CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: The Five Piano Concertos / Wedding Cake Pascal Roge, Daniel Chorzempa, Bella Davidovich, Michele Campanella, Magda Tagliaferro (pianos) / various orchestras [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] Saint-Saëns complete piano concertos on a 2CD Eloquence set presents some truly rare recordings - Campanella's of the Fourth and Tagliaferro's of the Fifth. |
ERIK SATIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Satie: The Four-Handed Piano Pascal Rogé (piano), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) Chantal Juillet (violin) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jun/2017 ] Recorded in 2000 |
FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: Piano Works Pascal Roge (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 26/Feb/1987 ] The name of Pascal Rogé is synonymous with French music and throughout his association with Decca which lasted some twenty-five years. This recording is a Rosette in the Penguin Guide and was a Gramophone winner for 1988. |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Piano works (Inc Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, Valses nobles et sentimentales) Pascal Roge (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Original recordings from 1974 and 1975 |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Piano works (Inc Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Valses nobles et sentimentales) Pascal Roge (piano) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] All the beautiful piano music of Ravel |
MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Orchestral Works / Piano Concertos / L'Enfant et les Sortileges / Sheherazade Pascal Roge (piano) / Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Decca / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2005 ] "This is self-recommending beautifully played and beautifully recorded." (Gramophone on the Piano Concertos) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Symphony No 9 Peter Jablonski (piano) Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "this kind of plain-spoken Shostakovich could make a good benchmark library choice" (Gramophone on the symphony) |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scriabin: Complete symphonies - Prometheus - Poame de l'extase - Piano Concerto Peter Jablonski, piano - Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Vladimir Ashkenazy [ Decca Trio / 3 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2003 ] "outstanding sound-quality" (Penguin Stereo Guide on Symphony No 1) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Peter Katin, John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Jean Martinon [ Decca Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/1996 ] "I had expected Katin to be agile, nimble and clear-headed in Mendelssohn, but he is more. In the G minor he is energetic and passionate, not in a way that tries to turn it into a Rachmaninov concerto but in a way that does not let us forget... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto Nos 1 / Concert Fantasy Peter Katin (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult / New Symphony Orchestra of London, Edric Cundell [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] "the orchestra does well, and Katin gives us the fine clarity and control which always distinguish his playing" (Gramophone on Concert Fantasy) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Canticles / A Birthday Hansel Peter Pears, John Hahessy, James Bowman, John Shirley-Quirk, with Bary Tuckwell (horn), Osian Ellis (harp) & Benjamin Britten (piano) [ Decca / London / CD - released 21/Oct/1990 ] Written at intervals between 1947 and 1974 Britten's five Canticles are miniature cantatas sharing a spiritual intensity that derives from Britten's own religious belief. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Winterreise Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "I need hardly say that, among tenor versions, this is now my preferred choice, benefiting from the warm yet clear acoustic of the recording." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLELCTABLE: Mozart: Lieder & Masonic Cantata Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/May/2005 ] "There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about the way Schreier delivers these songs, revealing an attitude to Mozart interpretation that seems far more romantic than anything we are used to today." The Guardian |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas / 6 Moments musicaux / 2 Scherzi (special price) Radu Lupu (piano) [ Decca / 4 CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Lupu is one of those rare artists who has achieved something approaching cult status and the release of these sets of discs is a timely reminder of the artistry of this very fine pianist. |
FOLEY / PERKINSON / GERSHWIN / STILL / PRICE / COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / DVORAK
Roots Randall Goosby (violin), Zhu Wang (piano), Xavier Dubois Foley (double bass) [ Decca / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "This is selfless, stylish playing which - paradoxically - ends up by projecting the personalities of both artists with even more freshness and warmth." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2021 |
MAX BRUCH & OTHERS
Ray Chen: The Golden Age Ray Chen (violin) with Julien Quentin (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra Robert Trevino [ Decca / CD - released 8/Jun/2021 ] "Chen plays with all his usual combination of suavity and kick, and his central Adagio is a particular joy…Original. Stunningly played. What more could anybody want?" Gramophone |
SCARLATTI / MOZART / BELLINI / TOSTI / GLUCK / etc
Serenata Tebaldi Renata Tebaldi (soprano) with Giorgio Faveretto (piano) & Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] It is difficult to dissociate the pure, warm tones of Renata Tebaldi's voice from her usual operatic repertoire - the heroines of the Italian lyric stage of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which, thanks to her exceptional vocal and... |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / MARX / R. STRAUSS / RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Renee Fleming - Night Songs Renee Fleming (soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "[Fleming] is best where a song is actually rather hard - the long‚ sustained lines of Strauss's Ruhe‚ meine Seele! - or where she seems eager to put over a less than familiar piece: the Marx songs and Strauss's Leises Lied‚ for example." Gramophone |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / FREDERIC CHOPIN
Nicolai Orloff - The Decca Recordings Nicolai Orloff (piano) / The National Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari [ Eloquence / Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] 'Beautifully played and recorded with all fit gentleness … The player's feathery lightness in the studies, and his ease of rhythm - no hurry or flurry - please me keenly. I like the scale of things.' Gramophone, April 1948 (Chopin) |
Richard Carpenter / The Carpenters
Richard Carpenter's Piano Songbook (LP) [ Decca / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Richard Carpenter is the iconic musician, producer, songwriter and arranger from the Carpenters, the astronomically successful group who have sold more than 90 million albums worldwide. Richard Carpenter's Piano Songbook reimagines the Carpenters... |