Search Results: collectable marbecks
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PUCCINI / CILEA / MASSENET / CHARPENTIER / GOUNOD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Placido Domingo - Great Love Scenes Placido Domingo (tenor), with Renata Scotto, Kiri te Kanawa & Ileana Cotrubas [ CBS Masterworks / CD - released 1/Nov/1985 ] Domingo's first appearance in a leading tenor role was as Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1961, and he made his U.S. debut the same year as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / BIZET / BELLINI / ROSSINI / THOMAS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Opera Gala Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Ruth Ann Swenson / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Eugene Kohn [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/1996 ] 'An opera gala with a difference. Instead of cherry-picking the usual highlights, it gives us arias and duets in the context of complete scenes, which affords the added novelty of the stars taking on supporting roles they would never usually sing' |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos 1 & 5 / Suite for Voice & Violin / etc The Pleeth Cello Octet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'Stunning performances' (BBC Record Review) |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Szymanowski: Concert Overture / Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kasprzyk & Jerzy Semkow [ EMI Classics Matrix / CD - released 10/Jul/1994 ] "The Third Symphony Song of the Night...It is a passionate performance of an intense and beautiful work - the tenor, Wieslaw Ochman, is deeply convincing, and the orchestra and chorus are committed to a highly charged performance." MusicWeb |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chopin: 24 Preludes (recorded 1975) Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Feb/1980 ] It was in 1974 that Maurizio Pollini first inscribed the Chopin Preludes, and connoisseurs marveled at the pianistic felicities he had gleaned, both as the winner of the 1960 Chopin Competition (Warsaw) and as a result of his studies with Michelangli |
TRADITIONAL / ANONYOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Portrait of Anonymous 4 Anonymous 4 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/May/1997 ] "Whatever these four women sing, you're promised a sound as beautiful and pure and clear as the human voice can make..." CD Review |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Telarc / CD - released 27/May/2002 ] "For me, the dominant Rachmaninoff Second of the digital era was recorded by Telarc in 1985. André Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra outdid themselves on this disc; since then, no recording of this symphony has been so exciting, passionate,... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1962) Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei, Fernando Corena / Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "It remains one of the finest versions, with Leontyne Price at the peak of her form and Di Stefano singing most sensitively. But Karajan deserves equal credit with the principal singers, and the sound is first class." (Penguin Guide) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Symphony 7 / Sinfonietta Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] ..."the performances simply knock your socks off. The recorded sound is great, the Scottish National Orchestra plays like a world class band.. (a) marvelous, charming, sweeping Järvi Seventh" MusicWeb |
SERGE PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokoviev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in Glasgow City Hall, September 1988 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Late String Quartets Volume 2 Quartetto Italiano [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "...these performances still strike a finely judged balance between beauty and truth, and are ultimately more satisfying and searching than most of their rivals." Gramophone |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: The Last Four Quartets (Incls 'Death and the Maiden') Quartetto Italiano [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] "...these performances were widely considered the best available, and arguably maintain that standing today. They did, and still do, offer an ideal introduction to Schubert's music of this genre." MusicWeb |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat, Op.127 / String Quartet No.16 in F, Op. 135 Quartetto Italiano [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "...these performances still strike a finely judged balance between beauty and truth, and are ultimately more satisfying and searching than most of their rivals." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven For Booklovers Quartetto Italiano / Guarneri Quartet / David Oistrakh (violin) Lev Oborin (piano) [ Philips Lifestyle / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] Beethoven in an intimate, charming, gentle mood....perfect for curling up with your favourite book. |
ARTHUR BLISS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals / Music from Things to Come / Discourse for Orchestra Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] A cyclic morality play in one scene - Christ reborn, re-rexperiencing the events of his Passion - Miracle in the Gorbals, completed in 1944, was the second of Bliss's four ballets. |
ALFRED HILL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hill: Symphonies No. 3 "Australian" & No. 7 / etc Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Wilfred Lehmann [ Marco Polo / CD - released 11/Nov/1995 ] "Fine recording...Performances seem fluent and persuasive. Good notes. In sum, a disc of pleasant, atmospheric music that goes down smoothly and easily." Fanfare |
ALFRED HILL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hill: Symphonies No. 5 & No.10 / etc Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Wilfred Lehmann [ Marco Polo / CD - released 11/Nov/1999 ] The Australian composer, conductor and teacher Alfred Hill studied in Leipzig in the late 1880s, continuing, as a composer, the traditions in which he had been trained, writing music that suggests the work of a latter-day Australian Dvořák. His early... |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glazunov: Complete Concertos Rachel Barton Pine (violin) Alexander Romanovsky (piano) Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) Marc Chisson (saxophone) / Russian National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2011 ] "there's little doubt that both Serebrier and his soloists, supported by warmly idiomatic playing from the Russian National Orchestra and a beautifully clear recording, make a highly persuasive case for the reappraisal of these works." BBC Music |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano and violin [Volume 3] Rachel Podger (violin) / Gary Cooper (fortepiano) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "This a disc that celebrates a stimulating partnership...She and Cooper show that Mozart's piano and violin sonatas are nowhere near as well known as they should be." (Gramophone) |
LEONARDO LEO / LEOPOLD MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leo: Salve Regina / Mozart, (L.): Lauretanische Litanei Es-Dur Rachel Yakar, Siglinde Damisch, Chris Merritt, Walter Raninger / Kölner Kammerorchester, Salzburger Rundfunk, Camerata Academica Salzburg [ Koch Schwann / CD - released 5/Apr/1996 ] Recorded VI. 1977, Pfarrkirche Wasserburg (Track 1); 19./20. VI. 1981, Aula academica, Universität Salzburg (Tracks 2-7) |
