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MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / HAYDN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER / REGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joseph Keilberth: The Postwar Telefunken Recordings - 1953-1963 Ludwig Hoelscher (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Joseph Keilberth [ Warner Classics Icon / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] 20 July 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of the German conductor Joseph Keilberth. His name is perhaps not so widely remembered as some of his contemporaries, but he was an important figure in the musical life of Germany in the mid-20th |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / DVORAK / WAGNER / etc
Icon: Rudolf Kempe: The Genius of the Podium Rudolf Kempe conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] The German conductor Rudolf Kempe (1910-1976) began his musical career playing the oboe in various symphony orchestras. The programme begins with recordings of four Beethoven Symphonies that Kempe made with the Munich Philharmonic in 1971-72. |
W. A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / BARTOK / SCHUBERT
Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings Annie Fischer (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Otto Klemperer, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2014 ] 'I can find no praise too high for Annie Fischer's playing, for she makes every phrase a delight. Sawallisch partners his soloist to perfection. Everybody has here combined to produce something really outstanding among recordings of Mozart... |
SCHUMANN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / WOLF / MAHLER / etc
Brigitte Fassbaender: Icon - The Great Lieder Recordings Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Popp, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Fassbaender was born in Berlin, the daughter of screen actress Sabine Peters and the baritone, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. The family settled in Nuremberg after World War II. She spent her early career in Munich. |
MOZART / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / HINDEMITH / WAGNER / etc
Icon: Dennis Brain - The Horn Player Dennis Brain (horn) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "I have listened repeatedly with increasing pleasure to this set which is irresistible for its sheer musical pleasure." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Sept 2008) |
BACH / MOZART / RICHARD STRAUSS / MAHLER / SCHUBERT / etc
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Radient Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) with Victoria de los Angeles, Imgard Seefried, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, etc [ Warner Classics Icon / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2011 ] Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Blessed with a voice of exquisite beauty, as well as a striking physical presence, she shone brightly in opera, excelled in the concert hall and... |
FRANCO CORELLI
Icon: Franco Corelli (excerpts from I Puritani, Norma, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, etc) Franco Corelli (tenor) with various orchstras & conductors [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2009 ] Franco Corelli began his stage career in Italy in 1951. With his powerful voice, charismatic stage presence and film-star good looks he soon became one of the 20th century's outstanding operatic superstars. |
FRITZ WUNDERLICH
Icon: Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors (works by Mozart, Mahler, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovksy, etc) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "The recordings are clean, balanced and digitally re-mastered. I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set; it offers nearly seven hours of one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb Oct... |
BACH / MOZART / SIBELIUS / TCHAIKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV / etc
Icon: Jascha Heifetz- The Master Violinist (6 CD set) Jascha Heifetz (violin) with various orchestras, conductors & accompaniments [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish Lithuanian-born American violin virtuoso who was born in 1901 and died in 1987. His father was a professional violinist who started to give him lessons when Heifetz was only three-years-old. He then went on to further... |
SCHUMANN / BERLIOZ / DUKAS / ROUSSEL / FALLA / POULENC / etc
Icon: Jean Martinon - The Late Years Various orchestras conducted by Jean Martinon, with Lily laskine. Itzhak Perlman, Marie-Claire Alain, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2015 ] 2016 marked the 40th anniversary of Jean Martinon's death. This 14-CD collection focuses on Martinon's activity with the Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F between 1968 and 1975 and on repertoire - much of it French |
