ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 Op. 9 / Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene Op. 34 / Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G Min Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] In these three contrasting works, the spirits of Modernism, Romanticism and Classicism are invoked by Arnold Schoenberg - a revolutionary whose aesthetic roots lay firmly in tradition. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Riccardo Chailly, with Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 21/Aug/1996 ] |
EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H. A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 6 Eugene List, Mary-Louise Boehm, Abbott Ruskin (piano) / Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Vox Box / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] This series presents some of the concertos written by performing virtuoso/composers of the Romantic tradition of piano playing. |
JOHANN STRAUSS I & II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wiener Musik [Music of Vienna] Vol. 3 Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz [ Eurodisc / CD - released 3/Dec/1988 ] Robert Stolz was operetta royalty, and his recordings with the Berliner Symphoniker and Wiener Symphoniker document the world of light orchestral music with unique authority. |
JOHANN STRAUSS II / JOSEPH STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wiener Musik [Music of Vienna] Vol. 8 Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz [ Eurodisc / CD - released 3/Dec/1988 ] Robert Stolz was operetta royalty, and his recordings with the Berliner Symphoniker and Wiener Symphoniker document the world of light orchestral music with unique authority. |
JOSEPH STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wiener Musik [Music of Vienna] Vol. 9 Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz [ Eurodisc / CD - released 3/Dec/1988 ] Robert Stolz was operetta royalty, and his recordings with the Berliner Symphoniker and Wiener Symphoniker document the world of light orchestral music with unique authority. |
JOSEPH LANNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wiener Musik [Music of Vienna] Vol.1 Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz [ Eurodisc / CD - released 3/Dec/1988 ] Robert Stolz was operetta royalty, and his recordings with the Berliner Symphoniker and Wiener Symphoniker document the world of light orchestral music with unique authority. |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Orchestral Music (The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, etc) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philhamonic], Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD - released 23/Mar/1992 ] 'Superb playing, vividly recorded. Karajan is a fine Wagnerian and with the orchestra he has fashioned so completely to his own vision he gives superlative performances.' (Gramophone) |
BRUCKNER / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / HAYDN / MOZART / SCHUMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Karajan Symphony Edition] Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra], Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 38 CD Box Set - released 19/Jul/2004 ] Available only as a limited edition! The definitive 38-CD set of eight great symphonic cycles from Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. At a super-budget price, this set is a perfect gift with which to begin or complete a library. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No.9 Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) [ Teldec / CD ] The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109, is the last symphony on which Anton Bruckner worked, leaving the last movement incomplete at the time of his death in 1896; Bruckner dedicated it "to the beloved God" (in German, dem lieben Gott). The symphony... |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hionegger: Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon 20th Century Clasics / CD - released 12/Dec/1992 ] "Karajan's performances of these Honegger symphonies enjoy legendary status - and rightly so." (Gramophone) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 4 / Rosamunde, D797: Ballet Music Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra], Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "These splendidly recorded Karajan performances are exceptional. The Third Symphony's second subject is memorable under Karajan, with ravishing tone on the top A: pure bel canto. String playing is lithe and witty." (Gramophone) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos.1 & 6 Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] , Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Encore / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is Karajan at his finest..very strongly recommended" (*** Penguin Stereo Guide) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No 8 Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 19/Mar/1997 ] Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak - Tone Poems (Incls Golden Spinning Wheel & Noon Witch) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Simon Rattle [ EMI Music / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2005 ] "Rattle's readings of Dvorák's tone poems set a new standard" (Orchestral album of the Month BBC Music Sept 2005) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ EMI / CD - released 20/Mar/1988 ] Jean Sibelius (1865-1958) was one of the greatest symphonists of the 20th century and his music is as popular today as it was when he died over 50 years ago. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op.90 / Overtures The Bern Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag [ I.M.P. Red Label / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] Peter Maag was born on 10 May 1919 in St. Gallen, Switzerland and died on 16 April 2001 in Verona, Italy. Maag was first conductor at the Düsseldorf Opera from 1952 to 1955, and then Generalmusikdirektor of the Bonn City Theater from 1955 to 1959. |
MARVIN HAMLISCH
Hamlisch: The Goodbye Girl - The Musical Bernadette Peters & Martin Short / Original Broadway Cast recording [ Columbia / CD - released 9/Apr/1993 ] Do Re Mi is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production. The plot centers on a minor-league con man who decides to go (somewhat)... |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens - and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert's D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her serenading awash with fellow female songsters, and harp." |
VERNON DUKE / OGDEN NASH
Duke: Two's Company Bette Davis, Bill Callahan / Original Broadway Cast [ Sepia / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Two's Company is a musical revue with principal sketches by Charles Sherman and Peter DeVries, principal lyrics by Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn, and principal music by Vernon Duke. |