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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Olli Mustonen (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jul/2017 ] "The performance does include a spectacular Toccata at its centre, and the Larghetto has grandiosity" International Piano |
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CHARLES KOECHLIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Koechlin: The Jungle Book Johan Botha (tenor) Ralf Lukas (baritone) iris Vermillion (mezzo) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra [ RCA / 2 CD - released 3/Nov/1994 ] CD released in 1994; DDD recordings from June 1993. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Burleske / Serenade / Tod und Verklärung Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck; Nelson Goerner [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "Goerner opens with blistering energy...Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France offer dramatic and characterful support." Gramophone |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Egmont Op. 84 [Complete incidental music] / Leonora Overture No 3 Miriam Gauci (soprano) Dirk Schortemeier (speaker) / Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "His performance of the complete Egmont music is what one would expect from a Swarowsky pupil: complete command over his forces, a sweeping style and good attention to detail." |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin/Ravel: Piano Concertos Pascal Roge (piano) / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Bertrand de Billy conductor [ Oehms Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/May/2005 ] "I had many apartments, but I was at home at the piano," George Gershwin once revealed. |
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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos / Overture / Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "Bacewicz's music certainly thrives on its high metabolic rate, its impatience, even, for which this brilliantly executed new album makes no apology." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Concerto |
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SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in A Minor (arranged from the Cello Concerto) / Violin Sonata No. 2 Philippe Graffin (violin) / Deutsche Radio Philharmonie / Christoph Poppen [ Onyx / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Most of [the transcription] works well enough...and there are even one or two gains...Graffin makes a very appealing case for it" BBC Music Magazine, November 2010 **** |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martinu/Schnittke: Concertos for Two Pianos Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov / Radio-Phiharmonie Hannover des NDR, Eiji Oue [ CPO / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] "This disc contains outstanding performances of both major works. The Clinton-Narboni Duo on Elan recently set the standard in Martinu's wonderful Concerto for Two Pianos, but this performance is every bit as good, and happily quite different. Rather... |
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YVES PRIN
Prin: Dioscures / Ephemeres / Le souffle d'Iris Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute) / Philippe Graffin (violin) / Pascal Post (clarinet) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] French contemporary music from Naxos |
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Piotr Becz
Slavic Opera Arias Piotr Beczala, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Lukasz Borowicz [ ORFEO / CD - released 30/Jun/2010 ] |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [(ncls Symphony No. 2] The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Piotr Paleczny (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "An excellent disc at bargain price.": BBC Music |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Szymanowski: Concert Overture / Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kasprzyk & Jerzy Semkow [ EMI Classics Matrix / CD - released 10/Jul/1994 ] "The Third Symphony Song of the Night...It is a passionate performance of an intense and beautiful work - the tenor, Wieslaw Ochman, is deeply convincing, and the orchestra and chorus are committed to a highly charged performance." MusicWeb |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Overtures (Incl. Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52 & Manfred, Op. 115) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Johannes Wildner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "Has anyone ever put these pieces together before? It's a good idea, sparing one the need of picking them up as fillers which can be expensive." - Fanfare |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.10 (reconstructed by Joe Wheeler) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Olson [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] "Naxos deserves credit for making this project available at a price that every Mahlerian can afford, and it's hard to imagine any true lover of this composer not giving this admirably realized interpretation (on Olson's part) a very serious listen." |
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Porridge Radio
Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] Recorded in the Somerset countryside in early 2024 by longtime Big Thief and Laura Marling engineer Dom Monks, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is Porridge Radio's new album and first new music in two years. The UK band's new album... |
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Radio Citizen
Marbecks Rare: Hope & Despair [ Ubquity / CD - released 7/Feb/2011 ] |
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GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American' / 'Tom Sawyer' Overture / etc Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Hugh Wolff [ CPO / CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] "George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of Transatlantic, the opera acclaimed there in 1930" Gramop |
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BRUNO MANTOVANI / PASCAL DUSAPIN / WOLFGANG RIHM
Renaud Capuçon plays Three Modern Concertos Renaud Capucon (violin) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2016 ] "All three of these violin concertos were composed expressly for Renaud Capuçon, and all take his fiercely impassioned lyrical playing as their starting point." Guardian |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Antigone, Op. 55 Rene Pape (baritone) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin), Stefan Soltesz [ Capriccio / CD - released 10/Nov/1993 ] Incidental Music to the Tragedy of Sophocles for speakers, solo bass, two male choruses and orchestra. |