Music From Marlboro: Six Songs / Four Moravian Duets, Op. 20 / Six Duets, Op. 63

Released in 1967 as part of the Columbia Masterworks series, this recording captures a quintessential performance from the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Established in 1951 by Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, and Marcel Moyse, the festival became a world-renowned center for chamber music, known for its rigorous rehearsals and collaborative atmosphere. This specific disc features a collection of vocal and instrumental works by Dvořák and Mendelssohn, showcasing the festival's emphasis on bringing together established masters like Serkin and Casals with burgeoning young talents.

The album serves as a document of the Marlboro aesthetic, which prioritized musical intimacy and structural depth over the polish of studio-recorded commercial projects. By presenting these specific duets and songs in a live-performance setting, the record label sought to preserve the spontaneity and intellectual rigor of the Vermont sessions. The release was well received by contemporary critics as a refined example of the chamber music tradition, capturing the precise, nuanced dialogue between the vocalists and instrumentalists that defined the Marlboro school of performance.