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GEORGE GERSHWIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (highlights from the complete Opera) Willard White / Cynthia Haymon / Cynthia Clarey / London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Music / CD - released 15/Jun/1997 ] "A performance that entranced audiences at Glyndebourne and which crosses over to CD virtually intact, revealing what a great dramatic world Gershwin conjured up." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Score 2Cellos (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser), London Symphony Orchestra [ Sony / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] 2CELLOS, music's most electric and dynamic instrumental duo, go to the movies for their new album Score. Bringing 2CELLOS' game-changing sound and style to the most popular melodies ever written for classic and contemporary movies and television,... |
BEE GEES & OTHERS
Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever - The Musical Adam Garcia, Richard Colkin, Tara Wilkinson / Original London Cast [ Polydor / CD - released 28/Jan/1998 ] Saturday Night Fever is a 1998 jukebox musical based on the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. Its book is by Nan Knighton (in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas, and Robert Stigwood). |
EDWARD ELGAR / FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Piano Quintet / Sospiri / The Farm Yard / Delius: Violin Sonatas 1, 2, & 3 / Cello Sonata Alexander Barantschik, Janice Graham (violins), Israela Margalit (piano), Moray Welsh (cello), and soloists of the London Symphony Orchestra [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2000 ] "The performers are not a named group but, apart from the pianist, are all orchestral players from the LSO. They give a committed reading with a thoughtful approach to this contemplative, dignified work of Elgar's later years. " MusicWeb |
TCHAIKOVSKY / SARASATE / LALO / WIENIAWSKI / etc
The Bel Canto Violin Vol 4 Alfredo Campoli (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from... |
EDWARD ELGAR / MAX BRUCH / ARTHUR BLISS
The Bel Canto Violin Vol 5 Alfredo Campoli (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adian Boult, Arthur Bliss [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from... |
GERSHWIN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Andre Watts Andre Watts (piano) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Philips Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Vol 96 / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] A compilation of works performed by Andre Watts. There is some dazzling yet thoughtful Liszt, including Totentanz, and a spirited performance of the First Piano Concerto. |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos 1 / Violin Concerto Andrei Gavrilov (piano) Augustin Dumay (violin) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy / London Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tchakarov [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 21/Oct/1997 ] Andrei Gavrilov was born into a family of artists in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Gavrilov (May 30, 1923 - December 4, 1970), one of the eminent Russian painters during the middle of the 20th century, through whom Gavrilov also has German... |
HUBERT PARRY
Parry: The Soul's Ransom / The Lotos-Eaters / Blest pair of Sirens / Invocation to Music Anne Dawson / Della Jones / Arthur Davies / Brian Rayner Cook / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Matthias Bamert & Richard Hickox (conductors) [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "The choral singing and the playing of the LPO under Matthias Bamert is magnificent, ably championing these deserved revivals." Classic CD |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Hommage a Penderecki Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Lambert Orkis (piano) Roman Patkolo (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] In these intensely emotional performances, Mutter and Orkis respond to rapt audiences with playing of exceptional intimacy |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Britten/Khachaturian: Piano Concertos Annette Servadei (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Giunta [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "Servadei and Giunta with the LPO are more spacious in the Piano Concerto (taking three minutes longer overall) and often winningly sensitive, as in the quiet final statement of the first movement's main theme and the ''Waltz'' and ''Impromptu'' that... |
MONTY NORMAN
Norman: Songbook Anton Rodgers & Gemma Craven / Original 1979 London Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book and lyrics by Monty Norman and Julian More. The musical tells the improbable life story of a fictional songwriter, born in Liverpool in 1908, who... |
EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Grieg/Chopin/Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Arthur Rubinstein (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "There are new discoveries in the performances… …and the visual aspect is managed with sensitivity and intelligence." - Washington Post |
LUDWIG van BEEtHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Schnabel Artur Schnabel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Philips / EMI / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "All true Schnabelians will want to snap up this set, if only for the alternative recordings of the late sonatas" Gramophone |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky/Schumann: Piano Concertos Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel & Uri Segal [ Decca / CD - released 9/Apr/1986 ] "...the Tchaikovsky gets sonic and interpretive first prize. Its famous opening alone encapsulates everything that's good here: a razor-sharp orchestra...a pianist whose controlled bravura never turns the music into a stunt." ClassicsToday |
FRANZ KROMMER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Krommer: Symphonies Op 40 & Op 102 London Mozart Players, Matthais Bamert [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/1994 ] Franz Krommer (27 November 1759 - 8 January 1831) was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven whom he knew. |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Barber: Quiet City / 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson (with music and songs of Barber) Barbara Hendricks (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra. Michael Tilson Thomas [ EMI Encore / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] Encore - a specially priced reissued label |
GEORGE BENJAMIN
A Mind of Winter / Antara BBC Symphony, Mark Elder / London Sinfonietta, George Benjamin [ Nimbus Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "I love Mars Bars, I hate Wagner and I want to record your music!" With this memorable introductory gambit delivered to George Benjamin on New Year's Eve 1979, the founder of Nimbus, Count Alexander Numa Labinsky, began a twenty year exclusive... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Benita Valente (soprano) & Maureen Forrester (contralto) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Ardwyn Singers, BBC Welsh Chorus, Gilbert Kaplan [ Conifer The Kaplan Mahler Edition / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/1998 ] Gilbert Kaplan is a man with a mania and the means to indulge it. A wealthy publisher, he became obsessed with Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, learned to conduct it, hired an orchestra and choruses, and did a quite respectable job with it. |
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 1977) [CDs plus Blu-ray audio / Dolby Atmos] Teresa Berganza, Placido Domingo, Sherril Milnes, Ilena Cotrubas / Ambrosian Singers / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Jun/2020 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - Still a benchmark recording of the most famous opera of all, with an idiomatic assumption of the title role by Teresa Berganza and the young Plácido Domingo. |
