Decca: The Supreme Record Company - A Recorded Legacy | Decca 4850219

Decca: The Supreme Record Company - A Recorded Legacy

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4850219

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 55

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland' (arr. Busoni)
Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bagatelles (7), op.33
» no.4 in A major
Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.58
Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'
Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor, op.13 'Pathetique'
Piano Sonata no.13 in E flat major, op.27 no.1 'Quasi una fantasia'
Piano Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, op.27 no.2 'Moonlight'
Piano Sonata no.21 in C major, op.53 'Waldstein'
String Quartet no.11 in F minor, op.95 'Serioso'
String Quartet no.13 in B flat major, op.130
Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'

Bizet, Georges

L'Arlesienne Suite

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68
Symphony no.3 in F major, op.90

Britten, Benjamin

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.31
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
War Requiem, op.66

Canteloube, Joseph

Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne) (excerpts)

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Espana

Davies, Peter Maxwell

Symphony no.1
Taverner: Points and Dances

Debussy, Claude

Cello Sonata in D minor, L135
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Delibes, Leo

Lakme
» Sous le dome epais 'Flower duet'

Delius, Frederick

Sea Drift

Elgar, Edward

Enigma Variations, op.36

Franck, Cesar

Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra

Gershwin, George

Piano Concerto in F major
Rhapsody in Blue

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56 (highlights)

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Variations in F minor, HobXVII:6

Holst, Gustav

The Planets, op.32

Litolff, Henry

Concerto Symphonique no.4 in D minor, op.102
» Scherzo

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major, K271 'Jeunehomme'
Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K488
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Piano Sonata no.15 in F major, K533/K494
Requiem in D minor, K626
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana

Prokofiev, Sergei

Peter and the Wolf, op.67

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme (highlights)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30

Ravel, Maurice

Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
L'Enfant et les sortileges
Piano Trio in A minor
Sheherazade

Reich, Steve

Six pianos

Riley, Terry

In C

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Scheherazade, op.35

Saint-Saens, Camille

Danse macabre, op.40

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Piano Sonata no.21 in B flat major, D960

Shostakovich, Dmitri

String Quartet no.4 in D major, op.83
String Quartet no.8 in C minor, op.110
String Quartet no.12 in D flat major, op.133
String Quartet no.15 in E flat minor, op.144
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.9 in E flat major, op.70

Strauss, Richard

Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Don Juan, op.20
Salome, op.54
» Dance of the Seven Veils
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28

Stravinsky, Igor

Violin Concerto in D major

Verdi, Giuseppe

Requiem (Messa da Requiem)

Vivaldi, Antonio

The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)

Wagner, Richard

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (highlights)

Walton, William

Violin Concerto

Williams, John

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (suite)
Star Wars: Suite

Artists

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Jose Carreras (tenor)
Kyung Wha Chung (violin)
Sean Connery (speaker)
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
John Daniecki (tenor)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Renee Fleming (soprano)
Nelson Freire (piano)
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Elizabeth Harwood (soprano)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Hurford (organ)
Janine Jansen (violin)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Radu Lupu (piano)
Kevin McMillan (baritone)
Mario del Monaco (tenor)
Judith Nelson (soprano)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Msitslav Rostropovich (cello)
Reinhild Runkel (contralto)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Robert Schunk (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Hans Sotin (bass)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Martti Talvela (bass)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
David Thomas (bass)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Fires of London
Fitzwilliam Quartet
Melos Ensemble
Piano Circus
Takacs Quartet
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
The Bach Choir
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
London Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Boys’ Chorus
San Francisco Girls’ Chorus
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Academy of Ancient Music
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra
Concertgebouw Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mantovani and his Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New English Symphony Orchestra & Choir
New Philharmonia
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra dell’accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Les Talens Lyriques
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Saito Kinen Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony & Chorus
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductors

Marin Alsop
Ernest Ansermet
Giovanni Antonini
Sidney Beer
Anthony Bernard
Herbert Blomstedt
Adrian Boult
Riccardo Chailly
Antal Dorati
Charles Dutoit
Alberto Erede
Carlo Maria Giulini
Bernard Haitink
Bernard Herrmann
Christopher Hogwood
Herbert von Karajan
Erich Kleiber
Lorin Maazel
Charles Mackerras
Mantovani
Charles Munch
Neville Marriner
Zubin Mehta
Boyd Neel
Victor Olof
Seiji Ozawa
Andre Previn
Simon Rattle
Christophe Rousset
Donald Runnicles
Malcom Sargent
Georg Solti
Horst Stein
George Szell
Jeffrey Tate
DavidWillcocks

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland' (arr. Busoni)
Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bagatelles (7), op.33
» no.4 in A major
Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.58
Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'
Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor, op.13 'Pathetique'
Piano Sonata no.13 in E flat major, op.27 no.1 'Quasi una fantasia'
Piano Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, op.27 no.2 'Moonlight'
Piano Sonata no.21 in C major, op.53 'Waldstein'
String Quartet no.11 in F minor, op.95 'Serioso'
String Quartet no.13 in B flat major, op.130
Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67
Symphony no.6 in F major, op.68 'Pastoral'
Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'

Bizet, Georges

L'Arlesienne Suite

Brahms, Johannes

Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68
Symphony no.3 in F major, op.90

Britten, Benjamin

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.31
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
War Requiem, op.66

Canteloube, Joseph

Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne) (excerpts)

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Espana

Davies, Peter Maxwell

Symphony no.1
Taverner: Points and Dances

Debussy, Claude

Cello Sonata in D minor, L135
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Delibes, Leo

Lakme
» Sous le dome epais 'Flower duet'

Delius, Frederick

Sea Drift

Elgar, Edward

Enigma Variations, op.36

Franck, Cesar

Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra

Gershwin, George

Piano Concerto in F major
Rhapsody in Blue

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56 (highlights)

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Variations in F minor, HobXVII:6

Holst, Gustav

The Planets, op.32

Litolff, Henry

Concerto Symphonique no.4 in D minor, op.102
» Scherzo

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major, K271 'Jeunehomme'
Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K488
Piano Concerto no.24 in C minor, K491
Piano Sonata no.15 in F major, K533/K494
Requiem in D minor, K626
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana

Prokofiev, Sergei

Peter and the Wolf, op.67

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme (highlights)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30

Ravel, Maurice

Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
L'Enfant et les sortileges
Piano Trio in A minor
Sheherazade

Reich, Steve

Six pianos

Riley, Terry

In C

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Scheherazade, op.35

Saint-Saens, Camille

Danse macabre, op.40

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Piano Sonata no.21 in B flat major, D960

Shostakovich, Dmitri

String Quartet no.4 in D major, op.83
String Quartet no.8 in C minor, op.110
String Quartet no.12 in D flat major, op.133
String Quartet no.15 in E flat minor, op.144
Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony no.9 in E flat major, op.70

Strauss, Richard

Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Don Juan, op.20
Salome, op.54
» Dance of the Seven Veils
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28

Stravinsky, Igor

Violin Concerto in D major

Verdi, Giuseppe

Requiem (Messa da Requiem)

Vivaldi, Antonio

The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)

Wagner, Richard

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (highlights)

Walton, William

Violin Concerto

Williams, John

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (suite)
Star Wars: Suite

Artists

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Jose Carreras (tenor)
Kyung Wha Chung (violin)
Sean Connery (speaker)
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
John Daniecki (tenor)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Renee Fleming (soprano)
Nelson Freire (piano)
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Elizabeth Harwood (soprano)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Hurford (organ)
Janine Jansen (violin)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Radu Lupu (piano)
Kevin McMillan (baritone)
Mario del Monaco (tenor)
Judith Nelson (soprano)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Msitslav Rostropovich (cello)
Reinhild Runkel (contralto)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Robert Schunk (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Hans Sotin (bass)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Martti Talvela (bass)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
David Thomas (bass)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Fires of London
Fitzwilliam Quartet
Melos Ensemble
Piano Circus
Takacs Quartet
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
The Bach Choir
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
London Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Boys’ Chorus
San Francisco Girls’ Chorus
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Academy of Ancient Music
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra
Concertgebouw Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mantovani and his Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New English Symphony Orchestra & Choir
New Philharmonia
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra dell’accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Les Talens Lyriques
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Saito Kinen Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony & Chorus
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductors

Marin Alsop
Ernest Ansermet
Giovanni Antonini
Sidney Beer
Anthony Bernard
Herbert Blomstedt
Adrian Boult
Riccardo Chailly
Antal Dorati
Charles Dutoit
Alberto Erede
Carlo Maria Giulini
Bernard Haitink
Bernard Herrmann
Christopher Hogwood
Herbert von Karajan
Erich Kleiber
Lorin Maazel
Charles Mackerras
Mantovani
Charles Munch
Neville Marriner
Zubin Mehta
Boyd Neel
Victor Olof
Seiji Ozawa
Andre Previn
Simon Rattle
Christophe Rousset
Donald Runnicles
Malcom Sargent
Georg Solti
Horst Stein
George Szell
Jeffrey Tate
DavidWillcocks

About

A glance at Decca’s extensive roster of artists since the company’s formation in February 1929 throws up household names in every decade – Ansermet, Ashkenazy, Bartoli, Brendel, Britten, Chailly, Ferrier, Flagstad, Fleming, Jansen, Karajan, Nilsson, Pavarotti, Solti, Sutherland, Tebaldi, Uchida... the list goes on and on. In fact, if you name a major classical artist of the last 90 years, there is a good chance they will have recorded for Decca and the labels that make up Decca as we know it today.

2019 affords us to celebrate a classical legacy that continues to thrive.

Highlights include:
Grammy Award-winning recordings of Beethoven (Jessye Norman, Sir Georg Solti, Takács Quartet), Ravel (Seiji Ozawa) & Mozart (Mitsuko Uchida)

Gramophone Records of the Year in Brahms Symphonies (Riccardo Chailly), Shostakovich (Bernard Haitink) and Holst (Charles Dutoit)

Some of the most beloved concerto recordings on disc (Kyung Wha Chung, Clifford Curzon, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Friedrich Gulda, Alfred Brendel, Mitsuko Uchida, Jean-Yves Thibaudet)

The greatest choral works in essential recordings – Handel’s Messiah (Christopher Hogwood), Mozart’s Requiem (Sir Neville Marriner)

Stellar period-performance and contemporary recordings from the L’Oiseau-lyre and Argo labels plus the finest highlights from the greatest opera catalogue of all time

“Without a doubt Decca is the best in the world, and long may it continue to be so! Bravo!” – Luciano Pavarotti

What’s in the box?
- A specially curated selection of 55 albums, presenting the very best the legendary Decca classical catalogue has to offer from its first 90 years
- Landmark recordings from Decca, Argo, L’Oiseau-lyre, Phase 4 Stereo labels including the Entartete Musik and Headline series
- Plus a special 2-CD collection of recordings from the 78rpm era
- Each album presented with its original artwork
- Some of the greatest orchestral, concerto, chamber, sacred, vocal and opera recordings of all time
- Multiple award-winning recordings that have won international acclaim from critics and the public alike
- 90 years of sound perfection and great artistry; from the earliest days of the 78 era and launch of FFRR recordings to the present day
- 132-page booklet (English/German) retells the fascinating story of these legendary recordings. New liner notes by Andrew Stewart
- This set is the classical compendium to the new authoritative book on Decca: The Supreme Record Company

Contents:

Orchestra
CD 1: Rameau - Overtures (L’Oiseau-lyre)
- Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset

CD 2: Mozart - Symphonies nos 40 & 41 (Decca)
- New Philharmonia Orchestra / Carlo Maria Giulini

CD 3: Beethoven - Symphonies nos 5 & 6 (Decca)
- Concertgebouw Orchestra / Erich Kleiber

CD 4: Beethoven - Symphony no.9 (Decca)
- Jessye Norman, Reinhild Runkel, Robert Schunk, Hans Sotin
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Georg Solti

CD 5: Brahms - Symphonies nos 1 & 3 (Decca)
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Riccardo Chailly

CD 6: R Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Dance of the Seven VeilsDon Juan (Decca)
- Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 7: Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (Decca)
- Cleveland Orchestra / Maazel

CD 8: Romantic Russia (Decca)
- London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti

CD 9: Holst - The Planets (Decca)
- Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit

CD 10: Prokofiev - Peter & the Wolf; Britten - The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Phase 4 Stereo)
- Sean Connery, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Antal Doráti

CD 11: Shostakovich - Symphonies nos 5 & 9 (Decca)
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink

CD 12: Herrmann - The Great Movie Thrillers (Phase 4 Stereo)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Herrmann

CD 13: Williams - Star Wars Suite; Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Decca)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta

CD 14: Maxwell Davies - Symphony no.1, Points & Dances from Taverner (Headline)
- Philharmonia Orchestra, Fires of London / Sir Simon Rattle

Concerto
CD 15: Mozart - Piano Concertos nos 23 & 24 (Decca)
- Mitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra

CDs 16-17: Alfred Brendel: The Farewell Concert (Decca)
- Alfred Brendel, Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Charles Mackerras

CD 18: Beethoven - Piano Concertos nos 4 & 5 (Decca)
- Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker / Horst Stein

CD 19: Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1; Franck - Variations symphoniques; Litolff - Scherzo (Decca)
- Clifford Curzon, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Georg Szell, Sir Adrian Boult

CD 20: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto nos 2 & 3 (Decca)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

CD 21: Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto (Decca)
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop

CD 22: Walton & Stravinsky - Violin Concertos (Decca)
- Kyung Wha Chung, London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

Piano / Keyboard
CD 23: J.S. Bach - Organ Works (Argo)
- Peter Hurford

CD 24: J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations (Decca)
- András Schiff

CD 25: Beethoven -  ‘Moonlight’, ‘Pathétique’ & ‘Waldstein’ Sonatas (Decca)
- Radu Lupu

CD 26: Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends (Decca)
- Nelson Freire

Chamber
CD 27: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Decca)
- Janine Jansen

CD 28: Beethoven - String Quartets nos 11 & 13 (Decca)
- Takács Quartet

CD 29: Debussy, Schumann, Schubert, Bridge, Britten - Works for Cello &  Piano (Decca)
- Msitslav Rostropovich / Benjamin Britten

CD 30: Ravel - Piano Trio; Debussy - Violin & Cello Sonatas (Decca)
- Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy

CD 31: Shostakovich - String Quartets nos 4, 8, 12 & 15 (L’Oiseau lyre)
- Fitzwilliam Quartet

CD 32: Reich - Six Pianos; Riley - In C (Argo)
- Piano Circus

Choral / Sacred
CD 33: Handel - Messiah (highlights) (L’Oiseau lyre)
- Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott, David Thomas
- Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood

CD 34: Mozart - Requiem (Argo)
- Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk
- Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner

CD 35: Verdi - Requiem (Decca)
- Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela
- Wiener Staatsopernchord, Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 36: Orff - Carmina Burana (Decca)
- Lynne Dawson, John Daniecki, Kevin McMillan
- San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, San Francisco Boys’ Chorus, San Francisco Symphony & Chorus / Herbert Blomstedt

CD 37: Britten - War Requiem (Decca)
- Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra / Benjamin Britten

CD 38: A Festival of Lessons and Carols (Argo)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Sir David Willcocks

Song / Recital
CD 39: Kathleen Ferrier: An Anthology (Decca)
- Kathleen Ferrier

CD 40: A Song for You, plus ‘Italia Mia’ (Decca)
- Mario del Monaco, Mantovani and his Orchestra

CD 41: Renata Tebaldi: Operatic Recital, plus bonus highlights (Decca)
- Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell’accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Alberto Erede

CDs 42-43: The Art of the Prima Donna, plus Lakmé Flower Duet (Decca)
- Joan Sutherland

CD 44: Canteloube - Chants d’Auvergne Vol.1 (Decca)
- Kiri Te Kanawa, English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate

CD 45: Cecilia Bartoli: The Vivaldi Album (Decca)
- Cecilia Bartoli, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini

CD 46: Renée Fleming: The Beautiful Voice (Decca)
- Renée Fleming, English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffery Tate

CD 47: Jonas Kaufmann: Wagner (Decca)
- Jonas Kaufmann, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Donald Runnicles

Opera
CD 48: Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Great Scenes (Decca)
- Soloists, Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 49: Gilbert & Sullivan - The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan (Decca)
- The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

CD 50: Puccini - La Bohème (highlights) (Decca)
- Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Elizabeth Harwood, Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 51: The Original Three Tenors Concert, 1990 (Decca)
- José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti / Zubin Mehta

CD 52: An Introduction to Entartete Musik (Entartete Musik)
- Various artists

CD53: Ravel - L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Shéhérazade (Decca)
- Saito Kinen Orchestra / Ozawa

Bonus: Decca 78s (2 CDs)
Selection of highlights from the very first releases on Decca and early FFRR recordings

Bonus 1:
Delius - Sea Drift
- Roy Henderson, New English Symphony Orchestra & Choir / Anthony Bernard
Elgar - Enigma Variations
- National Symphony Orchestra / Malcom Sargent
Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn & strings
- Peter Pears, Dennis Brain, Boyd Neel String Orchestra / Benjamin Britten

Bonus 2:
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite
- Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Charles Munch
Ravel - Shéhérazade
- Suzanne Danco, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Ernest Ansermet
Chabrier - España
- National Symphony Orchestra / Victor Olof
Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre
- National Symphony Orchestra / Boyd Neel
Bizet - L’Arlésienne Suite
- National Symphony Orchestra / Sidney Beer

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