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MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Trois Poèmes, Cinq Mélodies, Chansons Madécasses, Shéhérazade, Don Quichotte À Dulcinée Jessye Norman, Heather Harper, Jill Gormez & Jill Gomez / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Members of the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain, Pierre Boulez [ Sony / CD - released 10/Apr/1994 ] Original recordings from 1975 to 1979 |
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PAUL HINDEMITH / LEOS JANACEK / DALIBOR VACKAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Music for Brass, Piano and Percussion John Wallace (trumpet) / Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Wright, with Radoslav Kvapil (piano) & Evelyn Gennie (Xylophone) [ Nimbus The Wallace Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] Scottish trumpeter John Wallace studied at King's College, Cambridge (1967-70), the Royal Academy of Music (1970-72), and York University (1972-74). His principal teachers included Alan Bush and David Blake. From 1976 until 1995, Wallace was... |
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MOZART / SCHUMANN / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne Jozef & Rosina Lhevinne (piano) with Juilliard Orchestra, Members of the National Orchestra Assiociation [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol. 64 / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "These discs celebrate both an incomparable partnership and two Moscow Gold Medallists who achieved a legendary status in their separate careers." Gramophone |
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CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Rags Julia Migenes & Larry Kert / Members of the Original Broadway Cast [ Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 12/Jul/1991 ] Rags is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein (with revisions by David Thompson), lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and music by Charles Strouse. |
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ERNEST BLOCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh) Louis Berkman (baritone) / The Zemel Choir / Members of the London Chorale and the London Concord Singers / London Symphony Orchestra / Geoffrey Simon [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/1988 ] "Apart from the language of its ritual, the Sacred Service often sounds like Vaughan Williams. The music is four-square and at times obsessively contrapuntal, yet the scoring has a deftness and luminosity that may come as a surprise." Gramophone |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Girl Crazy Mary Martin & Jan Clayton / Members of the Original Broadway Cast [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Quintets Op 88 & Op 111 Members iof the Berlin Philharmonic Octet [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 20/Sep/1990 ] Recorded Berlin: December 1970 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Septet Op. 20 / Sextet Op. 81b Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, with Manfred Klier (horn) [ Philips Musica da Camera / CD - released 16/Dec/1989 ] Recorded in 1972 & 1968 |
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The Members
Uprhythm Downbeat [ Captain Oi Records / CD - released 24/Apr/2006 ] This U.K. impoerted disc is digitally remastered and expanded. |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: On The Town Nancy Walker, Adolph Green, Betty Comden / 1960 Cast (featuring four members of the original 1944 cast) [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 17/May/1998 ] On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music. |