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![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pennies From Heaven [2 CD set] 48 Original Recordings featured in the BBC TV series cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10586/10586926.jpg)
Al Bowlly, Jack Buchanan, Carroll Gibbons, Lew Stone, Jack Payne, Ambrose & his Orchestra, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pennies From Heaven [2 CD set] 48 Original Recordings featured in the BBC TV series [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2014 ] Turn back the hands of time with this wonderful new double album of your favourite originals. 48 timeless pieces all featured on the soundtrack to the popular BBC television series. |
VERDI / BELLINI / MASSENET / PUCCINI / DONIZETTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu - Arias Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/1996 ] "Gheorghiu displays her Verdian skills, her formidable technique and expressive power pushed to their limits but ultimately convincing." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** |
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete Opera with full libretto) Barbara Frittoli, Jose Cura, Carlos Alvarez, Simon Keenlyside / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 10/Mar/2000 ] 'The recording is rich, spacious and brilliant with glorious orchestral playing, making one marvel at the beauty and subtlety of Leoncavallo's orchestration.' A Key Recording, from The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. (I Pagliacci) |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Under The Stars: Music from the shows Bryn Terfel (bass) Renee Fleming (soprano) with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera conducted by Paul Gemignani [ Decca Records / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] Renée Fleming and Bryn Terfel are two of the world's most popular classical stars. Their first CD together is Under The Stars, a feast of great songs from recent musical theatre. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza Joseph Calleja (tenor) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Steven Mercurio [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 23/Aug/2012 ] "It's an unashamedly populist collection, Calleja rolling the Rs of "Granada" and "Arrivederci, Roma" with obvious relish in arrangements replete with castanets and trilling mandolins." (The Independent) |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics / CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2012 ] "Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter" (The Times) |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 19/Apr/2014 ] The original documentary film on the early life of Cecilia Bartoli as well as a concert recording at the Savoy Hotel. Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Heroines Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Orchestra e coro del Teatro della Fenice, Ion Marin [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "This sparkling disc brings together a collection of arias Rossini composed for one of the great prima donnas of the 19th century, his wife, Isabella Colbran. For Rossini and Bartoli fans, this disc is a must" Gramophone |
ANTONIO SALIERI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Salieri Album Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Adam Fischer [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "A superb collection of arias from a composer known, if at all, as the villain of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine November 2003 |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Cecilia Bartoli - Sacrificium [special deluxe 2 CD limited edition] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10593/10593809.jpg)
ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Cecilia Bartoli - Sacrificium [special deluxe 2 CD limited edition] Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] "Porpora's opening aria reveals just what has made Bartoli unique in this field - a stupefying range, fearless vocal leaps and the sort of relentless passagework that makes you suspect the singer might be on a heart-lung machine." (William Dart NZ... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI / ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Opera Proibita Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski [ Decca Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] "A touch of the Fellinis as a scorching Bartoli meets the banned" RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE Nov 2005 |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Portraits: Operatic Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyorgy Fischer [ Decca Originals / CD - released 11/Apr/1994 ] "... Bartoli's very Italian characteristics are immediately identifiable: brilliance of execution, vitality of words, sharpness ... Fischer accompanies his soloist with energy and tact." Gramophone |
HANDEL / GLUCK / VIVALDI / MOZART / ROSSINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Bryn Terfel (bass) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Oct/2002 ] "Reaching out to the ears and to the heart, a fine round-up of Bartoli's opera triumphs." (Gramophone) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Dixit Dominus / Laudate Pueri Dominum / Organ Concerto Anne Mackay, Isobel Buchanan, William Kendall / The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 14/Nov/1995 ] Original recordings from 1985 & 1986 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 12 Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 1/Sep/1993 ] *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel Arias Danielle de Niese (soprano) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Decca / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] 'Not just a superb performer, but a phenomenal one' Opera News. |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The World of Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey, Royston Nash, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Decca / CD - released 14/Jul/1990 ] "If you are looking for a CD to cheer you up on a dull day this Decca (recording) will serve admirably." Rosette Recording. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera with full libretto) Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] "Freni is an enchanting Butterfly, constantly growing in stature...Pavarotti is an intensely imaginative Pinkerton" Penguin Guide |
VIVALDI / MONTEVERDI / FERRANDINI / CONTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Virgin's Lament Bernarda Fink (mezzo) / Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Decca L'Oiseau Lyre / CD - released 13/Aug/2009 ] "Bernarda Fink sings it with an affecting mixture of restraint and passion. The instrumental pieces are done well, and this well planned disc is very desirable." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - September 2009 |
