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 |
HUGO WOLF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wolf: 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Eduard Morike (with lieder by Loewe, Grieg & Brahms) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] In memory of an outstanding soprano, the legendary German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf passed away on August 3rd 2006 (born December 9th 1915), this is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's last recording - on CD for the first time in over 20 years. |
DEBUSSY
16 Preludes Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet isn't readily associated with the music of Debussy, but his selection of sixteen of the composer's Préludes yield performances of refinement and fluidity. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
24 Preludes & Fugues Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / MOZART / HAYDN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / etc
Wilhelm Backhaus - Complete Decca Recordings Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), with Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Pierre Fournier (cello) / Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, Clemens Krauss, etc [ Decca Original Masters / 39 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Newly remastered and complete for the first time, presented with original sleeves and spined wallets, this limited edition 39CD set of the legendary German pianist Wilhelm Backhaus's recordings for Decca. |
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. |
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) |
DANIEL-LESUR / FRANCAIX / POULENC / MILHAUD / RAVEL / SATIE
Amuse-Bouche: French Choral Delicacies I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth, with Anna Markland (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] "it's in keeping with Hollingworth and his agile, chameleon-like group that…we get something entirely fresh and unexpected, a recording that's a bit sexy, a bit silly and absolutely, unmissably superb" (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2016) |
FAURE / SULLIVAN / BLOCH / HANDEL / CATALANI / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Andante Cantabile: Cello Encores Lynn Harrell (cello) / Bruno Canino (piano) [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 8/May/2006 ] "Readers who have followed me this far probably need very little acumen to realise that I have enjoyed this disc enormously. "Light music" it may be, but light music is not synonymous with cheap music and performed with such musicality and conviction... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Angela Gheorghiu - Plaisir d'amour Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Alexandra Dariescu (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 15/Nov/2019 ] Angela Gheorghiu returns to Decca to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her legendary La Traviata with Sir Georg Solti A 23-track album featuring rare and classic songs never before recorded by Gheorghiu Winner of five Gramophone Awards, twice... |
SCARLATTI / GIORDANI / CACCINI / etc
Arie Antiche: Se tu m'ami Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Gyorgy Fischer (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Beautiful songs given the Bartoli treatment |
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) |
WOLF / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / R. STRAISS / LOEWE
The Art of Hans Hotter Hans Hotter (bass) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Though recorded later in his career, when this great artist was 64, he is on magnificent form, and brings a lifetime's insights to some of the greatest songs in the Lied repertoire. Indispensable." (BBC Music) |
WOLF / SCHUBERT
The Art of Hans Hotter Vol. 1 Hans Hotter (bass) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 22 / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art of the Trumpet Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner / with Roland Pontinen & Peter Solomon (piano) [ Decca Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] This collection of three centuries of trumpet music ranges from Baroque concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni and cornerstones of the trumpet repertory such as the concertos by Haydn and Hummel, to contemporary classics such as Luciano Berio's Sequenza... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: English Suites - Nos 1 - 3 / Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), with London Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman [ Decca / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "Taking off into the heavens with a notably muscular account of the opening Prelude, Ashkenazy gives a performance with nothing mannered in its unvarnished expressiveness; every note in every piece of ornamentation comes over with lapidary clarity."... |
J. S. BACH
Keyboard Concertos Nos 1 - 5 Ramin Bahrami (piano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] "With Chailly's Bach-ingrained Leipzigers as "historically informed partners", the Iranian Bahrani delivers crisply articulated, zippy allegros and deeply felt adagios - the Siciliano of the E major concerto lovingly phrased - without sentimentalisin |
Kun-Woo Paik, piano
Bach/Busoni - Piano Transcriptions [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2001 ] Busoni's transcriptions of Bach are a delight to the ear |