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. |
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 |
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). |
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) |
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 |
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... |
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... |
ALBENIZ / TURINA / GRANADOS / FALLA / etc
Spanish Piano Encores Alicia de Larrocha (piano) [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] 'Each track is excellently recorded, and Miss de Larrocha does everything possible for these little pieces, from the piquant sub-Scarlatti of Matéo Albéniz and Soler to the items by Isaac Albéniz and Granados ... This music is mainly an evocation o.. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 24-27 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "it would be a strange person indeed who did not submit to such warm-hearted, unmannered Mozart....Larrocha's pearly toned, lightly pedalled touch and the way she can taper a phrase ending to resemble musical speech (try the opening of K491) make... |
ALBENIZ
Suite Espanola Op 47 / Rapsodia Espanola (with Turina - Rapsodia Sinfonia) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos [ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] 'A brilliant extravaganza of Spanishry … the unadulterated Decca stereo is here superb' Gramophone |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Concerto). The Philadelphia Orchestra (Symphonic Dances). Charles Dutoit [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] Recorded early in Dutoit's career and originally coupled with the Schumann concerto, this is the first appearance on CD of his Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 with Alicia de Larrocha as a fine and poetic soloist. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 19 & 22 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) Wiener Symphoniker [Vienna Symphony], Uri Segal [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] 'an instinctive Mozartian ... Her playing is both poetic and highly musical ... The sound is warm and beautiful ... the treble of the piano is clear and pellucid' Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas (with Haydn - Adante & Variations; Piano Concerto in D) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) with London Sinfonietta, David Zinman [ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] '[Larrocha] plays the Mozart sonatas with great authority and conviction." Gramophone |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV / FREDERIC CHOPIN
Rachmaninov / Chopin: Cello Sonatas Alisa Weilerstein (cello) & Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] "it's hard to imagine many cellist-pianist duos more mutually fond of risk-taking. They certainly don't hold back in Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata, often pushing it to the brink" (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Mozart: Five Piano Concertos / Beethoven: Choral Fantasy Andor Foldes (piano), RIAS Kammerchor, Berliner Motettenchor [ Decca Classics / Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2018 ] A first international CD release of four concertos from a master interpreter of Mozart. Describing his experience as a youth in Hungary hearing Bruno Walter play and conduct a Mozart concerto, the Hungarian pianist Andor Foldes stated that all in... |
DEBUSSY / MOZART / SCHUMANN / RAVEL / BRAHMS / etc
Suzanne Danco - The Decca Recitals Suzanne Danco (soprano) / with Guido Agosti (piano) Phyllis Spurr (piano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), etc [ Decca Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2020 ] "As soon as Danco starts to sing, her identity is unmistakable, a bright, vibrant voice, impassioned in its delivery, with perfect diction and an intuitive grasp of text." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2020 |