Search Results: marbecks collectable
Displaying items 2101 to 2120 of 2187
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schnittke: Quasi Una Sonata / Piano Trio / Piano Sonata No 2 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/conductor) Mark Lubotsky (violin) Irina Schnittke (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Quasi una sonata remains one of the composer's seminal pieces in either of its versions, marking the debut of his celebrated 'polystylism' and his breakaway from the avant-garde. Stravinsky, serialism and Bach rub shoulders in a fiery performance by... |
W. A. MOZART / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart/Beethoven: Quintets For Piano And Wind Instruments Murray Perahia (piano) / Members Of The English Chamber Orchestra [ SONY CLASSICAL / CD ] One of the piano's most lyrical contemporary proponents, Murray Perahia was born in New York City. After first sitting down at the piano at the age of four, he entered Mannes College at 17, later graduating with degrees in conducting and composition. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: Etudes: Op. 25 & Op. 10 Murray Perahia (piano) [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2003 - Recording of the Month (Gramophone November 2002) |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina Nathalie Stutzmann (soprano) Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (contralto) / The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/Jan/1993 ] " Nathalie Stutzmann, soloist with Goodman, gives the more dramatic account, with an effective scurrying urgency in the orchestral playing." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rare Mozart Arias Nathalie Stutzmann (soprano) / Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/Jan/1999 ] Recorded July 1994 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, Germany |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, Vocalise / Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes Nelly Lee (soprano) / Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold Kaz [ Sony St. Petersburg Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded in 1984 & 1985. |
MANUEL de FALLA / VICENT ASENCIO / ERNESTO HALFFTER / ISAAC ALBENIZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Falla / Ascencio / Halffter / Albeniz The Netherlandst Guitar Trio [ Globe / CD - released 1/Feb/1989 ] All arrangements on this recording |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, etc New Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ EMI / CD - released 28/Oct/1988 ] Original recordings from 1963 (Pictures) & 1972 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 5 New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta [ Teldec / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] "Zubin Mehta's recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic receives praise for its excellent brass playing and overall clarity, especially in the scherzo and finale" |
WALTON / CLARKE / HANDEL / WOODS / McCORMICK / TRADITIONAL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pomp & Circumstance - Sounds of Glory The New Zealand Army Band with the Christchurch Musical Society Choir [ Bianco / CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] The New Zealand Army Band (Māori: Puoro Puoro Ngāti Tūmatauenga) is a brass band that primarily provides musical support for the New Zealand Army at all state and ceremonial occasions. It was founded in 1964 by Captain James Donald Carson (1935-2008). |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Fantasia on Greensleeves and others New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "Helped by vivid sound, James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in glowing performances of these favourite [sic] Vaughan Williams works." (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Wand [ RCA Gold Seal / CD - released 4/Apr/1989 ] "These are involved, committed and engaged offerings, intended to bring the greatness of the Brahms Symphony to the world's attention." Review |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / JOSEF MYSLIVECEK / GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Trilogy - Boccherini, Myslivecek, Viotti Ofra Harnoy (cello) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone [ RCA / CD - released 1/Sep/1993 ] "The fact that Ofra Harnoy chooses to record the Grutzmacher arrangement of Boccherini speaks for itself: this is a CD for cello-fanciers." Gramophone |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Honegger: Symphonies 2 for strings & 4 'Deliciae basiliensis' Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/1992 ] 'One of the best new recordings of Honegger's music to have appeared for a long time... In his lightness of touch and responsiveness to colour and atmosphere, López-Cobos scores over almost all his rivals. Strongly recommended.' Gramophone |
STRAVINSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / DEBUSSY / BARTOK / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Conductors of the 20th Century-Ernest Ansermet Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire [ EMI The Great Conductors / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2002 ] The greatest conductors the world has ever known |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: L'Arlesienne (complete incidental music Op 23) (Rec 1985) Orfeon Donostiarra, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ EMI Encore / CD - released 9/Jun/2006 ] L'Arlésienne - the girl from Arles (in Provence) was composed as incidental music to a play by Daudet. Nowadays the play is little-known but Bizet's music has become very familiar from the two orchestral suites. |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane / Le Festin de l'araignee Orchestre National de France, Georges Pretre [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/1986 ] Albert Roussel (1869-1937) was a French composer who spent seven years in the French Navy, only turning to music at the age of 25. He became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period. |
GEORGE ENESCU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Enescu: Suites for Orchestra Op.9 & Op.20 Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Lawrence Foster [ Warner Apex / CD - released 9/Jul/1984 ] "Here are two discs packed with music fit to burst. Better still; they are offered at bargain price. Enescu poetically sustained ... well upholstered Brahmsian textures ... convincingly done - look no further." - MusicWeb June 2005 |
GEORGE ENESCU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Enescu: Romanian Rhapsodies / Suites 1- 3 / Symphonie concertante Franco Maggio-Ormezowski (cello) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster [ Erato Ultima / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/1991 ] For most music lovers, George Enescu still amounts to Romanian Rhapsody No.1. That exhilarating squib has been recorded scores of times, but it's only recently that the great Romanian's later output has made international inroads. - MusicWeb |
ANTONIN DVORAK / BEDRICH SMETANA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Smetana: Suites & Serenades Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Alain Lombard [ Erato Bonsai / CD - released 8/Apr/1988 ] Original recording made in 1979 |
