Rufus Wainwright
Out of the Game (Double LP) [ Decca Music Group / 2 LP - released 3/May/2012 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. The seventh studio album from one of the greatest contemporary songwriters, Rufus Wainwright. |
VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
Virtuoso Violin (Paganini, Wieniawski, Elgar, Sarasate, Hubay, Suk) Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Louis Persinger (piano) Ernest Lush (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2000 ] A 2-CD set (3LPs) which formed some of Ruggiero Ricci's earliest Decca recordings. |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphonies 1-3 / Aladdin Suite San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 12/Jul/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "The recording is very fine: the sound has plenty of room to expand, there is a very good relationship between the various sections of the orchestra and a realistic... |
LISZT
A Faust Symphony / Dante Symphony / Les Preludes / Prometheus Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor) Chicago Symphony / London Philharmonic / Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 12/Jul/2000 ] A 2-CD set offering Liszt's two powerful and dramatic symphonies. With their vivid "programme" material they make a strong coupling with two of the most famous pieces in the genre of "programme" music: the symphonic poems Les Préludes and Prometheus |
SCHUMANN
Symphonies 1-4 / Overtures Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] |
JOSEF HAYDN
6 String Quartets, op.76 Takacs String Quartet [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] "The ensemble is Hungarian and relatively youthful and they bring to this music a joyful directness that is entirely refreshing and in no way inhibits them from the necessary sufficient underlining of this point or lingering over that. Strongly... |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5 (Complete) Alexandre Toradze (piano) / Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 7/May/2012 ] "There are few more arresting and powerful accounts in the catalog, and Toradze plays with a forcefulness and authority that's suggestive of Martha Argerich." ClassicsToday |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Piano Adagios [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, Pascal Roge (pianos) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] An ideal collection for romantics everywhere! Over 2 1/2 hours of romantic piano music on one fantastic value double CD. |
W. A. MOZART
Wind Concertos Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) William Bennett (flute) John Mack (oboe) David McGill (bassoon) Barry Tuckwell (horn) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2000 ] "[de Peyer's] account remains as fine as any available, fluent and lively...Tuckwell at the time was proving a natural inheritor of the mantle of Dennis Brain. His easy technique, smooth, warm tone and obvious musicianship command allegiance" (Pengui |
STRAVINSKY
Petrouchka / Les Noces / The Rite of Spring / The Firebird L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classics 2002-Classic artists on a classic double album Various Artists featuring Russell Watson, Nigel Kennedy, John Barry, Kiri te Kanawa, Pavarotti, + [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2002 ] Showcasing the most popular artists in the classical world today |
MOVIE ADAGIOS
Movie Adagios - 2 CDs of all those beautiful moments in recent popular movies Various artists incl David Zinman / Radu Lupu / Renata Tebaldi / Lucia Popp [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2001 ] "Altogether, this double CD was pleasurable to listen to and a nostalgic reminder of the many films featured in it." (MusicWeb March 2002) |
J. S. BACH
Essential Bach (36 greatest masterpieces) Various orchestras and performers [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 8/Apr/2000 ] Two CDs of the very best of Bach! |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky / The Stone Flower / Suites from: Lieutenant Kija, Love for Three Oranges, etc. Various orchestras conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy / Silvio Varviso / Charles Dutoit / Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 3/Jan/2003 ] This programme includes such rarities as the early orchestral tone-poem Dreams and excerpts from the equally rarely heard Stone Flower. |
SPOHR
Spohr - Piano Quintet, Double Quartet, Octet & Nonet (recorded 1959 - 1969) Vienna Octet, with Walter Panhofer (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "The players sound as if they know [the Spohr Octet] inside out; the interpretation has matured, gaining in precision and also in insouciance" Gramophone |
WAGNER
The number one Wagner album: over 2 hours of favourites Vienna Philharmonic chorus and orchestra / Sir Georg Solti [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2009 ] The classic Solti recordings of choruses and orchestral music from the Wagner operas. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonies 4 - 6 / Hamlet Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ] This wonderful set contains Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies and the Hamlet Fantasy Overture. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Works [Incls Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3] Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Classic Rachmaninov/Ashkenazy recordings on one double CD set. 144 minutes playing time! |
SCHUMANN
Piano Music [Incls kreisleriana & Humoreske] Alexander Ghindin (piano) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy (Conductor) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes and Ballades Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 15/May/2004 ] "In his sense of wonder Ashkenazy never disappoints. The magic and mystery of this music emerge in a way I can only describe as hypnotic." (Gramophone) |