BRAHMS
Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "The playing is always highly vital and sensitive. There is a splendid, finely projected sense of line and the delicate, sensitive playing of Menahem Pressler is always a delight." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: String Quartet / Piano Trio / Introduction et Allegro Beaux Arts Trio / Carmirelli Quartet / Chamber Music Society of Amsterdam / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] 'this new Beaux Arts performance, even more than their previous one, is most sensitive to the music's ebb and flow, acutely aware of its inventive new combinations of sounds ... the new Beaux Arts recording now becomes the prime recommendation'... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 / piano Trio in A Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Beaux Arts Trio |
PROKOFIEV / LISZT / SAINT-SAENS
Recital Behzod Abduraimov (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 11/May/2014 ] "He doesn't splash. He doesn't fake. It's real" (The Daily Telegraph) |
BACH-BUSONI / MENDELSSOHN/ FRANCK / CHOPIN / LISZT
Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] Benjamin Grosvenor Explores Hidden Connections Between Works Written Centuries Apart. In this new recording Benjamin explores works by great composers paying tribute to their predecessors. Amongst these works, Mendelssohn looks back to the... |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BRUCKNER / GLUCK / MOZART / etc
Wilhelm Furtwangler: Complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwangler, with Edwin Fischer (piano) [ Deusche Grammophon / 35 CD/DVD Box Set - released 18/Oct/2019 ] This box includes much rare material (such as Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Strauss's Metamorphosen) and some seminal examples of Furtwängler's interpretative art (a Brahms First and a Bruckner Ninth) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 'Emperor' Alfred Brendel (piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Decca Philips Originals / CD - released 6/Sep/2016 ] "The bond between these two musicians is evident throughout these committed and vigorous readings. Brendel's authentically rugged pianism is offset by the Vienna Philharmonic's sumptuous playing." (BBC Music) |
CHOPIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / LISZT
L'art De Brigitte Engerer [6 CD set] Brigitte Engerer (piano) [ Decca / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Aug/2014 ] Brigitte Engerer, the internationally-renowned French pianist, died on June 23rd 2012 at the age of 59. Generous and impassioned, she attracted a wide audience in doing what she loved most: playing the piano, giving concerts, and communicating with... |
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'.'... |
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 |
BRAHMS
Chamber Music (Special price 5 CD set) Christian Eschenbach (piano) Karl Leister (clarinet) / Amadeus Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] This is a set that brings together all these Amadeus recordings for the first time. |
CHAUSSON / RAVEL / HONEGGER / DEBUSSY / FAURE
French Violin Masterpieces Christian Ferras (violin) Pierre Barbizet (piano) / Belgian National Orchestra [ Decca Legends / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] "..the remastering has done justice to the recordings and the memory of a fine artist." (Amazon.co.uk) |
BERG
Kammerkonzert (with Mozart-Gran Partita) Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) / Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez [ Decca Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2008 ] "Boulez brings clarity to every sound strand, colour and dynamic…you hear nuances that many performances sweep under the carpet" The Times |
SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHOPIN / de FALLA / etc
Clara Haskil Edition [17 CD set] Clara Haskil (piano) / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch / Wiener Symphoniker, Bernhard Paumgartner / Arthur Grumiaux (violin) [ Decca / Philips / 17 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] |
SCHUBERT / MOZART / BRAHMS / TCHAIKOVSKY / GRIEG / LISZT / RACHMANINOV
Clifford Curzon: Decca Recordings 1937-1971 Vol 3 (special price) Clifford Curzon (piano) with various accompaniments [ Decca Original Masters / 6 CD - released 21/Nov/2006 ] Volume 3 brings back more recordings by this English legend of the piano world and includes Curzon's first-ever recording for Decca: Liszt's arrangement for piano and orchestra of Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy. |
SCHUBERT / MOZART / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / etc
The Complete Decca Recordings [23 CDs plus DVD] Clifford Curzon (piano) with various accompaniments [ Decca Music Group / 23 CD Box Set - released 9/Aug/2012 ] For the first time this collection brings together absolutely every recording he ever made for Decca which has survived, including several which have never been published on CD (or even LP) |
BEETHOVEN / de FALLA / FRANCK / RAWTHORNE / SCHUBERT / MOZART / LITOLFF / TCHAIKOVSKY
Original Masters: Clifford Curzon (Limited Edition) Clifford Curzon (piano) with various accompaniments [ Decca Original Masters / 4 CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2003 'Neither de Falla nor Rawsthorne could have asked for finer advocacy of their music...Clifford Curzon was a real thoroughbred, no question' (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Decca Recordings Vol. 4 1944-1970 (budget price) Clifford Curzon (piano) with various orchestras and conductors [ Decca Original Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2007 ] "This is the final volume in Decca's Original Masters 21-disc survey of what the fastidious English pianist Clifford Curzon (1907-82) called his "apppointments with posterity" in the recording studio. This set offers a valuably deep perspective on... |
BRUCKNER / WAGNER / BEETHOVEN / R. STRAUSS / MOZART / etc
Eugen Jochum - The Orchestral Recordings on Philips Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Eugen Jochum, with Veronica Jochum von Moltke, piano [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 22/May/2020 ] According to one former violist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum was the type of conductor 'who doesn't "put on" spectacular performances, but whose music-making always bears the stamp of honesty. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (with works by Franck & Litolff) Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell [ Decca Legends / CD - released 9/Aug/2010 ] Another great Brahms performance: Curzon's beautifully judged fantasy matched by a smiling, sympathetic Szell - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue |