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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Complete Works for Piano Volume 2 (Incls 'Images') Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "If you want to hear Debussy new-minted, with air-spun and scintillating textures, Thibaudet is your man." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
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ERIC SATIE
Satie: The magic of Satie's piano music Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Sep/2002 ] The disc also includes several previously unrecorded works |
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JOE HISAISHI
Dream Songs - The Essential Joe Hisaishi Joe Hisaishi (piano, work arranger, melodica) / London Symphony Orchestra / New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra [ Decca / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Joe Hisaishi, the acclaimed Japanese composer behind some of the world's best-loved animé films, has released his new album, Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi in which he celebrates his diverse and distinguished catalogue of compositions |
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MENDELSSOHN
String Symphonies Nos 9, 10 & 12 / Concerto in A minor for Piano & Strings John Ogdon (piano) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] "If you are looking to experience more of the young Mendelssohn, then this is the disc for you" (MusicWeb Feb 2007) |
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SCHUBERT
Die schone Mullerin Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Helmut Deutsch (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] The Kaufmann/Deutsch partnership is a winning one where Schubert is concerned, and whether an existing fan of this masterpiece or a listener looking for discovery, don't hesitate to choose this; it's an exquisitely sad journey you'll be happy you took. |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Liebesträume & other works Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "Bolet's Liszt is renowned for its aristocratic refinement: rather than youthful flashy fingers, we get masterful lyrical poise. The Cuban-American's Die Forelle remains unchanging." (BBC Music) |
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PABLO de SARASTE
Julia Fischer: Sarasate Julia Fischer (violin) Milana Chernyavska (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] NZ LISTENER BEST CLASSICAL Recordings 2014 |
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BEETHOVEN / BENATSKY / MOZART / OFFENBACH / STRAUSS / etc
Julius Patzak - Recital Julius Patzak (tenor) with Hilde Dermota (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Rudolf Moralt & Karl Böhm [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 32 / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Although thoroughly trained as a musician, Viennese tenor Julius Patzak had little, if any, technical schooling in the vocal arts. Yet, he became a favorite among audiences in his native city and second only to Richard Tauber as a master stylist in... |
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CHOPIN
Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra (2 CDs special price) Kun-Woo Paik (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Decca / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2008 ] The Korean pianist, Kun-Woo Paik, gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra in Seoul, playing the Grieg piano concerto. |
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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) |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Valentina Lisitsa (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis [ Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Francis and the London Symphony Orchestra provide consistently world-class, shapely orchestral frameworks and beautifully characterised first-desk solos throughout" (Gramophone) |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Complete Orchestral and Instrumental Music Mark Lubotsky (violin) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Michael Collins (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, [ Decca / 13 CD Box Set - released 16/Sep/2017 ] Decca is delighted to present a boxed set of the complete orchestral and Instrumental Music. Britten created works which defined and shaped their genres going forward...his pioneering works like Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and works for... |
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Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Le Onde [ Decca / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Based on the novel The Waves by Virginia Woolf, Le Onde is Einaudi's first solo piano album. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Schubert: Schwanengesang / Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Matthias Goerne (baritone) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Winner 2005 - Vocal |
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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) |