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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 7/Apr/2023 ] "All in all, this is an album that reaffirms Grosvenor's status as one of the most accomplished pianists around." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Elim Chan [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "It's the kind of disc that makes you rethink these works and appreciate them all over again. And let's hope that this is the start of a wonderful recording partnership with Elim Chan." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Concerto |
VINCENZO BELLINI / GIOACHINO ROSSINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI
Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with James Levine (piano) [ Decca Originals / CD - released 15/Feb/2009 ] In 2007/08, Bartoli devoted her time to studying and recording the early 19th-century repertoire - the era of Italian Romanticism and bel canto - and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran. |
HANDEL / GLUCK / VIVALDI / MOZART / ROSSINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Bryn Terfel (bass) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Oct/2002 ] "Reaching out to the ears and to the heart, a fine round-up of Bartoli's opera triumphs." (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 / Piano Concerto No. 2 Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell / Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch [ Decca Heritage Masters / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann - Liederkreis, Op 39 / Frauenliebe und leben (with Berg - Seven Early Songs) Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] "Dorothea Röschmann's voice is now, surely, one of the most beautiful in the lyric soprano range…it is shown almost to perfection in this gorgeous recital disc…the perfect Lieder recital" BBC Music |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Sir Arthur Bliss: the Decca Originals Eileen Joyce (piano) Alfredo Campoli (violin) Griller Quartet (string quartet), Colin Hampton (cello), Philip Burton (viola) / Sir Arthur Bliss, Muir [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] "This is a convenient, well-transferred compilation of some of the finest performances of music by a still-underrated composer. Bliss's version of the Colour Symphony is better paced than many of its successors." BBC Music |
WOLF / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS
Helen Watts - Lieder Recital Helen Watts (contralto), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] Presented on CD for the first time and newly remastered, a pair of Romantic Lieder recitals by the Welsh contralto who inherited the mantle of Kathleen Ferrier. |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / KREISLER / etcc
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 |
TRADITIONAL / RAVEL / SCHUBERT / DEBUSSY / MASSENET / etc
Irma Kolassi - The Decca Recitals Irma Kolassi (mezzo-soprano) with André Collard (piano) Jacqueline Bonneau (piano), etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2019 ] "Here is a lovely record. Far from becoming bored by repeated playing of it, I have found my response to the music and the interpretation steadily grow" Gramophone |
GERSHWIN / BARBER / BEACH / COLERIGDE-TAYLOR / COPLAND
Isata Kanneh-Mason - Summertime Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 6/Sep/2021 ] "'Summertime' indeed, from a profound and greatly gifted artist who radiates warmth, joy and much-needed musical sunshine." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2021 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5 "Spring" Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Feb/1976 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Jan Smeterlin Plays Chopin Jan Smeterlin (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2020 ] Jan Smeterlin was a born Chopin interpreter on home soil. Presented here is a collection that includes rare and previously unissued recordings. Writing to Gramophone in 1965, a Royal Navy Commander stationed in India made an impassioned plea: I have... |
FALLA / SUK / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / TCHAIKOVSKY etc
12 Stradivari Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "What emerges from this comparative listening odyssey...is simply an even richer love and admiration for Jansen's own artistry." - Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2021 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/Dec/2023 ] Jean-Yves Thibaudet's classic recording of Debussy's Preludes with Vivienne Westwood created artwork. One of Vivienne Westwood's last creations before she died in December 2022, the design includes a personal tribute from Jean-Yves to Vivienne... |
MARIANELLI / COUPERIN / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / BRAHMS / etc
Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Carte Blanche Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 9/Oct/2021 ] "Thibaudet gifts us a glorious collection to celebrate his special birthday. This is a delightful album and one which I will return to again and again. The playing is first class and that these pieces mean so much to him shines through every note" MW |
FLORENCE PRICE
Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement / Symphony No. 1 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chineke! Orchestra, Leslie Suganandarajah, Roderick Cox [ Decca / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] "[Kanneh-Mason's] playing is vigorous and authoritative. Price could have no more persuasive an advocate...Chineke! Orchestra's woodwind, especially, shine in these lively performances" The Guardian |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Works (nine CD set) Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca Budget Boxes / 9 CD Box Set - released 26/May/2001 ] All Bolet's solo Liszt recordings in one box at a special price |
CHOPIN / BALAKIREV / BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen I Julius Katchen (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen (August 15, 1926 - April 29, 1969) was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works. |
BEETHOVEN / DOHNANYI / RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen II Julius Katchen (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Julius Katchen's career ended prematurely when cancer claimed him at age 42. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto; Fantasie in C Op 17 Julius Katchen (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux & Janos Ferencsis. Israel Philharmonic. Istvan Kertesz [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2004 ] "An exciting account of the solo piano part [of Brahms' Piano Concerto No.2], here combining tremendous drive with the kind of ruminating delicacy Brahms so often calls for." Penguin Guide To Compact Discs |
CESAR FRANCK / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Franck/Debussy: Sonatas for violin and piano (with Ravel-Introduction & Allegro for flute, viola and harp / Ravel: Introduction Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Radu Lupu (piano) Osain Ellis (harp) / Melos Ensemble [ DECCA / CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Osian ellis and the melos Ensemble provide all those qualities in spades, and Decca's recording captures their interpretation in warm, clear sound." (AFC 1001 Classical) |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] 'This is the outstanding Lise Davidsen recording many of us who've experienced the phenomenon live have been waiting for...The partnership with Leif Ove Andsnes doubles the pleasure.' BBC Music - Choral & Song Choice Feb 2022 |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Marco Decimo (cello)
Una Mattina [ Decca Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2004 ] Una Mattina features Einaudi on solo piano and includes three pieces with cello. The sound of the piano is very pure and warm, with a melodic quality that shines through the whole album as a spiritual guide, like a haunting and mesmerizing human voice. |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Ludovico Einaudi - Underwater [ Decca Universal / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "Sure, it's unintrusive and its seeming meanderings might appear simplistic. But for me that's the beauty of it…It all feels as if you're party to an intimate exchange - the composer in private communion with the piano." BBC Music |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: Islands - The Essential Einaudi (Deluxe Edition) Ludovico Einaudi (piano) [ Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "Islands' ability to stir up emotions with just a few chords shows that his works are far from easy listening fodder." Allmusic |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
In a Time Lapse (Special Edition) Ludovico Einaudi (piano), with guest Daniel Hope (violin) [ Decca / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] "It's not hard to understand why Ludovico Einaudi is one of the world's most successful living classical composers: there's a deeply satisfying emotional logic to his piano-based progressions that makes him as much the inheritor of Chopin and Satie... |
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... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Schubert: Schwanengesang / Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Mark Padmore (tenor), Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] 'If her performance comes across as a breathtakingly extravagant display of intellect and imagination, that's because this is what Beethoven's music is.' Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Piano |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Piano Sonata No. 32 Nelson Freire (piano) / Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The first recorded collaboration between the great Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire and Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester since their highly acclaimed Gramophone Recording of the Year, the two Brahms piano concertos, in... |
BARTOK / BRAHMS / R. STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / etc
Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings (1970 - 2019) Nelson Freire (piano) / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Uri Segal / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen & Horst Stein [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On November 21st 2021, Nelson Freire was taken before his time. One year on, we remember him with a new collection of previously unreleased Decca recordings, bonus tracks making their debut on disc and rare radio broadcast tapes. |
OLA GJEILO
Ola Gjeilo: Dawn Ola Gjeilo (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] One's reactions to this album will probably depend largely on one's basic feeling about the genre involved, but Gjeilo executes it well, and he gets excellent engineering support from Decca, working at Menuhin Hall in the U.K. (AllMusic) |
OLA GJEILO
Gjeilo: Dream Weaver Ola Gjeilo (piano) / The Choir of Royal Holloway, Royal Philhamonic Orchestra, Rupert Gough [ Decca / CD - released 29/Nov/2023 ] One of the world's most frequently performed choral composers, Ola Gjeilo releases his first choral album since 'Winter Songs'. Ola has written two brand new works: 'The Road' and 'Dreamweaver'. Inspired by his home country, the album is made up of... |
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 |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / GRIEG / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Radu Lupu Radu Lupu (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "for piano collectors and fans of Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann, this (set) is a must, and I envy those who have the opportunity to discover these recordings for the first time." Musicweb |
W. A. MOZART / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart / Beethoven: Quintets for Piano and Wind Radu Lupu (piano) with Han de Vries (oboe), George Pieterson (clarinet), Vicente Zarzo (horn), Brian Pollard (bassoon) [ Decca / CD - released 14/Jul/1986 ] Iconic pianist Radu Lupu first recorded for Decca in 1970 and his recorded repertory has centred round a small number of composers - chiefly Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mozart and Schumann. |
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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN / GUSTAV MAHLER
Renée Fleming - Lieder (Brahms, Schumann, Mahler) Renée Fleming (soprano) Hartmut Höll (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Four-time Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album for almost two decades. |
