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GRIEG / SIBELIUS / STENHAMMAR / ALFVEN / SJOBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Diamonds in the Snow Barbara Bonney (soprano) Antonio Pappano (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2000 ] Gramophone Magazine 2000 Winner - Vocal |
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) |
GEORGES BIZET
Georges Bizet Edition Barbara Hendricks, Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas, Dietrich Discher-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kozena, Gautier Capucon, etc [ Warner Classics / 16 CD - released 23/May/2025 ] This collection celebrates the genius of one of France's greatest composers, featuring his most beautiful works performed by world-class artists such as Maria Callas, Barbara Hendricks, June Anderson, Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann and Simon Rattle |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Opera Selection: "Shakespeare" Otello / Macbeth / Falstaff Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci, Thomas Hampson, Ruggero Raimondi, Manuel Lanza, etc [ Arthaus Opera Editrion / 3 DVD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Otello - Live from the Teatro alla Scala Milan, 2001 Macbeth - Live from the Opernhaus Zurich, 2001 Falstaff - Live from the Teatro del Maggio Muusicale Fiorentino, 2006 |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: Christmas Cantatas Barbara Zanichelli, Emanuela Galli, Lavinia Bertotti / Orchestra Barocca della Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, Enrico Gatti [ Arcana / CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] Alessandro Stradella was one of the most important Italian composers of the 17th century.This recording presents the only two cantatas Stradella composed for Christmas, preceded by the instrumental Sonata di Viole, the earliest entirely instrumental... |
SCUBERT / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / DOWLAND / EDWARDS / ORFF / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Swooning Various Artists incls Yvonne Kenny, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Vienna Boys Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Barbara Bonney, etc [ ABC Classics / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Showcasing some of the most stunning music ever written, this collection is a must-have for Swoon devotees new and old. |
BEETHOVEN / CHERUBINI / BACH / MOZART / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / ROSSINI / GOUNOD / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Spiritus - Passage to Paradise: 33 highlights from great Sacred Music Ann Murray, Kurt Moll, Barbara Hendricks, Lucia Popp, Edda Moser, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philharmonia Choir, Ambrosian Chorus, etc [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] Featuring conductors Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Neville Marriner, Philip Ledger, etc |
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. |
DOWLAND / PURCELL / MOZART / SCHUMANN / SIBELIUS / R. STRAUSS / LLOYD WEBBER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The radiant voice of Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Talens Lyriques, The English Concert & others [ Decca / CD - released 11/Jun/2001 ] "Barbara Bonney has a lovely voice and she knows how to use its relatively light but extremely agile qualities to fine effect. She's accurate in intonation and tasteful in expressive mannerisms...how pretty everything is-it's really a pleasant sound... |
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FRANZ LEHAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lehar: The Merry Widow [Die Lustige Witwe] Barbara Bonney, Bo Skovhus, Bryn Terfel, Cheryl Studer / Monteverdi Choir / Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "A great reasonably modern Merry Widow with great acoustics...Great Conducting by Gardiner, the singers in the main parts are enjoyable." Review |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / WOLF / FAURE / BACH / HAYDN / J. STRAUSS
The Best Of Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney (soprano), with Geoffrey Parsons (piano) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Teldec / CD - released 10/Aug/1995 ] "Barbara Bonney (is) a charmingly provocative Susanna" (Penguin Guide on 'The Marriago of Figaro') |
Barbara Carlotti
Les Lys Brises [ Microbe / 4AD Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2006 ] This is the beautiful debut album from a young French chanteuse. "Delicate and sober, the songs of Barbara Carlotti release an elegance, a refinement of tone which go against the current... |
Barbara Cook, with Eric Stern (piano)
No One Is Alone [ DRG / CD - released 28/May/2007 ] Barbara Cook, a Broadway star in the 1950s and '60s and one of the major cabaret singers since the '70s, was nearing 80 when she recorded No One Is Alone. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem Barbara Frittoli, Mario Zeffiri, Olga Borodina, Ildar Abdrazakov / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Ravishing orchestral playing and choral work combined with an unmatchable understanding of Verdi makes this..a very important addition to the Verdi Requiem catalog." (9/10 ClassicsToday Oct 2010) |
BURTON LANE
Lane: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) Barbara Harris & John Cullum / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1926 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated. |
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (W.F.): Cantatas Barbara Schlick (soprano) Claudia Schubert (alto) Wilfried Jochens (tenor) Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) / Das Kleine Konzert, Das Kleine Konzert [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] Recorded 15-22 April 1991, Wuppertal-Barmen, Immanuelskirche |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chénier (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Hector Sandoval, Norma Fantini, Scott Hendricks / Ulf Schirmer (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Girodano Umberto's Andrea Chénier is set against the backdrop of the horrors of the French Revolution and tells the tragic tale of a doomed love affair involving the historical figure of the poet Andrea Chénier, who initially champions the Revolution |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (the complete opera recorded in 1994) Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Kurt Moll / Carlos Kleiber (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] "Lightly Handled, well-played Strauss. Strongly recommended." -Gramophone June 2001 |
TRADITIONAL
Spirituals Barbara Conrad (mezzo) / Convent Avenue Concert Choir, New England Symphonic Ensemble, Gregory Hopkins [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1997 ] When asked to personalize an introduction to this recording, the soloist, Barbara Conrad reflected: Imagine a small southwestern rural black community, rich-red soil, beautiful fields of cotton, corn, potatoes, and such clear blue skies, and hot sun. |
DUKE ELLINGTON
Ellington: Pousse-Cafe Ellis Larkin plays / Marshall Barer & Barbara Lea sing [ Audiophile Records / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] Never before recorded. Songs from the original Broadway production. |
HINDEMITH / BERG / CHAUSSON / SCHOENBERG
Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan (soloist), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Emerson String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "The Emersons come to [the Schoenberg] as if it were new, hot from the press, and in doing so they recreate the sense of inordinate extravagance that made early audiences so uneasy." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Chamber |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (complete opera recorded in 1984) Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Barbara Bonney / Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2007 ] 'Solti gives Schoenberg's masterly score a dynamism and warmth which set it firmly - if perhaps surprisingly - in the grand romantic tradition...As Aaron, Philip Langridge is lighter and more lyrical." Penguin Guide |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Barbara Hendricks (sop) Jeffrey Black (baritone) Michael Chance (countertenor) / London Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ EMIClassics / CD - released 10/Sep/1990 ] No other 20th century work delights music-lovers as much as Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". The opening number, "Oh Fortuna", is a huge classical hit in its own right. |
DUTILLEUX
Correspondances Anssi Karttunen (cello) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Jan/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Contemporary |
FREDERIC NORTON / HAROLD FRASER-SIMSON
Norton: Chu Chin Chow (Highlights) / Fraser-Simson: Maid of the Mountains (Highlights) Inia Te Wiata, Marion Grimaldi, Barbara Leigh, Michael Collins (cond). Lynn Kennington, Gordon Clyde, Jimmy Edwards. Derek Taverner (cond) [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 25/Oct/2005 ] The singers in this series include some of the biggest stars of their time. Among them are June Bronhill, Julie Bryan, Grace Bumbry, Veronica Dunn, Victoria Elliott Edwin Steffe and Inia Te Wiata |
Jon Hendricks
Four Classic Albums (A Good Git-Together / Fast Livin' Blues / High Flying / Sing Ellington) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Another two classics by the titanic trio and for good measure offer up a taste of the vocalese master Jon Hendricks out on his own on two extraordinary albums. Released in 1959, A Good Git Together features Jon Hendricks during the time of his... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 2012) La Monnaie de Munt / Misha Didyk, Marina Poplavskaya, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Scott Hendricks / Marc Minkowski (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] Stage Direction, Set Design, Costumes: Dmitri Tcherniakov After the success of 'Rigoletto', Verdi called on librettist Salvadore Cammarano in 1851 for his new opera 'Il Trovatore', based on the eponymous play by Spanish playwright Antonio García... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Matthias Goerne (Baritone), Barbara Bonney (Soprano), Sara Fulgoni (Mezzo-Soprano), Gosta Winbergh, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2003 ] "Riccardo Chailly's credentials as a Mahlerian cannot be faulted...Once more, where his own admirable orchestra is concerned, he gives a performance that is finely balanced, attentive to all-important detail and convincing as a whole." Gramophone |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Candide (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast, with Max Adrian & Barbara Cook [ Sony Music / CD - released 4/Oct/2004 ] This original 1956 production, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and libretto by Lillian Hellman, based on Voltaire's novel of the same name, was not a hit, except as a recording. Presenting the remarkable Broadway debut of... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2001) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci /Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] The cylindrical uniform stage set by Ezio Frigerio emphasised the hopeless consequence of the tragedy, as did the Orchestra della Scala, which, under the baton of Riccardo Muti, never sacrificed the dark, disturbing elements of the score. |
ANDRE PREVIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Previn: Diversions - Songs Renee Fleming, Barbara Bonney (sopranos) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Andra Previn (piano/conductor) [ Deutche Grammophon / CD - released 25/Jul/2001 ] Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City Recording Venue: Abbey Road Studios, London |
ALBERT HAGUE
Hague: Plain and Fancy Robert Derr & Barbara Cook / Original 1955 Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague. One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture. |
MEREDITH WILLSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Willson: The Music Man Robert Preston & Barbara Cook / Original Broadway Cast [ Capital / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 1999) Royal Opera, Covent Garden / Bryn Terfel, Barbara Frittoli, Roberto Frontali, Gwynne Howell / Bernard Haitink (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte / DVD - released 1/May/2009 ] 'deliciously comic production...vividly filmed...The singers are on top form, dominated by Terfel's Falstaff...' Musical Opinion |
GEORGE BENJAMIN
Benjamin: Written on Skin (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Christopher Purves, Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Victoria Simmonds / George Benjamin (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Contemporary |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV49, 115, 180 Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick, Christoph Pregardien, Gothold Schwarz / Ensemble Baroque de Limoges & Concerto Vocale de Leipzig, Christophe Coin [ Naive / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Conductor Christophe Coin, who studied with Jordi Savall and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, has, for the last 30 years, been France's most fervent apostle of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Orchestral Works [Incls 'An American in Paris'] St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, John Korman, Yuan Tung, George Silfies, Barbara Liberman, David Mortland, Leonard Slatkin [ Vox Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Soon after writing his great works for piano and orchestra (available on VOX-NX-3018CD), Gershwin turned to his 'tone poem for orchestra', An American in Paris. With indelible themes, and masterly string writing, it remains one of his best-known... |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
The Essential Stephen Sondheim Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Ethel Merman, Jason Alexander, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett & others [ Sony Masterworks Broadway / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] The Essential Stephen Sondheim spans this iconic artist's unparalleled career, from West Side Story (1957) through Passion (1994), and also includes important works from his forays into television and film. |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Thais (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio Torino / Barbara Frittoli, Lado Ateneli, Alessandro Liberatore / Gianandrea Noseda (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] "Ataneli gives a strong performance but the highly stylised nature of the staging doesn't allow for much subtlety of expression. Gianandrea Noseda conducts with... sensitivity for Massenet's style" (Gramophone) |
JIMMY McHUGH
McHugh: Lucky In The Rain Barbara Cook & Malcolm Gets / Studio Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 9/Apr/2000 ] Conceived and written by Sherman Yellen: Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson, Dorothy Fields. Additional Music/lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Al Dubin, Ted Koehler, Jan Savitt and Johnny Watson Opened: Goodspeed Opera... |
