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![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Dichterliebe / Liederkreis / Myrthen / etc [2 CD set] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10111/10111199.jpg)
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Dichterliebe / Liederkreis / Myrthen / etc [2 CD set] Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Philips SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Singer and pianist work together almost by instinct in thinking themselves into the very heart of these songs... Holzmair's plangent, very Viennese voice bespeaks the vulnerability that lies at the soul of Robert's Eusebius side." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Awesome Organ: Best loved classical organ music Wolfgang Rubsam, Simon Lindley, Stephen Tharp, Philippe Lefebvre, Robert Delcamp, Christiaan Teeuwsen, Éric Lebrun (organs) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] For those who are new to an instrument, the first question is often: where to start? The 'Best Loved' series offers an easy answer to that question and a perfect introduction to the wonderful, varied world of classical music. Spotlighting individual... |
![Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] (Filmed at Bavaria Studios, Munich 1974) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10143/10143739.jpg)
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] (Filmed at Bavaria Studios, Munich 1974) Donald McIntyre, Catarina Ligendza, Bengt Rundgren / Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 13/Sep/2013 ] G - Wagner's romantic retelling of the nautical legend filmed as "a ghost thriller, incredibly gripping, densely atmospheric" (Saarbrücker Zeitung) |
MOZZART / SCHUBERT / BRUCKNER / R. STRAUSS / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition Complete Symphonic, Lieder & Choral Recordings Wolfgang Sawallisch, with Peter Schreier, Peter Zimmermann, Lucia Popp, Annie Fischer, Dennis Brain, etc [ Warner Classics / 65 CD Box Set - released 7/Jun/2024 ] For five decades Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) held a central position in the musical world. That centrality was reflected in a series of top orchestral and operatic posts and in his interpretations, free of self-regarding eccentricities. His... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Abu Hassan / Symphony No. 1 in C Wolfgang Völz, Jörg Dürmüller, Johanna Stojkovic / Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] "The Cappella Coloniensis is an exceptional period instrument band with crisp attack and ensemble playing. Weil consistently whips up the exhilaration and keeps the musical arguments fresh and logical." MusicWeb |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cathedral Music Worcester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington (organ) Donald Hunt (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] 'The Worcester performances are near ideal... vividly atmospheric recording' - Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
ALBINONI / VIVALDI / CORELLI / PURCELL / ALBERTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Concerti & Baroque Trumpet Music John Wallace (trumpet) / The Philharmonia, Christopher Warren-green, Simon Wright, with John Miller (trumpet) [ Nimbus / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded in the UK. by Nimbus Records, 1994 |
REINHOLD GLIERE / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / ALEXANDER MOSOLOV
Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos Xavier de Maistre (harp), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Nathalie Stutzmann [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Romantic harp concertos, including the famous Glière Concerto and the fantastic Mosolov Concerto. This album by French harpist Xavier de Maistre contains an interesting combination and variety of two romantic harp concertos by Reinhold Glière and... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss/Headington: Violin Concertos Xue-Wei (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jane Glover [ ASV / CD ] The Strauss Violin Concerto was first performed publicly on 5 December 1882, in the Bösendorfersaal of the Herrengasse in Vienna. The soloist was the dedicatee Benno Walter. Strauss himself played his own piano reduction of the orchestral parts.... |
![Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4) [recorded in 1992] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10177/10177341.jpg)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4) [recorded in 1992] Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Kurt Sanderling [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "The DVD camera lets us watch his mercurial hands in astonishment as well as pleasure...This is among the most revealing accounts available" (Gramophone) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / BELA BARTOK
Stravinsky: Firebird (complete ballet) / Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Piano Concerto No 3 Yefim Bronfman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "...the combination of largeness of scale and extreme tonal refinement in Yefim Bronfman's solo Bartok playing is answered with wonderful specificity by conductor and orchestra. It's a concert well worth recreating at home" BBC Music |
Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins), Alan Claire Trio, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jealousy [ EMI Music / CD - released 26/Jul/2005 ] A classic album from these two masters of their art. Full of fun and infectious music-making, the recording is supplemented here with tracks from the 1975 LP 'Fascinatin' Rhythm'. |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Play Gershwin Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins) [ EMI / CD - released 12/Nov/1988 ] Today it does not look in the least absurd, but in the early 1970s it seemed strange to match a self-taught, somewhat unorthodox jazz violinist who came to prominence with the guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France with a... |
J. S. BACH / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Vol 1 Alberto Lysy (violin) / Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Sir Yehudi Menuhin [ Discover International / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] Alberto Lysy (1935-2009) was a critically acclaimed Argentinian violinist celebrated for his rich, warm tone, intense musicality, and strong technical ability |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / DVORAK / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / BLOCH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Yehudi Menuhin plays favourite encores Yehudi Menuhin (violin) [ Biddulph / CD - released 21/Jun/1996 ] These discs feature a collection of shorter, virtuosic pieces that Menuhin often performed at the end of concerts, with Biddulph Recordings releasing a series of these remastered recordings Piano - Ferguson Webster (tracks: 4, 9, 10, 17), Hendrik... |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 / Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 'In London Town' / etc Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ EMI British Composers / CD - released 23/Feb/2007 ] Recorded in All Saints', Tooting, 29 September 1970 and 19 February 1971 |
ALEXANDRE MOSSOLOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mossolov: Works for piano Russudan Khuntsaria (piano) / Orchestre Symphonique D'Etat D'URSS, Vladimir Kojoukhar [ Harmonia Muindi Russian Season / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] "Under Stalinism, Mosolov adhered to Soviet realism, composing with Kyrgyz and Turkmen folk music. Conflicts with authorities led to his expulsion from the Union of Soviet Composers (1936), a Gulag term (1937) reduced by professors' intervention." |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland: Third Symphony & Music for Theatre Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 28/May/2002 ] "Well-played and expertly recorded." - Billboard |
J. S. BACH
Yo-Yo Ma: The Bach Project: Cello Suites - Live from Athens BLU-RAY Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/May/2020 ] In 2018, Yo-Yo Ma began a two-year journey, setting out to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's six suites for solo cello in one sitting, across 36 locations on 6 continents. |
EDGAR MEYER / TRADITIONAL
Appalachia Waltz Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Edgar Meyer (bass) Mark O'Connor (violin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Yo-Yo Ma joins double-bassist Edgar Meyer and fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor |
