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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... |
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) |
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 |
SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / SEIBER
Shostakovich / Prokofiev / Seiber: Chamber Music Melos Ensemble of London, with Peter Pears (narrator) & the Dorian Singers [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "(Shostakovich) We all know that the Melos Ensemble is a virtuoso group, but I have never heard them give a clearer demonstration of sheer musicality than this." (Gramophone) |
MOZART / WEBER / BRAHMS
Chamber Music Melos Ensemble of London [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "(Mozart) ...a very satisfying performance of the Mozart Clarinet Trio... warranting the very strongest recommendation." Gramophone. |
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... |
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PUCCINI / DONIZETTI / MOZART / VERDI / etc
An Evening with Montserrat Caballe Montserrat Caballa, soprano, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent garden, new Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sympho [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 25/Jan/2003 ] Eloquence - the specially priced quality label from Europe |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel - The Early Ansermet Recordings Motet de Genève / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] Recorded between October 1951 and June 1953, these mono recordings have been much prized and sought-after by collectors and now reappear on CD at super-budget price. Ravel and Ansermet were well acquainted and that adds a special authenticity to... |
