JULE STYNE
Styne: Bar Mitzvah Boy (1978) Joyce Blair & Harry Towb / Original London Cast Recording [ Sony West End / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Bar Mitzvah Boy is a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne. Based on Rosenthal's award-winning 1976 BBC1 teleplay of the same name, it focuses on young Eliot Green who, filled with apprehension,... |
MOZART / SCHUMANN / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne (piano) with Juilliard Orchestra, Members of the National Orchestra Assiociation [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 64 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "These discs celebrate both an incomparable partnership and two Moscow Gold Medallists who achieved a legendary status in their separate careers." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Santo - Sacred Songs Juan Diego Florez (tenor) & Nicoletta Mezzini (organ & harpsichord) / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 28/Oct/2010 ] "Good for Juan Diego Florez for this release! I'm second to none in my love for the bel cantists, but it's good to hear a "pigeon-holed" tenor in repertoire that is somewhat different. The engineering is superb and the accompaniments are excellent." |
GLUCK / VERDI / ROSSINI / CIMAROSA / HALEVY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Juan Diego Florez - Great Tenor Arias Juan Diego Florez (tenor) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Carlo Rizzi [ Decca Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] "Another congenial programme for the formidably gifted Peruvian tenore di grazia. He's finely supported by secure and stylistically credible accompaniemnets, and by Decca's bright and forward sound." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Flute Concertos Op 10 Judith Hall (flute) / Divertiment of London, Paul Barritt / Scottish Chamber Orchestra [ Regis / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] "freshly and brightly recorded and (Judith Hall) plays with great virtuosity and fine taste. The Divertimenti of London is a modern-instrument group and players are both sensitive and alert... very competitive" (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Early Cantatas Judith Howarth, Janice Watson (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jose Van Dam (bass) / Corydon Singers & Orchestra [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Aug/1997 ] 'Arguably Beethoven's first major masterpiece … superb performance, at once fresh and incisive and deeply moving' - PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
LUKAS FOSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foss: Complete Vocal Chamber Music Judith Kellock (soprano) Lukas Foss (piano, narrator, conductor) / Cornell Contemporary Singers [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1997 ] Foss was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1953, replacing Arnold Schoenberg. While there he founded the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, which made its Boston debut in 1962 for the Peabody Mason Concert series. He founded the Center of the... |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies Nos 4 "Requiem" / Suite from "Merry Mount" / etc Judith Mendenhall (flute) Randall Ellis (oboe) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Gerard Schwarz [ DELOS / CD - released 11/Oct/1991 ] Composer, teacher, and one of the most influential musical figures in the United States between the world wars, Howard Hanson studied in New York with conservative composer Percy Goetschius and at Northwestern University, outside Chicago. |
RICHARD RODGERS / LORENZ HART
Rodgers: Babes In Arms Judy Blazer & Gregg Edelman / 1989 Cast Recording [ New World Records / CD - released 5/Oct/1990 ] Babes in Arms is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm. |
JEROME KERN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kern: Sitting Pretty Judy Blazer, Roberta Peters & Paige O'Hara / Princess Theatre Ensemble, John Mcglinn [ New World Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Sitting Pretty was the sixth and last collaboration of Jerome Kern, P. G. Wodehouse, and Guy Bolton. This delicious score, bubbling over with melancholy and longing, is one of the most important of Kern's pre-Showboat creations. |
BERNSTEIN / STYNE / RODGERS / STROUSE / LOEWE / SONDHEIM / et
Broadway Magic: 1960s Original Cast Compilation Judy Holliday, Barbara Cook, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger / Original Broadway Casts [ Columbia / Sony / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] A selection of the very best of Broadway featuring recordings from the original cast albums. Featured shows include 'Hallelujah, Baby!', 'George M!', 'Do I Hear a Waltz?', 'Anyone Can Whistle', 'Camelot' and 'The Sound of Music' |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; Massenet: Werther (Complete opera) Julia Gertseva (mezzo) Andrea Bocelli (tenor) / Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conducted by Yves Abel [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2005 ] A studio recording of the complete opera Werther by Jules Massenet, conducted by Yves Abel. Andrea Bocelli sings the title role of Werther - which he has sung on stage several times to great critical acclaim (including his USA stage debut).... |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Carmen (complete opera with full libretto) Julia Migenes Johnson, Placido Domingo, Ruggiero Raimondi, Faith Esham / National Orchestra of France, Lorin Maazel [ Erato / CD - released 1/May/1984 ] "Carmen is sung here by Julia Migenes Johnson. Her Habanera is wonderfully shapely and sexy, in a quite light flirty manner. In Act 4 she and Placido Domingo (as Don José) give us a wonderfully dramatic climax to the opera." (MusicWeb) |
J. S. BACH / SANZ / SOR / VISEE / WEISS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Julian Bream - Baroque Guitar Julian Bream (guitar) [ Rca Red Seal / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Julian Alexander Bream CBE (15 July 1933 - 14 August 2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public... |
DOWLAND / TARREGA / VILLA-LOBOS / BACH / RODRIGO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Julian Bream: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 2 Julian Bream (guitar/lute) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 25/Jan/0200 ] "Bream is a genius and the playing is just superb" Review |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Very Best of Julian Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) [ Music Club / CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] The recordings on this compilation date mainly from 1981 when Julian was using his much loved 1791 Joseph Guadagnini cello to interpret music that was often tantalisingly out of the mainstream, exciting, Challenging, but always richly melodic and... |
DELIUS / VILLA-LOBOS / BACH / SCHUMANN / GRIEG / BRAHMS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cello Song Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 1/May/2018 ] A classic recording - Limited availability |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pieces Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth [ Philips / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Julian Lloyd Webber made his professional debut as a cellist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Mass in B minor Julianne Baird, Judith Nelson, Jeffrey Dooley, Jan Opalach / The Bach Ensemble (original instruments), Joshua Rifkin [ Nonesuch Ultima / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/1982 ] Composed in spurts of productivity over the last 20 years of Bach's life, the Mass in B Minor was not completed until just before the composer's death, making it one of his last great works. It is performed here on original period instruments by the... |
HENRY MANCINI
Mancini: Victor/Victoria Julie Andrews & Tony Roberts / Original 1995 Broadway Cast Recording [ Philips / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material (music and lyrics) by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name. |