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JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cello Concertos (with Monn - Concerto for cello, strings and harpsichord) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester / Petra Mallejans - director [ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "Queyras benefits from the much more alert playing of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: and in their account of the D minor central episode, the piece suddenly springs to life. (This) can confidently be recommended as a period-instrument choice." (BBC) |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fauré: Barcarolles / Impromptus / Dolly Suite / etc Jean‐Philippe Collard (piano) [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Gabriel Fauré, whose long and influential life spanned the eras of romanticism and early modernism, enriched a diversity of genres with music of proverbial subtlety. It tantalises and captivates the listener with its discreet beauty. |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fauré: Nocturnes / Preludes / etc Jean‐Philippe Collard (piano) [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Gabriel Fauré, whose long and influential life spanned the eras of romanticism and early modernism, enriched a diversity of genres with music of proverbial subtlety. It tantalises and captivates the listener with its discreet beauty. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 / Wedding Cake Valse / Africa Fantaisie Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] Jean-Philippe Collard clearly thoroughly enjoys these concertos and his enthusiasm for them is matched by that of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by André Previn. |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chausson: La Légende De Sainte Cécile / La Tempête Jean-Philippe Lafont, François Le Roux (bar.) Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo) Raphäelle Farmann (sop) / Chœur de Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de P [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/1995 ] "Chausson's settings are imaginative and the solo singing by Laurence Dale as Ariel and François Le Roux as Stephano is superb." BBC Music |
LOEILLET / QUANTZ / FREDERICK THE GREAT / DEVIENNE / NAUDOT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Flute Concertos (Loeillet, Sammartini, Tartini, Quantz, Vivaldi) Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) / Orchestre Antiqua Musica, Jacques Roussel [ Philips Silver Line Classics / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] A great deal of the material Rampal performed and recorded he also published, supervising sheet music collections in both Europe and the US..he remarked that he had felt it part of his "duty" to expand as much as possible the repertoire for flautists |
GIOVANNI PACINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pacini Rediscovered Jennifer Larmore (mezzo), Majella Cullagh (soprano), Annick Massis (soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry, etc [ Opera Rara / CD - released 30/May/2006 ] Pacini himself claimed to have composed over 100 operas and, although modern estimates would be more conservative (since several of the works he listed were revisions, and some of them more strictly oratorios and cantatas than operas), even the most... |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Complete Songs-volume 4 Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Jean-Paul Fouchecort, Stephen Varoce / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "This final volume is the jewel in the series' crown" - Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Dec 2005 |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (CPE): Flute Concertos Jennifer Stinton (flute), Orchestra St John's Smith Square, John Lubbock [ Collins Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/1993 ] "crisp, responsive orchestral playing, well-chosen tempos and clean, incisive ensemble. I thoroughly enjoyed this playing of some wonderfully inventive music…. helpful background notes" (Gramophone) |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2007) Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Peter Seiffert, Gerhard Siegel, Juha Uusitalo / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Quite a spectacle, brilliantly sung." The Sunday Times "It looks like a landmark Ring cycle, it is outstanding." BBC Music Magazine |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Gotterdammerung [Complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2008) Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Ralf Lukaso / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Quite a spectacle, brilliantly sung." The Sunday Times "It looks like a landmark Ring cycle, it is outstanding." BBC Music Magazine |
MARAIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maris: Pieces de viole Jerome Hantai (bass viol) / Alix Verzier (bass viol) / Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2010 ] "This double helping of Marais (majoring on books 2 and 3) keeps things in the family. Pierre Hantaï accompanies brother Jérôme in a persuasive display of musical fraternité, interpretative égalité and fantasy-filled expressive liberté." (BBC Music) |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Complete Opera recorded in 1992) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10595/10595615.jpg)
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Complete Opera recorded in 1992) Jerry Hadley, Bruno Praticò, Susanne Mentzer, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey / Orchestra della Toscana, Gianluigi Gelmetti [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/1993 ] "..an absolutely complete text (the recent critical edition by Alberto Zedda is used) shorn of the accretions of nearly 200 years, and singers of the calibre of Thomas Hampson and Samuel Ramey." Classical-Music |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck: Les Beatitudes [with Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10620/10620357.jpg)
CESAR FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck: Les Beatitudes [with Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder] Jessye Norman, Brigitte Fassbaender, Birit Finnila, Rene Kollo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Chor Der Französischen Rundfunks, Orchester Des Bayerische R [ Gala / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Jun/2009 ] The performance, led by conductor Rafael Kubelík with Bavarian forces, is considered excellent for its sheer drama and musicality. The oratorio itself is noted as a serious, monumental, and beautiful late-romantic piece, though quite long. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Lieder Jessye Norman (soprano) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 29/Apr/1983 ] "Jessye Norman, full and golden of tone, consistently reveals how her art has developed, in most ways matching even the imagination of Fischer-Dieskau. Not the least important elemant is the playing of Barenboim." Penguin Guide |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex / Schoenberg: Erwartung - Brettl-Lieder Jessye Norman (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Bryn Terfel (baritone) Shinyukai Male Choir / Saito Kinen Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa / James Levine [ Philips Duo Jessye Norman Collection / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2005 ] Jessye Norman heads the cast in this much-acclaimed recording of Stavinsky's opera Oedipus Rex. Her imperious and impassioned Jocasta is a wonderful interpretation. The cast also includes Peter Schreier as the eponymous hero and a young Bryn Terfel... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Lieder Jessye Norman (soprano) with Philip Moll (piano) [ Philips Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/1984 ] "Ganymed..is..one of the most rewarding performances on the record, sung with conviction and, throughout, with long-breathed phrasing." (Gramophone) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / RICHARD WAGNER / HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jessye Norman - Diva Jessye Norman, with Neil Shicoff (tenor) Ann Murray (mezzo), various orchestras [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Aug/2000 ] "The sense of a theatrical event is palpable all the way through...The recording, made in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, is very well balanced, clean spacious." (Gramophone) |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / AARON COPLAND / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Gershwin / Copland / Barber Jill Gormez (soprano) Wayne Marshall (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] Recording: Henry Wood Hall, London; February/ March 1988, November 1988 ( Adagio) . |
PUCCINI / OFFENBACH / MASSENET / CILEA / VERDI / CATALANI / DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joan Hammond - A celebration Dame Joan Hammond (soprano) [ Testament / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "She was the first singer who, heard 'in the flesh', gave me the kind of thrill I associated with the great singers on records: and that statement, I'm sure, is one which thousands of my contemporaries could make too" Gramophone |
