JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, etc (with Bartok - Rhapsodies for violin & orchestra) Leonidas Kavakos (violin) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly / with Peter Nagy (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 11/Oct/2013 ] Leonidas Kavakos tackles a pillar of the violin repertoire in a disc that establishes him as a concerto soloist for Decca Classics His first concerto disc for Decca features the Brahms Violin Concerto, for which he is joined by one of the world's... |
HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF / STRAUSS
Lisa della Casa sings Handel and Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Karl Hudez (piano) & Wiener Philharmoniker, Heinrich Hollreiser [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 12 / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "stylistic approaches to Hande's Giulio Cesare may have moved on...but her Lieder singing...remains treasurable in its tonal and textual expertise." (BBC Music) |
BEETHOVEN
The Cello Sonatas Li-Wei Qin (cello) Albert Tiu (piano) [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] World-renowned cellist Li-Wei Qin navigates the Beethoven Cello Sonatas with marvelous technique and displays a sensitive tone that defines his charisma. |
EUDOVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: Islands: The Essential Einaudi Ludovico Einaudi (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] Ludovico Einaudi is the world's most popular composer, and the source of hundreds of instantly familiar themes used in films, TV, advertising and synch activity (recent credits include American Airlines, This Is England '86 and Black Swan). His music... |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
I Giorni [ Decca / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] 2001 release from the world renowned symphonic composer. The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi's 'I Giorni' was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. 'The... |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: Undiscovered (LP) Ludovico Einaudi (piano) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] A new collection of songs, personally selected by the world's biggest streaming "classical artist" - Ludovico Einaudi, from across more than 25 years of music making. |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Seven Days Walking [ Decca Classics / CD - released 10/Jul/2019 ] 'Seven Days Walking': seven bodies of music to be released over seven consecutive months. The first, 'Seven Days Walking: Day One', which interweaves piano and strings in his unmistakable style, is Einaudi's 14th studio album and will be released on... |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Seven Days Walking [Super-Deluxe Limited Edition] [ Decca Classics / 9 LP/CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Ludovico Einaudi and Decca Records bring you this elegant Super Deluxe Limited Edition of Seven Days Walking. |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano) Ballaké Sissoko (kora)
Ludovico Einaudi & Ballaké Sissoko: Diario Mali [ Decca / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] In 2003 Einaudi travelled to Mali and played with musicians there, culminating in the album Diario Mali, in which he duets with Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko. |
LUDIVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: Cinema Ludovico Einaudi (piano), with Daniel Hope (violin), Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague [ Decca Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Presenting Cinema - a brand new handpicked 2CD collection of Ludovico's most emotive musical works from film and television, including tracks from Oscars favourites Nomadland and The Father and much more. |
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... |
VERDI
Songs for Voice & Piano Margaret Price (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Salon songs to treasure - and spot the flickering echoes of Verdi's operas through them. Exquisitely sculpted performances, including Verdi's setting of Goethe's Gretchen songs." (BBC Music) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / etc Nelson Freire (piano), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Lionel Bringuier [ Decca / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] "The recording is at its best wherever Nelson Freire is ravishing the ear with showers of notes that glisten with precision." (Financial Times) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.1 In C / Piano Concerto 1 Martha Argerich (piano), Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / CD - released 2/Jun/2018 ] "Argerich and Ozawa spark off each other, and energy bubbles in the orchestra. As so often with her performances, her phrasing and articulation constantly surprise and illuminate." BBC Music |
SCHUBERT
Die Schone Mullerin Mathias Goerne (baritone) / Eric Schneider (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Sep/2002 ] The long-awaited recording of one of the keystones of German Lied |
HERZOGENBERG / SCHUMANN / KLUGHARDT / WEISMANN
Song of the Reeds Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Markus Becker (piano) with Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn) & Tabea Zimmermann (viola) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 16/Feb/2012 ] The world's leading oboe player rediscovers his German Romantic roots. Albrecht Mayer is a master musician whose playing has touched the hearts of many fans. |
SCHUMANN
Davidsbundlertanzer / Fantasie in C major Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Her passionate verbal advocacy is translated into the equally compelling ardour of her performances of these two works...this has Gramophone Award-winner written all over it." (Gramophone Editor's Choice) |
SCHUMANN
Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 / Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "...revelatory and supremely satisfying...Her account of the great C major Fantasie sits alongside some of the greatest committed to disc - Schumann the poet and virtuoso evoked in perfect balance" Sunday Times, 3rd October 2010 ***** |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op.16 / Carnaval, Op.9 Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca Originals / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] 'I have the impression that her aim was to make them wholly and uniquely her own...much of what we hear is as refreshingly imaginative as it is pianistically exemplary...she relishes the fantasy and caprice of Carnaval with an arrestingly vivid... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert (Complete Sonatas and Impromptus) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) [ Decca Budget Boxes / 8 CD Box Set - released 15/Dec/2004 ] Celebrate the completion of Mitusko Uchida's outstanding cycle of Schubert solo piano works with this specially priced boxed set of all 8 discs. |