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GEORGE GERSHWIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto in G major (with Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No 2) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 16/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Concerto |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Winterreise Peter Pears (tenor) Benjamin Britten (piano) [ Decca Legends / CD - released 12/Jun/2000 ] "What is so striking about Pears's performance is its intensity. One continually has the sense of a live occasion...As for Britten, he recreates the music always with scrupulous concern for the overall musical shaping and sense of atmosphere" Penguin |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MANUEL de FALLA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / de Falla: El amor vrujo & Noches en los jardines de Espana Carlos Bonell (guitar), Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, London Philharmonic, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "Carlos Bonell plays the cadenza of the Adagio of the Concierto de Aranjuez most sensitively, and the weight of the orchestral contribution is judged to a nicety throughout." (Gramophone) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
From Darkness To Light Catherine Hewgill (cello) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 'Decca's peerless production values make this both a fine tribute to the veteran pianist and a superb debut disc for Hewgill' Daily Telegraph |
CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini recital Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Charles Spencer (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Some of the music is intensely attractive. There is the touching and reflective early Belta crudele and a song Rossini wrote in 1844 at the height of his illnesses and depressions, L'ame delaissee...decent sound and reliable accompaniments-Gramophone |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / etc
Children's Classics [incls 'Peter & the Wolf' & 'Carnival of the Animals'] Beatrice Lillie (narrator), Kenneth McKellar, Julius Katchen (piano). Gary Graffman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Skitch Henderson [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Feb/2000 ] "it will appeal to children of all ages... a collector's item" (Penguin Guide) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / etc
Discovering Mendelssohn Christian Li (violin) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, with James Baillieu (piano), Xuefei Yang (guitar) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] A new album from Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li. Having topped the Australian Classical Charts with his debut album in 2021 (with which he became the youngest artist ever to record Vivaldi's Four Seasons) the award-winning musician... |
REINHOLD GLIERE / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glière / Glazunov: Concertos Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Richard Bonynge (piano), Osian Ellis (harp), Josef Sivo (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse [ Decca Enterprise / CD - released 13/Aug/1990 ] Original recordings made in 1968 and 1971 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / LOUISE FARRENC / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
French Cello Sonatas David Berlin (cello) Benjamin Martin (piano) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] In the masterful hands of David Berlin, Principal Cellist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, partnered by internationally acclaimed pianist Benjamin Martin, the cello reveals its sublime range of colours and timbres. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Chamber Works & Rarities (Includes 'Dumbarton Oaks' & the 'Concerto for Two Pianos') Dmitri Ashkenazy (clarinet) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / Charles Dutoit / Riccardo Chailly / Ernest Ansermet [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "In every respect this collection cannot be recommended too highly." - Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
BERGMAN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / STRAUSS / MOZART /etc
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings Eileen Joyce (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2017 ] 'In every way the most transcendentally gifted young piano student I have heard in the last 25 years' was Percy Grainger's pronouncement of the young EILEEN JOYCE (1908-1991) when he first heard her play in 1926. From the goldfields in Western... |
HUGO WOLF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wolf: 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Eduard Morike (with lieder by Loewe, Grieg & Brahms) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] In memory of an outstanding soprano, the legendary German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf passed away on August 3rd 2006 (born December 9th 1915), this is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's last recording - on CD for the first time in over 20 years. |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Light & Gold Grace Davidson (sop) Stephen Kennedy (bar), Christopher Glynn (piano), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, King's Singers, Pavao Quartet, Eric Whitacre [ Decca Universal / CD - released 26/Oct/2010 ] "Their collective intonation is stunning, and they sing with conviction and enjoyment...Simply glorious!" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine Dec 2010 |
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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Orchestral Works Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, with Salvatore Accardo (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello) & Mischa Dichter (piano) [ Philips Decca Australian Eloquence Original Jackets Collection / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2019 ] Kurt Masur's burnished readings of Brahms's orchestral music with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig are issued for the first time as a Limited Edition box with Original Jackets. |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Works [5 CD set] Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) [ ASV Decca Australian Eloquence / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2019 ] 'For those who wish to savour Scriabin's often bewildering changeability without having their emotions torn to shreds, Fergus-Thompson is uniquely spellbinding in this repertoire.' International Piano |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Music for Solo Piano Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) [ ASV Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] 'Fergus-Thompson confirms his calibre and status as a distinguished, most individual Francophile …Even the most experienced Ravelians will find themselves returning to these finely recorded accounts for a special and magical enlightenment' Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL
Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin Liszt Ravel (Recital) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Jan/2012 ] "evidence of an awesome talent, a pianist with fantastic natural reflexes in the Cziffra class and, more excitingly, a musician with purpose and imagination, whose playing transcends the sterile confines of the studio" Gramophone Award WINNER 2012:... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Verdi: The Four Seasons I Musici, with Francesco Buccarella (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] A brand new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Italian ensemble I Musici, the ensemble who made the first ever stereo recording. Released to mark the 70th anniversary of their debut concert in Rome in March 1952. |
