MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Orchestral Works / Piano Concertos / L'Enfant et les Sortileges / Sheherazade Pascal Roge (piano) / Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2005 ] "This is self-recommending beautifully played and beautifully recorded." (Gramophone on the Piano Concertos) |
VARIOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pavarotti & Friends For Guatemala And Kosovo Luciano Pavarotti with Gloria Estefan, B.B. King, Boyzone, Joe Cocker, Lionel Ritchie, Ricky Martin [ Decca / CD - released 27/Sep/1999 ] Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo is a live album by Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti and a variety guest artists, recorded at a benefit concert of the same name held in Parco Novi Sad, Modena, Italy on 1 June 1999. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scriabin: Complete symphonies - Prometheus - Poame de l'extase - Piano Concerto Peter Jablonski, piano - Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Trio / 3 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2003 ] "outstanding sound-quality" (Penguin Stereo Guide on Symphony No 1) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Canticles / A Birthday Hansel Peter Pears, John Hahessy, James Bowman, John Shirley-Quirk, with Bary Tuckwell (horn), Osian Ellis (harp) & Benjamin Britten (piano) [ Decca / London / CD - released 21/Oct/1990 ] Written at intervals between 1947 and 1974 Britten's five Canticles are miniature cantatas sharing a spiritual intensity that derives from Britten's own religious belief. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Curlew River Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Harold Blackburn, Bryan Drake, English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/Jan/1989 ] "Curlew River - A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is an English music drama, with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Tthe Burning Fiery Furnace Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Robert Tear, Stafford Dean / English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten [ Decca / London / CD - released 18/Nov/1990 ] This recording remains unique and carries that special authority only the composer himself can bring to his recordings. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Folk Songs (with harp) / A Birthday Hansel / Suite for Harp / Canticle V / Part Songs Peter Pears (tenor) Osian Ellis (harp) / Wilbye Consort [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 'This is a very important release at a budget price and is a "must have" for the pleasure of genius' MusicWeb |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Winterreise Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "I need hardly say that, among tenor versions, this is now my preferred choice, benefiting from the warm yet clear acoustic of the recording." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLELCTABLE: Mozart: Lieder & Masonic Cantata Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/May/2005 ] "There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about the way Schreier delivers these songs, revealing an attitude to Mozart interpretation that seems far more romantic than anything we are used to today." The Guardian |
ZOLTAN KODALY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kodaly: Hary Janos (complete singspiel) / Peacock Variations / Psalmus hungaricus Peter Ustinov, Erzsébet Komlóssy, László Palócz / Edinburgh Festival Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Istvan Kertesz [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/1994 ] During the ten years that Hungarian conductor István Kertész made recordings for Decca he produced a body of recordings which quickly established themselves as top choices for the record buying public. |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Symphonies Nos 84 - 95 Philharmonia Hungarica , Antal Dorati [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/May/1991 ] The Antal Dorati cycle remains one of the greatest recording achievements of the gramophone. |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Symphonies Nos 94 "Surprise", 100 "Military", 96 "The Miracle" Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati [ Decca Mega Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/1997 ] Penguin Guide 3 star |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 "Pastoral" Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca / CD - released 20/Mar/1983 ] "These early digital recordings are actually quite fine...sounding nicely detailed and transparent...there is a sense of pleasant nostalgia." Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 / Finlandia / Karelia Suite Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Jan/1992 ] "Ashkenazy by temperament brings out the expressive warmth, colour anbd drama of the composer rather than his Scandinavian chill, reflecting perhaps his Slavonic background." (*** Three stars penguin Stereo Guide) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Jan/1992 ] "Ashkenazy by temperament brings out the expressive warmth, colour anbd drama of the composer rather than his Scandinavian chill, reflecting perhaps his Slavonic background." (*** Three stars penguin Stereo Guide) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Mandolins / Concerto in D for lute / Concerto in C for 2 trumpets / etc New London Consort, Philip Pickett / The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ L'Oiseau-Lyre / Double Decca / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2008 ] The celebrated Concerto for 2 mandolins heads this richly varied programme of fourteen Vivaldi concertos. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Requiem / Mass in D Pilar Lorengar, Tom Krause, Ersebet Komlossy, Robert Ilosfalvy / London Symphony Orchestra / Istvan Kertesz [ Double Decca / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Kertesz's fine account of Dvorak's Requiem acted as a distinguished pendant to his pioneering set of the symphonies, and it has comparable freshness." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Stabat Mater Pilar Lorengar, Yvonne Minton, Luciano Pavarotti, Hans Sotin / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, István Kertész [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 1/Apr/1988 ] Original recording from 1971 |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1962) Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei, Fernando Corena / Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "It remains one of the finest versions, with Leontyne Price at the peak of her form and Di Stefano singing most sensitively. But Karajan deserves equal credit with the principal singers, and the sound is first class." (Penguin Guide) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights from the opera) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Gianni d'Angelo / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 28/May/1988 ] "it still sounds astonishingly vivid,with a very convincing theatrical atmosphere. Vocally the performance achieves a consistently high standard, with Tebaldi as Mim the most affecting." Penguin Guide |