Search Results: COLLECTABLE Decca
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VERDI / BELLINI / MASSENET / PUCCINI / DONIZETTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu - Arias Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/1996 ] "Gheorghiu displays her Verdian skills, her formidable technique and expressive power pushed to their limits but ultimately convincing." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu: Verdi Heroines Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Muti [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/2000 ] "Not only is Angela Gheorghiu in resplendent voice, the tone richer than for some time, but the beauty of her high notes is floated with Elysian, transcendental beauty." MusicWeb |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSK / WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE:Szymanowski: Symphonies 2 & 3 / Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra, Paroles tisées Antal Dorati, Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit, Paul Kletzki, Peter Pears, Witold Lutoslawski, Peter Jablonski, etc [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2006 ] "Chantal Juillet plays marvelously, and Charles Dutoit and his Montréal forces are happily on top form here. A really rewarding disc, especially if you have been waiting (like me) for these fine readings to return to circulation." ClassicalNet |
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. |
DOWLAND / PURCELL / MOZART / SCHUMANN / SIBELIUS / R. STRAUSS / LLOYD WEBBER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The radiant voice of Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Talens Lyriques, The English Concert & others [ Decca / CD - released 11/Jun/2001 ] "Barbara Bonney has a lovely voice and she knows how to use its relatively light but extremely agile qualities to fine effect. She's accurate in intonation and tasteful in expressive mannerisms...how pretty everything is-it's really a pleasant sound... |
KNECHTL / REINHARDT / QUANTZ / GRAUN / ROLLIG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque Horn Concertos Barry Tuckwell (horn) with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Decca / CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] Tuckwell was born in Melbourne and studied in Sydney. His first appointments were when he was just fifteen and he played with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Leaving Australia for England in 1950 he held various posts and in 1955 was... |
VINCENZO BELLINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI / GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), James Levine (piano) [ Decca / CD ] Recorded August 1996, Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth |
EDWARD GRIEG / KARL GOLDMARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Symphony in C minor / Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Karsten Andersen / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2006 ] 'The Decca recording is truthfully balanced, with good perspective and colour, and detail reproduces with fine definition' [Grieg] Penguin Guide |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD STRAYSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms / R. Strauss: Violin Concertos Boris Belkin (violin) / London Symphony Orxchestra, Ivan Fischer / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 24/Mar/1996 ] Boris Belkin was hailed as a wonderful violinist after he won the 1976 Tchaikovsky Competition. He was quickly snapped up under contract to Decca. He then recorded a few discs, notable among these being the Brahms Concerto with Fischer and the LSO. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: La Cetra - 12 concerti, Op. 9 / Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes, RV 535 / etc Iona Brown, Neil Black, Celia Nicklin / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Penguin Guide Rosette Winner |
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. |
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... |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gluck: Italian Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin [ Decca / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2002 - Recital |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Blu-ray) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2012 ] "Bartoli's programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones." Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Highlights) Cecilia Bartoli, Leo Nucci, William Matteuzzi, Enrico Fissore / Orchestra e coro del Teatro Communale di Bologna, Giuseppe Patané [ Decca / CD - released 20/Jul/1993 ] "A young Cecilia Bartoli leads a near-perfect ensemble from 1988, with Leo Nucci as a knowing Figaro and William Matteuzzi an always lovelorn Almaviva." (BBC Music) |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / various orchestras & pianists [ Decca / - released 19/Apr/1995 ] Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
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! |
PACINI / BELLINI / MENDELSSOHN / HUMMEL / ROSSI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Maria Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Maxim Vengerov (violin) / Orchestra La Scintilla / International Chamber Soloists / Adam Fischer [ Decca / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Recital - "Diva Bartoli is on brilliant form in this recording and Adam Fischer provides loving and sensitive handling of the orchestra, which plays superbly." (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera with full libretto recorded in 1992) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10612/10612224.jpg)
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... |
