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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Images, Suite Bergamasque, 2 Arabesques, L''Isle joyeuse, Pour le piano Cecile Ousset (piano) [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 30/Sep/1989 ] "Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist...who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she plays" Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev/Poulenc: Piano Concertos Cecile Ousset (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/1987 ] Japanese pressing |
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
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera recorded in 1988) Cecilia Bartoli, David Kuebler, Gino Quilico, Carlos Feller / Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriele Ferro [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] "All the singers benefit from Michael Hampe's imaginative yet uneccentric direction and from Gabriele Ferro's well-calibrated (if not exactly warm-hearted) conducting." Opera |
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) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Cecilia Bartoli: Viva Vivaldi Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ EMI Classics / EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 13/Sep/2000 ] Cecilia Bartoli performs a collection of arias from Vivaldi's operas at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris in 2001, accompanied by Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Portraits: Operatic Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyorgy Fischer [ Decca Originals / CD - released 11/Apr/1994 ] "... Bartoli's very Italian characteristics are immediately identifiable: brilliance of execution, vitality of words, sharpness ... Fischer accompanies his soloist with energy and tact." Gramophone |
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! |
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'. |
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 |
CHARLES IVES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ives: The String Quartets The Lydian String Quartet [ Centaur / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Since its formation in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has embraced the full range of the string quartet repertory with curiosity, virtuosity and dedication to the highest artistic ideals of music making. In its formative years, the quartet studied... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe Concertos Charles Neidich (clarinet) Frank Morelli (bassoon) Randall Wolfgang (oboe) / Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Virtuoso / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] "Mozart's music expressed a spontaneity and refinement allied to a breathtaking sureness that has never been matched....all brimming with melodic charm and infectious virtuosity." Gramophone |
Charlotte Church
Voice Of An Angel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lieder aus der Jugendzeit Charlotte Margiono (soprano) Bernd Weikl (baritone) Friedrich Haider (piano) with Wolfgang Vladar (horn - track 14) [ Nightingale / CD - released 2/Sep/1995 ] The Dutch soprano Charlotte Margiono (Amsterdam, 1955) studied with Aafje Heynis at the conservatory of Arnhem. In 1984 she made her debut with De Nederlandse Opera as a flower girl in Parsifal. Her international opera career started in 1988. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem & other works BLU-RAY Chen Reiss (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Philippe Aïche (violin solo) / Choir of the Orchestre de Paris & Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] ""The expert choir's native French vowel sounds are a joy in themselves, [and] Eric Picard gives a mesmerising account of the haunting cello Elegie....Unmissable." (International Record Review) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos.3 & 4 Cherubini Quartet [ EMI Encore / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "The Cherubini Quartet consistently play with both warmth and intensity...with a light touch they bring out the mercurial charm of Mendelssohn." (*** Penguin Guide) |
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. |
