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GABRIEL FAURE / ERNEST CHAUSSON / PAUL DUKAS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande / Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice / Chausson: Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2002 ] The best-loved French classics performed by the famous Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Neeme Järvi conducts Offenbach Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Nov/2015 ] "A melt-in-the-mouth confection, attractively played and presented; Järvi père is back on form at last." (MusicWeb Nov 2015) |
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas for solo bass (BWV 56, 82, 158) Peter Kooy (bass) La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] These three cantatas for bass solo are based on episodes from the life of Christ (the healing of the lame man, the presentation in the temple, scenes from the Passion) with implications of the benevolence and consolation of death. |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Carnival of the Animals (with Poulenc: Model Animals - Suite) Maurice Durufle (organ) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre [ EMI Classics Encore Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Original recording from 1964 & 1967 |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY / SERGE PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrushka, Pulcinella (suite), Divertimento (with works by Prokofiev) Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Igor Markevitch [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Mar/1989 ] Recorded 1954 - 1959 |
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DARIUS MILHAUD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milhaud: Conducts Milhaud... Marguerite Long (piano), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Orchestre National, L'Orchestre de la radiodiffusion Francaise, Darius Milhaud [ Dutton / CD - released 23/Jul/2001 ] "The Dutton label has done a wonderful service to the classical music buying public by making available historical recordings of composers conducting or performing their own work." |
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CAZZATTI / MONTEVERDI / FONTEI / VIADANA / ANONYMOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Philippe Jaroussky - Un Concert Pour Mazarin - talian music in 17th-century French manuscript collections Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) / Ensemble La Fenice, Jean Tubery [ Virgin Veritas / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "Tubéry's virtuosity is stunning" BBC Music |
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CHARLES GOUNOD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gounod: Saint Cecilia Mass / Petite Symphonie Pilar Lorengar, Heinz Hoppe, Franz Crass / Choeurs RenAC Duclos / Orchestre de la SociACtAC des Concerts du Conservatoire / Jean-Claude Hartemann / Jo [ EMI Encore / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] Reissued at a special price |
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PUCCINI / MASCAGNI / CILEA / LEONCAVALLO / GIORDANO
Piotr Beczala: Vincerò! Piotr Beczala (tenor), with Evgeniya Khomutova (mezzo) / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana , Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Marco Boemi [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2020 ] "BeczaĆa never needs to force unduly, yet there's plenty of emotion to these readings" Gramophone Recording of the Month June 2020 |
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PUCCINI / CILEA / MASCAGNI / UMBERTO / GIORDANO
Piotr Beczala: Vincerò! Piotr Beczala (tenor), with Evgeniya Khomutova (mezzo) / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana , Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Marco Boemi [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2020 ] Global star tenor Piotr Beczala presents Vincerò!, the first fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE. Vincerò! is a collection of heart-wrenching opera arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea. |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Otello (highlights, recorded in 1986) Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz / Milan La Scala Chorus & Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ EMI Studio / CD - released 18/Aug/1997 ] "I have no hesitation in making this set my first choice in this ever-potent opera. I have seldom heard a more tender, vulnerable Desdemona than Ricciarelli's, absolutely ideal in the many dolce, piano moments in the role, bringing tears to the eye." |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Otello (highlights, recorded in 1986) Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz / Milan La Scala Chorus & Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 18/Aug/1997 ] "I have no hesitation in making this set my first choice in this ever-potent opera" - Gramophone on the complete recording |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra La Scala Opera / Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria), etc / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Barenboim] delivers the kind of eloquently moulded, dramatically succinct phrases heard in his Wagner performances of late...[His] status as a Verdian outsider - and the fresh insights that come with that - is a genuine drawing card." |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516 Quatuor Van Kuijk; Adrien La Marca [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "Time and again, they seem to me to catch this music exactly where it speaks most powerfully: balanced perfectly - poignantly - between laughter and tears." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2020 |
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ALBINONI / CALDARA / CORRELLI / TARTINI / TORELLI / VIVALDI
The Italian Job: Baroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States Rachel Chaplin and Gail Hennessy (oboes) Peter Whelan (bassoon), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin / director) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "the whole underpinned by a scholarly attittude to programming and performance style which is yet worn with a light grace." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Baroque Insrumental |
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GRAUN / HASSE / HANDEL / LEGRENZI / VIVALDI / etc
Cleopatra - Baroque Arias Regula Mühlemann (soprano) / La Folia Barokorchester, Robin Peter Müller [ Sony Classical / CD - released 21/Sep/2017 ] "Mühlemann makes everything sound easy. But it's not just virtuosity, as the beauty of her voice also stops you in your tracks." BBC Music |
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GOUNOD / FRANCK / ADAM / FAURE / BERLIOZ / BOULANGER / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sanctus - Sacred Songs Roberto Alagna (tenor) / City Of Toulouse Choir, Les Petits Chanteurs À La Croix Potencée, City Of Toulouse Orchestra, Michel Olasson [ EMI Music / CD - released 1/Dec/1996 ] Recorded : Toulouse, Eglise Notre-Dame de la Daurade, 2-6.V.1996 |
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MOZART / GLUCK / CIMAROSA / BOLOGNE
Samuel Mariño - Sopranista Samuel Mariño (soprano) / La Cetra Barockorchester, Andrea Marcon [ Decca / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] "The words "radiant" and "pure" come to mind, with "thrilling" perhaps jumping in when the throat opens wide and the notes blaze away, fierce as the unfiltered rays of the summer sun." The Times |
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ARRIGO BOITO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boito: Mefistofele (Complete opera recorded in 1995) Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo La Scola, Michele Crider / Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Alla Scala, Milano, Riccardo Muti [ RCA Victor Red Seal / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1996 ] "Ramey was already a splendid Mefistofele...but here he is even more in command of the role, and has the advantage of Muti's masterly conducting. Crider is an affecting Margherita and La Scola a mellifluous Faust." Peformance & Sound: 5 (out of 5) |
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W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass in C Minor KV427 Sandrine Piau, Anne-Lise Sollied, Paul Agnew, Frederic Caton / Accentus / La Chambre Philharmonique / Emmanuel Krivine [ Naive / CD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] MARBECKS STAFF RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2006 - "Krivine offers a hard-edged reading, almost Bach-like in both its devotional austerity and its emphasis on the score's complex counterpoint...the choral singing and playing are admirably clear" (The... |