Search Results: COLLECTABLE piano
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JOHN IRELAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ireland: Piano Concerto in E flat / A London Overture / Mai-Dun - Symphonic Rhapsody / etc Colin Horsley (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Basil Cameron with Daniel Adni, Desmond Wright and the composer on piano [ EMI Classics / CD - released 3/Mar/1993 ] This release restores a classic of the catalogue, the Piano Concerto with Colin Horsley from 1957. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: 14 Waltzes / Barcarolle / Nocturne / Mazurka Dinu Lipatti (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] "...supremely elegant, tender and direct, beautifully balanced between dancing rhythms and other-worldly spirituality." BBC Music Magazine ***** |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor / MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] "Recommended. In many ways the coupling of one masterful work with another of wayward charm makes for an ideally complementary partnership." MusicWeb |
EDVARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANZ LISZT / EDWARD MacDOWELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor / Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy Earl Wild (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russell Stanger / RCA Victor Symphony, Massimo Freccia [ Chesky Records / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] Transfered using a customized state of the art Ampex tube tape recorder and an extraordinary analogie to digital converter with 20 bit linearily and a 128 times oversampling/digital filter, in an effort to achieve the finest quality sound. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Die Wanderer Fantasy in C, Op. 15 / Piano Sonata in G, Op. 78 Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) [ Teldec / CD - released 15/Oct/1989 ] In 1964, Leonskaja began studies in the Moscow Conservatory. During her conservatory years she won prizes in the Enescu, Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud and Queen Elizabeth international piano competitions in Bucharest, Paris and Brussels. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Songs You Love (Incls 'None but the lonely heart' & 'Danny Boy') Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Gerald Moore (piano) [ EMI Great Artists of the Century / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "These Songs You Love are all beautiful ones which, as here in Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's lovely performances, deserve to be adorned with the finest art of the singer." Gramophone |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Three Concertos Eric Parkin (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/1993 ] Dyson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. Studied with Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music (he later became director of that institution) and traveled to Germany and Italy on A Mendelssohn Scholarship. |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ / MANUEL de FALLA / ENRIQUE GRANADOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Spanish Piano Music [6 CD set] Esteban Sanchez, Benita Meshulam, Cristina Ortiz (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2012 ] A collection of quintessential Spanish piano works, presenting the three Giants of Spain in their best and most popular works: the colossal piano cycle Iberia by Albeniz, the complete piano music of De Falla and the popular Goyescas by Granados. |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Music of Franz Liszt Eugene Albulescu (piano) [ Manu / CD - released 30/May/1992 ] "Throughout this varied recital, which is recorded in admirable digital sound, Albulescu manages to retell the secret stories embedded within each piano piece with a particular affinity and eveness." ClassicalNet |
MIKLOS ROZSA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rozsa: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Evelyn Chen (piano) Brinton Smith (cello) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1998 ] This is the fifth CD in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's admirable traversal of all of Rozsa's orchestral music. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Friedrich Gulda I Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Gerard Poulet (violin) Dominique Merlet (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Mandala / 4 CD Box Set - released 29/Dec/2001 ] "one immediately feels confident that he's in command, both technically and musically. He chooses consistently brisk or flowing tempos, but never sounds hurried, because his playing has such rhythmic poise" Gramophone (on Gerard Poulet's Bach) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 6 - 8 Gidon Kremer (violin) / Martha Argerich (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 25/Jan/2002 ] |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 "Elvira Madigan" & 24 Glenn Gould (piano), CBC Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind / Rosina Lhevinne (piano), The Juilliard Orchestra, Jean Morel [ CBS Masterworks / CD - released 12/Nov/1985 ] Recorded in 1960 & 1962 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Preludes Book 2 / Suite Bergamasque Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) [ ASV / CD - released 1/Jul/1990 ] Fergus-Thompson has been a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music since 1996. He was awarded a FRCM in May 2010. He has given masterclasses throughout the UK, USA, Australia and the Far East (Wiki) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor D958, fragments & lieder Ian Bostridge (tenor) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "Leif Ove Andsnes here deals beautifully with the Sonata itself. Andsnes's performance is smooth and warmly expressive, with the final tarantella going at a galloping lick. Bostridge, too, is in fine form" BBC Music |
ARTHUR FOOTE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foote: Piano Quintet / String Quartets James Barbagallo (piano) Da Vinci Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2020 ] Foote received his first music lessons at the age of fourteen, eventually studying harmony with Stephen A. Emery at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. |
CESAR FRANCK / GABRIEL FAURE / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Josef Suk Plays Josef Suk (violin) Josef Hala (piano) [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Recorded at the Domovina Studio in Prague, September 1994 |
PURCELL / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / GRANADOS / RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri in Recital Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/May/1990 ] "..it should immediately be added that the soprano's tone is fresh, her responsiveness to words keen, the pianist's touch very evidently guided by a refined, lively intelligence, and the programme a delight in the variety." Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: 4 Ballades / Barcarolle / Fantasie Krystian Zimerman (piano) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/May/1988 ] Born in 1956 in Zabrze, Poland, Krystian Zimerman began playing the piano at the age of five; he later studied with Andrei Jasinski at the Music Conservatory in Katowice. He embarked upon his international career after winning the 1975 Warsaw Chopin... |
