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JOHN IRELAND
Ireland: The Piano Concerto / Indian Summer / A Sea Idyll / etc John Lenehan (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "John Ireland's Piano Concerto of 1930 receives a thoroughly sympathetic, lucid performance, as does the ominously darker Legend of three years later...A delightful disc." (Daily Telegraph) |
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ALKAN / BUSONI / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - John Ogdon I John Ogdon (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniell Revenaugh [ Philips / EMI / Philips / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Recordings made between 1960 & 1971 |
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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 |
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JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings / Elizabethan Dances / The Innumerable Dance Jonathan Small (oboe) / Eleanor Hudson (harp) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "Recording is natural without being distanced and performances evince commitment and sympathy. The unique experience of hearing more than sixteen minutes of previously unrecorded Alwyn" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Dec 2006) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pieces Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth [ Philips / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Julian Lloyd Webber made his professional debut as a cellist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss. |
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Plays Andrew Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth [ Philips / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "Fans of the Lloyd Webbers shouldn't be disappointed." --Warwick Thompson |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi, An English Mass Julie Kennard, soprano / John Mark Ainsley, tenor / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra / Vernon Handley, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/May/2005 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Arias Kathleen Battle (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn [ EMI / CD - released 1/Feb/1986 ] "This is one of Kathleen Battle's first recordings for EMI, and one of her best. She performs it with virtuosity and elegance, without operatic hyperbole. Battle's voice is one of the most recognisable of all sopranos. It sounds clean and unforced." |
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JOHN IRELAND / FRANK BRIDGE / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ireland/Bridge/Walton - Works for Piano and Orchestra Kathryn Stott (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Conifer / CD ] "The recording is powerful - listen to the RPO horns at 24:30 and to Stott's obsidian verve at 24:03. Every detail emerges unmistakably. This is music that is both angry and grimly atmospheric" MusicWeb on the Frank Bridge |
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SIR EDWARD ELGAR
The Best of Elgar (Incls 'Nimrod' variation & 'Pomp and Circumstance' March Nos 1 & 4) Maria Kliegel (cello) Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Edward Elgar was arguably the leading English composer of his generation and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. Born in the West of England in 1857, the son of a piano-tuner and owner of a music shop, he earned his earlier... |
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Violin Concerto / Miss Julie Suite / etc Lorraine McAslan (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "Lloyd-Jones and McAslan give admirable shape to the long, rhapsodic first movement...[the] technically demanding finale is performed with agile warmth by McAslan whose attractive tone and expressive style seem entirely in tune with this distinctive... |
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KARL GOLDMARK / ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony / Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 72 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Original recordings from 1981 (Rustic Wedding Symphony), and, 1984 (Slavinic Dances) |
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FRANZ BERWALD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berwald: Piano Concerto, Violin concerto, Festival of the Bayaderes, etc Marian Migdal (piano) Arve Tellefsen (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,Ulf Bjorlin [ EMI Classics Maxtrix 1 / CD - released 1/Mar/1994 ] Berwald was born in Stockholm and came from a family with four generations of musicians; his father, Christian Friedrich Georg Berwald a violinist in the Royal Opera Orchestra, taught Franz the violin from an early age; he soon appeared in concerts.... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: Brigg Fair, On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring, Summer night on the river, etc Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "A record to treasure. The greatest recordings made in stereo by the greatest British conductor at the peak of his career." - Gramophone |
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CLARKE / BACH / MOZART / HAYDN / ALBINONI / MARCELLO
A Portrait Maurice Andre (trumpet) with Jan Parker-Smith, Alfred Mitterhofer (organ), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Erato / Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "(These recordings serve, not only,) as an index of the trumpeter's fabulous chops, but also his sense of fantasy and imagination, his concern for colour, and his spurning of velocity and virtuosity for their own sakes." (MusicWeb) |
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CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Norma Burrowes, Louis Devos, John Shirley-Quirk / Brighton Festival Chorus, Southend Boy's Choir, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Carmina Burana is one of those pieces that almost always goes well. In fact, you have to work at giving a bad performance. Dorati's reading is one that makes a good case for Orff's masterpiece, even if it doesn't aspire to the heights of Eugen... |
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FERDINAND HEROLD / CHARLES LECOCQ
Herold: La Fille Mal Gardee / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot (Complete Ballets) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Lanchbery / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/May/2007 ] "Here, with sound of spectacular Decca digital fidelity, Lanchbery conducts a highly seductive account of the complete ballet with an orchestra long familiar with playing it in the theatre." (Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Pineapple Poll / Henry VII / Victoria and Merrie England Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "its glowing ambience casts a pleasing bloom over the spirited and elegantly polished playing of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Mackerras conducts with great warmth" Penguin Guide (Pineapple Poll) |