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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Suite for Violin and Orchestra Op 32 / Violin Concerto in D major Op 74 Anthony Marwood (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 2 / CD - released 15/Nov/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Concerto - "A first recording for the Violin Concerto, and a performance unlikely to be bettered. Anthony Marwood is the impassioned soloist" |
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NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Frankfurt Opera / Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 11/Nov/2022 ] "Loy masses his choral scenes with gusto, and draws the characters with compassion and wit. It's the mixture of cheerfulness and melancholy that makes this opera sing, and Loy walks the line without compromise to his own aesthetic." Gramophone |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Complete Hyperion Schubert Edition: The Final Year John Mark Ainsley, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Schade (tenors) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Schubert Edition Vol 37 / CD - released 20/Sep/2000 ] The final volume in the Schubert Hyperion series |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical Chita Rivera, Brent Carver & Anthony Crivello / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. |
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PETER SCULTHORPE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sculthorpe: The Fifth Continent / Port Arthur: In Memoriam / Djilile / Piano Concerto / Earth Cry / etc Anthony Fogg (piano) / Tasmanian & Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn / Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble / Peter Sculthorpe (speaker) [ ABC Classics Australian Eloquence / CD - released 30/Jan/1999 ] A delightful selection of works by this renowned Australian composer. |
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JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.C.): Piano Concertos Op.13, Nos 4 - 6 & 14 Anthony Halstead (pianoforte) / Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead [ CPO / CD - released 30/Jun/2001 ] Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. |
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JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.C.): Piano Concertos Op.13, Nos 1 - 3 Anthony Halstead (pianoforte) / Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead [ CPO / CD - released 30/Jun/1999 ] "These splendid performances from Anthony Halstead directing the Hanover Band from the keyboard are appealingly fluent, full of flair and vitality...His solo playing is very persuasive and the result is delightfully intimate." Penguin Guide |
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Anthony Hammond
Various: Une Nuit De Noel - Ch [ Priory / CD - released 31/Oct/2011 ] |
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ROSSI / FROBERGER / JOHN BULL / BOHM / BACH
Fantastic Musick for the Italian Harpsichord Anthony Jennings (harpsichord) [ Trust / Atoll / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Great early music exponent in his last harpsichord recordings... |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Edd: Steel Pier Anthony Roberts & Marilyn Mason / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1997 ] Steel Pier is a musical written by the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb from the original book by David Thompson. Directed by Scott Ellis with choreography by Susan Stroman, the musical opened on Broadway on April 24, 1997. |
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VAUGHAN WILLAIMS
The Best of (Incls The Wasps Overture & Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis) Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) David Greed (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony / English Northern Philharmonia / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams went some way towards creating a specifically English musical idiom, influenced by his interest in folk-song yet underpinned by a personal vision and language. |
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JOHN RUTTER / DAVID FANSHAWE / TRADITIONAL / ROBERT BURNS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: The Choirboy Anthony Way (treble) [ Total Records / CD - released 15/Aug/1995 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. His mother was a housewife. His father worked as an officer at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. |
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HANDEL / MOZART / BRAHMS / BACH / FAURE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anthony Way: Wings of a Dove Anthony Way (treble), with Barbara Bonney, Tabitha Watling, Choir of Uppingham School [ Decca / CD - released 15/Aug/2019 ] Anthony Way was born in London on 14 December 1982, and was a chorister by the age of eight. He is the 6th child out of 8 siblings. Wings of a Dove was originally released in 1997. |
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PETER SCULTHORPE
Sun Music I-IV / Irkanda IV / Piano Concerto / Small Town Leonard Dommett (violin) Anthony Fogg (piano) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins & Myer Fredman [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] |
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MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA
LaChiusa: Marie Christine Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello / Lincoln Center Theatre / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jun/1999 ] Marie Christine is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Michael John LaChiusa. It opened on Broadway in 1999. Set in 1890s New Orleans and then 5 years later in Chicago; the story is loosely based on the Greek play Medea, and uses elements of... |
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VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Blossom Dearie, Gloria DeHaven, Tammy Grimes, Anthony Perkins, Rex Reed, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1992 ] Vladimir Dukelsky entered this world in 1903 and is certainly one of the most underrated composers in all of The Great American Songbook. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3 / Air & Rondo / etc Anthony Camden (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/1996 ] "First-rate sound from All Saints, East Finchley." Penguin Guide |
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Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert [ ECM / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis's band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in... |
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ORAZIO VECCHI & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vecchi: Selva Di Varia Ricreazione / etc Consort of Musicke with Emma Kirkby., Evelyn Tubb, Andrew King, etc / Anthony Rooley (Director & lute) [ Ermitage / CD - released 10/Mar/1996 ] Rare works performed by the Consort of Musicke with soloists including Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb & Andrew King. |
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WILLIAM CONGREVE / GEORGE FARQUHAR / RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: An 18th Century Comedy Album: The Way of the World; The Beaux' Stratagem; The School for Scandal Dame Edith Evans / Sir John Gielgud / Pauline Jameson / Ralph Truman / Miles Malleson / Anthony Quayle and others [ EMI Classic English Drama / CD - released 17/Sep/2006 ] A demonstartion of Edith Evan's matchless prowess in Restoration comedy. |
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ROSS EDWARDS / MALCOLM WILLIAMSON / PETER SCULTHORPE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Australian Piano Concertos Dennis Hennning, Malcolm Williamson, Simon Campion, Anthony Fogg (piano) / Various Orchestras [ ABC Classics Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] "Is there such a thing as an Australian Piano Concerto?, asks Dennis Hennig, one of the pianists featured in this anthology. Here are three attempts to provide an answer. In his three-movement concerto, Ross Edwards (born 1943) casts a sweet lyricism... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Johnn Sebastian Bach II Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rolf Johnson, Alfred Brendel, Trevor Pinnock, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Simon Preston, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Panorama / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] "Gardiner's version of the St Matthew Passion brings an intense, dramatic reading which now makes a clear first choice, not just for period-performance devotees but for anyone not firmly set against the new authenticity." Penguin Guide |
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LAWES / BLOW / WILSON / CAMPION / ECCLES / etc
Classical Kirkby - Orpheus and Corinna Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (theorbo-lute) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2002 ] "These are delightful songs, superbly sung with delicate, tactful accompaniments played on the theorbo-lute by Anthony Rooley" Rod Bliss (Sunday Times) |
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JONES / DOWLAND / JOHNSON / d'INDIA / LAWES / etc
Pastoral Dialogues Emma Kirkby (soprano) David Thomas (bass) Anthony Rooley (lute) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] This collection gathers together some of the most delectable of 17th century duets both from England as well as from Italy. Any Emma Kirkby recording is an event, and this reissue, making its first appearance on CD, will be no exception. |
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BIAGIO MARINI
Le Lagrime d'Erminia Emma Kirkby (soprano) & Nigel Rogers (tenor) / The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley & Trevor Jones [ Decca L'Oiseau Lyre / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Recorded: London, 1978 |
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ANONYMOUS & VARIOUS
Evelyn Tubb - A Musical Hodge-Podge (English Song 1600-1750) Evelyn Tubb (soprano) with Anthony Rooley (lute) Michael Fields, (lute) / English Trumpet Virtuosi [ Regis Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2003 ] "Evelyn Tubb has the skills of a virtuoso, as she shows right from the start…" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Recorded live at the Shakespeare's Globe, July 2014) Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Sam Cox, Anthony Howell / Dominic Dromgoole (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's tense drama of high politics, one which reveals the emotional currents that flow between men in power, with themes that still resonate even today. Staged in Elizabethan dress with Roman accessories and with music played... |
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MAURICE OHANA
Ohana: Music for Ten-String Guitar Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "Fluency, beautiful tone, power, clarity, timing, phrasing, technical brilliance, a keen musical intelligence… this young player confounds criticism by possessing them all, and in spades." Classical Guitar Magazine on Graham Anthony Devine |
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HUGO WOLF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wolf: Lieder (Incls Eichendorff-Lieder) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Anthony Pappano (piano) [ EMI / CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] "...this recording is an excellent and highly individual approach to Wolf by an interpreter who really understands Wolf's special sensibility and breathes life into the music." (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
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The Irish Tenors (Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan, Finbar Wright)
The Irish Tenors - Live In Belfast [ TV Matters / CD - released 4/Apr/2000 ] Recorded live at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on the 5th of February 2000. |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.) - St Matthew Passion (Arias and Choruses) Kiri te Kanawa, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Chicago Sym., Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Records / 3 CD - released 11/Nov/1990 ] Classic recording with a top-line cast lead by our Kiri |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas Janet Baker, Patricia Clark, Raimund Herincx / English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis [ Decca Legends / CD - released 14/Feb/2000 ] "It is a truly legendary recording...everything is put in the shade by Dame Janet Baker's portrayal of Dido: her celebrated, despairingly moving, closing lament is unforgettable. This was also Anthony Lewis's finest record" Gramophone |
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ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: The Sacred Veil Los Angeles Master Chorale, Charles Anthony Silvestri [ Signum / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The Sacred Veil - a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri - was created following the passing of Charles' wife, Julia in 2005. It represents a journey towards the answer for many questions, including whether departed loved ones... |
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KURT WEILL
Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (complete opera recorded in 2007) Los Angeles Opera / Audra Mc Donald / Patti Lupone / Anthony Dean / James Colon (cond) [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] G - Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 and 4 March 2007 |
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SIBELIUS / MOZART / RACHMANINOV / DELIUS / WALTON / ELGAR / etc
Anthony Collins - Complete Decca Recordings Moura Lympany, Ruggiero Ricci, Friedrich Gulda, Gervase de Peyer, Orchestras conducted by Anthony Collins [ Decca Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - released 23/Jul/2021 ] Including several recordings new to CD, the complete published Decca legacy of noted Sibelius conductor Anthony Collins is collected for the first time on disc. |
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Palm Court Theatre Orchestra. Anthony Godwin-conductor
Down Peacock Alley [ Chandos Flyback / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] Popular light music from the 20s and 30s in a Palm Court style |
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ALBERT KETELBEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Grand Passions of Albert W. Ketelbey (Including 'In a Persian Market '; 'Bells across the Meadows' & 'Sanctuary of the Heart The Palm Court Theatre Orchestra, directed by Anthony Godwin [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] 'The performances are all one could ask, the recording is excellent, the notes and the packaging are very good.' - American Record guide |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Peter Katin, John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Jean Martinon [ Decca Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/1996 ] "I had expected Katin to be agile, nimble and clear-headed in Mendelssohn, but he is more. In the G minor he is energetic and passionate, not in a way that tries to turn it into a Rachmaninov concerto but in a way that does not let us forget... |
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Palm Court Theatre Orchestra. Anthony Godwin (conductor)
Puttin' on the Ritz [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] Popular light music from the 20s and 30s in a Palm Court style |