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GLUCK / HAYDN / MYSLIVECEK / SALOMON / MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Journey To Mozart Daniel Hope (violin) / Zurich Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] "It's both a highly personal selection and a rather puzzling one…Hope's brilliance as a soloist does come across assertively throughout this 'Journey', which for his many admirers will surely prove sufficient to sustain interest." (BBC Music) |
LISZT / MENDELSSOHN / HANDEL / SAINT-SAENS / BOURGEOIS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arundel Restored Daniel Moult (the Hill organ of Arundel Cathedral) [ Regent / CD - released 4/May/2013 ] Acclaimed organist Daniel Moult performs the first solo recording on the 1867/1873 William Hill organ since its restoration. Inspired by eclectic Victorian-era concert programming, Moult presents a cleverly designed program featuring works by... |
CARL NIELSEN / EDVARD GRIEG
Nielsen: Concerto for Clarinet / Grieg: Lyric Pieces Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Christoph Traxler (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Ádám Fische [ Sony Classical / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The Clarinet Concerto by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen is one of the absolute pillars of the repertoire for clarinet and orchestra. Austrian clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer associates very special memories with this work as 2009 winner of The Carl... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Daniela Barcellona / Lance Ryan / Elisabete Matos / Gabriele Viviani / Eric Cutler / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Valery Gergiev [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "The cast in Valencia has its strengths, prime among them the proud, brassy mezzo of Daniela Barcellona as Dido...Elisabete Matos is a properly intense Cassandra." (Gramophone) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Mozart Album Danielle de Niese (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 13/Aug/2009 ] "a voice seductive enough to woo gods as well as mortals... there is nothing restrained about Ms. de Niese's warmly voluptuous and passionate singing" New York Times |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel Arias Danielle de Niese (soprano) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Decca / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] 'Not just a superb performer, but a phenomenal one' Opera News. |
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GERSHWIN / COPLAND / ADAMS / CORIGLIANO / FRUSIN / NEWMAN / etc
Daniil Trifonov - My American Story - North [2 CD set] Daniil Trifonov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Daniil Trifonov, without question one of the most gifted artists of his generation, has previously explored his voice and cultural roots through landmark interpretations of European classical repertoire. |
FRIEDRICH KUHLAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kuhlau: Overtures Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south of Lüneburg in the Uelzen district of Lower Saxony (Germany). At the age of seven, he lost his right eye when he slipped on ice and fell. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even... |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 30/Aug/2024 ] The Danish String Quartet's new album is a "retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and... |
HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8, & 13 Danubius Quartet [ Marco Polo / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "I love to write quartets. One could say that it is a mania." Villa-Lobos made this confession, quoted by Pierre Vidal, in Paris in the spring of 1958. He had completed his seventeenth and final quartet the year before. |
HEITOR VILLA -LOBOS
Villa Lobos: String Quartets Nos 11, 16, 17 Danubius Quartet [ Marco Polo latin American Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] "...the Hungarians play with a greater range of contrast - slow movements are slower, quick movements sometimes (but not always) quicker, rhythms are more secure. This permits those gorgeous melodies in the slow movements to really sing." Fanfare |
PAUL CRESTON / ANTHONY RITCHIE / KENNETH YOUNG / GARETH FARR / etc.
Gung-Ho: Virtuoso Works for Trombone David Bremner (trombone) with Sarah Watkins (piano) and Leonard Sakofsky (percussion) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/May/2009 ] This superb release was awarded the Best Clasical Album at the 2009 NZ Music Awards. "Gung-Ho is one classy production...one of our premier trombonists...the group's ensemble work is awe-inspiring" (William Dart, NZ Herald) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Oratorio Arias David Daniels (alto) / Paris Ensemble Orchestral, John Nelson [ Virgin Records / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] "His really is a beautiful voice, far removed from the traditional 'churchy' countertenor timbre." -Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine Sept 2002) |
TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Quiet Thing - Songs for Voice and Guitar David Daniels (counter-tenor) Craig Ogden (guitar) [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "From old Spain to New York, a distinctive voice, beautifully accompanied, in fine form" Editor's Choice (Gramophone Awards issue) |
COOK / DARKE /WATSON / BOWEN / GOWERS / HOWELLS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: English Cathedral Series Vol.7 - Norwich Cathedral David Dunnett (organ of Norwith Cathedral) [ Regent / CD - released 7/Apr/2003 ] Recorded on 24-26 June 2002 |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses The Moscow Academy of Choral Singing, Victor Popov [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] In the field of choral music Tchaikovsky is known as the first Russian composer to have composed cycles of the Liturgy and the Vespers, but his considerable output of secular choral music is less well-known, and a delightful surprise. |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lambert: Piano Concerto / Merchant Seamen Suite / etc David Owen Norris (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth [ ASV / CD - released 12/Aug/1999 ] "More gaps in the Lambert discography are enterprisingly plugged by these sensitive and shapely performances, which display most agreeable dash and commitment." Gramophone |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Moses und Aron [complete opera] David Pittman-Jennings, Chris Merritt / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Deutsch Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Sep/1996 ] Schoenberg's most comprehensive score, it represents the climax of his association with the dodecaphonic method of composition, described by Schoenberg himself as 'a method of composition with twelve notes related only to each other |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Clarinet Quintet (original versions) David Shifrin (clarinet) / Mostly Mozart Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Delos / CD - released 3/Sep/1987 ] Mozart's original versions - played on an extended range clarinet |
