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ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Survivors Aquarius Choir, Marc Michael de Smet [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 5/Sep/2018 ] Moving a cappella settings of contemporary poems - music composed by Anthony Ritchie and performed by the superb Aquarius Choir of Belgium. |
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 |
SHCHEDRIN / BIZET
Carmen (a ballet with choreography by Mats Ek recorded in 1994) Cullberg Ballet / Ana Laguna / Marc Hwang / Yvan Auzely [ Arthaus / kultur / DVD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "Anna Laguna, with her long cigars, is never going to stay for long with the gentle, expressive Marc Hwang, and Yvan Auzely is an irresistible competitor for her fickle, uncontrollable desires." - Seen&Heard OperaReview |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 / Violin Concerto (Piano transcription) Diedre Irons (piano) / Christchurch Symphony Orchestra / Marc Taddei, Conductor [ Trust / 2 CD - released 25/Dec/2004 ] Completing the cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos, this 2-CD set also includes the rarely heard piano transcription of the Violin Concerto. |
BORIS PIGOVAT
Requiem "The Holocaust" for solo viola & orchestra / etc Donald Maurice (viola) Vector Wellington Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Vector Wellington Orchestra's 70th anniversary commemoration of Kristallnacht was one of the most unforgettable concerts of 2008. |
ROSSINI / CIMAROSA / OFFENBACH / LULLY / SAINT-SAENS / PERGOLESI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fernando Corena Fernando Corena (bass) / Orchestra della RTSI, Leopold Casella, Edwin Loehrer, Marc Andreae, etc [ Ermitage / CD - released 1/Mar/1997 ] "Corena - more a bass-baritone than a bass - wasn't a great singer, but he wasn't a dull one either and he is caught here in good form" (MusicWeb April 2006) |
John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron
Tramonto [ ECM / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] Recorded live in Birmingham during a Contemporary Music Network tour in 2002, Tramonto finds UK pianist John Taylor (1942-2015) in celebratory, outgoing mood, fronting one of his most dynamic and quick-witted groups, with US musicians Marc Johnson... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Hammerklavier Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "it's always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications - anything that needs flying fingers...there is nothing in Hamelin's latest Hyperion album (there ar |
FRANZ LISZT / SIGISMOND THALBERG
Liszt & Thalberg: Opera transcriptions & fantasies Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] "The execution is so incredibly neat and well ordered, and yet sounds completely spontaneous, like an inspired improvisation…This is a master pianist at the height of his powers" GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Late Piano Music Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Oct/2013 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Instrumental |
DINASTIA BORGIA
Dinastia Borgia: Chiesa e potere nel Rinascimento (3 SACDs, 1 DVD with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 CD/DVD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "One might expect that, with the Borgias, all roads would lead to Rome, but in this case most lead back to Catalonia...Savall's own presence, as both leader and principal viol player, can always be felt." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February... |
LE ROYAUME OUBLIE
Le Royaume Oublie: The Albigensian Crusade (3 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 CD/Book - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Savall takes ownership of the more elaborate versions of the Joan of Arc songs...and his own playing is sublime. Montserrat Figueras and the other vocal soloists and readers deliver superbly vivid performances...Altogether an impressive and deeply... |
GARETH FARR
Farr: Warriors from Pluto New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. Strike. Deborah Wai Kapohe, Marc Decio Taddei [ Trust / CD - released 7/Dec/2001 ] New recording featuring two startlingly dramatic works for chamber orchestra |
LILBURN / FARR / RITCHIE / PSATHAS / FARQUHAR
Island Song - a collection of beautiful NZ music from the Trust Records catalogue New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / NZ Trio / NZSO Chamber Orchestra / Kenneth Young / Marc Taddei [ Trust Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] A collection of beautiful NZ classical music from the Trust Records catalogue. This mid-price album features classical pieces written by five celebrated New Zealanders: Gareth Farr, John Psathas, Douglas Lilburn, David Farquhar and John Ritchie.... |
LEONIE HOLMES
Holmes: Solstice New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Atoll / CD - released 1/Jul/2014 ] Leonie Holmes has written works for orchestra, chamber, choral, vocal and solo instrument and receives commissions from ensembles and individuals throughout New Zealand. This compilation of her orchestral music spans 1997 to 2013. Notes on the... |
ALBERT GUINOVART
Guinovart: Alba Eterna (complete opera) Albert Guinovart (piano) Marta Mathéu (soprano) Anna Alàs (mezzo-soprano), Marc Sala (tenor) Josep-Ramon Olivé (baritone) / Franz Schubert Filharmonia [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Alba Eterna is an opera in two acts, by the composer Albert Guinovart with a libretto by Jordi Faura and performed by the Franz Schubert Filharmonia orchestra, conducted by Tomàs Grau. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Harold In Italy / Les Nuits d'ete Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Antoine Tamestit (viola) / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Naive Classique / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "Minkowski gives an energetic, crisp, emphatic reading. The sinewy sound of the Louvre players' period instruments, though, lends it a rougher, almost folkier texture, against which the viola's individual voice stands out more sharply than usual."... |
HONEGGER / IBERT
L'Aiglon (operetta recorded March 2015) Anne-Catherine Gillet, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, etc /Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/May/2016 ] "Marc Barrard is the touchingly funny Flambeau, while Etienne Dupuis makes Metternich all the more sinister by singing his music so beautifully. The orchestral sound is gorgeous, as is the recording itself" (Gramophone, April 2016) |
JORG WIDMANN
Widmann : Viola Concerto / 24 Duos / Jagdquartett Antoine Tamestit (viola), Symphonieorchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks, cond. Daniel Harding, Signum Quartett, Marc Bouchkov (violin) & Bruno Philippe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] "What is undeniable is the commitment of Tamestit as he plays, moves and sometimes shouts his way through a score more distinctive for its gestural immediacy than its thematic content." Gramophone |
CLAUDE BOLLING
Bolling: Suite For Cello & Jazz Piano Trio Claude Bolling & Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with Marc Michel (bass) & Jean-Luc Dayan (drums) [ CBS / CD - released 2/Feb/1984 ] This suite was recorded by Bolling, along with Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world's greatest cello players. Best suited for college-level and above players, Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio has long been a best-selling recording that appeals to a variety of... |
SAINT-SAENS / GOUNOD / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / THOMAS / LALO / BIZET / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Denyce Graves - French Opera Arias Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano) / Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte Carlo, Marc Soustrot [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2004 ] ""Connais-tu le pays" from Mignon, taken very slowly, is sung with a ravishing legato and beautifully shaded tone. Dalila is one of Graves' signature roles and she delivers both arias impressively...Sound is excellent" ClassicsToday |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Double and Triple Concertos Dimitri Mestdag, Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Storioni Trio (Wouter Vossen, violin), Marc Vossen (cello), Bart van de Roer (piano), Antwerp Symphony Orch [ BIS / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Two recent and unusual concertos from the prolific Finnish composer. |
WALTER BRAUNFELS
Braunfels: Ulenspiegel (complete opera recorded in 2014) EntArteOpera / Marc Horus, Christa Ratzenböck, Joachim Goltz, Hans Peter Scheidegger / Martin Sieghart (cond) [ Capriccio DVD / DVD - released 12/Jul/2017 ] Charles de Coster's novel Thyl Ulenspiegel provided the source for Braunfels' opera of the same name. It narrates one of the darkest chapters in human history - the Spanish Inquisition in 16th-century Flanders. |
GODOWSKY
Strauss Transcriptions & other waltzes Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] "There's no need for analogies about a surfeit of Viennese cream-cakes with this excellent CD: the musical inventions is so brilliant and varied, and the performance so coruscating, that one's attention is firmly held." (BBC Music) |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Alice Helen Medlyn (mezzo-soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei [ Atoll / CD - released 24/Oct/2013 ] Alice was written for Helen Medlyn and the Auckland Philharmonia while Gillian Whitehead was composer‐in‐residence. The first performance was given by Helen Medlyn and the Auckland Philharmonia, conducted by Miguel Harth‐Bedoya, on 17 July 2003... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (organ & conductor) / Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by... |
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... |
POUL RUDERS
Ruders: Viola Concerto & Handel Variations Lars Anders Tomter (viola) / Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot, Andreas Delfs [ Dacapo / CD - released 10/Jul/2018 ] "The music is always Ruders's own, with a strong element of parody throughout, although the work's conclusion is subdued, almost melancholic. Dacapo's sound is vivid with terrific depth." (Gramophone) |
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WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (with Dietsch - Le Vaisseau Fantôme [The Phantom Ship]) Russell Braun, Sally Matthews, Bernard Richter, Evgeny Nikitin, Ingela Brimberg / Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Marc Minkowski [ Naive / 4 CD Box Set - released 28/Oct/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
PURCELL / HANDEL / HAYDN
To Saint Cecilia Lucy Crowe, Nathalie Stutzmann, Richard Croft, Anders J Dahlin, Neil Baker / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (Conductor) [ Naive / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Hail! Bright Cecilia! Three major composers celebrated in 2009 pay vibrant homage to Cecilia, the patron saint of music... One couldn't dream of a better musician to record these three Odes and Masses than Marc Minkowski. |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach (CPE): Sonatas & Rondos Marc Andre-Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] 'Hamelin's delight and relish are highly infectious...In short, I cannot think of a better introduction to CPE Bach on the modern piano than these two joyous discs.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Piano |
Marc Antoine
Urban Gypsy [ GRP Records / CD ] The Chart-Topping Album That Redefined "Smooth Jazz" |
EUGENE YSAYE / ERNEST CHAUSSON / MARC BOUCHKOV
Ysaÿe: Sonatas, Fantasy & Violin Works / Chausson: Poème / Bouchkov: Fantasy, Melody Marc Bouchkov (violin), Georgiy Dubko (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / Harmonia Nova Series / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] "This isn't just a thoughtful and imaginatively conceived recital programme; it's a full blown love letter to Eugene Ysaye … the playing throughout is well suited to this music." Gramophone |
Marc Hurtado & Alan Vega
MARBECKS RARE: Sniper [ Le Son du Maquis / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (complete operetta recorded in 2005) Les Musiciens du Louvre / Felicity Lott, Sandrine Piau, Yann Beuron, Franck Leguérinel, Eric Huchet / Marc Minkowski (cond) [ Erato DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/Dec/2005 ] Best Opera Recording went to Offenbach's 'La Grande Duchesse De Gerolstein' in 2005's Diapason d'Or Awards held in Paris. |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Bolcom: The complete rags Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] 'Bolcom is lucky in having such a musician to provide him with these authoritative accounts of his music.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Piano |
MORTON FELDMAN
Feldman: For Bunita Marcus Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] "Hyperion has matched an ideal sound to a first-rate performance (and liner notes) by Marc Andre-Hamelin." AudAud Best of the year 2017 |
PAUL DUKAS / ABEL DECAUX
Dukas/Decaux: Piano Music Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/May/2006 ] 'Hamelin makes Dukas's challenging Sonata a thrilling experience' Instrumental Recording of the Month (BBC Music June) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 (with Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No 2) Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Hyperion SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Dec/2003 ] - Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) January 2004 - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
BEETHOVEN / ALKAN / CHOPIN / BALAKIREV / BUSONI / MEDTNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marc-Andre Hamelin - Live At The Wigmore Hall Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2004 ] "The most dazzling piano disc of the year" The Guardian |
