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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Rigoletto (Highlights from the opera) Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Huguette Tourangeau / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 27/Sep/1988 ] "[Pavarotti] is an intensely characterful Duke: an unmistakable rogue but a charmer, too...[Sutherland] is glowingly beautiful as well as supremely assured technically. Milnes makes a strong Rigoletto." Penguin Guide |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Highlights from the complete 1972 recording)) Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 24/Oct/1992 ] "Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate." Penguin |
SHIELD / HANDEL / LEHAR / J. STRAUSS / DONIZETTI / OFFENBACH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: La Stupenda! - the essential Joan Sutherland Joan Sutherland with various artists and accompanists [ Decca / CD - released 13/Aug/1996 ] A limited edition of essential Joan Sutherland recordings produced for the Australian market. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard John Holloway (Violin) Davitt Moroney (harpsichord, chamber organ) Susan Sheppard (cello) [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1999 ] The six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 by Bach are works in trio sonata form, with the two upper parts in the harpsichord and violin over a bass line supplied by the harpsichord and an optional viola da gamba. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Complete Hyperion Schubert Edition: The Final Year John Mark Ainsley, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Schade (tenors) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 37 / CD - released 20/Sep/2000 ] The final volume in the Schubert Hyperion series |
BRAHMS / FAURE / FINZI / SCHUBERT / IRELAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jonathan Lemalu - Song Recital Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ EMI Encore / CD - released 7/Jul/2012 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH (Gramophone Magazine August 2002) - "A major new singing talent destined for greatness." (Gramophone) |
MASSENET / TOSELLI / ALBENIZ / DENZA / TCHAIKOVSKY / MORERA / COSTA / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jose Carreras - malinconia d'amore - songs of longing and love Jose Carreras (tenor), with Lorenzo Bavaj (piano) / Ensemble Wien [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Jun/1999 ] In the 2000s Carreras's recording and live concert repertoire had moved largely to art song, Neapolitan songs, the light classical genre, and 'easy-listening'. He has also increasingly performed and recorded with artists from outside the classical... |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO / FRANCESCA CILEA / UMBERTO GIORDANO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jose Cura: Verismo Jose Cura (tenor/conductor) / The Philarmonia Orchestra, with Anne Marie Owens (mezzo) [ Erato / CD - released 17/Feb/1999 ] "José Cura, the new star in the Tenor sky," wrote the Berliner Morgenpost recently. |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / CILEA / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joseph Calleja - Tenor arias Joseph Calleja (tenor) with the orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2004)- Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (May 2004) |
BEETHOVEN / DOHNANYI / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen II Julius Katchen (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen's career ended prematurely when cancer claimed him at age 42. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto; Fantasie in C Op 17 Julius Katchen (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux & Janos Ferencsis. Israel Philharmonic. Istvan Kertesz [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2004 ] "An exciting account of the solo piano part [of Brahms' Piano Concerto No.2], here combining tremendous drive with the kind of ruminating delicacy Brahms so often calls for." Penguin Guide To Compact Discs |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Opera Arias (Zaide, La Clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Zauberflote, Idomeneo, etc) Kiri te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] "Kiri te Kanawa's is one of the loveliest collections of Mozart arias on record, with the voice at its most ravishing." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
CESAR FRANCK / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck / Debussy: Sonatas for violin and piano (with Ravel-Introduction & Allegro for flute, viola and harp / Ravel: Introductio Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Radu Lupu (piano) Osain Ellis (harp) / Melos Ensemble [ Decca / CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Osian ellis and the melos Ensemble provide all those qualities in spades, and Decca's recording captures their interpretation in warm, clear sound." (AFC 1001 Classical) |
RICHARD STRAUSS / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Violin Sonata in E flat / Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) & Krystian Zimerman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "A confident reminder of why Chung is so highly placed in the pantheon of violinists." (MusicWeb May 2015) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Symphonies 88 - 92 La Petite Bande, Sigiswald kuijken [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2008 ] "Sigiswald Kuijken's recording of 88-92 offers an accomplished, sympathetic entrée to Haydn's affable genius. These are the best accounts at budget-price" BBC Music |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G Minor / Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor Op. 50 Lang Lang (piano) Vadim Repin (violin) Mischa Maisky (cello) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Lang Lang revisits two stellar exponents of Russia's Romantic musical soul, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, to reveal another side of his prodigious talent - his finesse as a collegial interpreter of chamber music. |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Latin Motets Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brian: Symphony No.1 "The Gothic" Vladimir Dolezal (tenor) / Eva Jenisova (soprano) / Peter Mikulas (bass) / Dagmar Peckova (alto) / Various Choirs / Slovak Philharmonic, Ondrej Lenard [ Marco Polo / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1990 ] "Leonard leads a substantial percentage of the adult population of Bratislava in a noble effort, full of excitement, with enthusiastic choral singing and a very good lineup of soloists all vividly if a touch shallowly recorded" ClassicsToday... |
LEOS JANACEK / BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Janacek: Sinfonietta Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2002 ] "The Telarc recording captures the full bloom of the orchestra. The coupling is unique." (Penguin Guide) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, London Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt / Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 16/Jun/1987 ] Most of Mahler's vocal output was inspired by "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Boy's Magic Horn), an early 19th-Century anthology of folk poems from all over German-speaking Europe. The "Wunderhorn" had earlier inspired Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann.... |
