Search Results: Orchestra collectable
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ERIC KORNGOLD / MIKLOS ROZSA / FRANZ WAXMAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Heifetz - Korngold/Rozsa - Violin Concerto / Waxman: "Carmen" Fantasy Jascha Heifetz (violin) / Los Angeles Philharmonic, Alfred Wallenstein / Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1988 ] For 83 of his 86 years, Jascha Heifetz (1901-87) played the violin, and for over 60 of them in front of audiences all around the world. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Complete works for piano and orchestra Jean Louis Steuerman (piano) / Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Philips Solo / CD - released 30/Mar/1996 ] Original recordings from 1995 |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Amore per Rossini Jennifer Larmore (mezzo soprano) / London Voices / English Chamber Orchestra, Giuliano Carella [ Teldec / CD - released 14/Jul/1998 ] Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore lacks Cecilia Bartoli's expansive charm and personal magnetism, but she is more enterprising and versatile, as evidenced by this disc of little-known contralto arias. |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (CPE): Flute Concertos Jennifer Stinton (flute), Orchestra St John's Smith Square, John Lubbock [ Collins Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/1993 ] "crisp, responsive orchestral playing, well-chosen tempos and clean, incisive ensemble. I thoroughly enjoyed this playing of some wonderfully inventive music…. helpful background notes" (Gramophone) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Spring Symphony / Cantata Academica / Hymn to St Cecilia Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, Peter Peras / Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus, Benjamin Britten / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, George Malc [ Decca / CD - released 10/Apr/1995 ] A great introduction to the choral works of Benjamin Britten |
FERENC LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concerto / Buch der Lieder / 3 Marches Jeno Jando (piano) / Hungarian State Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli [ Hungaroton / CD - released 5/Sep/1997 ] original recording - 1996 |
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Complete Opera recorded in 1992) Jerry Hadley, Bruno Praticò, Susanne Mentzer, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey / Orchestra della Toscana, Gianluigi Gelmetti [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/1993 ] "..an absolutely complete text (the recent critical edition by Alberto Zedda is used) shorn of the accretions of nearly 200 years, and singers of the calibre of Thomas Hampson and Samuel Ramey." Classical-Music |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Trois Poèmes, Cinq Mélodies, Chansons Madécasses, Shéhérazade, Don Quichotte À Dulcinée Jessye Norman, Heather Harper, Jill Gormez & Jill Gomez / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Members of the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain, Pierre Boulez [ Sony / CD - released 10/Apr/1994 ] Original recordings from 1975 to 1979 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988) Jessye Norman, Julia Varady, Edita Gruberova / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Kurt Masur [ Philips / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1989 ] "Jessye Norman's is a commanding, noble, deeply felt performance, ranging extraordinarily wide; she provides the perfectfocus for a cast as near ideal as anyone could assemble today." (Penguin Guide) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex / Schoenberg: Erwartung - Brettl-Lieder Jessye Norman (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Bryn Terfel (baritone) Shinyukai Male Choir / Saito Kinen Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa / James Levine [ Philips Duo Jessye Norman Collection / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2005 ] Jessye Norman heads the cast in this much-acclaimed recording of Stavinsky's opera Oedipus Rex. Her imperious and impassioned Jocasta is a wonderful interpretation. The cast also includes Peter Schreier as the eponymous hero and a young Bryn Terfel... |
Jimmie Shavers (trumpet), with John Kirby And His Orchestra, Herbie Haymer Quintet, and others
Young Shavers [ Topaz Jazz / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] From early small group jazz to later recordings with the great Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers' trumpet could be both hot and cool. He had wonderful technique and control, as well as fire in his belly. Sometimes he could be bad. Here only the very,... |
LEO DELIBES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delibes: Lakme (Complete opera recorded in 1968 with libretto) Joan Sutherland, Alain Vanzo, Gabriel Bacquier / Orchestra and chorus of Monte Carlo National Opera, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/May/1989 ] "(Joan's) "Bell Song" is treasurable, with an ease of execution which is almost frightening and a sinuousness which reeks of oriental mystery. Bacquier's Nilakantha is magnificent." MusicWeb |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera with complete libretto) Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Ghiaurov / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2015 ] "Sutherland gives an intensely appealing interpretation, while Pavarotti gives a performance equally imaginative. Mehta directs a gloriously rich and dramatic performance. Still the best-sounding Turandot on CD." Penguin Guide |
VERDI / BELLINI / PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Live From The Lincoln Centre Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti / NYC Opera Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Decca / London / CD - released 30/Jun/1987 ] Three of operas greatest stars came together under the baton of Richard Bonynge for this sensational concert which took place in New York's Avery Fisher Hall in March 1981 and which first appeared as a 2-LP set later that year. |
DOMINIC MULDOWNEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Muldowney: Piano Concerto / Saxophone Concerto John Harle (saxophone) Peter Donohoe (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder, London Sinfonietta, Diego Masson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Dec/1997 ] Not currently available |
MICHAEL KEMP TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: Concerto For Double String Orchestra and other Orchestral Works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor) [ CHANDOS / CD - released 1/Nov/1995 ] Recorded at St Jude's Church, London NW11; 7-8 March 1995 |
GERALD FINZI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Finzi - Dies Natalis / Intimations of Immortality John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Gerald Finzi likened the creative artist to a 'coral reef insect, building his reef out of the transitory world around him and making a solid structure to last long after his own fragile and uncertain life'. 'Fragile' and 'uncertain' are the key... |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD / FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stanford: Songs of the Sea, Songs of the Fleet / Delius: Sea Drift John Noble, Bemjamin Luxon / Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves / Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Norman Del Mar [ EMI British Composers / CD - released 1/Aug/1994 ] ...the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Norman Del Mar in Charles Villiers Stanford's Songs of the Sea and Songs of the Fleet is praised is praised for its is salty, robust, and remarkably fresh interpretations. (A.I.) |
ALKAN / BUSONI / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - John Ogdon I John Ogdon (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniell Revenaugh [ Philips / EMI / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Recordings made between 1960 & 1971 |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Busoni: Concerto for piano, orchestra & male chorus, Op.39 John Ogdon (piano) / Men's Voices of the John Alldis Choir / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniell Revenaugh [ EMI Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/1989 ] Busoni's vast Piano Concerto lasts for nearly 70 minutes, and as well as the usual piano and orchestra combination requires, in the last of its five movements, a choir of men's voices. It was completed in 1904 and first performed in Berlin on 4... |
