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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 24 Etudes,Opp. 10, Opp. 25 Yunchan Lim (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 3/May/2024 ] "His Chopin is as flexible and feather-light as it is fluent and fiery, as compelling in its sense of structure as in its relishing of detail. The whole experience radiates joyful, youthful exuberance." Gramophone Recording of the Month May 2024 |
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... |
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... |
BEETHOVEN / TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK / BRAHMS
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Edition - Volume 1 Wiener Philharmoniker, Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Wilhelm Backhaus, Joan Sutherland, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2023 ] The two stereo Beethoven cycles, those of the Symphonies (1965-70) and the Piano Concertos (with Wilhelm Backhaus, 1958-59), form the core of this edition of the complete Decca recordings of Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973). |
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... |
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) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / etc
Discovering Mendelssohn Christian Li (violin) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, with James Baillieu (piano), Xuefei Yang (guitar) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] A new album from Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li. Having topped the Australian Classical Charts with his debut album in 2021 (with which he became the youngest artist ever to record Vivaldi's Four Seasons) the award-winning musician... |
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 |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Home Voces8, with Christopher Glynn (piano) & Emma Denton (cello) [ Decca / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "...when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his work is richly rewarding and could not hope for better advocates than VOCES8." Choral & Song Choice BBC Music Magazine June 2023 |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Home (LP) Voces8, with Christopher Glynn (piano) & Emma Denton (cello) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Two branches of choral royalty entwine with majestic harmony on the latest release from Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre and acclaimed vocal ensemble VOCES8. The album includes a world premiere, All Seems Beautiful To Me, and a new recording of... |
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 |
LISZT/ MUSSORGSKY / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Byron Janis The Mercury Masters (9 CDs plus Blu-ray audio) Byron Janis (piano) / Various orchestras conducted by Antal Dorati, Kirill Kondrashin, Herbert Menges, etc [ Decca Mercury Living Presence / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Mar/2023 ] The legendary American pianist Byron Janis, who turned 95 in March 2023, was the first pupil of another iconic pianist - Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz famously told Janis 'I don't want you to be a 'second Horowitz' I want you to be a 'first Janis'.'... |
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. |
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. |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BOCCHERINI / HAYDN / etc
Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy Pablo Casals (cello/conductor) with Mieczysław Horszowski (piano), Sándor Végh (violin), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, etc [ Decca Eloquence / 7 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2022 ] The late chamber recordings made by the great Catalan cellist with longstanding friends and colleagues, including two versions of Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, the 1956 'Hommage à Pablo Casals' LP, and the Schubert String Quintet with the Végh Quartet. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Verdi: The Four Seasons I Musici, with Francesco Buccarella (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] A brand new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Italian ensemble I Musici, the ensemble who made the first ever stereo recording. Released to mark the 70th anniversary of their debut concert in Rome in March 1952. |
RACHMANINOV / BARBER / DEBUSSY / CHOPIN / GRIEG
Ruth Slenczynska - My Life In Music Ruth Slenczynska (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] "The greatest piano genius since Mozart" - Oli Downes |
BACH / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Wilhelm Kempff - The Decca Legacy Wilhelm Kempff (piano) with Pablo Casals, Paul Grümmer (cellos) Georg Kulenkampff (violin) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] The Decca legacy of WILHELM KEMPFF, one of the last century's greatest keyboard poets. |
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 |
OFFENBACH / MEYERBEER / MASSENET / CHARPENTIER / GOUNOD / etc
Joan Sutherland - Romantic French Arias Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor/piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] One of Dame Joan Sutherland's own favourite recordings, long unavailable on its own, reissued with additional material recorded at the Geneva sessions, with rarely seen photographs and a new booklet introduction. |
