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JOSEF HAYDN
Music For England [2 CD set] Judith Nelson (soprano) & Paul Elliott (tenor) / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "handsomely produced, very well recorded" (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990) Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Dawn Upshaw / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, james Levine [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jun/2018 ] "Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir … spirited virtuosity in the orchestral playing" Gramophone |
MOZART / BACH / SCHUBERT / HANDEL / DONIZETTI / TRADITIONAL / etc
Kathleen Battle Edition Kathleen Battle, with Jessye Norman, Christopher Parkening, Itzhak Perlman, etc [ Deutche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2023 ] A Limited Edition, Original Jackets collection showcasing the artistry of the magnificent American soprano, Kathleen Battle. |
TRADITIONAL
Kenneth Mckellar's Book of Hymns Kenneth McKellar (tenor) & John Turner (organ) / Choir of Paisley Abbey, George McPhee [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Released by popular demand, this collection brings together 21 favourite hymns and sacred songs sung by that most beloved of tenors, Kenneth McKellar |
PURCELL / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / GRANADOS / RAVEL
The Kiri Te Kanawa Songbook Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] 'A rich ripe peach of a recital, and in case that suggests something altogether too sweet and lush to satisfy a fastidious taste it should immediately be added that the soprano's tone is fresh, her responsiveness to words keen, the pianist's touch... |
GOUNOD / BACH / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / MASCAGNI / etc
Kiri te Kanawa - Songs of Inspiration Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / The Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Utah Symphony Orchestra [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Dame Kiri te Kanawa sings radiantly" Penguin Stereo Guide |
W. A. MOZART
String Quartets Kv 575 kv 590 Kuchl Quartet [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Mozart's final four quartets have a sublime quality. Two of these appear here, and the classic recording of KV575 receives its first international appearance on CD. Over the years Rainer Küchl became the VPO's first concertmaster and his quartet has... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Lazar Berman plays Prokofiev & Shostakovich Lazar Berman (piano) [ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2014 ] "The Allegro and Andante movements seem almost neo-Romantic in his hands and yet are not distorted. The final Vivace becomes a real tour de force that leaves one breathless" Fanfare (Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2) |
CHOPIN
Polonaises Nos 1 - 15 (with Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition) Lazar Berman (piano) [ Australian Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "distinguished new recording … the pianism is breathtaking … DG's recording accords with Berman's acuity and refined shadings" (Gramophone on Mussorgsky) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / W. A. MOZART
Lisa Della Casa sings Handel & Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Roberta Peters (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips, Ka [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] Among the legendary opera singers of the post-war era was Lisa Della Casa, one of the few internationally known musical stars produced by the little country of Switzerland, and a member of the exceptional Mozart ensemble built up by the Vienna State... |
BACH / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / PARRY / etc
Sir Adrian Boult - The Decca Legacy, Volume 2 - Baroque & Sacred Music London Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Kirsten Flagstad, Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, Kenneth McKellar, Joan Sutherland, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The second volume of Sir Adrian Boult's Decca legacy brings together the conductor's Messiah recordings of 1954 and 1960, plus Baroque and sacred music recitals from Kenneth McKellar, Kirsten Flagstad and Kathleen Ferrier. LIMITED EDITION. |
ELGAR / ARNOLD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / SEARLE / HOLST / WALTON
Sir Adrian Boult - The Decca Legacy, Volume 1 - British Music London Philharmonic Orchestra / BBC Chorus & BBC Symphony, Adrian Boult / Melos Ensemble / Alfredo Campoli (violin) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 16 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The first in a three-volume edition of the complete Decca recordings of Sir Adrian Boult, this set represents the most complete survey ever issued of Sir Adrian Boult's British music recordings for Decca. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 / A Midsummer Night's Dream London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Eduard van Beinum [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] Classic 1950s accounts of Mendelssohn the teenage genius, the masterly orchestral tone-painter and the deft theatre composer, recorded by Decca and now reissued in new remasterings. With three of Mendelssohn's most popular orchestral works, Eloquence... |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHABRIER / RAVEL / etc
Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon - The Decca 78s London Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon, with Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] '[Kleiber] sets a norm, from the outset, of genuine, much-felt happiness … immensely wide dynamic range.' Gramophone, December 1951 (Kleiber: Beethoven 'Pastoral') |
ERIC & ALBERT COATES / EDWARD ELGAR / NOEL COWARD
Coates, Elgar, Coward: Orchestral Music London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Corbett / New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eric Coates / London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] Four 1950s Decca records of popular English music, newly remastered and issued complete for the first time on CD. |
HEROLD / BOIELDIEU / ADAM / OFFENBACH
French Opera Overtures (Including Zampa, Orpheus in the Underworld & La Belle Helene) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jan/2006 ] 'Jean Martinon ... whips the orchestra into shape with the sheer energy of his conducting. All of these performances will set your pulse racing and toes tapping, from the élan of Hérold's Zampa to an absolutely wild account of the "can-can" finale to... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / DOHNÁNYI / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MAHLER
Sir Adrian Boult - The Decca Legacy, Volume 3 - 19th & 20th Century Music London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Kirsten Flagstad, Julius Katchen, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 16 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The third volume of Boult's complete Decca recordings features Boult the insightful accompanist and inspired Russian interpreter, featuring many long-unavailable and newly remastered Decca recordings. LIMITED EDITION. |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
The Best of Delius [Incls 'In a Summer Garden' & 'The Walk to the Paradise Garden'] London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins [ Decca Australian SBS Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] Five substantial pieces of 'classic' Delius are brought together on this remarkable and heartfelt tribute to the English composer (who spent very little of his actual career in England!), Frederick Delius. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 4 London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "Collins's readings possess a red-blooded fervour and thrusting energy to which many will rightly respond" (Gramophone) |
DVORAK / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MOZART / VERDI / SCHUBERT / etc/
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Edition - Volume 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, with Alfred Brendel, Henryk Szeryng, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Supplementary to his legendary Beethoven cycles for Decca are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt's recordings for Philips, Mercury, Deutsche Grammophon and Accord. They date from 1944 (Sutermeister) to 1972, when he made his last recording, fittingly by Mozart. |
