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![Gerhard: The Plague / Walton: Facade / Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat [The Soldier's Tale] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10588/10588808.jpg)
ROBERTO GERHARD / WILLIAM WALTON / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Gerhard: The Plague / Walton: Facade / Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat [The Soldier's Tale] Alec McCowen, Glenda Jackson, Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Scofield (narrators) / National Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, etc [ Australian Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A trio of twentieth-century classics, sardonic and timely tales, in long-unavailable Decca/Argo recordings from the 1970s. |
VERDI / PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / SPONTINI
Anita Cerquetti - Recital Anita Cerquetti (soprano) / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] A famous Decca operatic recital, long unavailable, celebrating the thrilling voice and short-lived career of a soprano who set operatic stages alight in the late 1950s. |
BEETHOVEN / FUCIK / SUPPE / JOHANN STRAUSS / SCHRAMMEL / etc
20 Favourite Marches Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan. [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 13/Apr/1993 ] Herbert von Karajan turns his attention to the swaggering pomp of favourite marches by the 'other' Strauss family and many others in this good natured and emblazoned romp. |
BIRGIT NILSSON
La Nilsson (arias and songs by Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, Gounod, etc) Birgit Nilsson (soprano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Edward Downes (with Ake Leven, organ) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] One of the greatest soprano legends of all time, Nilsson's 1963 Decca recital with Sir Edward Downes of popular opera arias by Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, et.al. has never been fully issued. Here it is on CD - issued complete for the first time and in... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 'Spring', 7 & 8 Dene Olding (violin), Max Olding (piano). [ ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2000 ] Maxwell Charles Olding AM was born on 4 July 1929. His career has embraced conducting symphonic, choral, operatic and theatre works as well as teaching, administration and as organist and choirmaster. In 1950, at age 21, he was appointed an... |
CARISSIMI / VIVALDI / GLUCK / CALDARA / HANDEL / etc
Arie Antiche: songs and arias Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Sir Neville Marriner [ SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] The sequence of Italian operas on this recording take us from the birth of opera at the end of the sixteenth century to the first flowerings of the Classical period nearly 200 years later. The extraordinary power and agility of Dmitri Hvorostovsky's... |
RICHARD WAGNER
George London sings Wagner George London (bass-baritone) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch & Sir Georg Solti [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] " These are not merely good performances: they have that intense, imaginative re-recreation of the music which lifts them out of that category." (Gramophone) |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / KREISLER / etc
Ida Haendel - The Decca Legacy Ida Haendel (violin) with Ivor Newton (piano) Adela Kotowska (piano) National Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca Eloquence / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2020 ] "That special, spontaneous warmth of response … places Haendel's Tchaikovsky performance for Decca among the finest recordings ever made of this wonderful concerto." Gramophone, July 1999 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1962) Joan Sutherland, Carlo Bergonzi, Robert Merill / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Sir John Pritchard [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2012 ] "Sutherland's performance puts lovely things in the listener's way at every stage" (Gramophone) |
ADAM / MASSENET / BIZET / BONONCINI / GRAUN / WAGNER / LEHAR / etc
Opera Gala Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Irma Kolassi, Janine Micheau, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Richard Conrad, Lisa della Casa, Kirsten Flagstad, etc [ Decca Eloquence / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2020 ] From Adam to Zandonai, from 1954 to 1996, 20 CDs made up of no less than 28 Decca opera recordings, most of them recorded as highlights albums, many long unavailable, newly remastered and all featuring the greatest singers of their age. |
![The Art of the Prima Ballerina [2 CD set] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10529/10529769.jpg)
BRITTEN / AUBER / BURGMULLER / DRIGO / MASSENET / ROSSINI / etc
The Art of the Prima Ballerina [2 CD set] London Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic / Richard Bonynge [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] "[Bonynge] has a nice sense of rubato, and plenty of verve when this is called for. … The recording is extremely vivid" Gramophone Magazine |
TRADITIONAL / SCHUBERT / VERDI / RAVEL / etc
Margaret Price in Recital Margaret Price (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with James Lockhart & Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] A song recital new to CD from a peerless lyric soprano, coupled with classic recordings of Ravel and Verdi. In 1971 Andrew Porter wrote that Margaret Price's voice was among the things that make one 'glad to be alive'. In the 1960s she had... |
BIZET / CHABRIER / TCHAIKOVSKY / IBERT / DELIBES / POULENC / etc
Roger Desormiere - The Decca Recordings National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Roger Desormiere, with Janine Micheau, soprano [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Jun/2020 ] A landmark tribute to Roger Désormière, a great French conductor of the mid-twentieth century, including many recordings new to CD. |
![Stories for Christmas [includes 'The Small One' & 'The Happy Prince'] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10585/10585291.jpg)
Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Laughton, Gregory Peck, Loretta Young (narrators)
Stories for Christmas [includes 'The Small One' & 'The Happy Prince'] [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "For the Christmas stocking, Ronald Colman as Scrooge and Charles Laughton as Mr. Pickwick … would be perfect." Gramophone, January 2006 (A Christmas Carol, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Spanish Romances Pilar Lorengar (soprano) with Siegfried Behrend (guitar) & Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/May/2017 ] "A record that offers playing of this quality can hardly be ignored" Gramophone on Granados |
SCHUMANN / WOLF / DEBUSYY / POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Regine Crespin - In Recital Regine Crespin (soprano) John Wustman (piano) [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] The larger-than-life Régine Crespin, made only one song recital record for Decca, of music by Schumann, Wolf, Debussy and Poulenc. This is the first time the entire recital has been made available on CD. As her career progressed, Crespin became... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Waltzes & Arias / Folk Songs & Lullabies Rita Streich (soprano) / RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Kurt Gaebel [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] 'A voice so bright that an inner light radiates in her singing, Streich is pure pleasure to listen to … Highly recommended' Fanfare |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 1958) Marianne Schech, Kurt Böhme, Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Chor der Staatsoper Dresden, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2016 ] "Seefried is essential listening for lovers of great singing" (The Guardian) |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Four Violin Concertos Roberto Michelucci (violin) Felix Ayo (violin) Leo Driehuys (oboe) / I Musici [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 22/Nov/2003 ] "A pleasing conspectus of I Musici's evolving approach to Bach playing at the dawn of the 1960s." (MusicWeb July 2002) |
MOZART / GLUCK / CHERUBINI / HAYDN / PERGOLESI
Teresa Berganza - Eighteenth-Century Portraits Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Félix Lavilla (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] 'This has always been one of Teresa Berganza's most attractive records.' Opera, September 1968 (Mozart arias) |
BADINGS / BRITTEN / HINDEMITH / POOT / WELLESZ
20th-century Chamber Music (recorded 1956 - 1971) Vienna Octet [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "The performances are at once lively and relaxed, in the best Viennese tradition" (Wellesz, Badings) Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620 (Highlights from the complete opera) Walter Berry, Kurt Bohme, Hilde Gueden, August Jaresch, Wilma Lipp, Emmy Loose, Leopold Simoneau / Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Bohm [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] " Böhm performed Die Zauberflöte as a sublime work of transcendent humanity... Decca's 1955 sound is clear and evocative" AllMusic.com |
FRANZ LISZT / JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Agnelle Bundervoet - Complete Recordings on Decca France Agnelle Bundervoet (piano) [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Three exceptionally rare Decca LPs of a much prized French pianist, newly remastered and released on CD for the first time. |
HAYDN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Albert Ferber - Decca Recordings 1945 - 1951 Albert Ferber (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] "Albert Ferber is very successful at catching the changing moods of the music … His scale passages are beautifully even and his singing tone is a joy." Gramophone, March 1947 (Beethoven) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / SARASATE / LALO / WIENIAWSKI / etc
The Bel Canto Violin Vol 4 Alfredo Campoli (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from... |
DOHNANYI / TARTINI / KREISLER / WIENIAWSKI / DEBUSSY / etc
The Bel Canto Violin Vol 3: Violin Encores Alfredo Campoli (violin) / George Malcolm, Eric Gritton (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from... |
EDWARD ELGAR / MAX BRUCH / ARTHUR BLISS
The Bel Canto Violin Vol 5 Alfredo Campoli (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adian Boult, Arthur Bliss [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from... |
CHOPIN
Emil Gilels plays Chopin Emil Gilels (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "richly eloquent and beautiful' [Sonata No. 3] … 'The Polonaises combine warmth with sturdiness … The disc is exemplary in quality of recorded sound" (Gramophone) |
PETER SCULTHORPE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sculthorpe: The Fifth Continent / Port Arthur: In Memoriam / Djilile / Piano Concerto / Earth Cry / etc Anthony Fogg (piano) / Tasmanian & Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn / Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble / Peter Sculthorpe (speaker) [ ABC Classics Australian Eloquence / CD - released 30/Jan/1999 ] A delightful selection of works by this renowned Australian composer. |
BERLIOZ / HAYDN / MUSSORGSY-RAVEL / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / BEETHOVEN
Colin Davis: The Concertgebouw Legacy Arthur Grumiaux, Salvatore Accardo (violin) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Colin Davis's complete Concertgebouworkest recordings for Philips, collected together for the first time CD premieres of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 84, 86, 87, 88 (on Decca), and the Dvořák Romance with Accardo (first international CD release). |
EDWARD GRIEG / KARL GOLDMARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Symphony in C minor / Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Karsten Andersen / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2006 ] 'The Decca recording is truthfully balanced, with good perspective and colour, and detail reproduces with fine definition' [Grieg] Penguin Guide |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Arias Bernadette Greevy (contralto), Joan Sutherland (soprano), William Herbert (tenor), Hervey Alan (bass), Forbes Robinson (bass) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2017 ] "An earlier generation of superb Handelians, led by Joan Sutherland, Bernadette Greevy's opulent contralto, William Herbert's textured tenor and the refulgent basses of Hervey Alan and Forbes Robinson." BBC Music |
BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH
Borodin / Tchaikovsky / Shostakovich: String Quartets Borodin String Quartet / Gabrieli String Quartet [Tchaikovsky] [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2019 ] "a magnificent disc which I enjoyed very much […] the sound quality is as splendid as the playing" (Gramophone) |
![Fiedler Encores [Includes 'Finlandia', 'Send in the Clowns' & Theme from 'Jaws'] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10137/10137749.jpg)
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fiedler Encores [Includes 'Finlandia', 'Send in the Clowns' & Theme from 'Jaws'] Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2018 ] 'Collections of encores do not usually show such originality in compilation as this well-balanced programme … Fiedler invests Finlandia with an imposing sonority.' Gramophone, June 1978 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music / etc (with Mozart: Epistle Sonatas) Boyd Neal Orchestra, Philomusica of London, Thurston Dart (organ & conductor) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Handel orchestral favourites from the 1950s in a winning combination of old-school polish and unaffected stylistic refinement. With this and several other albums, Eloquence celebrates the art of Thurston Dart, the harpsichordist, conductor and... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
From Darkness To Light Catherine Hewgill (cello) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 'Decca's peerless production values make this both a fine tribute to the veteran pianist and a superb debut disc for Hewgill' Daily Telegraph |
![Children's Classics [incls 'Peter & the Wolf' & 'Carnival of the Animals'] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10117/10117052.jpg)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / etc
Children's Classics [incls 'Peter & the Wolf' & 'Carnival of the Animals'] Beatrice Lillie (narrator), Kenneth McKellar, Julius Katchen (piano). Gary Graffman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Skitch Henderson [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Feb/2000 ] "it will appeal to children of all ages... a collector's item" (Penguin Guide) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Rarities (incls 'Voices for Today' & 'Bottom's Dream') Choir of King's College / John Hahessy (boy alto) / Peter Pears (tenor) / Pamela Bowden (contralto) / Sir Geraint Evans (baritone) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "Britten's underrated United Nations anthem Voices for Today makes it onto disc at last, together with vintage recordings of artists the composer chose to work with." (BBC Music) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, 8 & 9 Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Eduard van Beinum [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Eduard van Beinum's performances of Bruckner were extraordinary in a most inconspicuous way. He never took liberties with the score, did not like to exaggerate, was spontaneous, and always strove to achieve the crucial transitions in Bruckner's work... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / HENDRIK ANDRIESSEN
Bernard Haitink: The Early Years (recorded 1960 - 1963) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] The pre-eminent maestro of our day, caught in little-known studio recordings from the very beginning of his career, including first releases on CD of Beethoven and Mendelssohn recordings. In an original and valuable documentary essay which serves... |
