W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Mozart [5 DVD set] Gil Shaham / Sharon Kam / Sandrine Piau / Dorothea Roschmann / Daniel Barenboim / and more [ EuroArts DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] MediciArts offers a DVD box full of the most sparkling of Mozart's compositions. Performed by instrumentalists, orchestras, conductors and singers, among the best interpreters of his works, this representative selection... |
FRANCOIS ROBERDAY / JEAN LANGLAIS / SAMUEL SCHEIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: King of Instruments: The Art of Gillian Weir Gillian Weir (organ) [ Decca Argo / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] 'her light touch and prismatic registrations enliven one hour's worth of François Roberday's beautiful but severe Fugues et Caprices ' 10/10 ClassicsToday.com |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos Giuliano Carmignola (violin from 1733) / il Quartettone, Carlo de Martini [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2008 ] Recorded at Pieve Di Palazzo Pignano, Cremona, Italy |
PHILIP GLASS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glass: Dancepieces Glass Philip Ensemble / Michael Riesman [ Sony / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] Philip Glass is one of the most prolific and distinguished composers of the 20th Century. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and scored dozens of operas, films and plays, and released symphonic compositions and solo work. His work is... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 "Elvira Madigan" & 24 Glenn Gould (piano), CBC Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind / Rosina Lhevinne (piano), The Juilliard Orchestra, Jean Morel [ CBS Masterworks / CD - released 12/Nov/1985 ] Recorded in 1960 & 1962 |
DAVID DIAMOND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Diamond: Rounds For String Orchestra / Concert Piece For Flute & Harp / etc Glorian Duo / Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ DELOS / CD - released 11/Oct/1996 ] Tracks 1 to 4 recorded June 4, 1995 at Seattle Opera House. Track 5 recorded June 2, 1993 at Seattle Opera House |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Antar, Symphonic Suite Goldstone & Clemmow (duo piano) [ Divine Art / CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "This top flight piano twosome conjures scintillating keyboards in Sheherazade; Antar is also finely played, and Rimsky's Funiculi, Funicula arrangement is a riot." ***** --BBC Music magazine, Christmas 2014 |
GUILLAUME DUFAY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dufay: Music for St James the Greater Gothic Voices / Christopher Page (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE GRAMOPHONE AWARDS WINNER |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Weihnachtsgeschichte [The Christmas Story] / Alpine Christmas Songs Tolzer Boys Choir, Die Hammerauer Musikanten, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden / Collegium Pro Musica Innsbruck [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] Original recordings from 1985 & 1989 |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1985) Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Justino Diaz / Vienna State Opera Choir & Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deusche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] This famous film of the world's best-loved opera, directed by Herbert von karajan, features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time. - "overwhelming in its truthfulness to the tragic vision of Carmen", wrote the... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Organ Music of Herbert Howells Graham Barber plays the Organ of Hereford Cathedral [ Priory / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Recorded in Hereford Cathedral on 10/11 January 1995 |
ANTON BRUCKNER / PAUL HINDEMITH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No.1 / Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony (recorded 1965 & 1983) Grand Symphony Orchestra of Radio & Television, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky & Eugeny Svetlanov [ Russian Revelation / CD - released 1/Jul/1996 ] The Revelation catalogue represents one of the most important cultural discoveries of the century - over 4000,000 tapes, most of them never heard before. Seventy years worth of repressed Russian recordings featuring some of the world's best musicians |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded in 2004) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Harry Kupfer / Deborah Polaski / John Treleaven / Matti Salminem / Falk Struckmann / Gunter von Kannen / Bertrand de Billy [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "This is in many respects superb. The acid test is that one should emerge exhausted from Wagner's emotional outpourings, yet uplifted, and this de Billy and his team of soloists do in the final analysis achieve" (MusicWeb Sept 2005) |
ANTONIN DVOARK / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos (with Bruch: Kol nidrei) Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy [ Sony Masterworks Heritage / CD - released 6/Dec/1997 ] Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro in Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a child, he was taught violin and piano by his father. After seeing and hearing the cello, he was determined to become a cellist and was given his first... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Magnificat BWV 243 / Cantata BWV 21 Greta de Reyghere / Rene Jacobs / Christoph Pregardien / Peter Lika / La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Virgin Classics Veritas / CD - released 14/Oct/1989 ] "The lovely solo and choral singing in both works, coupled to a superbly atmospheric recording, made this a Bach CD to treasure." (Gramophone April 2001) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Piano Trios Opp 63 & 80 Grieg Trio [ Virgin Classics Ultraviolet / CD - released 15/Oct/1996 ] "The Grieg Trio performs the music with understanding and sensitivity...Technically demanding passages, such as the eerie and unexpected tremolandi towards the end of the first Trio's opening movement, hold no dangers for this ensemble." C-music.com |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Arnold on Brass Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Elgar Howarth & Sir Malcolm Arnold [ ASV / CD - released 1/Jul/1993 ] Recorded in the Dewsbury Town Hall, April 1993 |
JOHN IRELAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ireland: Violin Sonatas Frederick Grinke (violin) John Ireland (piano) Albert Sammons (violin), Florence Hooten (cello), Kendall Taylor (piano), Lawrence Pratt (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] "... the playing wonderfully alive and always radiating a most winning understanding and spontaneity." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Serenades Op. 8 & Op. 25 Grumiaux Trio, with Maxence Larrieu (flute) [ Philips Duo / CD - released 20/Mar/1990 ] Recorded: The Netherlands, 1/1968 (Op. 8); 5/1968 (Op. 25) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gösta Winbergh sings Richard Strauss Gösta Winbergh (tenor) Friedrich Haider (piano) [ Nightingale / CD - released 2/Sep/1993 ] Gosta Winbergh was born in Stockholm. There was no musical tradition in Winbergh's family. He himself was a building engineer when he watched his first opera performance in 1967; the experience so moved him that he decided on an operatic career.... |