MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold - Concertos Michael Collins (clarinet) Richard Watkins (horn) Kenneth Sillito, Lyn Fletcher (violins) / London Musici, Mark Stephenson [ Conifer / CD - released 20/May/1990 ] "One of the most prolific British composers of the 20th century, Sir Malcolm Arnold remains best known for his phenomenal success in film and light music, as well as Concertos and Symphonies. |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN / SIGISMOND THALBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No.4 in D minor / Thalberg: Piano Concerto in F minor Michael Ponti (piano) / Philharmonia Hungarica, Othmar Maga / Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Kapp [ Vox Prima / CD - released 27/Jun/1987 ] Originally recorded in 1983 |
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Zoroastre (highlights) Nancy Deering, Lou Ann Wyckoff, Bruce Brewer / Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, Richard Kapp [ Vox Turnabout / CD - released 27/Jun/1987 ] Zoroastre, one of Rameau's major operas, never appeared in the edition of his "Complete Works" which date from early in the twentieth century, and consequently it was long in the shadows and passed over in favor of some of the published operas. |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker / Offenbach: Le Papillon (Complete Ballets) National Philharmonic Orchestra / London SymphonyOrchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Richard Bonynge has the feel of this music (Nutcracker) in his bones, and gives a warmly expressive performance...he plays the 'Divertissement' with splendid panache, and he is very good indeed in the Valse des Fleurs" Gramophone |
CARL MARIA von WEBER / HECTOR BERLIOZ / CHARLES LECOCQ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Invitaion to the Dance / Berlioz: Les Troyens Ballet Music / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot (Complete Ballet) National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/1985 ] A perennial best-seller in the catalogue, and much beloved of balletomanes, these vividly recorded ballet masterpieces were recorded at the Kingsway Hall, London, in 1983 |
LEO DELIBES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delibes: Sylvia (complete ballet), with Massenet: 'Le Cid' ballet National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Apr/1989 ] Original recording: Kingsway Hall, London, June 1972 (Sylvia) & January 1975 |
ADOLPHE ADAM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adam: Giselle [complete ballet] Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/2012 ] "Richard Bonynge's performance on Decca restores Adam's original and is a bit more strongly characterised, while the Decca sound has a slightly sharper and brighter profile." (Three Stars penguin Guide) |
ADOLPHE ADAM
Adam: Giselle (Complete Ballet) Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo, Richard Bonynge (cond) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/May/2007 ] "This may not be the greatest ballet music ever, but it is tuneful and enjoyable and the performance and recording more than adequate, especially at such a reasonable price" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
MITCH LEIGH
Leigh: Man of La Mancha Richard Kiley & Irving Jacobson / Original 1965 Broadway Cast Recording [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Recorder Sonatas Pamela Thorby (recorder) Richard Egarr (harpsichord) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Jul/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM "Better known as a member of the Palladian Ensemble, Pamela Thorby has given the recorder a status in the Baroque repertoire that it deserved to recapture. Childhood memories of the... |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: Dorothy [Operetta] Majella Cullagh, Lucy Vallis, Stephanie Maitland, Matt Mears, John Ieuan Jones / Victorian Opera, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Alfred Cellier was a contemporary of Arthur Sullivan as a Chapel Royal chorister, and would later conduct several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. With its rural tale of disguise and romantic scheming, its jaunty tunes, lively characters and... |
DONIZETTI / VERDI
An Evening With Pavarotti And Joan Sutherland (recorded at the Met in 1987) Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland with Leo Nucci and the Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 21/Mar/2008 ] Two of the greatest opera stars of the time, and long-term singing partners, Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, come together to perform four famous scenes from Acts I and III of Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III of La Traviata and Act III of... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Cello Concerto / Saxophone Concerto / Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet / etc Raphael Wallfisch (cello) John Turner (recorder) / Northern Chamber Orchestra & Manchester Sinfonia, Richard Howarth & Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] "The disc is a hands-down winner in the Naxos catalogue and slips nicely into the same rank occupied by Penny's symphonies." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2011) |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas Poetry Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas (narrators) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "He was greatly affected at the death of his favourite drinking companion, Dylan Thomas.....When Burton died in 1984 he was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems." - James Murray |
TECWYN EVANS / ANDREW BALDWIN / HELEN CASKIE / TIMOTHY HURD / etc
New Zealand Organ Music Richard Apperley (organ) [ Organism / CD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] This groundbreaking disc features organ music by some of New Zealand's most talented composers recorded on a variety of significant instruments around Wellington, performed by Richard Apperley, Assistant Director of Music at the Wellington Cathedral... |
Richard Ashcroft
Alone With Everybody [ Hut / CD - released 26/Jun/2000 ] |
ADOLPHE ADAM
Adam: Le Corsaire (complete ballet recorded in 1992) Richard Bonynge, English Chamber Orchestra [ Eloquence / Decca / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] For this 1990 Decca recording, Richard Bonynge included a divertissement in Act II, the Pas de fleurs (including the famous NailaWaltz), written by Léo Delibes (who had made his début as a ballet composer in La Sourcethe year before) for an 1867... |
Richard Buckner
Impasse (Reissue LP) [ Merge Records / LP - released 31/Mar/2017 ] The words are entrancingly cryptic, as if their simplicity conceals unfathomable depths. The music is sparse, almost whispered at times, like a secret. The title gives everything away, though. During the gestation of his 2002 album Impasse, which... |
SAMUEL COLRIDGE / DYLAN THOMAS / SHAKESPEARE / JOHN DONNE / THOMAS HARDY
Richard Burton: The Voice - In Poetry Richard Burton (reader) [ Alto / 2 CD - released 4/Jan/2017 ] "One of the most expressive and romantic acting voices, in selections of his own" |
Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Live in London, 2009 [ ViaVision Entertainment / DVD - released 19/Nov/2009 ] G :- Region 4 - Colour - PAL The Shadows are Britain's most successful (instrumental & vocal) group with at least 69 U.K. hit singles, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1950s to the 2000s. In fact they are the... |