Search Results: Marbecks Collectable
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: The Collector's Edition: The Masterpieces (30 CDs at a special price) Vernon Handley / Adrian Boult / Sir John Barbirolli / Janet Baker / Robert Tear / Charles Groves / Jacqueline du Pre / etc [ EMI Classics / 30 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] Elgar is the quintessential English composer. He is loved as our Shakespeare of music, and we turn to him at times of solemn remembrance and national rejoicing. This edition, released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth,... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition [30 CD set] Various performers incls Jonathan Small (oboe), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Piers Lane (piano), Larry Adler (harmonica), Music Group of London [ EMI Classics / 30 CD Box Set - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "A convincing and deeply moving showcase… exceptional value… it's scope breathtaking. This is the essential set, and if you're at all drawn to VW you might as well buy the whole damn show now - because sooner or later you're going to anyway." BBC... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Solo Cantatas (HWV 173, 105, 113, 236) Veronika Winter (soprano) / Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max [ Capriccio SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "The fine recorded sound, bright and clear, is the icing on the cake of this laudable release." Robert Levett, International Record Review |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Cantates de Rome - Alyssa, Alcyone, Myrrha Veronique Gens, Yann Beuron, Paul Groves, Mirielle Delunsch / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2000 ] These three Prix de Rome competition cantatas, written in the summers of 1901-03, were intended to persuade the musical authorities that Ravel was the one young composer who deserved a three-year stay in the Eternal City, paid for by the government. |
HANDEL / GLUCK / MOZART / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI / BELLINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vesselina Kasarova - A Portrait Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo) / Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 6/Oct/1996 ] Kasarova won the "Female Singer of the Year" in 2003 Echo Klassik. In 2005 she won the Merkur Preis and was named Bavarian Kammersängerin. She was also named Österreichische Kammersängerin in April 2010. (Wiki) |
LUIS GIANNEO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gianneo: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 / 6 Bagatelles Dora De Marinis, Alejandro Cremaschi, Fernando Viani (piano) [ Marco Polo / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] "This recording contains music well worth exploring. The music is compelling and rendered with fire." American Record Guide |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1960) Victoria de los Angeles, Carlo del Monte, Mario Sereni, Santa Chissari / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Tullio Serafin [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2006 ] "The CD transfer is first-rate, and this remains a real bargain." (Gramophone) |
RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pagliacci (Complete opera) (Recorded 1953) SPECIAL PRICE! Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Bjorling, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill / The Columbus Boy Choir. The Robert Shaw Chorale. Renato Cellini [ EMI Historical / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] 'the most enjoyable performance of Pagliacci we have ever heard' (The Record Guide) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Victoria De Los Angeles - On Wings Of Song Victoria De Los Angeles (Soprano) / Sinfonia of London, Spanish National Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ EMI Studio / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] Recordings from 1962, 1964 & 1965 mostly at the Abbey Road Studios, London |
ROSSINI / VERDI / GOUNOD / PUCCINI / LEONCAVALLO / BIZET / CATALANI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Victoria De Los Angeles - Diva Victoria De Los Angeles (Soprano), with Jussi Bjorling & Carlo del Monte (tenor) / Various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Victoria studied voice under Dolores Frau, and guitar with Graciano Tarragó, at the Barcelona Conservatory, graduating in 1941 after three years, at the age of 18. (Wiki) |
Vienna Boys' Choir
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sacred Songs & Folk Songs From Around the World [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2012 ] Experience the beauty of 24 of the world's youngest voices in one of our oldest musical traditions... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Sextet in A / String Quintet in C Vienna Octet [ Decca / CD - released 20/Oct/1991 ] "..the recording, clean and warm-toned, is the equal of the playing" Gramophone Magazine (Quintet, Op. 77) |
ANTON BRUCKNER / FRANZ SCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: String Quintet in F major / Schmidt: Piano Quintet in G major Vienna Philharmonia Quintet with Eduard Mrazek (piano) [ Decca / London / CD - released 27/Jan/1991 ] "...Hidden gems of the late-Romantic chamber repertoire, marvellously performed and recorded. A thoroughly enjoyable release." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
JOHAN STRAUSS 11
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss: The Blue Danube & other works Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karl Bohm [ Deutsche Grammophon Musikfest / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] Who could have a better orchestra for this music than the VPO? Solid performances of famous Strauss works |
FRANZ SCHMIDT / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schmidt: Symphony No.4 / Schoenberg: Chmaber Symphony No.1 Vienna Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Decca Enterprise / CD - released 20/Aug/1990 ] Recording Locations: Royce Hall, U.C.L.A., May 1968 (Schoenberg) Sofiensaal, Vienna, September 1971 (Schmidt) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No.4 'Romantic' Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2014 ] "Abbado's is quite the finest of the recent Bruckner Fourths on record. Like his magisterial and perspicacious recent recording of Brahms's Third Symphony...it shows a combination of musical shrewdness and emotional abandon" Gramophone |
ADOLPHE ADAM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adam: Giselle Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 15/May/1987 ] "While superbly conducted, superlatively played, and sumptuously recorded, this Giselle is no will-o'-the-wisps, but rather is full-bodied and hot-blooded with charms that are hardly ephemeral and thoroughly palpable. From the lush winds to the plush... |
ZIEHRER / HELLMESBERGER / LUMBYE / TCHAIKOVSKY / STRAUSS FAMILY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: New Year's Concert 2012 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons [ Sony / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2012 ] "There's nothing here that disappoints, and the stylishness of the performances can be taken for granted, if not by the musicians themselves...the recording is excellent in capturing a happy occasion" (International Record Review) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No 9 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 14/Dec/2014 ] "...this live Salzburg Ninth is glorious. There's no sense here of fallible rhythms or a conductor not being able to see the wood for the trees...the Teldex engineers..make the Grosses Festspielhaus sound like one of the great Bruckner halls" Penguin |
THE STRAUSS FAMILY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: New Year's Concert 1990 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Sony Classical / CD - released 15/Jan/1990 ] Thanks to this illustrious succession of great conductors that the Vienna New Year's Concert remains unique, ushering in the New Year in a way that has often been imitated but never equalled. |
