Search Results: Marbecks Collectable
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HOAGY CARMICHAEL / FATS WALLER / JAY GORNEY / RALPH BLANE / DUKE ELLINGTON / BURTON LANE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Everyone Else Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Nell Carter, Arthur Siegel, Diane Carnevale, Dorothy Loudon, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1993 ] Just looking at the stellar list of composers and lyricists, Ben Bagley really did spread the wealth on Everyone Else Revisited. Filled with rarities and gems by not only some of the finest songwriters ever but many who are simply not known today. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nelson Freire: Brahms Nelson Freire (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Freire's sound has always been a thing of wonder: even at full volume and full tilt there's no hint of percussiveness in his tone...Highlights are many" Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Edition |
MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO / VERDI / PONCHELLI / CILEA / PUCCINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Placido Domingo: Nessun Dorma Placido Domingo (tenor) / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Nello Santi [ Teldec / CD - released 19/Apr/1991 ] This selection of opera arias was originally released in 1991 |
FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: Sacred & Secular Music Netherlands Chamber Choir [ Globe / 2 CD - released 1/May/2012 ] " I would be extremely happy if these were the only recordings I had of these marvelous Poulenc works such is their quality" MusicWeb International |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anything Goes New Broadway Cast Recording, with Patti LuPone & Howard McGlinn [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] One of the leaders in the trend of big splashy revivals in the late 1980s and early '90s, Lincoln Center's 1987 production of Anything Goes was the perfect evocation of the 1930s, from the period pit band to James McMullan's striking poster art to... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: String Quartet in E minor Op.59 / String Quartet in C Op.59t The New Budapest String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Apr/1993 ] 'This is a top recommendation for all these works' (Classic CD) 'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone) |
MATEO FLECHA the elder
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Flecha: Las Ensaladas New London Consort, Philip Pickett [ Decca L'Oiseau-Lyre / CD - released 1/Feb/1997 ] Mateo Flecha (Catalan: Mateu Fletxa; 1481-1553) was a Catalan composer born in Kingdom of Aragon, in the region of Prades. He is sometimes known as "El Viejo" (the elder) to distinguish him from his nephew, Mateo Flecha "El Joven" (the younger). |
JESSEL / LEHAR /PIERNE / J. STRAUSS / ALFVEN / GOUNOD / PADILLA / WEINBERGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: European Light Music Classics (Includes Parade of the Tin Soldiers, The Entry of the Boyars & The Skaters Waltz) New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Oct/2014 ] 'Another tasty compilation that will sell like hot cakes' (Classic CD) |
LEO DELIBES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delibes: Sylvia (complete ballet), with Massenet: 'Le Cid' ballet National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Apr/1989 ] Original recording: Kingsway Hall, London, June 1972 (Sylvia) & January 1975 |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bernstein: On the Town - Three Dance Episodes / "Fancy Free" Ballet / "On the Waterfront" Suite The New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (cond) [ Sony The Royal Edition / CD - released 20/May/1992 ] Original recordings from 1961 and 1964 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 / Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical Great Performances / CD - released 10/Apr/1985 ] Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to lead a major American symphony orchestra. He was music director of the New York Philharmonic and conducted the world's major orchestras, generating a legacy of audio and video recordings. (Wiki) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 / Finlandia New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta [ Teldec Basic Edition Vol. 80 / CD - released 28/May/2001 ] Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York in January 1990. |
JOHANN STAMITZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stamitz: Orchestral Trios Vol 1 New Zealand Chamber Orchestra / Donald Armstrong [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2002 ] "The playing is fleet, lively, expressive - altogether first-rate - and the recorded sound is fine. Most warmly recommended." - Fanfare - July/August 1996 |
MUSSORGSKY / BACH / STOKOWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stokowski Transcriptions New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1994 ] "To his and the NZSO's credit, James Sedares comes close to reanimating Stokowski, and if you don't quite see the white nimbus of hair or hear the suspicious Polish accent, the showman's spirit must have been present when these recordings were made.... |
MORTON GOULD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gould: Fall River Legend / Steven Foster Gallery / Of Time and the River New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. James Sedares, JoAnn Falletta / Greg Smith Singers, New York Choral Society [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1996 ] "Next to perhaps Aaron Copland, Morton Gould was THE voice of American music during his long and fruitful life...a fine reading from the New Zealand Symphony under James Sedares." Daily Press (Virginia) |
DANIEL ASIA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Asia: Piano Concerto / Gateways / Black Light New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares, with Andre-Michel Schub (piano) [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1996 ] "André-Michel Schub gives an expert performance of the Concerto. Sedares' expert conducting is clearly in sympathy with the music. The playing of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is excellent. Great recorded sound." ClassicalNet |
ALFRED NEWMAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wuthering Heights - A tribute to Alfred Newman New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares, with the New Zealand Youth Choir [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1994 ] Recorded at Symphony House, Wellington, New Zealand, April 1996 |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glinka: Ivan Susanin [A Life for the Tsar] (complete opera recorded in 1986) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10187/10187252.jpg)
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH GLINKA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glinka: Ivan Susanin [A Life for the Tsar] (complete opera recorded in 1986) Nicola Ghiuselev, Elena Stoyanova, Hristina Angelakova / Sofia National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Ivan Marinov [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Sep/2011 ] "In the title role we hear one of the foremost basses of the second half of the 20th century, Nicola Ghiuselev. ...he gives a rounded and deeply moving portrait of the folk hero Ivan Susanin." MusicWeb |
MASSENET / BERLIOZ / BIZET / ADAM / ROSSINI / MOZART / J. STRAUSS II / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Very Best Of Nicolai Gedda Nicolai Gedda (tenor) with Ernest Blanc (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), and Jan Eyron & Gerald Moore (piano) [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2013 ] "Hands down, Nicolai Gedda was the classiest lyric tenor of the 1950s and '60s (and very early '70s). These CDs offer two hours and 35 minutes of singing-and interpreting-that never tire the ear and never bore." ClassicsToday |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (highlights) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10593/10593824.jpg)
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (highlights) Nicolai Gedda, Beverly Sills, Ruggero Raimondi, Sherrill Milnes / London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine [ EMI Classics Red Line / CD - released 1/Jul/2000 ] Original recording from 1975 |
