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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 'Pastoral' Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Philips Solo / CD - released 25/Jun/1996 ] Bernard Haitink's Philips recording of Beethoven's Symphonies are consistently praised for their clarity, balance, and Haitink's trademark care for detail. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Shura Cherkassy I Shura Cherkassy (piano) [ Philips / EMI / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Shura Cherkassky was a Ukrainian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterised by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of his later life, Cherkassky resided in London. |
TCHAIKOVKY / LITOLFF / SCHUMANN / J. STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Shura Cherkassky II Shura Cherkassky (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic, Leopold Ludwig, Clemens Krauss, London Philharmonic, Adrian Boult [ Philips / EMI / Decca / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Over seven decades of his concert career, starting in the 1920s, Cherkassky made a large number of recordings for RCA Victor, Vox, Swedish Cupol label, HMV, DG (the famous Tchaikovsky concerto recordings), Tudor, Nimbus and Decca. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: 33 Variations in C major on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op.120 Stephen Kovacevich (piano) [ Philips Concert Classics / CD - released 15/Apr/1990 ] "Kovacevich's performance has a clarity, poise and vitality that has commended itself to more than one generation of collectors over the past 20 years ... you will find playing, that is sensitive and exciting, but quite unselfregarding;" Gramophone |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: The 3 Piano Concertos Stephen Kovacevich (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 1/Oct/1990 ] 'In each of the concertos it is Kovacevich's reading of the finale which crowns the performance...the recording represents the work of Philips engineers at its refined best [Concertos 1 & 3]' Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter II Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling [ EMI / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / BMG / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 -1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and repertoire" |
DEBUSSY / BIZET / MESSIAEN / FAURE / POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sylvia McNair - Reveries Sylvia McNair (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 20/Sep/1997 ] Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London, March 1996 |
GLUCK / STRAVINSKY / PURCELL / PUCCINI / MOZART / ARLEN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sylvia McNair - A Portrait Sylvia McNair (soprano) with conductors, Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Neville Marriner, etc [ Philips / CD - released 20/Sep/1996 ] Recordings from 1991 to 1995 |
PHILIPS GATES / FRANK BRIDGE / SAMUEL BARBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gates Bridge Barber - String Quartets The Eberle Quartet [ Naim / CD - released 30/Jul/2001 ] Recorded at the Jacqueline de Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford, January 1997 |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Backhaus I Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Backhaus made his first concert tour at the age of sixteen. In 1900 he went to England and in 1901 played for the first time in Manchester at the Gentleman's Concerts. In 1902 he performed at the Hallé Concerts, and thereafter in 12 concerts at the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff I Wilhelm Kempff (piano) [ Decca / Philips / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/1998 ] Few pianists on record convey quite the impression of actually composing the music while they perform it that sets Wilhelm Kempff's artistry apart. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Dichterliebe / Liederkreis / Myrthen / etc [2 CD set] Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Philips SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Singer and pianist work together almost by instinct in thinking themselves into the very heart of these songs... Holzmair's plangent, very Viennese voice bespeaks the vulnerability that lies at the soul of Robert's Eusebius side." (Gramophone) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto / Symphony in 3 Movements / Petrouchka Woody Herman & his Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens [ Philips / CD - released 19/Aug/1989 ] "The Ebony Concerto is played by the same artist whom it originally was dedicated in 1945. This remarkable virtuoso ensemble performed it at carnegie hall on March 25, 1946, conducted by Walter Hendl." |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: Complete Waltzes Zoltan Kocsis (piano) [ Philips Insignia / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] Zoltan Kocsis won the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition in 1970, and made his first concert tour of the United States in the following year. He received the Liszt Prize in 1973, and the Kossuth Prize in 1978 |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete operetta) Kiri Te Kanawa, Edita Gruberova, Brigitte Fassbaender, Olaf Bar, Tom Krause / Vienna Philharmonic, Andre Previn [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/1999 ] "Dame Kiri te Kanawa's portrait of Rosalinde brings not only gloriously firm, golden sound but also vocal acting with star quality..this goes to the top of the list of latterday Fledermaus recordings..recorded sound is superb." *** 3 stars Penguin |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Messe solennelle Donna Brown (soprano) Jean-Luc Viala (tenor) Gilles Cachemaille (bass-baritone) / Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Elio [ Philips / CD - released 31/Dec/1994 ] Philips Classics has had the honour of presenting the first ever recording made of this adorable Berlioz mass after its rediscovery in 1991 and showing what a lot of absolutely beautiful surprises it has to offer. |
BACH / VIVALDI / HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Artistry of Elly Ameling Elly Ameling (soprano) with various accompaniments [ Philips / 5 CD - released 21/Feb/2003 ] February 2003 marked the 70th birthday of Dutch soprano Elly Ameling, a much-loved artist on the Philips label. This collection is a 5-CD capbox with notes in English, French, German and Dutch. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Clarinet Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Concertino for Clarinet Andrew Marriner (clarinet) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner [ Philips / CD - released 26/Aug/1992 ] Carl Maria von Weber is a name that is often cited with regard to the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism, and yet how many works of his is it possible to name? |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Friedrich Gulda I Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Horn Concertos Hermann Baumann (horn) / St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman [ Philips / CD - released 14/Jul/1985 ] "(Baumann) produces a broad stream of richly lyrical tone on his wide-bore German instrument... The new performances are warmly expressive and always musical" Gramophone |
