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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) Alessandro Marangoni (piano), with Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), Ars Cantica Choir & others [ Naxos / 13 CD Box Set - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Rossini drew a line under his hugely successful operatic career at the age of 37 and wrote little until his final years in Paris, where he became renowned for his musical salons. For these he wrote numerous short piano pieces. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos (12 CD set recorded 1970 - 77) Alfred Brendel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Decca / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] He's a legend of the piano world, revered and applauded the world over. For long an exclusive Philips Classics artist, Alfred Brendel is the recipient of the 2010 Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. |
W. A. MOZART
Alicia de Larrocha Plays Mozart Alicia de Larrocha (piano), André Previn (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Sir Colin Davis [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "...this is a profound reading with many subtleties of touch and altogether a more weighty approach, especially evident in the slow movement. K491 is predictably dramatic. Marriner's orchestra is excellent." classical-music |
MANUEL de FALLA
Manuel de Falla - The Spanish Soul Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Turibio Santos (guitar), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jean-Claude Gérard (flute), Orquesta Nacional de España, etc [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Manuel de Falla is regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the twentieth century. Established in Paris from 1907 to 1914, he met Debussy, Ravel and Dukas and steeped himself in their works. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 27 String Quartets Amadeus Quartet [ Decca / 10 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2009 ] "This is poised and civilised music-making, much of which is familiar and all of it intensely thoughtful and revealing...the playing of slow movements especially seems to anticipate the profundity of Beethoven." Guardian |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Essential Beethoven - The New Complete Essential Edition Amadeus Quartet, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Emil Gilels, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Amadeus Quartet, Claudio Arrau, John Eliot Gardiner, Wilhelm Kempff, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 95 CD/DVD Box Set - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Deutsche Grammophon are proud to present the most modern and complete set of Beethoven's work ever issued. Assembled in cooperation with Decca and ten other labels, this New Complete Edition features over 250 legendary performers. |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Telemann: 36 fantasias for harpsichord Andrea Coen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2012 ] While Telemann is, today, considered among the very greatest of Baroque composers, he was one of the last of the period to be reappraised by later generations, and his music had to be 'rediscovered', just as that of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi was. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Europakonzert - 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet) Magdalena Kožená (mezzo) Vadim Repin (violin) etc / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] [ EuroArts Blu-ray / 31 Blu-ray Box Set - released 21/Jan/2022 ] An absolute must-have for collectors and fans of the annually celebrated event. Many renowned conductors have chosen to perform with the Berliner Philharmoniker over a time period of 30 years. |
CORELLI / VIVALDI / REBEL / MOZART
The Art of the Violin Andrew Manze (violin) with Richard Egarr (harpsichord), Jaap ter Linden (viola da Gamba) & English Concert [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2009 ] "You can't beat Andrew Manze when it comes to fiery, inspired violin playing." The Independent |
ERICH KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rendezvous with Korngold Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) with Bengt Forsberg (piano) & friends [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "Von Otter brings beautiful tone, perfect diction and a rapt sense of submerging herself in the music. As an encore she sings Forsberg's arrangement of Korngold's most famous tune, 'Marietta's Lied' from Die tote Stadt." Gramophone |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde (complete operetta) Anne-Catherine Gillet, Virginie Verrez, Antoinette Dennefeld, Josh Lovell / Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2023 ] "... the whole thing has an immediacy that Daniel suggests is an attempt to recreate the acoustic of the Bouffes-Parisiens." Gramophone Recording of the Month November 2023 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 (complete) Arleen Auger, Janet Baker / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic / Vienna Philharmonic / Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 4/Aug/2017 ] "There's no doubt that Rattle has inspired all concerned to an achievement which joins his groundbreaking readings of the Third, Seventh and Tenth Symphonies in the Mahlerian heaven." ***** BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, on Mahler 8 |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Complete Operas Ann Murray, Andreas Schmidt, Werner Hollweg, Arleen Auger, Edita Gruberova, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Thomas Moser, Kiri te Kanawa, Ingvar Wixell [ Decca Bargain Boxes / 44 CD - released 6/Jul/2009 ] A unique collection of the complete operatic works of Mozart, from the fascinating teenage works to the profound late masterpieces. Operas known and loved the world over such as "Le nozze di figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Così fan tutte" and "Die Zauberflöte" |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Violin Sonatas Arthur Grumiaux, Walter Klien, Gerard Poulet, Blandine Verlet, etc [ Philips Complete Mozart Edition Vol 15 / 7 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/1991 ] Original Recording From 1975, 1985, 1991 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Artur Schnabel (piano) [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 15) - BBC MUSIC |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Préludes, Images and Children's Corner [CDs + Blu-ray audio] Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "I loved the Images and Children's Corner when they first came out, in 1971, and still think them among the finest versions recorded." Gramophone |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Préludes, Images and Children's Corner Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "I loved the Images and Children's Corner when they first came out, in 1971, and still think them among the finest versions recorded." Gramophone |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Complete Concertos [6 CD set] Augustin Hadelich, Dmitri Babanov, Harald Hoeren, Ariadne Daskalakis, Jurgen Schuster, Maria Kleigel / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-BrAhl [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "All are new recordings, underpinned by warmly stylish accompaniments by the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, spiritedly and sensitively directed by Helmut Müller-Bühl." Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano Kristóf Baráti (violin) Klára Würtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2012 ] Sonatas for piano with violin, Beethoven thought of them, and the early set of three Op. 12 does seem to look back towards the early Classical, even late-Baroque emphasis on the multi-voiced part to which the violin adds emphasis or decoration as... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Requiem fur Mignon / Nachtlied / Das Paradies und die Peri Barbara Boney, Bernarda Fink, Gerald Finley, etc / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gar [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Mar/2013 ] Includes complete texts with translations |
