Search Results: collectable marbecks
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VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Kaye Ballard, Ann Hampton Calloway, Tammy Grimes, Mary Cleere Haran, Dorothy Loudon, Sula, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
JEROME KERN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Kaye Ballard, David Allen, Rod McKuen, Cy Young, Bobby Short, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Back in 1955 and 1957, Bagley, who was in his early 20's, dazzled critics with two brilliant Shoestring Revues produced Off-Broadway. Reviewers were mesmerized by the young man's uncanny ability to discover bright new talent. |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited Vol. V - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Ann Hampton Calloway, Arthur Siegel, Sandy Stewart, Tommy Tune, Julie Wilson, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1990 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Porter: Nymph Errant Kaye Ballard, Emile Belcourt, Lorna Dallas / World Premiere Complete Drury Lane Recording [ EMI / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Nymph Errant is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Romney Brent based upon the novel by James Laver. The somewhat controversial story concerned a young English lady intent upon losing her virginity. Porter considered the score... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / MARIO CASTELNUOVO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini/Castelnuovo Tedesco - Guitar Quintets Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Mar/1991 ] Recommended Recording - ClassicalNet "Ravishing playing by a born Boccherinian" (Classical-Music.com) *** Penguin Guide recording |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / LUIGI BOCCHERINI / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Castelnuovo-Tedesco/Boccherini: Guitar Quintets: Piano Trios Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1995 ] "A rich yet un-glitzy recording helps this intensely felt yet refined performance, and altogether the artists offer a memorable musical experience." Gramophone |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) / Chants pour choeur / Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale Kenneth Riegel (tenor) / Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus, Lorin Maazel / Choeur et l'orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Double Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1996 ] With comprehensive booklet and translation |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Porter: Anything Goes Kim Criswell, Cris Groenendaal, Frederica von Stade, Jack Gilford / Ambrosian Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/1989 ] Of all the great American song-writers of the time Cole Porter was, perhaps, the most sophisticated and 'European'. In 1917 Porter moved to Paris where he kept a luxury apartment and where he gave parties for his large group of friends of varying... |
BOB CHILCOTT / ARVO PART / JAMES MacMILLAN / THOMAS ADES / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: On Christmas Day: New Carols From King's The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Directed by Stephen Cleobury [ EMIi Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Nov/2005 ] "…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings" BBC Music Five Stars |
ANDREA & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Glory of Venice King's College Choir, Cambridge, Stepen Cleobury / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Philip Jones [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] With Charles Brett (countertenor), Ian Caddy (bass), Thomas Elias (treble), Richard Farnes (organ), Peter Hall (tenor), William Kendall (tenor), Stephen Layton (organ), John Scott (organ) |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Essential Purcell The King's Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Raised amidst the veritable explosion of culture that greeted the Restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, Henry Purcell stands as a colossus in English music. |
PUCCINI / CILEA / STRAUSS / BERLIN / PORTER / TRADITIONAL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri Te Kanawa: The Very Best Of Kiri te Kanawa Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Emi Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2012 ] The glamorous soprano Kiri Te Kanawa was born in 1944 in Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. After winning a number of major vocal competitions in Australia, she came to London in 1966 to study singing at the London Opera... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 1985) Royal Opera Covent Garden / Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Howells, Aage Haugland, Barbara Bonney / Georg Solti (cond) [ Kultur DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] This opulent production by director John Schlesinger, filmed in 1985, marked the 25th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti's spectacular debut at Covent Garden, conducting this very opera. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Don Giovanni... The definitive film edition of Mozart's classic opera! (filmed in 1979 and now remastered & restored) Kiri te Kanawa, Edda Moser, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Ruggero Raimondi, Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ Second Sight /Gammont DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Filmed on location in picturesque Vincenza, Italy, the operatic masterpiece Don Giovanni is beautifully translated to film by director Joseph Losey. Now restored and remastered. |
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 |
CHARLES GOUNOD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gounod: Faust (complete opera with full libretto recorded in 1986) Kiri te Kanawa, Francisco Araiza, Evgeny Nesterenko, Andreas Schmidt / Symphonie-Orchester & Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Aug/2014 ] "Let me say at the outset that this is the most satisfying performance of Gounod's favourite opera yet to appear in the LP/CD era...In the lyrical music Araiza manages a real pianissimo not found in his rival's assumptions." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Opera Arias (Zaide, La Clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Zauberflote, Idomeneo, etc) Kiri te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis [ Philips / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] "Kiri te Kanawa's is one of the loveliest collections of Mozart arias on record, with the voice at its most ravishing." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
BACH / HANDEL / PURCELL / PAISIELLO / GIORDANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Let The Bright Seraphim Kiri te Kanawa, Luica Popp, Marjana Lipuvsek, Robert Holl, Roberta Alexander, Olaf Bar, Jose Carreras, Janet Baker, Elly Ameling, etc [ Philips Golden Baroque / CD - released 25/Jan/1996 ] Jesu joy of man's desiring, Bist du bei mir, When I am Laid in Earth, The Trumpet Tune, Let the Bright Seraphim, and more |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera with libretto) Kiri te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Thomas Hampson / Vienna Philharmonic,James Levine [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1990 ] "Te Kanawa is in fine voice, a little looser and more mature-sounding than in her two previous assumptions of Fiordiligi but her soprano is bigger and her characterisation more assertive than before, making more of the text." MusicWeb |
MOZART / HANDEL / HAYDN / VERDI / FAURE / ROSSINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sacred Arias Kiri te Kanawa, Richard Lewis, Joan Sutherland, Elsie Morison, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Popp, etc [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/1987 ] Original EMI recordings from 1959 to 1982 |
