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JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.C.): Piano Concertos Op.13, Nos 4 - 6 & 14 Anthony Halstead (pianoforte) / Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead [ CPO / CD - released 30/Jun/2001 ] Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. |
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.C.): Piano Concertos Op.13, Nos 1 - 3 Anthony Halstead (pianoforte) / Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead [ CPO / CD - released 30/Jun/1999 ] "These splendid performances from Anthony Halstead directing the Hanover Band from the keyboard are appealingly fluent, full of flair and vitality...His solo playing is very persuasive and the result is delightfully intimate." Penguin Guide |
ROSSI / FROBERGER / JOHN BULL / BOHM / BACH
Fantastic Musick for the Italian Harpsichord Anthony Jennings (harpsichord) [ Trust / Atoll / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Great early music exponent in his last harpsichord recordings... |
JOHN RUTTER / DAVID FANSHAWE / TRADITIONAL / ROBERT BURNS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: The Choirboy Anthony Way (treble) [ Total Records / CD - released 15/Aug/1995 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. His mother was a housewife. His father worked as an officer at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. |
HANDEL / MOZART / BRAHMS / BACH / FAURE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: Wings of a Dove Anthony Way (treble), with Barbara Bonney, Tabitha Watling, Choir of Uppingham School [ Decca / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. Wings of a Dove was originally released in 1997. |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubinstein: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op. 10: Nos. 13 - 24 Joseph Banowetz (piano) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 6/Jul/2011 ] "They are, as one would expect, salon pieces, written to amuse and doubtless gently flatter, cast in what would be idioms familiar to the court from Rubinstein's playing." Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Sonata in F Minor / 16 Waltzes Antti Siirala (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Aug/2004 ] "... naturally pianistic and elegant... real imagination and eloquence... a dream of wonderfully sustained intensity and dynamic murmur... sonorous and boldly alive." - International Piano Quarterly |
Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman (organ)
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert (LP) [ Alba / LP - released 14/May/2020 ] Duke Ellington wrote the Sacred Concert in the mid-1960's and performed the work with his orchestra and various soloists between 1966 and 1974 at Churches around the USA and Europe. Ellington never wrote a score of Sacred Concerts, and it wasn't... |
FEDERICO MOMPOU
Volodos plays Mompou Arcadi Volodos (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2013 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 Instrumental Finalist / GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Instrumental |
BIZET / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / PROKOFIEV / MOZART / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Piano Transcriptions Arcadi Volodos (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] 'Sony's sound is superlative and this delectable recital makes one long for more substantial as well as glittering fare from a pianist who, as his producer puts it, "never loosens the reins of his guiding intellect".' Gramophone |
J.S. BACH / C.P.E. BACH / J.C. BACH
The Bach Family: Magnificats Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] "You would be hard-pressed to find a more illuminating disc than this latest offering from Arcangelo" BBC Music Choral & Song Choice March 2018 |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 161 - BWV 164 Arleen Auger, Edith Wiens, Helen Watts, Adalbert Kraus, Wolfgang Schone / Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmut Rilling [ Hanssler / CD - released 11/Aug/1999 ] Contains full notes and translations |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Arleen Auger, Janet Baker / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] 100 Classical Music Recordings You Must Own (ClassicFM) |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Arleen Augar, John van Kesteren, Jonathan Summers / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra. Riccardo Muti [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 7/Feb/2005 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Dante Sonata / Sonata In B minor / Scherzo & March Arnaldo Cohen (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 27/Jun/2011 ] Arnaldo Cohen, one of Brazil s finest pianists, began his international career by winning the 1972 Busoni Competition. This recording of the Liszt Sonata and other works, made in the 1990s, is one the consistently most satisfying recordings ever... |
FELIX ARNDT / MIKE BERNARD / ROY BARGY / FRANK BANTA / RUBE BLOOM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era - Volume V Felix Arndt / Mike Bernard / Roy Bargy / Frank Banta / Rube Bloom [ Pearl / CD - released 15/Aug/1998 ] The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz instruments, it's the piano that has been absolutely... |
BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the Dvořák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Violin Sonata / Cello Sonata / Syrinx / Sonata for flute, viola & harp Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Istvan Hajdu (piano) / Maurice Gendron (cello), Jean Francaix (piano) Roger Bourdin (flute) Annie Challan (harp), Colette Le [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 10/Nov/1989 ] The two Debussy sonatas, for violin and for cello, date from late in the composer's life and are wistful pieces, though not without humour. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: 19 Nocturnes (rec 1965) Arthur Rubinstein (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "When we listen to Rubinstein at his finest, we come in contact with that rarest of rarities - a healthy, sanguine, affirmative genius. On disc, as it was in person, the playing is full-hearted and honest" Washington Post |
EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Grieg/Chopin/Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Arthur Rubinstein (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "There are new discoveries in the performances… …and the visual aspect is managed with sensitivity and intelligence." - Washington Post |
