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JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL
Songs of Passion Lea Desandre (mezzo) Thomas Dunford (lute), with with Alex Rosen (bass-baritone), Jess Dandy (contralto), Laurence Kilsby (tenor) [ Erato / CD - released 10/Sep/2025 ] With Songs of Passion, a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell - English composers born nearly a century apart - mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford and Ensemble Jupiter have created a companion... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator) LSO, Marin Alsop [ LSO / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Marin Alsop conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta based on Voltaire's satirical novella, in a performance that is full of dry wit, absurd humour, and stirring optimism. Marin Alsop leads... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL, arr BEECHAM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel arr. Beecham: The Gods Go A'Begging' / The Great Elopement / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Dutton / CD - released 20/Aug/1996 ] Digitally remastered from the original 78rpm shellac pressings |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Symphonies 39 - 41 (The Columbia recordings 1934 - 1940) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham [ Dutton Essential Archive / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Beecham formed the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 1930s and the recording of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" was one of the first recordings he made with the new orchestra. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky in America London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] Stravinsky spent over three decades in America, and the achievements of those years cannot be summarized in a single CD. This one, though, has been absorbingly programmed to chart the progress from his early years there, awkwardly coming to terms... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Requiem Lotte Hovman, Stephen Milling, Nina Pavlovski, Thomas Poulsen Kragh / Akademisk Kor, Akademisk Orkester, Morten Topp [ Scandinavian Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2002 ] Morten Topp was educated as a conductor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and studied music at the University of Copenhagen. He also trained with Arvid Janssons at the Music Academy in St. Petersburg. Topp currently lectures at the University of... |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder / 4 Orchestral Songs Marita Napier, Yvonne Minton, Jess Thomas / BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Recorded at West Ham Central Mission, London (26.X, 7-8.XI.1974) (Gurre-Lieder) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: If I Loved You - Love Duets from the Musicals Valerie Masterson, Thomas Allen / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards [ TER VIP Series / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] To have Valerie Masterson and Thomas Allen perform this recital of musical theater songs in the original stage orchestrations is indicative of a trend which is long overdue for the dissolution of the barriers between opera and musical theater. |
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 |
CHARLES IVES
Charles Ives Symphonies No.s 1 & 4 Michael Tilson Thomas, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus [ MUSIC ON CD / CD ] Charles Ives (1874-1954) was a late-Romantic composer with an important spiritual statement to make. His polyrhythms, "dissonance", etc, were only parts of the even more adventurous techniques he used in getting closer to the specific streams of... |
MOLTER / PLEYEL / MERCADANTE
MARBECKS COLELCTABLE: Molter, Pleyel & Mercandante: Clarinet Concertos Thomas Friedli (clarinet) / South-West German Chamber Orchestra, Paul Angerer [ Claves / CD ] Highly regarded recording by clarinetists and musicians interested in unusual repertoire. |
Music by Thomas Newman
1917 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Feb/2020 ] This is the x19 song, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the highly anticipated British-American war film, composed by the six-time Grammy award-winning composer Thomas Newman. Newman has composed the music to Skyfall, Tolkien, Spectre, Finding... |
JOHN ADAMS / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / DARIUS MILHAUD / IGOR STRAVINSKY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: New World Jazz New World Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Apr/1993 ] Recorded January 1997 at the Broward Center for Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale. Florida |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: St. John Passion (complete oratorio recorded in 2021) [CD + Blu-ray video in Dolby Atmos] Nick Pritchard, William Thomas, Alex Ashworth, Julia Doyle, Alexander Chance / The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon CDs + Blu-ray audio/Dolby Atmos / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Don't expect polish at every corner as one would a studio recording; both the deliberate and undeliberate rough edges are part of possibly the most incandescently full-blooded interpretation to date." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2022 |
NICCOLO PAGANINI
Hello Mr. Paganini: Violin Works Ning Feng (violin) Thomas Hoppe (piano) [ Channel SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Performed with this degree of finesse, Paganini's music takes on a surreal quality… it's an enthralling, exciting recital." Gramophone.. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Lieder / Scnes from Goethe's Faust Olaf Bar, Dame Janet Baker, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Juliane Banse, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hampson, etc [ EMI Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Celebrating Robert Schumann's 200th Anniversary with four CD sets from EMI's catalogue performed by many of the world's leading artists, orchestras and conductors. |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Savitri / 7 Part-Songs / Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda / etc Osian Ellis (harp) Janet Baker, Robert Tear & Thomas Helmsley / The Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "This classic performance will be difficult to better...Janet Baker gives a radiant and most moving interpretation of the title role" (Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - July 2011) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the Earth] Peter Seiffert (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics / CD - released 6/Nov/1997 ] "It's the feeling that throughout this extraordinary setting so much is suggested because so much is left out. Simple music of vast ambiguity. Rattle respects that." (Gramophone) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Famous Concertos [Includes 'Brandenburg Concertos'] Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Amsterdam Bach Soloists / Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion / Erik Bosgraaf, Ensemble Cordevento [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2021 ] "This is a most rewarding reissue. Even those lovers of baroque music who usually avoid modern instrument performances, should consider this disc at budget price." (MusicWeb Sept 2013 Violin Concertos) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos 2 & 4 / Serenade Melancolique / Melodie Pinchas Zukerman (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas / Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta [ Sony Records Masterworks / CD - released 23/Oct/1990 ] Original recordings from 1981 & 1985 |
