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SIBELIUS
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Tapiola (with Rachmaninov-Isle of the Dead) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] While it remains a pity that Ansermet didn't venture further into the bleaker landscapes of Sibelius, less may well be more, and these epic recordings of the Second and Fourth symphonies, together with a raw reading of Tapiola are collected together... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 9 / The Age opf Gold - ballet suite L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Walter Weller / London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Venerated for their perky, piquant performances and the ripe, rich Decca sound, Walter Weller's thrilling readings of Shostakovich's Symphonies 1 and 9 have long been on the reissue request lists. Now, they appear on CD for the first time. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Popular Overtures (Including William Tell, The Silken Ladder, Die Fledermaus & Poet and Peasant) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] A thrilling collection of Overtures and Preludes (with some popular orchestral pieces thrown in for good measure) from Zubin Mehta. As a showman of the best variety, his recordings remains one of the Decca catalogue's richest legacies, and more than... |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings op 20 (with Boccherini - Cello Quintet Op 37 No 7) Academy of St. Martin in th Fields [ Decca Australian SBS Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] "When you hear the superbly ebullient, well phrased and sensitive opening to the Octet in this clear, well balanced and very lifelike recording it is hard to believe that it was recorded nearly half a century ago." (MusicWeb) |
BEETHOVEN / ROSSINI / VERDI / SUPPE
Solti Overtures London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] This collection of overtures - many of them appearing internationally on Decca CD for the first time - comes from the very start of Georg Solti's recording career. That for Beethoven's Egmont was, in fact, his first recording as conductor, issued as... |
FERDINANDO PAER
Leonora Ursula Koszut, Siegfried Jerusalem, Edita Gruberová, Norbert Orth, John van Kesteren / Bayerisches Symphonieorchester, Peter Maag [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD Box Set - released 28/Nov/2014 ] "Maag directs a piece for which he has an obvious affection with a care for both its lyrical and histrionic possibilities" (Gramophone) |
JOHN GAY
Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Complete Opera) Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Marks / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2015 ] Recording Location: Kingsway Hall, London, UK, March 1981 In 1981 Richard Bonynge, together with an illustrious cast of singers (Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, et. al.) and actors (Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Michael Hordern, et. al.) went... |
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... |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony and other works Lynn Harrell (cello) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Thrilling highly-charged accounts of some of Tchaikovsky's darkest music. Harrell's elegant Rococo Variations provides welcome light at the end of the tunnel." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
MENDELSSOHN
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture & Incidental Music) / Die Erste Walpurgisnacht Op 60 Lynne Dawson (soprano) Dalia Schaechter (mezzo) / Deutsches Sinfonie-orchester Berlin / Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Vladimir Ashkenazy's truly magical account of Mendelssohn's most beautiful fairy music - A Midsummer Night's Dream - returns to the catalogue, coupled with another fantastical work, The First Walpurgisnacht, in a scintillating performance from... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Das Lied von der Erde / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Nan Merriman (contralto) / Orchestras conducted by Eduard van Be [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "Van Beinum delivers unfussy yet subtly nuanced performances, with highly expressive playing by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and particularly fine vocal soloists in Das Lied von der Erde." BBC Music |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera recorded in 1968) Maria Glavachevich, Miro Changalovich, Dušan Popović, Vladeta Dimitrievich / Chorus And Orchestra Of The Nat Theatre, Belgrade, Oskar Danton [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] This Onegin was welcomed with open arms as the first widely available recording in the original Russian, but it was also valued for the idiomatic singing, informed by the company's tradition of Russian opera performance. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Song Cycles: Rackert-Lieder / Kindertotenlieder / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] Marilyn Horne's plum-tinged mezzo and the music of Mahler are inseparable. So far, only the Fahrenden Gesellen songs and the Kindertotenlieder have made their way to CD (now deleted), so it is appropriate to collect on a single CD, the three... |
MOZART / WAGNER / SCHUMANN / HUMPERDINCK / RICHARD STRAUSS / KORNGOLD / BERG
Sings German Arias Matthias Goerne (baritone) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 5/Jul/2015 ] "This is a voice with a honeyed, mellow beauty right through its range, and considerable power when needed'" (MusicWeb) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Royal Brass Music of King James I / English Baroque Trumpet Music Maurice André, Jean Pirot (trumpets), Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Philomusica of London [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] 'If, like me, you find brass choirs irresistible, you should enjoy dipping into this collection.' High Fidelity, October 1961 (Royal Brass Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-7 Mayumi Fujikawa (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2015 ] "Fujikawa brings unexpected sparkle to the finale of the Second Concerto. She is at her best in the marvelous Adagio of the G major which she sustains most beautifully at an unusually slow tempo […] There is plenty of polished, stylish orchestral pla |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Septet / Quintet (with Weber - Clarinet Quintet) The Melos Ensemble of London [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] "One can see how Hummel charmed nineteenth-century audiences...The 1965 sound is warm, full and rich, and this is a vintage recording in every way. The coupling's a charmer too." (Penguin Guide) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 / Violin Concerto / Suite No. 3 in G major / etc Mischa Elman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This new collection invaluably gathers up all the Tchaikovsky recordings Adrian Boult made for Decca between 1952 and 1956. |
TRADITIONAL
Once As I Remember Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Australian SBS Decca Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] 'Once As I Remember' is John Eliot Gardiner's recreation of the story of Christmas based on the Springhead Christmas Play. A nativity play made up of music, speech, dance and mime took place almost every Christmas in the Millroom at Springhead, home... |
GABRIELI / BASSANO / MONTEVERDI
Christmas In Venice Monteverdi Choir / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / John Eliot Gardiner [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] Jean-Baptiste Duval of the Venetian Republic's French Embassy records that on Christmas Eve 1607, Midnight Mass in St. Mark's was celebrated by the light of more than one thousand candles, sixty huge torches and silver lamps. He counted no less than... |
