LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Including the variations) Adrian Brendel (cello) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 7/Dec/2004 ] "The Brendel family values: eloquence, energy and sheer joy in music-making" - "The Brendel family values: eloquence, energy and sheer joy in music-making" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005 |
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) |
HAYDN / CHOPIN / MESSIAEN / VINE / SCRIABIN / PROKOFIEV / etc
Alexander Gadjiev - Live Alexander Gadjiev (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] ALEXANDER GADJIEV, winner of the 2021 Sydney International Piano Competition, makes his debut recording for Decca (Australia) on the Eloquence "New Series" imprint, devoted to brand new recordings. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Piano Sonatas Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Decca / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2011 ] "few pianists illuminate this music better" (Mail on Sunday Five Stars) |
BEETHOVEN
The Piano Concertos / Choral Fantasy Alfred Brendel (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / James Levine [ Decca Trio / 3 CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] "doesn't come any better than this these days" - Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos (12 CD set recorded 1970 - 77) Alfred Brendel (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ Decca / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] He's a legend of the piano world, revered and applauded the world over. For long an exclusive Philips Classics artist, Alfred Brendel is the recipient of the 2010 Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos No 12 K414 & No 17 K453 Alfred Brendel (piano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles MacKerras [ Decca / CD - released 15/Nov/2005 ] This is the latest release in the highly acclaimed Philips series of Mozart Piano Concerti from two of the World's most distinguished Mozartians - pianist Alfred Brendel and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras (who celebrates his 80th birthday in 2005). |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / etc
The Farewell Concerts Alfred Brendel (piano) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "There is greatness to be found in every bar of these two discs, and that goes not only for the music but the musician too." Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 |
FRITZ KREISLER
Hommage to Fritz Kreisler - 22 favourite miniatures Alfred Campoli (violin) Eric Gritton (piano) and Norihko Wada (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] "Campoli's performances are full of flair" (Penguin Guide) |
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... |
ALBENIZ / GRANADOS
Musica Espanola - Piano Music volume 2 Alicia De Larrocha (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 Emperor / Concerto in D major for Piano & Orchestra (Arranged by the composer from the Violin Concerto) Alicia de Larrocha, Olli Mustonen (pianos) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jan/2006 ] Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha's first recording of Beethoven's Emperor is a grand and thrilling affair and this recording here receives its first release on CD. |
MANUEL de FALLA / GRANADOS
Alicia De Larrocha: 3 Classic Albums Alicia De Larrocha (piano) [ Decca 3 Classic Albums / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Complete technical assurance in these extremely demanding works has now become taken for granted, and Larrocha isn't unique in mastering their terrors...her readings have consistently remained a touchstone." (Penguin Guide) |
ALBENIZ / GRANADOS
Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra / Granados: Goyescas Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Alicia de larrocha plays with full-blooded temperament and fire. The recording is excellent and the Decca reissue makes a formidable bargain" ROSETTE - Penguin Stereo Guide |
SCARLATTI / SOLER
Piano Sonatas Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] 'A quality of gentility [in the Scarlatti] … and the Soler is splendid' Gramophone |
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) |
GRIEG / MENDELSSOHN / LISZT
Piano Works Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] Alicia de Larrocha's magisterial, sonorous, even coruscating performance of Liszt's B minor Sonata is here preceded by altogether more genteel repertoire from the 19th century - pairs of pieces by Grieg and Mendelssohn. A rarity - making its first... |
MANUEL DE FALLA
Piano Works Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] Although she never liked being pigeon-holed as a Spanish piano music specialist, Alicia de Larrocha was supreme in the music of her country. This CD brings together all of the solo piano recordings of music by Falla she made for Decca in 1973... |
ALBENIZ / TURINA / GRANADOS / FALLA / MOMPOU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Spanish Fireworks Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 20/Jul/1990 ] "This music is mainly an evocation of dance and song, and the vividness and clarity, light and warmth are everywhere apparent' Gramophone |