BOHUSLAV MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martinu: Piano Trios Nos 2 & 3 / Czech Rhapsody / Nocturnes The Bekova Sisters [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] The Bekova Sisters were born in Kazakhstan and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. After their much-publicised reunion in the West and sensational debut in 1989 on the South Bank, London, the Sisters have rapidly established themselves on the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Dutilleux/Ravel: String Quartets Belcea Quartet [ EMI Debut / CD - released 8/Feb/2002 ] Gramophone Awards 2001: Record of the Year Finalist |
BEETHOVEN / HOLST / BARBER / ARRIEU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven/Holst/Barber/Arrieu: Summer Music Belgian Wind Quintet [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Belgium Radio & Television in December 1988 and January 1989 |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: L'Arlesienne [complete incidental music] / Jeux d'enfants Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] Currently selling for $35 (US) on Amazon |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Selections from the Ring Ben Heppner (tenor) / Staatskapelle Dresden / Peter Schneider (with Burkhard Ulrich as Mime) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] "On the strength of these excerpts, capably supported by Bayreuth veteran Schneider, Heppner's a natural, with the authentic heroic ring and seemingly effortless power, yet retaining beauty of tone and clear diction." Five Stars BBC Music Mag (June... |
LARRY GROSSMAN
Grossman: Grind - A New Musical Ben Vereen & Stubbt Kaye / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1989 ] Grind is a 1985 musical with music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, and a book by Fay Kanin. Grind is a portrait of a largely African-American burlesque house in Chicago in the Thirties. |
MASSENET / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / LALO / MASCAGNI / VERDI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beniamino Gigli - Heroes Beniamino Gigli (tenor) with various orchestras and conductors [ EMI classics / CD - released 1/Oct/1998 ] Gigli began singing at the age of seven at Recanati Cathedral. After lessons with Agnese Bonucci, he won a scholarship in Rome and studied with Cotogni and Rosati. He won an international competition at Parma in 1914, and later that year made a... |
NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN / DOMENICO SCARLATTI / ISAAC ALBENIZ / FREDERIC CHOPIN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Benjamin Grosvenor - This & That Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Galton Concert Productions / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Less modestly it could have been called 'One Marvel after Another' for the performances... exhibit a skill and talent not heard since [Evgeny] Kissin's legendary teenage Russian debut." - Gramophone |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto in G major (with Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No 2) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 16/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Concerto |
QUILTER / MOERAN / BRITTEN / GRANGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: I Love My Love - a collection of British Folk Songs Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/1992 ] 26 TRACKS - beautifully recorded |
WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Violin Concerto / Coronation Te Deum Benjamin Luxon (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti / Kyung Wha Chung (violin) London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Decca The World of British Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/1994 ] Three classic performances on one budget CD |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Budapest String Quartet [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1986 ] Original recordings from 1956 (concerto) and 1938 |
EDWARD GRIEG / KARL GOLDMARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Symphony in C minor / Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Karsten Andersen / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2006 ] 'The Decca recording is truthfully balanced, with good perspective and colour, and detail reproduces with fine definition' [Grieg] Penguin Guide |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings In C / Dvorak: Serenade for strings in E New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Paavo Berglund [ BIS / CD - released 2/Feb/1984 ] Recorded in 1983-07-14/15 at the Stockholm Concert Hall |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Symphony No 9 "New World" / Scherzo capriccioso Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Privilege / CD - released 27/Oct/1986 ] "In short, these performances are always involving and consistently refreshing and the relatively light textures help this effect." (Gramophone) |
RICHARD STRAUSS / RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): A Hero's Life / Siegfried Idyll Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 20/Aug/2001 ] "His reading of this score has tremendous sweep and all the authority and mastery we have come to expect-and, indeed, take for granted. Nor is the orchestral playing anything other than glorious-in fact, in terms of sheer virtuosity they have never... |
GRIEG / GLUCK / RESPIGHI / VIVALDI / SIBELIUS / MOZART / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adagio 2 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Jan/2001 ] Beautiful sounds of Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 36, 38 - 41 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/1978 ] "Here, then, are six symphonies well played and well recorded by one of the finest orchestras with a thoroughness that never detracts from vitality." Records and Recording |
CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: Symphony No.4 "The Inextinguishable" / Sibelius: Tapiola Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Masters / CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/1995 ] By one estimate Karajan was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht / Variations for Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Jan/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |