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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... |
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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. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for 2 & 3 Pianos / Piano Concerto in D minor, KV 466 Daniel Barenboim, Andras Schiff, Sir Georg Solti (pianos) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Feb/2006 ] 'The finale, a kind of rondo-minuet, is delightful, with energetic keyboard work that nevertheless dances' [Concerto for 3 Pianos] Gramophone |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven For All: The Piano Concertos [3 CD set] Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) / Staatskapelle Berlin [ Decca Music Group / 3 CD - released 16/Aug/2012 ] The third release in Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven For All project is the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos featuring Barenboim as soloist and conductor with the Staatskapelle Berlin. |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN / LOUISE FARRENC / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
French Cello Sonatas David Berlin (cello) Benjamin Martin (piano) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] In the masterful hands of David Berlin, Principal Cellist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, partnered by internationally acclaimed pianist Benjamin Martin, the cello reveals its sublime range of colours and timbres. |
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BERGMAN / DEBUSSY / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / STRAUSS / MOZART /etc
Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings Eileen Joyce (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2017 ] 'In every way the most transcendentally gifted young piano student I have heard in the last 25 years' was Percy Grainger's pronouncement of the young EILEEN JOYCE (1908-1991) when he first heard her play in 1926. From the goldfields in Western... |
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SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Sir Arthur Bliss: the Decca Originals Eileen Joyce (piano) Alfredo Campoli (violin) Griller Quartet (string quartet), Colin Hampton (cello), Philip Burton (viola) / Sir Arthur Bliss, Muir [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] "This is a convenient, well-transferred compilation of some of the finest performances of music by a still-underrated composer. Bliss's version of the Colour Symphony is better paced than many of its successors." BBC Music |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Friedrich Gulda I Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Philips / Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno... |
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W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 17, 25 & 26 / etc Friedrich Gulda (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Galina Vishnevskaya sings Russian Songs Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) & Mstislav Rostropovich (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Intensity is the keynote of these performances. Mme. Vishnevskaya has a rich dramatic voice of characteristically Slavonic timbre, highly charged emotionally..she is invaluably aided by accompaniments of infinite sensibility by her husband" Gramopho |
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FREDERICK DELIUS / JEAN SIBELIUS
Delius & Sibelius: String Quartets George Isaac (cello), Martin Jones (piano) / Fitzwilliam String Quartet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Powerhouse performances of three little known works" MusicWeb |
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DEBUSSY / SCHMITT / WEBER / HOROVITZ / MARTINU / BENJAMIN
Clarinet Recital Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Cyril Preedy (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] "The brilliance and attack of both players to the Weber is such that you woud hardly think two such athletic performers could quickly assume a poetic disguise." Gramophone |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Orchestral Works Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, with Salvatore Accardo (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello) & Mischa Dichter (piano) [ Philips Decca Australian Eloquence Original Jackets Collection / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2019 ] Kurt Masur's burnished readings of Brahms's orchestral music with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig are issued for the first time as a Limited Edition box with Original Jackets. |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: 24 Préludes Hans Henkemans (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2019 ] Debussy's 'Preludes' represent one of the great cultural 'events' of the 20th century, exploring both the vivid and near-invisible colours of the piano...all 24 'Preludes' on a single disc. |
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MUSSORGSKY / WOLF / SCHUBERT / MARTIN
Heinz Rehfuss - The Decca Recitals Heinz Rehfuss (bass) with Hans Willi Häusslein (piano), Frank Martin (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence The Decca Recitals / CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "An enormously good performance, helped by extremely clear recording […] with tone, style, technique, good intonation and clarity all in abundance; and with the added advantage of a voice that probably sounds menacing when it asks you to pass the mu |
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WOLF / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS
Helen Watts - Lieder Recital Helen Watts (contralto), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] Presented on CD for the first time and newly remastered, a pair of Romantic Lieder recitals by the Welsh contralto who inherited the mantle of Kathleen Ferrier. |
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BRUCH / MENDELSSOHN / PROKOFIEV / MILHAUD / DEBUSSY / etc
Ion Voicu: The Decca Recordings Ion Voicu (violin) with Monique Haas (piano) Victoria Stefanescu (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] "Ion Voicu is a player of considerable quality and with a lot of technique […] He plays the Bruch with impeccable technique" (Gramophone on Bruch / Mendelssohn) |
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TRADITIONAL / RAVEL / SCHUBERT / DEBUSSY / MASSENET / etc
Irma Kolassi - The Decca Recitals Irma Kolassi (mezzo-soprano) with André Collard (piano) Jacqueline Bonneau (piano), etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2019 ] "Here is a lovely record. Far from becoming bored by repeated playing of it, I have found my response to the music and the interpretation steadily grow" Gramophone |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Cuban Overture (with Copland - Fanfare for a Common Man & Appalachian Spring) Ivan Davis (piano) / Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Zubin Mehta [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Eloquence - top recordings and artists at a special price |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Jan Smeterlin Plays Chopin Jan Smeterlin (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2020 ] Jan Smeterlin was a born Chopin interpreter on home soil. Presented here is a collection that includes rare and previously unissued recordings. Writing to Gramophone in 1965, a Royal Navy Commander stationed in India made an impassioned plea: I have... |