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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Opera and Oratorio Arias (Judas Maccabaeus, Dettingen Te Deum, Serse +) Bryn Terfel (baritone) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Jun/2000 ] "The singing here incorporates a good deal of embellishment, some of it of Sir Charles Mackerras's devising. He is an excellent conductor for Terfel, sharing with him an appreciation of the zest in Handel." Gramophone |
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Buck Clayton
Fiesta in Blue [ Past Perfect / CD - released 15/Sep/2001 ] Buck Clayton is most famous today for his association with Count Basie but that is only a small part of his musical legacy, a seven-year period in a career that lasted nearly six decades. A very good swing trumpeter and a skilled arranger-composer,... |
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Buck Clayton Swing Band
Buck Clayton Live from Greenwich Village, NYC [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 15/Apr/2002 ] Recorded live on February 16 - 18, 1990 at the Village Vanguard, New York. |
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Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, with Hampton Hawes, Red Mitchell & Mel Lewis
Bud Shank / Bill Perkins [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 4/Oct/1999 ] "Taken as a whole, there are many rewarding solos to be heard by Shank, Perkins, and the piano players on these formerly rare selections, even if the collection falls short of being classic." AllMusic.com |
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Bud Shank & Bob Cooper
Blowin' Country [ Pacific Jazz / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] Recorded in Los Angeles on January 21, 1958 and/or February 18/19, 1958 (#1-11) and November 29, 1956 (#12-15) |
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Buddy Rich (drums)
Buddy Rich [ Verve Compact Jazz / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Featuring Joe Mondragon, Stanley Turrentine, Max Roach, Phil Woods, John Bunch, Dave McKenna & Johnny Morris |
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ANONYMOUS / TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Russian Orthodox Chant: Glorification of the Cross Russian Orthodox Church,Geneva [ Cascavelle / CD - released 2/Oct/1999 ] 1999 recording. Translations included |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Busch Quartet [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / 3 CD Box Set - released 4/Mar/2008 ] "Performances that are superb and reveal insights on a level rarely encountered" (MusicWeb April 2008) |
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Butch Miles & Friends
Cookin' [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 11/Mar/2002 ] Butch Miles is the top swing drummer today. He was for more than a decade the (always hard swinging) drummer of the legendary Count Basie Orchestra. He is a great personality and his playing is impressive. "He may be the best of his generation,"... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Music From The Films 'Zoya' and 'The Young Guard' Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, Walter Mnatsakanov [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1996 ] Rare recordings of these Shostakovich Russian film scores. |
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FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Encores Byron Janis (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] The original 35 mm Magnetic Film recording made on location in Moscow in 1961 & 1962 |
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VINCENT YOUMANS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vincent Youmans Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Cab Calloway, Blosson Dearie, Gloria De Haven, Maureen Stapleton, Charles Rydell, Dorothy Loudon, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1993 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
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JOHN RUTTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rutter: Requiem / I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes The Cambridge Singers, The City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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FAURE / WALFORD DAVIES / WALTON / TIPPETT / PURCELL / GIBBONS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Canterbury Tradition Choir Of Canterbury Cathedral, David Flood, with Michael harris (organ) [ York Ambisonic / CD - released 2/Feb/2013 ] David Flood was the organist and master of the cathedral choristers at Canterbury Cathedral, a position he held for 32 years from 1988 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. In 1978, he was appointed assistant organist at... |
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ROBERT FAYRFAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fayrfax: Missa O Quam Glorifica The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood [ ASV Gaudeamus / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] 1995 Gramophone Award Winner |
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RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Complete opera with libretto) Carlo Bergonzi, Joan Carlyle, Giuseppe Taddei, Ugo Benelli / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "..long-breathed, expansible tempi and the minimum of exaggeration. Karajan's choice of soloists was clearly aimed to help that...rarely if ever on record has the La Scala Orchestra played with such beautiful feeling for tone-colour." - Penguin Guide |
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PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / VERDI / CILEA / MEYERBEER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Bergonzi Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) with Fernando Corena, Libero Arbace & Sylvia Stahlman [ Decca Grandi Voci / CD - released 14/Aug/1994 ] One of the century's defining operatic tenors, Carlo Bergonzi, died after a short illness on 26th July at the age of 90. Celebrated for his interpretations of the great Verdi roles in particular. |
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GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martucci: La canzone dei ricordi [Song of Memories] / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Carlo Bruno (piano) Mirella Freni (soprano) / Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Muti [ Sony / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] "It's a forcefully dramatic reading: Muti coaxes some searing solo playing from his La Scala orchestra: the dark clarinets of 'Fior di ginestra', faintly echoed at the close, are superbly savage. The drawback (some will love it) is that more... |
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ELGAR / PARRY / WESLEY / COCKER / WHITLOCK / LEMARE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Curley - Organ Imperial Carlo Curley (organ of teh Church of St Mary redcliffe, Bristol)) [ Decca Argo / CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] Carlo Curley was the resident organist at the Alexandra Palace in the 1970s and was the first classical organist to perform a solo organ recital at the White House for President Jimmy Carter. He also played before several European heads of state and... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (the complete opera recorded in 1994) Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Kurt Moll / Carlos Kleiber (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] "Lightly Handled, well-played Strauss. Strongly recommended." -Gramophone June 2001 |