackova, Marjana Lipovsek, Gosta Winbergh, Hermann Prey / Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Entree / CD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "This is, I think, one of the great Ninths on record. It will be particularly welcomed, I would say, by anyone who feels that Beethoven is excessively preachy in this symphony. Maybe they will find Abbado's vision one they can share." MusicWeb 2006 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 9 & 14 Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Mark Reshetin (bass) / USSR Symphony Orchestra, David Oistrakh / Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1993 ] Recorded live in the Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire October (No.14) & December 1969 |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt [ Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad / 10 Hybrid SACD - released 3/Dec/2012 ] Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present us here with what is easily the most memorable classical box set of 2012 and, possibly, the most important addition to the Bruckner discography in a generation. |
JOHN ADAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adams: Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops Gidon Kremer (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Oct/2019 ] "Kremer plays the concerto like he can't wait to get to the next phrase. "Committed" just begins to describe his playing. His tone - which in the past I've found nervous and a bit steely - warms up considerably for Adams." ClassicalNet |
PIAZZOLLA / ELGAR / SARASATE / MOZART / RAVEL / BERNSTEIN / RANEAU / SAINT-SAENS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: BBC Proms 99 - Artists and music from BBC Proms 1999 Gidon Kremer, Maxim Venerov (violin) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Dawn Upshaw, Deborah Voigt (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Teldec / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] This double CD features artists appearing in the BBC Proms 1999. Note that these are recordings taken from previously released material and are note recorded from the actual proms. |
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Legende op. 17 (with Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen) Gil Shaham (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "He is a marvellous violinist with a beautiful tone." (TP 1001 Classical) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 "Elvira Madigan" & 24 Glenn Gould (piano), CBC Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind / Rosina Lhevinne (piano), The Juilliard Orchestra, Jean Morel [ CBS Masterworks / CD - released 12/Nov/1985 ] Recorded in 1960 & 1962 |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund [ EMI / CD - released 20/Mar/1984 ] "Berglund a fine, no-nonsense No. 7." (BBC Music) |
