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Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow, with Norma Burrowes, James Bowman, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd [ EMI Classics For Pleasure / CD - released 24/Sep/1990 ] Purcell's odes for Queen Mary show him at his best. A glorious succession of overtures, choruses, arias and delicious ritornelli display astonishing imagination and ingenuity: whilst overtly celebratory, never far beneath the surface lies the sense... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Richard II (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2015) Globe Theatre / Charles Edwards, Henry Everett, William Gaunt, Jonny Glynn , David Sturzaker [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father's vast states. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering... |
CHARLES IVES
Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition Helen Boatwright (soprano), Charles Ives (piano), Gregg Smith Singers, Thomas Stewart (baritone), American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, etc [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 18/Oct/2024 ] On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives - acclaimed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the "first great American composer", who, "all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution". |
MAX BRUCH / JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruch/Brahms: Violin Concertos Hideko Udagawa (violin) / The London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Originally recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, May, 1989 |
International Cast, includes Joanna Ampil, Charles Azulay, Hinton Battle, Peter Cousens, Kevin Gray, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Miss Saigon (complete recording) [ First Night / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/May/1988 ] The only official complete recording produced under the personal supervision of the original creators of the show. It includes the entire score played by a 73 piece orchestra and performed by a stella international cast |
BERNHARD HENRIK CRUSELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Crusell: The 3 Clarinet Concertos Emma Johnson (clarinet) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Günther Herbig, Charles Groves, Gerard Schwarz [ ASV / CD ] Recorded: 1986 Now only available elsewhere as download |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) / Chants pour choeur / Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale Kenneth Riegel (tenor) / Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus, Lorin Maazel / Choeur et l'orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Double Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1996 ] With comprehensive booklet and translation |
EDOUARD LALO / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Cello Concerto / Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 1 Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal,Charles Dutoit / Lynn Harrell (cello) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 12/Oct/1993 ] Original recordings from 1981 and 1986 (Lalo Cello) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Spain The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Music to illustrate the Golden Age: a selection of motets from sixteenth-century Spain culminating in Alonso Lobo's great funerary ode for Philip II, Versa est in luctum. |
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... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: "Haffner" Serenade / "Serenata Notturna" Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Telarc / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] Recorded in The Hall of Artists, Prague. July, 1987 |
HAYDN / TELEMANN / ALBINONI / HUMMEL / HANDEL / HERTEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Trumpet Concertos Maurice Andre (trumpet) / English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles MacKerras, etc [ EMI Classics Great Artists of the Century / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Maurice Andre is a superlative trumpet player...I don't remember the instrument as being anything like so docile and amenable as he makes it sound." (Gramophone) |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet - Carmen & L'Arlesienne suites Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [ Decca The Full Works / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] This is a re-issue of an outstanding "demonstration" disc featuring colourful French orchestral music....playing that is both elegant and vivid in superb, demonstration-worthy sound. |
JOHN BLOW
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Blow: Venus & Adonis Nancy Argenta (sop), Lynne Dawson (sop), Stephen Varcoe (bass) / London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Sep/1992 ] First performed before the court at Oxford in 1681, Venus and Adonis was presented as a "masque for the entertainment of the King" (Charles II). Like Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, it is in fact a true opera. |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV / FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Natalie Clein - Romantic Cello: sonatas Natalie Clein (cello) Charles Owen (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Recorded 17-20 April 2006 at Wathen Hall, St Paul's School, Barnes, London |
HERRMANN / NEWMAN / KORNGOLD / TIOMKIN / ROZSA / WAXMAN
Charles Gerhardt conducts Classic Film Scores National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt, with Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) & Norma Procter (contralto) [ RCA Red Seal / Sony music Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] In the 1970s, the Classic Film Scores series introduced a new generation to the sumptuous sound of music in Hollywood's "Golden Age." |
ERNEST BLOCH / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bloch: Schelomo / Bruch: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47, Canzone, Op. 55, Ave Maria, Op. 61 Ofra Harnoy (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 21/Jul/1991 ] "Ofra Harnoy (recorded 1990) is placed well out in front, yet Charles Mackerras's sympathetic accompaniment with a resplendent." The Strad |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Symphonies Nos 5, 8 (Completed by Brian Newbould) / Rosamunde: Incidental Music Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Virgin Classics Veritas / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] "Recommended listening - you do not need to be a period performance devotee to enjoy it." (MusicWeb Sept 2000) |
BERLIOZ / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / ROUSSEL / BIZET / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
The Legacy of Charles Munch Orchestre de la Société Philharmonique de Paris, L'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, London Philharmonic, Charles Munch [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - released 22/May/2020 ] The inspirational French maestro Charles Munch on disc: an unrivalled retrospective, covering three decades of incandescent music-making, including recordings new to CD and long unavailable, newly remastered and comprehensively documented. |
