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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel Suite; May Night Overture; Tchaikovsky; Borodin; Glinka; Liadov / Markevitch

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-10-09

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), concert suite for orchestra; May Night; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32; Alexander Borodin: In the...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: ; Orchestre Lamoureux

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Markevitch's performances are excellent, with subtlety as well as pungency in The Golden Cockerel, dashing rhythmic precision in Russian and Ludmilla and a charmingly Weber-ish...continue...

Portrait: Claude Debussy [10 CDs]

10 CD / Red/membran / 2011-12-06

Works: Claude Debussy: La mer; Images for Orchestra; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), for orchestra, L. 86; Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; Petite su...
Performers: Agosti, Guido; Collart, Claudine; Cortot, Alfred; Danco, Suzanne; Gieseking, Walter; Gulda, Friedrich; Horowitz, Vladimir; Plantey, Bernard; Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Inghelbrecht, Désiré-Emile; Markevitch, Igor; Monteux, Pierre; Ansermet, Ernest; Mengelberg, Willem; Cluytens, André

Clara Haskil Edition [17 CDs]

17 CD / Decca / 2010-11-30

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 9 in E flat major, K 271 "Jeunehomme"; Concerto for Piano no 20 in D minor, K 466; Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in A major, K 386; Concerto for Piano n...
Performers: Grumiaux, Arthur [Violin]; Haskil, Clara
Conductors: Sacher, Paul; Paumgartner, Bernhard; Markevitch, Igor; Fricsay, Ferenc; Baumgartner, Rudolf; Swoboda, Henry; Otterloo, Willem Van; Zecchi, Carlo

This is the first comprehensive edition containing all of Clara Haskil's recordings for the Decca, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster labels. The 17-CD set is...continue...

Schubert: Symphony No. 3; De Falla, Roussel, etc / Igor Markevitch, et al

1 CD / Audite / 2009-06-26

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Franz Schubert: Symphony no 3 in D major, D 200; Manuel de Falla: Danza del molinero (from "El sombrero de tres picos"); Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Suite no 2; Modes...
Performers: Mascia Predit
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor

Igor Markevitch's analytical performances with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra present the Schubert Symphony in a new light and reveal the rhythmic structures of music by...continue...

Masterpieces Of The Russian Music

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-13

Works: Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila; Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; In the steppes of central Asia; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Ov...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor; Frémaux, Louis; Maazel, Lorin; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady

Collection Du Millenaire....continue...

Igor Markevitch in Italy - Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler

2 CD / Living Stage / 2004-04-03

Works: Johannes Brahms: Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op. 98; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; et al / Markevitch

1 CD / Archipel / 2003-11-07

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op. 60; Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz(es); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dances (6), K 509; Emmanuel Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comi...
Performers: Dermota, Anton; Edelmann, Otto; Wagner, Sieglinde
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Poulenc: Histoire De Babar

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2002-07-29

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Francis Poulenc: L'histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant, melodrama for narrator & piano (or orch...
Performers: Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]; Weissenberg, Alexis [Piano]
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor

Recording information: Salle Wagram, Paris (1965-1975)....continue...

Impressions

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2002-03-01

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Peer Gynt Suite no 2, Op. 55; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Erik Satie: Gymn...
Performers: Bohle, Walter; Flachot, Reine; Sitzius, Bianca; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Pesek, Libor; Markevitch, Igor; Rajski, Wojciech

Musical pictures of nature form the inspiration for this relaxing album of piano and orchestral masterworks by Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven and others....continue...

Fairy Music

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 1999-11-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a; Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un fa...
Performers: Souter, Martin
Conductors: Rainer, Christian; Scholz, Alfred; Markevitch, Igor; Rezucha, Bystrik; Siegel, Laurence Gordon

Classical music by the great composers inspired by fairies. Music inspired by fairies and fairy tales from the magical sounds of Mendelssohn's 'Scherzo' to the...continue...

Homage to Diaghilev / Igor Markevich, Philharmonia Orchestra

1 CD / Testament / 1997-07-10

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance, in D flat major J 260/Op. 65; Frédéric Chopin: Les sylphides, ballet (arrangement); Paul Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier; Manuel de Falla: Danza del...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"...For all their chill, Markevitch's performances are never inhibited.On the contrary, their mixture of poison and poise is consistently gripping, often angry, sometimes overpowering: indeed,...continue...

Géza Anda - Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1, etc; Saint-Saëns

1 CD / Testament / 1996-05-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124; Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, S 123; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals
Performers: Anda, Géza; Siki, Bela
Conductors: Ackermann, Otto; Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Bartok: Dance Suite; Ravel, Busoni, et al / Igor Markevitch

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: Béla Bartók: Dance Suite for Orchestra, Sz 77; Maurice Ravel: La valse; Erik Satie: Parade, ballet in 1 scene for orchestra; Ferruccio Busoni: Tanzwalzer, for orchestra, Op. 53, KiV 288; An...
Conductors: Markevitch, Igor
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"...the sound is so vivid and full of presence that much of the time you would swear it was stereo...An illuminating portrait of a conductor...continue...