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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini: String Quintets - Volume 10 Virtuosi della Rotonda, with Luigi Puxeddu (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "There is much here to enjoy, both in the music and the performances, which are first rate. The music-making is captured in a sympathetic and pleasing acoustic.I look forward to future releases in this series from this excellent ensemble." MusicWeb |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Complete Songs 1 Victoria Evtodieva (soprano), Natalia Biryukova (mezzo-soprano), Fyodor Kuznetsov (bass), Mikhail Lukonin (baritone), Yuri Serov (piano) [ Delos / CD - released 1/Oct/2019 ] "Here are two CDs dedicated to some of the finest and most under-recorded song repertoire of the 20th century. Yury Serov is the presiding spirit; his sharply characterised piano playing radiating musical and cultural understanding, and his singers... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello / Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in St Jude's Church, Central Square, London, July 1988 |
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ANTONIN DVOARK / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor / Schubert: "Arpeggione" Sonata Lynn Harrell (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine (cond/pianist) [ RCA Papillon Collection / CD - released 26/Oct/1987 ] Lynn Harrell (January 30, 1944 - April 27, 2020) was an American classical cellist. Known for the "penetrating richness" of his sound, Harrell performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with major orchestras. |
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TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Victoria: Officium Defunctorum Magnificat Choir, Philip Cave [ Linn ECHO / CD - released 30/Apr/2014 ] 'The performances are guaranteed to refresh even the most jaded palate.' (Early Music Today) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61 / Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 40 & Op. 50 Manrico Padovani (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Perrenoud [ Cascavelle / CD - released 14/Jun/2002 ] Recorded in the National Radio Moscow, Great Hall, in 1999 |
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BELLINI / ROSSINi / DONIZETTI / VERDI / PUCCINI / BIZET / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maria Callas - 100 Best Classics Maria Callas (soprano), with Richard Tucker, Luiso Villa, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefamo, Nicolai Gedda, etc [ EMI / 6 CD Box Set - released 4/Jun/2007 ] Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi Heroines Maria Callas (soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicola Rescigno [ EMI Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2007 ] "Classic Callas recordings, which should be in every opera lover's collection" Penguin Guide |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Schumann: Piano Concerto Martha Argerich, Renaud Capucon, Mischa Maisky / Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Alexandre Rabinovich-Barakovksy [ EMI Music / CD - released 18/May/2004 ] "Argerich, Capucon and Maisky are occasionally prone to exaggerated point-making, but their music-making has an intensity and spontaneity of a kind that only a live performance can bring..this finely recorded newcomer should not be missed." BBC... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: MASTERPIECE Beethoven Martha Modl (soprano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Academy St Martin-in-the-Fields [ EMI Studio / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] This CD contains all the most familiar and best-loved works by the Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by a galaxy of star musicans. |
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BYRD / PHILIPS / FARNABY / BULL / SWEELINCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Martin Souter (Harpsichord. Clavichord. Virginals, organ) [ Historic Keyboard Collection / Gift of Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge houses one of the world's most important manuscripts of keyboard music. The music was composed by England's greatest composers of the early seventeenth century and ranges from erudite fantasias to exquisite... |
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HENRY PURCELL / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Songs and Interludes / Handel: Arias from Xerxes Maureen Forrester (contralto) Alexander Young (tenor) Martin Isepp (harpsichord) / Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman [ MCA Millennium Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/1996 ] Recording: June 1966 - Mozartsaal, Vienna |
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JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto Aranjuez / Arnold: Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra Michael Conn (guitar) / The Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, John Lubbock [ IMP Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] Originally released 1987 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: The Early Piano Sonatas (Includes 'Pathetique') Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Morrison Music Trust / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Now out of print! |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Don Carlo (Complete Opera with libretto recorded in 1993) Michael Sylvester, Aprile Millo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Vladimir Chernov, Dolora Zajick / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1993 ] "Levine's performance of the five-act Italian Don Carlo supersedes all other versions, because he conducts Verdi's spacious score with such masterly skill and meticulous attention to detail, and has so magnificent an orchestra at his command" BBC |
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BACH / TELEMANN / HEBERLE / FREDERICK THE GREAT / KRAHMER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Michala Petri : The Virtuoso Recorder Michala Petri (recorder) Hanne Petri (harpsichord) David Petri (cello) [ RCA Victor / CD - released 15/May/2018 ] Recorder compositions by Telemann, Heberle, Bach, Frederick the Great, Krahmer. Accompanied by harpsichord and cello. |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: 6 Concertos Michala Petri (recorder) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1990 ] Michala Petri plays on a trevle recorder and a sopranino recorder. |
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BACH / TELEMANN / VIVALDI / KOPPEL / KRAHMER / IBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Michala Petri - Souvenir - music for recorder & lute/guitar Michala Petri (recorder) with Lars Hannibal (lute) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 14/Jun/1994 ] Michala Petri's most enduring creative partnership has been with her husband, the guitarist and lutenist Lars Hannibal. The couple has performed a wide range of music together, from Baroque sonatas to their own innovative arrangements of music by... |
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NICCOLO PAGANINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Paganini: 24 Caprices Midori (violin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Apr/1989 ] Midori Goto, born October 25, 1971) who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mina Foley and Michael Tarawhiti McGifford Mina Foley / Michael Tarawhiti McGifford with Val Hungerford (piano) [ Ode Records / CD - released 16/Aug/2007 ] This recording is available for the first time on CD and features a selection of fine songs for solo voice along with duets performed by Mina with another NZ great Michael Tarawhiti McGifford. |