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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 9 "Kreutzer" & 10 Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Feb/1994 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op.12 Nos 1 - 3 Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Feb/1994 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Works (Incls Piano Sonata in B minor) Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Pascal Rogé (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2018 ] Two pupils of the great Julius Katchen are featured in the piano music of Liszt on this 2CD set. Pascal Rogé was eighteen years old when he recorded the Liszt Piano Sonata, Mazeppa, Vallée d'Obermann and the third Liebestraum in London in 1969. |
ERIC SATIE
Satie: The magic of Satie's piano music Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Sep/2002 ] The disc also includes several previously unrecorded works |
OLIVER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Turangalila-symphonie Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) / Takashi Harada (ondes martenot) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca 20C / CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "Chailly gets jiggy with it, in a performance that's interested in the carnal desire underpinning Messiaen's piece. It may be over the top for some tastes, but the orchestral playing is unbelievably powerful and hardcore. Vividly recorded, too."... |
ANONYMOUS / TRADITIONAL / ARNE / HOWELLS / QUILTER / etc
Songs of England Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Ernest Lush (piano) / Norma Procter (contralto), Alec Redshaw (piano) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] In the August 1953 issue of Opera magazine, the editor looked back on outstanding vocal achievements in the preceding season of opera. Drawing largely from stagings in London, he could pick out Maria Callas as Norma, Kathleen Ferrier as Orpheus and... |
OFFENBACH / MEYERBEER / MASSENET / CHARPENTIER / GOUNOD / etc
Joan Sutherland - Romantic French Arias Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor/piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] One of Dame Joan Sutherland's own favourite recordings, long unavailable on its own, reissued with additional material recorded at the Geneva sessions, with rarely seen photographs and a new booklet introduction. |
ROSSINI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / MASSENET
Serate Musicali (songs, melodies & lieder) Joan Sutherland (soprano) with Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] An evening of song recorded in the music room of Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge's home in Switzerland in 1978 |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Piano Works Jorg Bolet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 15/May/2004 ] "Bolet's splendidly sonorous account of the Rhapsody makes it sound as it must have done when it was new-challenging, even daring." Gramophone |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Liebesträume & other works Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "Bolet's Liszt is renowned for its aristocratic refinement: rather than youthful flashy fingers, we get masterful lyrical poise. The Cuban-American's Die Forelle remains unchanging." (BBC Music) |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jorge Bolet II Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "Jorge Bolet's noble, somewhat restrained Liszt playing evokes a sound-world far removed from the pyrotechnicians who barnstorm their way through the etudes or opera transcriptions. Tempos, for instance, are never faster than Liszt's eloquent... |
CESAR FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck: Piano Works Jorge Bolet (piano, klavier), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Apr/1989 ] French music has often lacked admirers because it lacks superficially endearing qualities. The moral or uplifting nature of much of Beethoven or its opposite, the neurasthenic appeal of Tchaikovsky, are alien to the simpler Gallic virtues of logic, c |
W. A. MOZART / FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Clifford Curzon Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz [ Decca / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "When you hear Mozart playing like this, you realize how superficial most other performances are." Gramophone |
NAZARETH / SCOTT / LAMB
Rags & Tangos Joshua Rifkin (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] Joshua Rifkin is a musical polymath - a Bach scholar and a Ragtime specialist. His performances of Ragtime are gentle and inviting and in this wonderful recording of Rags and Tangos (made in 1990 for Decca) he treats us to a Scott Joplin-free... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLELCTABLE: Brahms Masterworks - Handel Variations / Paganini Variations / 6 piano pieces / etc Julius Katchen (piano) [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/1997 ] Julius Katchen, that colossus that bestrode the pianistic firmament for all too short a time, recorded the Brahms Handel and Paganini Variations three times, twice in mono and once in stereo. This CD set contains the stereo recordings from 1962 and 1965. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 23 "Appassionata" & 32 / Diabelli Variations, etc / Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 & 16 Julius Katchen (piano) [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2000 ] "His Beethoven Sonatas are commanding edifices but the towering achievement here is his 46-minute Diabelli Variations." MusicWebute... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat / Paganini Variations Op. 35 Julius Katchen (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Janos Ferencsik [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2006 ] 'Julius Katchen relishes their challenges like a meat-deprived lion jawboning a stack of raw, juicy steaks' ClassicsToday.com |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1, 2, 3, 5 & Rondo in B flat Julius Katchen (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2004 ] "The performances are fresh and commanding … Tempi are often on the fast side, but Katchen keeps a classical firmness and provides the necessary contrast in relaxed, poetic accounts of slow movements and sparkling readings of finales." Penguin Guide... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 / Choral Fantasy in C minor / Mozart-Piano Concertos, K415, 466 & 503, Piano Sonata K331) Julius Katchen (piano) / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Munchinger [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2004 ] "The pared-down sonority of Karl Münchinger's Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, together with Decca's close miking points up Mozart's ceaselessly inventive woodwind scoring." International Record Review |
PURCELL / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / GRANADOS / RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri in Recital Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/May/1990 ] "..it should immediately be added that the soprano's tone is fresh, her responsiveness to words keen, the pianist's touch very evidently guided by a refined, lively intelligence, and the programme a delight in the variety." Gramophone |
