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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / ANTONIN DVORAK
Beethoven/Bartok/Dvorak: String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] The Grammy Award-winning Juilliard String Quartet celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding with a new recording from the heart of the quartet repertoire, featuring works by Beethoven, Bartók and Dvořák. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Ravel/Dutilleaux: String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 3/Jul/2009 ] "All three works are superbly performed, and while the Dutilleux is difficult (but very good) music, most recordings of the Debussy and Ravel offer no coupling at all." --David Hurwitz |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden' / String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 Juilliard String Quartet [ CBS Odyssey / CD - released 1/Nov/1983 ] Recorded 1979, 1978. |
DVORAK / BARBER / SCHOENBERG / SCHUMANN / COPLAND / FRANCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Juilliard Quartet - 50 years Juilliard String Quartet, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonard Berstein & Jorge Bolet (piano), Harold Wright (clarinet) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Jun/1996 ] When William Schuman founded a string quartet at New York's Juilliard School in 1946, he envisaged an ensemble not only to teach the elite New York conservatory's students but also, in its own public performances, to "play the standard repertoire... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Overture, Scherzo and Finale Julia Faulkner, Heidi Grant, Florence Quivar, Elisabeth Wilke, Keith Lewis, Robert Swensen / Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Mar/2013 ] "I found very much to enjoy from the mellifluous Keith Lewis, a tellingly expressive yet never over-operatic tenor narrator. And the lyrical warmth of Robert Hale as the penitent sinner (and the baritone soloist in ''Jetzt sank des Abends goldner... |
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) |
FREDERICK DELIUS / EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius & Grieg: Music for Cello and Piano Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Philips / CD - released 1/May/1996 ] 'Though a very high proportion of the music here is reflective, the meditative intensity of the playing sustains it well. The booklet contains a delightful photo of Delius with Grieg and his wife as well as Halvorsen and Sinding, all playing cards.'... |
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. |
HANDEL / J. C. SMITH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Ouverture in C major, HWV456 / Smith: Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Op. 3 Julian Perkins (harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "The exuberantly stylish Julian Perkins is just the man for the job and tellingly collides the work of master and servant with a Handel keyboard transcription at the start." (Sunday Times) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Songs of Robert Schumann:Vol 3 Juliane Banse (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD ] "The care that has gone into the literary and musicological side of the project is perfectly matched by the musical results. Banse proves to be a wonderfully perceptive interpreter. In every respect this is a wonderful Lieder disc" The Guardian |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 [Incls 'Cello Concerto'] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10605/10605818.jpg)
ERICH KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 [Incls 'Cello Concerto'] Julius Berger (cello) / North West German Philharmonic Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert [ CPO / CD - released 4/Dec/1991 ] "If sweet tunes and sumptuous orchestration constituted all the necessary for a great composer, Korngold would count as one of the greatest. Furthermore, a vein of genuine, individual poetry runs through just about everything he wrote." ClassicalNet |
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. |
TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / DOHNANYI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: :Piano Concerto No. 1 i / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / etc Julius Katchen (piano) [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen Vol 5 / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2000 ] "Katchen's awesome fingerwork cuts through the Rachmaninov Concerto's notey labyrinths like Drano tearing through a clogged sink. Solti's scorching, whiplash accompaniment has a galvanizing effect on the L.S.O., who play their collective tuchus off." |
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... |
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... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 6 Julliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jun/1996 ] The Juilliard String Quartet was founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman and Robert Mann. Since its inception, it has been the quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School. It has received numerous awards, including... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphony No. 7 'Unfinished' / Franz Schuberts Begräbniß-Feyer / Roland Moser: Echoraum Kammerorchester Basel, Heinz Holliger [ Sony Classical / CD - released 23/Jul/2021 ] This is an entirely unorthodox Schubert release that will hold the listeners attention from beginning to end. |
MAHLER / PACHELBEL / BRAHMS / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / GRIEG / MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adagio / Karajan Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Deutsche Grammophon's vaults are full of exceptional recordings of classical orchestral music, and the performances by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic are prominent in the label's catalog. |
NICOLA PORPORA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Karina Gauvin - Porpora Arias Karina Gauvin (soprano) / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis (conductor) [ Atma / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "Historians and musicians have assumed than Porpora was an also-ran...There is no reason why we cannot appreciate and enjoy Porpora's music on its own terms - not least when the singer is the marvellous Karina Gauvin." Gramophone |
SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / SIBELIUS / SCHUBERT / J. STRAUSS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Excellence: The Artistry of Karita Mattila Karita Mattila (soprano) with Ilmo Ranta (piano) / Turku Philharmonic Orchestra / Finnish Radio Symphony [ Ondine / CD - released 29/Jan/2005 ] "Mattila's singing is spectacular" - Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com |
