Sunday, October 27, 2013

The Decca Sound: The Analogue Years (54CD)

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CD 1
DUTOIT / PO (1980)
Saint-Saens: Tone poems + Piano Concerto 1



CD 2
SOLTI / CSO (1979)
Bruckner 6

CD 3
HAITINK / LPO (1979)
Shostakovich 4



CD 4
ROGE (1978)
Debussy: Preludes I & Children’s Corner

CD 5
STEIN / OSR (1978)
Sibelius: Pelleas et Melisande & The Tempest

CD 6
WELLER / LPO (1978)
Prokofiev 2 & Love for Three Oranges + Ala and Lolly

CD 7
DORATI / DSO (1978)
Bartok: Suite No.1 & 2 Pictures + Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody 1


CD 8
MAAZEL / CO (1977)
Prokofiev 5 + Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture + Capriccio espagnol

CD 9
CHUNG & LUPU (1977)
Debussy & Franck: Sonatas + Ravel: Introduction and allegro (Melos Ensemble)

CD 10
ASHKENAZY / PO (1977)
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony + Valse-scherzo (Belkin)

CD 11
MEHTA / LAPO (1976)
Gershwin: American in Paris & Copland Appalachian spring + Copland: Lincoln Portrait + Kraft: Contextures
 CD 12 CHIARA / WEIKL / GARDELLI (1976)
Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna + Arias (Chiara)

CD 13
LARROCHA / RPO / Fruhbeck de Burgos (1976)
Surinach & Montsalvatge: Concertos + Faure: Fantaisie + Franck: Symphonic variations


CD 14
FITZWILLIAM QT (1975)
Shostakovich: Quartets 15 & 8 + 9

CD 15
MUNCHINGER / WP (1974)
Schubert: Rosamunde
+ Weber & Schumann Overtures

CD 16
SOLTI / CSO (1974)
Stravinsky: Sacre du printemps + Ravel: Bolero & Schoenberg: Variations for orchestra

CD 17 LUPU / LSO / PREVIN (1973)
Grieg & Schumann: Concertos

CD 18
DORATI / PH (1972)
Haydn: Symphonies 94 “Surprise”,
100 “Military” & 104 “London”

CD 19 (2CD)
BRITTEN / ECO (1972)
Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust + Mozart 40

CD 20
CHUNG / LSO / PREVIN (1972)
Walton & Stravinsky Concertos

CD 21
ASHKENAZY (1972)
Chopin: Etudes

CD 22
BONYNGE / LSO (1972)
Offenbach: Le Papillon + Massenet: Le Cid

CD 23
MEHTA / LAPO (1971)
Holst: The Planets + Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony

CD 24
ASHKENAZY / LPO / MAAZEL (1971)
Scriabin: Piano Concerto & Prometheus + Scriabin: Poeme de l’extase

CD 25
KERTEESZ / LSO (1970)
Dvorak: The Water Goblin / My Home / Noonday Witch / The Hussite + The Golden Spinning Wheel

CD 26
STARKER / IPO / MEHTA (1969)
Bloch: Schelomo & Voice in the Wilderness + Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol


CD 27
WIENER OKTETT / Walter Panhoffer (piano) (1968)
Mendelssohn: Sextet, op.110 & Borodin: Quintet in C minor + Berwald Septet

CD 28
ABBADO / LSO (1968)
Mendelssohn 3 & 4

CD 29
SOLTI / WP (1967)
Verdi: Requiem [Sutherland / Horne / Pavarotti / Talvela]

CD 30
SOLTI / LSO (1966)
Mahler 2

CD 31
SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT/ WP (1965)
Beethoven 9 [Sutherland /Horne /King / Talvela]

CD 32 ROSTROPOVICH / BRITTEN / ECO (1964)
Britten: Cello Symphony + Haydn: Concerto

CD 33
KERTESZ / LSO (1964)
Kodaly: Hary Janos + Dances of Galanta + The Peacock & Peacock Variations

CD 34
MAAZEL / WP (1963)
Sibelius 1 & Karelia Suite + Sibelius 4

CD 35
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS / BRYMER (1962)
Mozart: Serenade K361 + Serenade K388

CD 36
OISTRAKH / HINDEMITH / HORENSTEIN (1962)
Bruch & Hindemith Concertos

CD 37 CURZON / LSO / SZELL (1962)
Brahms 1 + Mozart K595 (WP / Szell)

CD 38 LANCHBERY / ROHO (1962)
Herold: La Fille mal gardee + Gounod: Faust – ballet music [Solti]

CD 39
ANSERMET / OSR (1961)
Martin: Etudes for strings & Concerto for timpani & winds + Honegger: Symphony 2

CD 40 (2CD)
KARAJAN / WP (1961)
Verdi: Otello

CD 41
BOSKOVSKY / WP (1961)
Strauss: 1001 Nights
+ Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald + Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich & Fruhlingsstimmen (Gueden / WP / Krips)

CD 42
FISTOULARI / COA (1961)
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – scenes + Lecoq: Mam’zelle Angot

CD 43
GAMBA / LSO / RICCI (1960)
Rossini: Overtures + Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

CD 44 (2CD)
SERAFIN / COASCR (1959)
Puccini: La Boheme

CD 45
MONTEUX / LSO (1958)
Sibelius 2 + Dvorak 7

CD 46 KRIPS / LSO (1958)
Schubert 9 + Schubert 8

CD 47 ALWYN / LSO (1958)
Tchaikovsky 1812 / Capriccio italien / Marche slave + Rachmaninov 2 [Katchen / LSO / Solti]

CD 48
FJELDSTAD / LSO (1958)
Peer Gynt + Piano Concerto (Curzon)

CD 49
ANSERMET / OSR (1954)
Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortileges + Ma Mere l’oye – Suite

CD 50
ANSERMET / OSR (1954)
Decca’s first stereo recordings
Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar
& Glazunov: Stenka Razin + Balakirev, Liadov
BONUS CD
ANSERMET / OSR
MONO versions of CD 50



In the late 1940s, the pioneering Decca recording engineers perfected a new set of microphone techniques that allowed the full range of frequencies to be fully heard by listeners for the first time, and the term ‘full frequency range recording’ was launched. It was a major revolution in sound quality, and the beginnings of high fidelity.

Perfected with the birth of stereo in the mid-1950s, Decca’s ‘Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound’ became a worldwide hallmark of sonic excellence and a golden age of classical recorded music was born. THE ANALOGUE YEARS presents a 50-Album overview across 54 CDs, in original jackets, of the celebrated international recordings that emerged from the London-based record label in that pre-digital era.
Decca Classics 53cds 4785437

6 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for posting these. It was otherwise difficult to discover the exact contents & performances of this 54-disc box before purchase. Some of the cover art is of classic status in itself.

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  3. These covers no longer show up on the link provided. Can you repost please?

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