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ADOLPHE ADAM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adam: Giselle [complete ballet] Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/2012 ] "Richard Bonynge's performance on Decca restores Adam's original and is a bit more strongly characterised, while the Decca sound has a slightly sharper and brighter profile." (Three Stars penguin Guide) |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Piano works (Inc Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, Valses nobles et sentimentales) Pascal Roge (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Original recordings from 1974 and 1975 |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1959) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Enzo Sordello / Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "There are few accounts of the role that are more securely, more gloriously sung, and with a voice that seems without a flaw throughout its register" Gramophone |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / MARX / R. STRAUSS / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Renee Fleming - Night Songs Renee Fleming (soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "[Fleming] is best where a song is actually rather hard - the long‚ sustained lines of Strauss's Ruhe‚ meine Seele! - or where she seems eager to put over a less than familiar piece: the Marx songs and Strauss's Leises Lied‚ for example." Gramophone |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 1992) Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Elisabetta Scano, Simon Keenlyside / Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2012 ] "Gheorghiu's glorious singing is powerfully matched by the heroic tones of Alagna, culminating in a deeply moving death-scene." (Penguin Guide) |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Giordano: Andrea Chenier (complete opera) Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e cora dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Originally recorded 1957 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete opera) Veronica Villarroel; Elena Zaremba; Andrea Bocelli; Carlo Guelfi / Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 27/May/2004 ] "Lay misconceptions aside: this version of a popular favourite challenges the best" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
ADOLPHE ADAM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adam: Giselle Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 15/May/1987 ] "While superbly conducted, superlatively played, and sumptuously recorded, this Giselle is no will-o'-the-wisps, but rather is full-bodied and hot-blooded with charms that are hardly ephemeral and thoroughly palpable. From the lush winds to the plush... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scriabin: The Piano Sonatas Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "My favorites, in terms of performance and discounting sound, are the 3rd, 6th, 8th and particularly the impulsive youthful 1st. I also like the 9th; here Ashkenazy manages a luminous pianissimo." (Amazon.com) |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (piano & orchestral versions) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / Philharmonic Orchestra. Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca / CD - released 30/May/1986 ] 'Ashkenazy's account of the original piano version is distinguished by a strong poetic feel.' The Penguin Guide "The orchestral sound is characteristic of [the Kingsway Hall], richly textured, yet brilliant, with glowing detail." Gramophone |
