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GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Complete opera with libretto) Carol Neblett, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Zubin Mehta [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Mar/2004 ] "..this DG set of La fanciulla del West remains among the most successful of Zubin Mehta's opera recordings, taking the Gramophone Record of the Year award in 1978." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 57 'Appassionata' & Piano Sonata Op. 111 Carol Rosenberger (Bosendorfer Imperial Concert Grand) [ Delos Digital Master Series / CD - released 2/Feb/1981 ] We used two omni B&K condenser microphones, capsule #4134, and B&K pre-amplifier 2319S. The specially constructed low noise, low distortion power supply and line driver amplifiers were designed and built by John Meyer of Meyer.Sound Laboratories. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Regne Amour (Love songs from the operas) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Ex Cathedra / Jeffrey Skidmore, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] 'This wonderful music will always need special vocal advocacy and there can be few outside France as equipped as Carolyn Sampson' (Gramophone) |
LIONEL MONCKTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs from the shows (Incls 'The Arcadians', 'The Toreador' & 'The Quaker Girl') Catherine Bott (soprano) Richard Suart (baritone) / New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] 'Both Bott and Suart demonstrate a natural aptitude for the material. Ronald Corp conducts the New London Orchestra and Light Opera Chorus with obvious affection. Listening to this CD made me feel ridiculously happy' (Gramophone) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Images, Suite Bergamasque, 2 Arabesques, L''Isle joyeuse, Pour le piano Cecile Ousset (piano) [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 30/Sep/1989 ] "Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist...who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she plays" Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev/Poulenc: Piano Concertos Cecile Ousset (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/1987 ] Japanese pressing |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gluck: Italian Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin [ Decca / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2002 - Recital |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Blu-ray) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2012 ] "Bartoli's programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones." Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / various orchestras & pianists [ Decca / - released 19/Apr/1995 ] Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Portraits: Operatic Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyorgy Fischer [ Decca Originals / CD - released 11/Apr/1994 ] "... Bartoli's very Italian characteristics are immediately identifiable: brilliance of execution, vitality of words, sharpness ... Fischer accompanies his soloist with energy and tact." Gramophone |
CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
STUCKY / TAVENER / RANDS / ZHOU LONG / CHEN YI /THOMAS / SAMETZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Colours Of Love - New Choral Music Chanticleer [ Teldec / CD - released 24/May/1999 ] Grammy Awards 42nd Awards (1999) Best Chamber Music Recording |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: The String Quartets The Lydian String Quartet [ Centaur / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Since its formation in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has embraced the full range of the string quartet repertory with curiosity, virtuosity and dedication to the highest artistic ideals of music making. In its formative years, the quartet studied... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe Concertos Charles Neidich (clarinet) Frank Morelli (bassoon) Randall Wolfgang (oboe) / Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Virtuoso / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] "Mozart's music expressed a spontaneity and refinement allied to a breathtaking sureness that has never been matched....all brimming with melodic charm and infectious virtuosity." Gramophone |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lieder aus der Jugendzeit Charlotte Margiono (soprano) Bernd Weikl (baritone) Friedrich Haider (piano) with Wolfgang Vladar (horn - track 14) [ Nightingale / CD - released 2/Sep/1995 ] The Dutch soprano Charlotte Margiono (Amsterdam, 1955) studied with Aafje Heynis at the conservatory of Arnhem. In 1984 she made her debut with De Nederlandse Opera as a flower girl in Parsifal. Her international opera career started in 1988. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos.3 & 4 Cherubini Quartet [ EMI Encore / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "The Cherubini Quartet consistently play with both warmth and intensity...with a light touch they bring out the mercurial charm of Mendelssohn." (*** Penguin Guide) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Queen of the Night: Cheryl Studer sings Mozart Cheryl Studer (soprano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Solo / CD - released 20/Jun/1994 ] In 1981, Studer was hired as a permanent member of the Bavarian State Opera with conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. She remained with the company for two consecutive seasons, singing mostly minor roles in their productions. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 / 5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16 / 6 kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 / etc Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) [ Teldec / Warner / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "...the Five Orchestral Pieces have welcome vitality and insight, Schoenberg's piquant sonorities delivered with unexpected verve. Now that's more like it, the music-making - and recording - very satisfying indeed." MusicWeb Radio 3 Building a... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also sprach Zarathustra (with Mahler's Totenfeier) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] Of a recent Zarathustra performance, the Chicago Tribune reviewer commented: "Boulez shaped everything exactly, drawing together each episode with sonorous sweep and a natural ebb and flow of tension". |
