CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works (9CD) Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2012 ] This collection contains all Debussy's works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music. Together these display a rich panorama of Debussian sound and a remarkable insight into the composer. Established arrangements by... |
GERSHWIN / GROFE / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / MAHLER / DVORAK
Leonard Bernstein: 10 Album Classics Original New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Broadway Casts, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) [ Sony Classical / 11 CD Box Set - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The re-masterings in this new collection are the best ever issued of these thrilling recordings by one of the last century's greatest musicians, selected from the vast Bernstein catalogue. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi Op 6 / Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ DG Trio / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Sep/2002 ] "The conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra are little short of superlative in polished and alive performances that sweep the board ... The recording is in the demonstration bracket." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 2001 reviewing "Fireworks"... |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / WAGNER / etc
Otto Klemperer - The Warner Classics Remastered Edition Otto Klemperer (conductor) with Daniel Barenboim, Alan Civil, Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Annie Fischer, Christa Ludwig, etc [ Warner Classics / 95 CD Box Set - released 2/Jun/2023 ] The German-born conductor Otto Klemperer, a towering figure in the musical history of the 20th century, died at the age of 88 on July 8th 1973, so 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of his death. |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BOCCHERINI / HAYDN / etc
Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy Pablo Casals (cello/conductor) with Mieczysław Horszowski (piano), Sándor Végh (violin), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, etc [ Decca Eloquence / 7 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2022 ] The late chamber recordings made by the great Catalan cellist with longstanding friends and colleagues, including two versions of Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, the 1956 'Hommage à Pablo Casals' LP, and the Schubert String Quintet with the Végh Quartet. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Chamber Works: Piano Quartets & Quintets, String Quintets & Sextet Panocha Qt, Suk Trio, Panenka (piano), Nejtek (d bass), Kluson (viola), Kodousek (viola), Kanka [ Supraphon / 4 CD Box Set - released 28/Apr/2008 ] In terms of Dvorák's oeuvre, this selection virtually spans his entire creative lifetime, from the composition the author designated with the opus number 1 (String Quintet in A minor, B 7) to pieces from the composer's late period. |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Complete Piano Concertos Paolo Restani (piano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Marco Guidarini [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "A bargain for all fans of John Field's influential Piano Concertos" Gramophone |
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) |
BACH FAMILY / BEETHOVEN / HAYDN / GLUCK / MONN / TELEMANN / VIVALDI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lumieres: The Unprecedented Expansion of Music in the Age of Enlightenment [30 CD set] Paul Lewis (piano) / Tokyo String Quartet / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / English Concert / etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 30 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "Harmonia Mundi have somehow contrived to telescope that most industriously inventive of musical centuries into this 30CD set, by dint of ingenious thematic programming which apportions discs to different modes...it's an indisputable bargain... |
Paul Robeson
Voice of Freedom; His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings [ Sony Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] This is a special edition, documenting Paul Robeson's complete major-label discography recorded 1925-1947! It contains the first release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD with 16 recordings reissued for the first time. |
BACH / R. STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / FAURE / TCHEREPNIN / MENDELSSOHN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Paul Tortelier: The Great EMI Recordings [20 CD set] Paul Tortelier (cello) with Aldo Ciccolini, Eric Heidsieck, Yehudi Menuhin, Royal Philharmonic, New Philharmonia, London Symphony [ EMI Budget Boxes / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine Reissue of the Month May 2010 - "Tortelier's many admirers will find here much that has slipped through the net; merits the highest admiration" (MusicWeb May 2010) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (Complete Opera recorded in 1979/80) Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Kurt Moll, José van Dam, Siegmund Nimsgern / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Jun/2021 ] The finest of all the principal singers is surely the Gurnemanz of Kurt Moll, a wonderful blend of bel canto and Lieder singing, the voice a true bass, perfectly poised and projected, finely nuanced, ever attentive to the colour and meaning of words |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Performer - Complete Decca Recordings Peter Pears, John Hahessy, James Bowman, John Shirley-Quirk, Bary Tuckwell, Osian Ellis, Sviatoslav Richter, Benjamin Britten (cond, piano) [ Decca / 27 CD Box Set - released 21/Oct/1990 ] This 27-CD set brings together for the first time Britten's complete Decca recordings as pianist and conductor in which he performs music by other composers - an astonishing variety of music that ranges from large-scale choral works by Bach and... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Complete Secular Cantatas Peter Schreier, Edith Mathis, Arleen Auger / Berliner Solisten, Kammerorchester Berlin, Peter Schreier [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2007 ] In his secular cantatas J.S. Bach tackled some of the lighter issues of life. Like coffee and marriage… Somehow these are heard not that often in concert halls. |
GERSHWIN / RODRIGO / VIVALDI / RAVEL / RACHMANINOV / GIULIANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo/Gershwin/Ravel/Rachmaninov: Concertos Philippe Entremont (piano), John Williams (guitar) / English Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra [ Sony Classical Concertos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] .This special edition collects three highly regarded recordings on the Sony label. All three CDs features top selling soloists and world famous orchestras.. |
C. P. E. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (C.P.E.): Preussische und Württembergische Sonaten [3 CD set] Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord and clavichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was in his time even more celebrated than his father. |
RAVEL / MOZART / MUSSORGSKY / R. STRAUSS / WAGNER / BACH / BRAHMS / etc
Fritz Reiner - The Complete Columbia Album Collection Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Columbia String Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA / Sony Classical / 14 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2020 ] Limited 14CD set. When the 50-year-old Fritz Reiner was appointed conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1938, he was still relatively unfamiliar in his adopted American homeland. This pupil of Bartók at the Academy of Music in his native... |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BRUCKNER / TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / COPLAND / etc
William Steinberg - Complete Command Classics Recordings Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg [ Deutsche Grammophon / 17 CD Box Set - released 29/Mar/2024 ] "Considering the sheer quantity and quality of music on offer, this collection represents excellent value." The Classic Review |
VERDI / BIZET / MOZART / PUCCINI / HANDEL / STRAUSS / WAGNER
150 Years Of Wiener Staatsoper: Great Opera Evenings (Limited Edition) Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Carlos Álvarez, Johan Botha, Angelika Kirchschlager, Brigitte Fassbaender, Wiener Staatsopernorchester [ Arthaus DVD / 11 DVD Box Set - released 2/Aug/2019 ] Limited Edition - Experience four decades of opera history from the Wiener Staatsoper on 11 DVDs. 150 Years Vienna State Opera means 150 years of impressive opera events featuring the greatest conductors of all time, and, high-class opera stars. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Hana Blažiková, Tim Mead / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2022 ] "With its glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations, this is a Passion that makes a very definite statement about what this work can communicate in our times." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Choral |