|
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 |
|
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Classical 2008 (2 CD) Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, Luciano Pavarotti, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Alison Balsom, Karl Jenkins, Julian Lloyd Webber, etc [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Nov/2007 ] Featuring classical superstars such as the million-selling group, Il Divo, performing You Raise Me Up; global superstar Sarah Brightman with her signature tune, Time to Say Goodbye; classical superstar Luciano Pavarotti, and many others. |
|
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch/Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Nigel Kennedy (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate [ EMI / CD - released 20/Feb/1988 ] "Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result is a generous issue which on every front can be warmly recommended for exceptionally strong and positive performances" |
|
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 |
|
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. |
|
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... |
|
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 |
|
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... |
|
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". |
|
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Great Orchestral Works (Incls Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 & Harold en Italie, Op. 16) Nobuko Imai (viola) / John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "(Harold is) a fine performance, as is that of the Symphonie funebre et triomphale. The two overtures make up a full pair of discs in a highly recommendable package." (Gramophone) |
|
TORU TAKEMITSU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Takemitsu: Viola Concerto / November Steps / Eclipse Nobuko Imai (viola) Katsuya Yokoyama (shakuhachi) KInshi Tsuruta (biwa) / Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Philips / CD - released 19/Sep/1992 ] "the musical texture of Takemitsu's Viola Concerto ("A String Around Autumn") is considerably more active than that of the other two works, but still suggests the static perfection of a Japanese landscape. Great sound." ClassicsToday |
|
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) |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
CHRISTIAN SINDING
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sinding: Symphony No 1 & 2 Norwegian Radio orchestra, Ari Rasilainen [ Finlandia Apex / CD - released 14/Nov/2002 ] Sinding studied music first in Christiania (now Oslo) before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn and fell under the musical influences of Wagner and Liszt. |
|
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. |
|
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 ] |
|
SIR JOHN BLACKWOOD McEWEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: McEwen: Violin Sonatas & Prince Charlie Rhapsody Olivier Charlier (violin) Geoffrey Tozer (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] 'This attractive program, easy on the ear, will please all British music lovers.' The Delian (Delius Society) |
|
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. |