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CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera with full libretto recorded in 1992) Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara, Alessandro Corbelli / Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] "All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate... |
W. A. MOZART / ROSSINI
Best Wishes from Cecilia Bartoli: Don Giovanni / Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Il Turco in Italia (complete operas recorded in 1988 - 2002) BLU-RAY Cecilia Bartoli, with David Kuebler, Ruggerio Raimondi, Rodney Gilfry, Isabel Rey, Robert Lloyd & others [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Box Set - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Cecilia Bartoli sings a wide variety of genres in many different languages all over the world. In this special Arthaus Musik Edition she can be seen in three coloratura classics of Italian opera. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
Celtic Woman
Home For Christmas [ Manhattan Records / CD - released 16/Nov/2012 ] The internationally-acclaimed Irish all-female singing sensation perform magical Christmas songs. Featuring Australia's beloved Marina Prior on Auld Lang Syne. |
MEYERBEER / VERDI / GOMEZ / HALEVY
Cesare Siepi - Operatic Arias for Bass Cesare Siepi (bass) with Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Classic Recitals / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] The legendary Italian bass Cesare Siepi was one of the great Don Giovannis and at the height of his career - during the 1950s and 1960s - this particular role was very much his 'calling card'. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Choral Works & Folksongs [6 CD set plus CD Rom] Chamber Choir of Europe. Nicol Matt. with Jargen Meier, piano, and Martina Schrott, harp / Amadeus Choir [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Brahms's choral music ranges from the severe magnificence of the Fest- und Gedenk-sprüche to the ravishing opulence of the Op.17 Songs for female voices, horns and harp. Brahms conducted amateur choirs throughout his professional life, both as a... |
W. A. MOZART / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies 31, 39, 40, 41 / Schubert: Symphony No. 4 Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Philharmonic, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony are performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Wiener Musikvereinsaal in 1984. Harnoncourt goes back to Schubert's original manuscripts. |
STUCKY / TAVENER / RANDS / ZHOU LONG / CHEN YI /THOMAS / SAMETZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Colours Of Love - New Choral Music Chanticleer [ Teldec / CD - released 24/May/1999 ] Grammy Awards 42nd Awards (1999) Best Chamber Music Recording |
Charlotte Church
Voice Of An Angel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Mass in C major / Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] "As in the Missa solemnis, an outstanding contribution is made by the Monteverdi Choir. Splendidly athletic, for instance, are the leaps of a seventh in the fugal "Hosanna". Distinction is certainly a word to use of the record as a whole." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Queen of the Night: Cheryl Studer sings Mozart Cheryl Studer (soprano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Philips Solo / CD - released 20/Jun/1994 ] In 1981, Studer was hired as a permanent member of the Bavarian State Opera with conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. She remained with the company for two consecutive seasons, singing mostly minor roles in their productions. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 / 5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16 / 6 kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 / etc Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) [ Teldec / Warner / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "...the Five Orchestral Pieces have welcome vitality and insight, Schoenberg's piquant sonorities delivered with unexpected verve. Now that's more like it, the music-making - and recording - very satisfying indeed." MusicWeb Radio 3 Building a... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Also sprach Zarathustra (with Mahler's Totenfeier) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] Of a recent Zarathustra performance, the Chicago Tribune reviewer commented: "Boulez shaped everything exactly, drawing together each episode with sonorous sweep and a natural ebb and flow of tension". |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 20/Nov/1992 ] "This magnificent performance stresses above all the marvellously original scoring without losing a compelling overall grasp." (Gramophone) |
WALTER MARKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marks: Bajour Chita Rivera, Nancy Dussault & Herschel Bernardi / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker. The title is allegedly a Romani... |
TALLIS / BYRD / PALESTRINA /TAVENER / POULENC / SCARLATTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Easter at Canterbury - Lent Holy Week and Easter The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, David Flood, with Timothy Noon (organ) [ York CD The canterbury Collection / CD - released 20/Aug/2000 ] Originally recorded 2000 |
GEOFFREY BURGON
Cathedral Music of Geoffrey Burgon (Incls Nunc dimittis) Choir of Chichester Cathedral, with Michael Laird (trumpet) & Jeremy Suter (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLETCBALE: O lux beata Trinitas - Music for Trinity Choir of Clare College Cambridge / Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] "This really is exceptional singing - immaculately balanced and blended, with text always at its heart. Ross and his young singers have given us quite the gift in this series. I can't wait to hear what they do next." Gramophone |
WOOD / PARRY / BAINTON / STANFORD / NAYLOR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Anthems From King's - English Choral Favourites Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Stephen Cleobury conducts the choir of King's College, Cambridge in this memorable recital of English Romantic choral music, exquisitely sung and superbly recorded in stereo and 5.1 surround sound in the college's famous chapel. |
