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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Earl Wild Earl Wild (piano) [ Philips / EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2019 ] Royland Earl Wild was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1915. Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson at the Carnegie Institute of Technology there, and later with Marguerite Long, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the... |
BACH / BUSONI / BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Emil Gilels I Emil Gilels (piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Philips / EMI / BMG / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 15/May/2018 ] "I thought I would be mourning the omission of Gilels's Liszt Sonata from this series, or indeed his Shostakovich Second Sonata, or his Grieg Lyric Pieces, his Beethoven sonatas, his Brahms ... but the sheer quality of this second instalment (see... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Friedrich Gulda I Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno... |
CHOPIN / BALAKIREV / BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen I Julius Katchen (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen (August 15, 1926 - April 29, 1969) was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works. |
BEETHOVEN / DOHNANYI / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen II Julius Katchen (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen's career ended prematurely when cancer claimed him at age 42. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Mikhail Pletnev Mikhail Pletnev (piano) / The Philharmonia, Vladimir Fedoseyev [ BMG Philips EMI / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Admirers of this pianist will count this Double an outstanding bargain." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Myaskovsky: Serenada in F flat / Sinfonietta in B minor / Symphony No. 19 USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra, USSR Symphony Orchestra, USSR Ministry of Defence Orchestra [ Melodiya / CD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] Currently very few copies available, anywhere! |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens - and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert's D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her serenading awash with fellow female songsters, and harp." |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: The Great Operas - From the Bayreuth Festival Theo Adam, Gerd Nienstedt, James King, Leonie Rysanek, Wolfgang Windgassen, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Birgit Nilsson, Victoria de los Angeles, Christa Ludwig [ Decca / 33 CD Box Set - released 15/Feb/2016 ] As part of the Wagner year 2013 celebrations Decca Classics released a limited edition re-press of the successful 2008 set of Wagner Operas recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival. Stock is very limited. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: The preludes and fugues Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] "Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time." (BBC Music Award WINNER 2011 - Instrumental) |
GERALD FINZI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Finzie: Dies Natalis / Intimations of Immortality John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Gerald Finzi likened the creative artist to a 'coral reef insect, building his reef out of the transitory world around him and making a solid structure to last long after his own fragile and uncertain life'. 'Fragile' and 'uncertain' are the key... |
Constance Demby
MARBECKS RARE: Novus Magnificat [ Hearts of Space Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] |
Flip Grater
MARBECKS RARE: Pigalle [ Maiden Records / CD - released 4/Apr/2014 ] Pigalle is the result of a song-writing journey that took Grater house-sitting across NZ, to colourful Argentina for Carnival, to the bright lights of LA and to the warm shores of Italy. Her final destination was romantic Paris, and this is where she... |
Mamaku
MARBECKS RARE: Twigs Of Gold [ Mamaku Project / CD - released 24/Jan/2014 ] Mamaku Project's celebrated electro-organic sessions have crystallized into a compelling new album with a wide emotional spectrum, drawing on trip-hop, quirky grooves, and chanson. The lush sound palette, organically electronic, carries tender... |
EMMANUEL CHABRIER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chabrier: Briseis, ou Les Amantes de Corinthe Joan Rodgers, Mark Padmore, Simon Keenlyside, Michael George / Chorus Of Scottish Opera / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jean-Yves Ossonce [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE 'For those who heard Chabrier's incomplete magnum opus at last year's Festival this recording will need no recommendation... Fabulously rewarding' (The Scotsman) |
Ride
MARBECKS RARE: Tarantula [ Sire / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ] |
Scud Mountain Boys
MARBECKS RARE: The Early Year [ Sub Pop / CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
James Blake
MARBECKS RARE: James Blake (Repackage With Bonus Disc) [ Polydor Records U.K. / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2011 ] Repackage of the original album plus a 6-track EP 'Enough Thunder', featuring a Bon Iver collaboration and Joni Mitchell cover. |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lambert: The Rio Grande / Summer's Last Will and Testament / etc Sally Burgess (mezzo) William Shimell (baritone) Jack Gibbons (piano) / English Northern Sinfonia / David Lloyd-Jones [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - RECORD OF THE YEAR, THE INDEPENDENT GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Oboe Quartet / Horn Quintet / etc The Gaudier Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "Anyone interested in this particular program is unlikely to be anything but delighted with this disc" (Fanfare) |
