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VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
Virtuoso Violin (Paganini, Wieniawski, Elgar, Sarasate, Hubay, Suk) Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Louis Persinger (piano) Ernest Lush (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2000 ] A 2-CD set (3LPs) which formed some of Ruggiero Ricci's earliest Decca recordings. |
MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc Saleem Ashkar (piano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 28/May/2014 ] The cornerstone of this album is one of Felix Mendelssohn's best known works, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the album includes the five instrumental pieces from the incidental music, with the world famous Wedding March closing the suite. The two... |
GODOWSKY / HOFMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY / RUBENSTEIN / CHAMINADE / CHOPIN / etc
Kaleidoscope: Piano Encores Shura Cherkassky (piano) [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] This collection presents, for the first time in its entirety, the 1974 studio recordings of encores, entitled Kaleidoscope, after a piece by Cherkassy's teacher, Josef Hofmann. |
KARL JENKINS
Karl Jenkins: Piano Sir Karl Jenkins (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 13/Oct/2019 ] "Simple and honest renderings of Sir Karl's most familiar tunes, played by the man himself. It's a lovely disc which is let down by consistent room noise." BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 "Emperor" Stephen Kovacevich (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] "..beautifully-judged textures-limpid, clean and with a wide range of sonority and very sensitive pedalling...both performances are worthy of the very highest comparisons, from the majority of which they will emerge unscathed." (Gramophone) |
BARTOK
The Three Piano Concertos / The Two Violin Concertos / Two Portraits Pascal Roge (piano) Kyung Wha Chung, Iona Brown, Chantal Juillet (violins) / Chicago Symphony / Philharmonia Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Iona Brown gives a clean-cut and stylish performance, superbly recorded" Penguin Guide |
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BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / DVORAK / BRAHMS / MOZART / BARTOK / etc
Stephen Kovacevich: The Complete Philips Recordings [25 CD set] Stephen Kovacevich (piano) with Jack Brymer (clarinet) Martha Argerich (piano) & the London Jazz Ensemble [ Decca / 25 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Pianist Stephen Kovacevich is known as one of the most prominent Beethoven interpreters among living pianists. His concerto recordings for Philips, including Beethoven, Schumann and Bartók, never fail to astonish even the most demanding piano... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ / JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Berlioz: Nuits D'ete / Canteloube: Chants de la France Suzanne Danco (soprano) / Cincinnati Symphony / Lucie Daullene (soprano), Joseph Canteloube (piano) [ Decca Austrailian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "when the music begins, the walls melt into field and hills, the ceiling becomes sky … Very highly recommended." High Fidelity, June 1956 (Canteloube) |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5 (Complete) Alexandre Toradze (piano) / Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 7/May/2012 ] "There are few more arresting and powerful accounts in the catalog, and Toradze plays with a forcefulness and authority that's suggestive of Martha Argerich." ClassicsToday |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Piano Adagios [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, Pascal Roge (pianos) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] An ideal collection for romantics everywhere! Over 2 1/2 hours of romantic piano music on one fantastic value double CD. |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / CHOPIN
Live At The Royal Albert Hall Valentina Lisitsa (piano) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 27/Sep/2012 ] " This recital disc of short piano pops proves Lisitsa's technical skill rather than the potential depth or reach of her musicality. She opens, in reckless mood, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, then settles into an elegant Für Elise" Observer |
CHOPIN / SCHUMANN
Etudes Valentina Lisitsa (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] Following her recent well-received Michael Nyman recording Chasing Pianos, Valentina now turns her attention to the Romantic Era and the Études of Chopin and Schumann. Chopin's Études were the first to be seen as true piano works rather than... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Nuances Valentina Lisitsa (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 20/Dec/2015 ] Valentina Lisitsa records Liszt's most technically challenging work, the "unplayable" La Contrabandista, conceived by Liszt as a spectacular recital encore. Seldom recorded, this work is a true virtuosic challenge for any pianist. Performed with... |
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STOCKHAUSEN / BEFFA / STRAVINSKY
[R]evolution Vanessa Benelli Mosell (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Mosell confronts [Stockhausen's] music fearlessly, shaping the smaller-scale pieces (the shortest, Klavierstück III, lasts just 38 seconds) as elegantly as she can, taking their technical challenges in her stride and above all conveying the sense of |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Schubert/Mendelssohn: Octets / 'Trout' Quintet (recorded 1950-1954) Vienna Octet, with Walter Panhofer (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "The result is exquisite. Perfection of tone and phrasing … polish and subtlety and rare beauty of tone" (Schubert Octet) Gramophone |
BERWALD / BORODIN / KREUTZER / MENDELSSOHN / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Romantic Chamber Music (recorded 1968 - 1971) Vienna Octet with Walter Panhofer (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "full of grace and charm and has all the polish and virtuosity one has come to expect from this ensemble….delicacy and lightness of touch … performances are first-class … The recording is quite superlative. Strongly recommended" (Gramophone) |
SPOHR
Spohr - Piano Quintet, Double Quartet, Octet & Nonet (recorded 1959 - 1969) Vienna Octet, with Walter Panhofer (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "The players sound as if they know [the Spohr Octet] inside out; the interpretation has matured, gaining in precision and also in insouciance" Gramophone |
BRUCKNER / SCHMIDT
Bruckner: String Quintet in F major / Schmidt: Piano Quintet in G major Vienna Philharmonia Quintet with Eduard Mrazek (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jan/2006 ] "Recorded at the Sofiensaal, Vienna in 1974, the sound engineer Gordon Parry has provided a clear, warm and well balanced sound for both scores. The well written but uncredited annotation is concise, interesting and informative. Hidden gems of the... |
Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conducting from the keyboard)
Mozart, W.A. - Piano Concerto No 15, Symphony No 36 [ Decca Legends / CD - released 25/Oct/2000 ] One of the first meetings between Bernstein and the Vienna-Philharmonic ! |
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SCHUBERT
Ultimate Schubert [Incls 'Rosamunde, Symphonies Nos 5, 8 & 9, & 'Death and the Maiden'] Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Clifford Curzon (piano) / Beaux Arts Trio / Quartetto Italiano / Weller Quartet / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [ Decca Budget Boxes / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 5 CDs in presentation slip case at SUPER-BUDGET price. Great value gift purchase. |
