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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Violin Concerto Nigel Kennedy (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ EMI / CD - released 1/Apr/1984 ] Rosette (Highest Award) - Penguin Stereo Guide |
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CHOPIN / HAYDN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Nikita Magaloff Nikita Magaloff (piano) [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 67 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Nikita Magaloff was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland. His musical interest first stimulated by family friend Serge Prokofiev. |
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CHOPIN / MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / LISZT / GLINKA / SCRIABIN
Nikita Magaloff - Piano recital Nikita Magaloff (piano) [ Ermitage / CD - released 22/Sep/1987 ] "Magaloff's approach is freshly affectionate, the rubato always flexible, never too insistent. He is often intimate, yet can show off (without overdoing it) in the Grande valse brihlante. Often the description most suited to this playing is... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: The Four Ballades & Piano Sonata No 3 Nikolai Demidenko (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2003 ] 'Lovely playing which I enjoyed from first note to last for its poetry and passion as well as seemingly effortless keyboard fluency and command' - Gramophone |
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JANACEK / PROKOFIEV / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN
Nikolai Lugansky In Recital (recorded live at the Verbier Festival on 28th July 2008) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Euroarts / Ideale Audience International DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "The articulation…is breathtaking: such clarity for the turns of Prokofiev's 'Masks', such speed so well caught by the camerawork on fingers and blue-tinged keys in Liszt's 'Feux follets', such strength in the cascades of No. 10 and the glitter of... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Great Wagner Singers [6 CD set] Hans Hotter, Gwyneth Jones, Sieglinde Wagner, Gundula Janowitz, Lauritz Melchior, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Astrid Varnay, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2013 ] "They don't make Wagner singers like that anymore" - "There has never since been a Heldentenor to match Lauritz Melchior". |
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CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Norma Burrowes, Louis Devos, John Shirley-Quirk / Brighton Festival Chorus, Southend Boy's Choir, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Carmina Burana is one of those pieces that almost always goes well. In fact, you have to work at giving a bad performance. Dorati's reading is one that makes a good case for Orff's masterpiece, even if it doesn't aspire to the heights of Eugen... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Benjamin Britten - The Rarities Norma Proctor, Owen Brannigan, Heinz Holliger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andres Schiff, Benjamin Britten, etc [ Decca British Music Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] "The skill and imaginative power with which Britten has used these forces defy adequate description. There are inevitably rough edges in the singing and playing, but the spirit is there in abundance." (Gramophone) |
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ERICH KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 [Incls 'Sinfonietta Op.5'] 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 |
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ERICH KORNGOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 [Incls 'Straussiana'] 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 |
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EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: The Complete Music for String Orchestra Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tonnesen/ [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/1986 ] (UK Radio 3) Building a Library March 2006, First Choice |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Lieder / Scnes from Goethe's Faust Olaf Bar, Dame Janet Baker, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Juliane Banse, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hampson, etc [ EMI Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Celebrating Robert Schumann's 200th Anniversary with four CD sets from EMI's catalogue performed by many of the world's leading artists, orchestras and conductors. |
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FRANZ LISZT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Liszt, Schumann: Sonate h-moll, Sonata B minor, Sonate si mineur, Carnaval Oleg Maisenberg (piano) [ Orfeo / LP - released 1/Aug/2015 ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 1994) Opera Australia & Ballet / Yvonne Kenny, Graham Pushee, Rosemary Gunn, Elizabeth Campbell / Richard Hickox (cond) [ EuroArts Opera Australia DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] A daringly inventive rendition of Handel's operatic masterpiece 'Giulio Cesare', performed live at the Sydney Opera House in 1994 by the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox, and starring Yvonne Kenny and Graham Pushee. |
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REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (complete operas recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Opera de Toulon / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Intended to set the spice of Parisian operetta against American musical comedy, 'Ciboulette' was Reynaldo Hahn's first light score. It features the tribulations of the pretty market gardener Ciboulette, determined to earn herself a bright future with |
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ALMA DEUTSCHER
Deutscher: Cinderella (complete recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera San Jose / Vanessa Becerra, Jonas Hacker, Nathan Stark, Karin Mushegain / Jane Glover (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 18/Dec/2018 ] "As a dramatic construct, the opera's a marvel for one so young...Deutscher starts with two gifts on her side: natural talent (I'll avoid the word genius) and sincerity. Cinderella may be pastiche, but at the same time nothing is fake." BBC Music |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande Op 5 (with Wagner - Siegfried Idyll) Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Dec/2000 ] Two outstanding works of the late-Romantic repertoire |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 "Paris" & 35 ""Haffner" Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen [ Philips / CD - released 15/Mar/1987 ] "vigour or rugged intensity that has always characterised their performances." (Guardian) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Symphonies Nos 5, 8 (Completed by Brian Newbould) / Rosamunde: Incidental Music Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Virgin Classics Veritas / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] "Recommended listening - you do not need to be a period performance devotee to enjoy it." (MusicWeb Sept 2000) |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty Op 66 (complete ballet) The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Ermler [ Conifer / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1990 ] "The orchestra respond idiomatically to Tchaikovsky dance music and with obvious familiarity and love. Ermler has a natural feeling for springing rhythms and moulding rubato persuasively." (Gramophone) |