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BERG
Kammerkonzert (with Mozart-Gran Partita) Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) / Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez [ Decca Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2008 ] "Boulez brings clarity to every sound strand, colour and dynamic…you hear nuances that many performances sweep under the carpet" The Times |
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SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHOPIN / de FALLA / etc
Clara Haskil Edition [17 CD set] Clara Haskil (piano) / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch / Wiener Symphoniker, Bernhard Paumgartner / Arthur Grumiaux (violin) [ Decca / Philips / 17 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 / Piano Concerto No. 2 Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell / Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch [ Decca Heritage Masters / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
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SCHUBERT / MOZART / BRAHMS / TCHAIKOVSKY / GRIEG / LISZT / RACHMANINOV
Clifford Curzon: Decca Recordings 1937-1971 Vol 3 (special price) Clifford Curzon (piano) with various accompaniments [ Decca Original Masters / 6 CD - released 21/Nov/2006 ] Volume 3 brings back more recordings by this English legend of the piano world and includes Curzon's first-ever recording for Decca: Liszt's arrangement for piano and orchestra of Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy. |
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BEETHOVEN / de FALLA / FRANCK / RAWTHORNE / SCHUBERT / MOZART / LITOLFF / TCHAIKOVSKY
Original Masters: Clifford Curzon (Limited Edition) Clifford Curzon (piano) with various accompaniments [ Decca Original Masters / 4 CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2003 'Neither de Falla nor Rawsthorne could have asked for finer advocacy of their music...Clifford Curzon was a real thoroughbred, no question' (Gramophone) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (with works by Franck & Litolff) Clifford Curzon (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell [ Decca Legends / CD - released 9/Aug/2010 ] Another great Brahms performance: Curzon's beautifully judged fantasy matched by a smiling, sympathetic Szell - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue |
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ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Light & Gold Grace Davidson (sop) Stephen Kennedy (bar), Christopher Glynn (piano), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, King's Singers, Pavao Quartet, Eric Whitacre [ Decca Universal / CD - released 26/Oct/2010 ] "Their collective intonation is stunning, and they sing with conviction and enjoyment...Simply glorious!" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine Dec 2010 |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven:piano Sonatas Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] |
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SCHUMANN
Gerard Souzay: Schumann: Dichterliebe and other songs Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 43 / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] The legendary Italian bass Cesare Siepi was one of the great Don Giovannis and at the height of his career - during the 1950s and 1960s - this particular role was very much his 'calling card'. |
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SCHUMANN
Gerard Souzay: Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 39 and other songs Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) & Jacqueline Bonneau (piano) [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 44 / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Souzay should...rank as one of the most elegant and sensitive song interpreters on record." (Sunday Telegraph) |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Works [18 CD set] Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano / conductor), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), etc [ Decca / 18 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Drawn principally from Decca's distinguished catalogue, the set also features no fewer than 64 newly-recorded tracks - over 200 mins of music, newly recorded by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Valentina Lisitsa especially for this set. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art of the Trumpet Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner / with Roland Pontinen & Peter Solomon (piano) [ Decca Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] This collection of three centuries of trumpet music ranges from Baroque concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni and cornerstones of the trumpet repertory such as the concertos by Haydn and Hummel, to contemporary classics such as Luciano Berio's Sequenza... |
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WOLF / SCHUBERT
The Art of Hans Hotter Vol. 1 Hans Hotter (bass) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 22 / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Piano Trios Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello) & Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Recorded: 1996-11-10 |
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HUGO WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS
Hermann Prey: Lieder Recital Hermann Prey (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 35 / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "The finest German baritone of the second half of the 20th century is here at his peak in well selected Lieder." BBC Music Five Stars |
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DANIEL-LESUR / FRANCAIX / POULENC / MILHAUD / RAVEL / SATIE
Amuse-Bouche: French Choral Delicacies I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth, with Anna Markland (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] "it's in keeping with Hollingworth and his agile, chameleon-like group that…we get something entirely fresh and unexpected, a recording that's a bit sexy, a bit silly and absolutely, unmissably superb" (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2016) |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Verdi: The Four Seasons I Musici, with Francesco Buccarella (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] A brand new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Italian ensemble I Musici, the ensemble who made the first ever stereo recording. Released to mark the 70th anniversary of their debut concert in Rome in March 1952. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / CESAR FRANCK
Brahms / Franck: Chamber Music Itzhak Perlman (violin) Barry Tuckwell (horn) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] 'Perlman is among the sweetest of violinists, as Ashkenazy is among the most fluent of pianists; in this work the combination is a formidable one...an absolutely equal partnership between violin and piano' Gramophone May 1969 |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Etudes Jan Lisiecki (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "Chopin's poetic essence, hidden beneath every thorny, relentlessly focused problem, emerges with an inimitable subtlety and elegance." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2013) |
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FALLA / SUK / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / TCHAIKOVSKY etc
12 Stradivari Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "What emerges from this comparative listening odyssey...is simply an even richer love and admiration for Jansen's own artistry." - Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2021 |