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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) |
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) |
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) |
GABRIEL FAURE / ERNEST CHAUSSON / PAUL DUKAS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande / Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice / Chausson: Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2002 ] The best-loved French classics performed by the famous Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
BIZET / FAURE / MOZART / FALLA / STRAVINSKY / SCRIABIN / WOLF / DENISOV / etc
Barenboim conducts Orchestre de Paris: Complete EMI Classics & Erato Recordings Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim, with Kathleen Battle, Waltraud Meier, Ann Murray, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Itzhak Perlman & others [ Warner Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Daniel Barenboim served as the Chief Conductor of the Orchestre de Paris from 1975 to 1989, following Charles Munch, Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti, starting the role at the age of 33. His tenure was marked by a strong commitment to both the... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring / Firebird (LP) Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä [ Decca / 2 LP - released 5/May/2023 ] Klaus Mäkelä brings the Orchestre de Paris to Decca Classics for a major new album of Stravinsky's most iconic ballet scores. The album represents Mäkelä's first recording with his French orchestra, which will be followed by a further Ballet Russes... |
ALBERIC MAGNARD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Magnard: Symphony No. 4, Op. 21 / Chant Funebre Op. 9 Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/1983 ] Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as a "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: La Mer / Prélude À L'après-Midi D'un Faune / Nocturnes / Printemps Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson, with Francois Laurent (flute) [ EMI Classics Encore / CD - released 1/May/1989 ] "Duchâble's recordings are considered a "splendid collaboration" with the conductor." Gramophone |
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GUILLAUME LEKEU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lekeu: Orchestral Works [Æuvres Orchestrales] Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege, Pierre Bartholomee [ Ricercar / CD - released 14/Aug/2015 ] Admirer of Beethoven and Wagner, disciple of Franck, and protégé of Ysaÿe, Lekeu had, in his last compositions, opened a new way that was neither French nor Germanic. |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin Suite / String Quartet No 3 - Moderato allegro) (Rec 1989-1991) ORF Symphony Orchestra, Milan Horvat / Zagreb String Quartet [ United Audio International / CD - released 16/Aug/1998 ] Bartók is a "national" composer insofar that he collected authentic folk music by going into the deepest provinces of the country with his phonograph, recording folk songs and dances, and preserving them for eternity. This music he incorporated into... |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Enigma Variations / Organ Sonata Organ of The Temple Church, London / Keith John (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'a technically brilliant performance that employs the instrument's full range of colours and sonorities' (BBC Music Magazine) |
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM
Ockeghem - Missa De plus en plus / Chansons Orlando Consort [ Archiv / CD - released 12/Oct/1997 ] "This is a beautifully and sensitively performed disc." (Classic CD) |
ANONYMOUS / DOMINIQUE PHINOT / ANTOINE BRUMEL / JOHANNES LUPI / WALTER FRYE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry The Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Feb/2006 ] ""…this gorgeous package is like a CD-sized hardback book, full of beautiful medieval paintings and photographs of surviving gardens. …performances are of the high standard expected from the Orlando Consort." BBC Music Five Stars |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Serenade in E flat K.375 / Serenade in C minor K.388 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Dec/1992 ] "They are played so stylishly and with so much refinement and variety that one never becomes satiated with wind tone, as can happen with more ordinary performances" (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (sung in German) Oskar Czerwenka (Don Pasquale), Edita Gruberova (Norina), Luigi Alva (Ernesto), Hans Helm (Malatesta) Wiener Staatsoper, Héctor Urbón [ Naxos / DVD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Donizetti's Don Pasquale represents the high point of the Italian buffa tradition, a sparkling comedy using characters from commedia dellarte in ways that are entertaining, witty and playful. It was the work selected by the Vienna State Opera for its... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5, Op 64 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "taut, passionate and very well played… a slice of recording history in its own right.' Gramophone |
CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.2 (Nos.1 & 2) Oslo String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Oct/2002 ] "Contains powerful, original, and invigorating musical thought..With fine sound and reliable notes, the Naxos discs are a wonderful bargain... " Fanfare |
EDMUND RUBBRA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubbra: Violin Sonatas Krysia Osotowicz (violin) Michael Dussek (piano) [ Dutton / CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] "An invaluable and enormously rewarding release, in sum, enthusiastically recommended...Osostowicz and Dussek form an outstandingly sympathetic partnership." The Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2000 |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Der Freischutz (complete opera with libretto) Hermann Prey, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa Otto, Rudolf Schock / Berlin Philharmonic, Joseph Keilberth [ EMI Studio / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1989 ] "All soloists in this effort shine like the stars. Particularly the lovely (as always) Elisabeth Grummer...my God this lady was wonderful, and is, I am sure, greatly missed by all the great German opera houses today." (review) |
RICHARD ARNELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnell: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 2 "Fufus" David Owen Norris (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 19/Feb/2007 ] "... Yates draws superb playing from the RSNO ... and all in all this is a very welcome release. Music of this quality manifestly does not deserve the long-time neglect which has befallen it." International Record Review, May 2007 |
