More By Artist: Little Walter
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MOZART / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / C.P.E. BACH / HANDEL / DVORAK / etc
Dennis Brain - Homage Dennis Brain (horn) with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Walter Gieseking, George Malcom, Gerald Moore, Malcolm Sargent, Herbert von Karajan, etc [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 14/May/2021 ] This 11CD collection presents all of Brain's Warner recordings as concerto soloist and chamber and ensemble player - including music composed with him in mind - and his most notable contributions to symphonic, choral and operatic works. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder + Songs & Arias by Gluck, Greene, Handel, Purcell etc Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] "...outstandingly beautiful, so moving and deeply felt" (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620 (Highlights from the complete opera) Walter Berry, Kurt Bohme, Hilde Gueden, August Jaresch, Wilma Lipp, Emmy Loose, Leopold Simoneau / Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Bohm [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] " Böhm performed Die Zauberflöte as a sublime work of transcendent humanity... Decca's 1955 sound is clear and evocative" AllMusic.com |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Music From The Films 'Zoya' and 'The Young Guard' Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, Walter Mnatsakanov [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1996 ] Rare recordings of these Shostakovich Russian film scores. |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Complete Opera) Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry / London Symphony Orchestra, Istavan Kertesz [ Decca The Classic Sound / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "In 1965 Kertesz set new standards in his version of Bluebeard's Castle with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry, not only in the playing of the LSO at its peak, in the firm... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (opera recorded 1962/63) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Walter Berry, James King, Christa Ludwig, Lisa Otto / Artur Rother (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] For the four main roles, singers were chosen who already had international experience but were still fresh and vigorous. Christa Ludwig, James King and Walter Berry. |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: 16 Lieder / Quintet for piano & wind instruments K452 (recorded 1955) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Walter Gieseking (piano) / Philharmonia Wind Ensemble [ EMI Classics Historical / CD - released 20/May/2006 ] In the middle of April 1955 and with typical flair, the EMI producer Walter Legge capitalised on the presence in London of the distinguished German pianist Walter Gieseking, who was at Abbey Road Studios to record 16 of Mozart's songs with Legge's... |
W. A. MOZART / VERDI / LEHAR / J. STRAUSS II / RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Opera arias Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), with Karl Schmitt-Walter (bar) / Philharmonia Orchestra. Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Recordings from 1950, Le Nozze di Figaro, to, 1959, Capriccio. |
BACH / MOZART / GIESEKING / R. STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - The Unpublished Recordings Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, with Philharmonia Orchestra, Thurston Dart & Alceo Galliera, Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von karajan, Walter Gieseking (piano) [ EMI / CD - released 1/Oct/1990 ] Recorded : London, n°1 Studio Abbey Road 26/05/1958 (1-3) - 10/04/1955 (7) ; n°3 Studio Abbey Road 16/04/1955 (8-14) Wien, Musikvereinssaal 06/1950 (4-6) ; Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 20/06/1956 (15-18) |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: St Matthew Passion [highlights] Elly Ameling, Julia Hamari, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich, Walter Berry, Tom Krause / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Munchinger [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] 'Many will be glad to hear Peter Pears's superb performance of the Evangelist' Gramophone, March 1965 |
HOWARD HANSON
Hanson: Merry Mount Op 31 (complete opera) Lauren Flanigan, Walter Macneil, Wrestling Bradford / Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2007 ] "Good tunes and the Devil combine in an unabashed romantic American rarity. The leading roles are splendidly characterised by Lauren Flanigan and Richard Zeller, well supported in a rehabilitation that is a credit to all involved." Gramophone |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) - highlights Gundula Janowitz, Werner Hollweg, Walter Berry / Chor der Deutschen. Opera Berlin. Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Encore / CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] Original recording made in 1973 |
RICHARD WAGNER
Jess Thomas sings Wagner Jess Thomas (tenor) / Orchestras conducted by Walter Born, Herbert von Karajan & Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] "Mr. Thomas sings, and sings most sensitively, producing a steady flow of pleasing tone. He sings with intelligence and musicianship, too." (Gramophone) |
ANTON RIBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Joseph Banowetz (piano) / Czech-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Walter [ Marco Polo / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] Recorded at the House of Arts in Kosice from March 3rd to 7th, 1992 |
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Little Walter
His Best Chess 50th Anniversary Collection [ CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / WEBER
Mozart / Schubert: Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Walter Susskind, Antal Dorati [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] 'Like most of the great European conductors,' wrote the critic Harold C. Schonberg, '[Schmidt-Isserstedt] has been brought up in a tradition that insists on selflessness before great music.' |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Music From 'The Lady and the Hooligan' & Ballet suite No. 2 Minsk Symphony Orchestra, Walter Mnatsakanov [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "The music is of course outstanding as each mined work that serves as source material for this score is tremendous; but if you have those other scores this one is hardly mandatory unless you are a completest. " Audiophile Audition |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: La Flute enchantee [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics La voix de son maitre / CD - released 23/Sep/1999 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong
Hello Dolly! (Soundtrack) [ Philips / CD - released 6/Apr/2009 ] Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman |
PUCCINI / BIZET / WAGNER / DVORAK / MASSENET / WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pilar Lorengar Pilar Lorengar (soprano) / Wiener Opernorchester, Walter Weller / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Giuseppe Patanè [ Decca Grandi Voci / CD - released 14/Jul/1995 ] A collection which celebrates the phenomenal career of this popular international soprano |
