Opera/Operetta > Decca

The Silver Violin - Music by Carlos Gardel, Korngold, John Williams, Howard Shores, Shostakovich / Nicola Benedetti, violin

1 CD / Decca / 2013-02-19

Works: John Williams: Schindler's List; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12; Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35; Carlos Gardel: Por una cabeza, tango for voice & chamber orchestra; Dmitry Sh...
Performers: Benedetti, Nicola; Elschenbroich, Leonard; Grynyuk, Alexei; Knowles, Gregory [Percussion]; Sidorova, Ksenija [Accordion]; Sitkovetsky, Alexander; Tom Dunn [Violin/Viola]
Conductors: Karabits, Kirill
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Acclaimed as one of the leading violinists of her generation, best-selling violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti turns the spotlight on Hollywood in this collection of the...continue...
Recording information: The Guildhall, Southampton, England (2012-04-11_2012-04-12&2012-)....continue...

Kaufmann - Wagner / Jonas Kaufmann, Markus Bruck, Donald Runnicles, William Spaulding

1 CD / Decca / 2013-02-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Siegfried; Rienzi; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Lohengrin; Wesendonck Lieder; Stehe still! ("Sausendes, brausendes Rad der Zeit"), song for ...
Performers: Bruck, Markus; Kaufmann, Jonas
Conductors: Runnicles, Donald
Ensemble: ; Deutschen Oper Berlin Orchestra

Kaufmann's 5th solo album on Decca - specially recorded for Wagner anniversary year by the world's leading Wagner tenor.

Kaufmann and Wagner is a classic

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Recording information: Groáer Sendesaal, Funkhaus Berlin, Nalepastraáe, Berlin (09/17/2012-09/22/2012)....continue...

Viva Verdi: Overtures & Preludes / Riccardo Chailly

1 CD / Decca / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliana; Alzira; La traviata; Il corsaro; Nabucco; Jérusalem (Original Version (libr. from 1843 "I Lombardi")); Jérusalem; Giovanna d'Arco; Aida, opera; Macbeth...
Performers: Ferrando, Mauro; Meloni, Fabrizio; Prandino, Luisa; Thouand, Fabien; Zoni, Marco
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: ; Filarmonica Della Scala

Wiiner of the 2012 ECHO Award for "Conductor of the Year" and one of the world's most respected maestros Riccardo Chailly celebrates Verdi's bicentenary year...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium di Milano (06/05/2012-06/11/2012)....continue...

Quartet [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

1 CD / Decca / 2013-01-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Rigoletto; Dario Marianelli: Quartet, film score; Franz Schubert: An Sylvia; Arthur Sullivan: The Mikado; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Luigi Boccher...
Performers: Capecchi, Renato; Charles, Leon; Cotrubas, Ileana; D'Angelo, Gianna; Engel, Karl; Georgiadis, John [Conductor]; Heley, John; Herbert, Ita; Hughes, Ronnie; Jones, Peggy Ann; Kampen, Christopher van; M...
Conductors: Morgan, James; Nash, Royston; Munchinger, Karl; Dorati, Antal; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Bartoletti, Bruno; Bonynge, Richard; Solti, Sir Georg

The original motion picture soundtrack to Dustin Hoffman's comedy Quartet brings together a variety of vintage performances from Decca's back catalog that are complemented by excerpts from the film sc...continue...

Mozart: The Magic Flute / René Pape, Deon Van Der Walt, Herbert Lippert, Luciana Serra. Vienna PO, Georg Solti [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Decca / 2012-12-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620
Performers: Lippert, Herbert; Pape, Rene; Scharinger, Anton; Serra, Luciana; Walt, Deon Van der; Ziesak, Ruth
Conductors: Solti, Georg
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A never-before- released performance of Mozart's magical last opera under the baton of Sir Georg Solti.

Filmed at the Salzburg Festival in the Mozart Bicentenary

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Katherine Jenkins sings Music from the Movies

1 CD / Decca / 2012-12-11

Works: Dolly Parton: L'amore sei tu (Italian version of "I Will Always Love You"); Robert John Lange: Everything I Do (I Do It for You) (Italian version; Andrew Lloyd Webber: Don't Cry for Me Argentina, son...
Performers: Jenkins, Katherine

Katherine Jenkins, a Welsh mezzo-soprano, is Britain's all-time best-selling classical-pop crossover act, an achievement no doubt attributed as much to her fashion model looks as her operatic voice. T...continue...

Villazon Verdi / Rolando Villazon, tenor. Gianandrea Noseda

1 CD / Decca / 2012-11-19

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio; I due Foscari; Brindisi I ("Mescetemi il vino!"), song for voice & piano; L'esule, song for voice & piano; I Lombardi alla prima crociata; In solitaria...
Performers: Barilli, Armando; Erdmann, Mojca; Favaro, Ugo [Horn]; Lukic, Relja; Ombuena, Vicente; Picatto, Luigi [Clarinet]; Villazon, Rolando
Conductors: Noseda, Gianandrea
Ensemble: ; Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Tori

Released to coincide with Verdi's anniversary year (1813 to 2013).

A unique and carefully-crafted personal selection of Verdi arias and songs that takes us on

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Recording information: Auditorio RAI Arturo Toscanini, Turin, Italy (09/2012)....continue...

Gounod: Romeo et Juliette / Andrea Bocelli, Maite Alberola. Fabio Luisi

2 CD / Decca / 2012-11-19

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Conductors: Luisi, Fabio
Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice

Andrea Bocelli, the award-winning tenor and international "cross over" superstar, returns to his first love - grand opera - with a starring role in one...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Italy (2012-02-21_2012-02-26&2012-)....continue...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Hotter, Nilsson, Flagstad, Fischer-Dieskau, Windgassen, London, Popp, Ludwig et al. / Georg Solti [Super Deluxe Edition 17 CDs]

19 CD / Decca / 2012-11-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Rienzi; The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Siegfried Idyll; Kinder-Katechismus ("Wisst ihr, Kinder; Der Ring ...
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: ; Vienna State Chorus

The centerpiece of Decca's celebrations of Sir Georg Solti's centenary is a limited-edition (individually numbered), newly-remastered, luxury edition of "The greatest recording of all time!"...continue...

A Late Quartet - Music by Angelo Badalamenti [Original Soundtrack]

1 CD / Decca / 2012-11-06

Works: Angelo Badalamenti: A Late Quartet, film score; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Tote Stadt; Cristian Puig: Bulerias del encuntreno, song; Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 14 in C sharp minor...
Performers: Forsberg, Bengt; Forsberg, Ulf; Lidstrom, Mats; Lysell, Kjell; Puig, Cristian; Sparf, Nils-Erik [Violin/Viola]; von Otter, Anne Sofie
Conductors: Grace, Jeff; LoDuca, Joseph

Humperdinck: Konigskinder / Jonas Kaufmann; Isabel Rey; Oliver Widmer; Liliana Nikiteanu. Ingo Metzmacher - Zurich Opera [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Decca / 2012-10-30

Works: Engelbert Humperdinck: Königskinder, opera
Performers: Kaufmann, Jonas; Nikiteanu, Liliana; Rey, Isabel; Widmer, Oliver
Conductors: Metzmacher, Ingo
Ensemble: Zurich Opera Chorus; Zurich Opera Orchestra

Tenor superstar Jonas Kaufmann leads the cast in the first-ever DVD release of the beautiful fairytale opera from the composer of Hansel und Gretel.

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Handel: Rodelinda / Renée Fleming, Andreas Scholl, Joseph Kaiser, Stephanie Blythe. Harry Bicket, MET [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Decca / 2012-10-22

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rodelinda
Performers: Blythe, Stephanie; Davies, Iestyn; Fleming, Renee; Kaiser, Joseph; Linn, Moritz; Scholl, Andreas; Shenyang
Conductors: Bicket, Harry
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Renee Fleming and Andreas Scholl lead a superb cast in Stephen Wadsworth's celebrated production of Handel's Rodelinda from the Metropolitan Opera - based on the...continue...

Verdi: Opera Choruses / Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Solti

1 CD / Decca / 2012-10-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; I Lombardi; Macbeth; I Masnadieri; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Don Carlo; Aida, opera; Otello; Requiem Mass
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Verdi was one of the greatest of all opera composers and many his rousing choruses are justly famous to those who have never seen an...continue...

Mission / Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Agostino Steffani [Deluxe hardcover limited edition]

1 CD / Decca / 2012-10-02

Works: Agostino Steffani: Alarico il Baltha, cioè L'audace re de' Gothi; Servio Tullio; Niobe, regina di Tebe; Tassilone; Work(s); La superbia d'Alessandro; Alarco il Baltha; La libertà contenta; ...
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia; Conte, Rosario; Jaroussky, Philippe
Conductors: Fasolis, Diego
Ensemble: ; I Barocchisti

Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational release from the world's best-selling classical artist Cecilia Bartoli and a project with international politics, religious...continue...
Recording information: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Radio Svizzerea Italia, Lugano, (11/2011-03/2012)....continue...

Rossini: Zelmira / Juan Diego Florez, Kate Aldrich, Gregory Kunde, Alex Esposito - Roberto Abbado [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Decca / 2012-09-25

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Zelmira
Performers: Aldrich, Kate; Esposito, Alex; Florez, Juan Diego; Kunde, Gregory
Conductors: Abbado, Roberto
Ensemble: Abbado, Roberto

Juan Diego Florez stars in the only available DVD/Blu-Ray Version of Zelmira, filmed at the celebrated Rossini Festival in the composer's home town of Pesaro...continue...

The Art of Renee Fleming - in music of Richard Rodgers, JS Bach, Handel, Bernstein, Puccini, Schubert, Gershwin et al.

1 CD / Decca / 2012-09-11

Works: Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Ave Maria; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt; Antoni...
Performers: Anderson, Rusty; Beroukhim, Cyrus; Fleming, Renee; Gerlach, Alexis Pia; Hakim, William; Hartley, David; Kahne, David; Mills, Jesse; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]; Pearce, Steve; Pelton, Shawn; Salmins, Ral...
Conductors: Delfs, Andreas; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Tate, Jeffrey; Solti, Sir Georg; Gergiev, Valery; Levine, James; Barenboim, Daniel; Bicket, Harry; Gemignani, Paul; Summers, Patrick

A new priority album of the very best from the world's favorite soprano, released to coincide with a major international TV appearance

The Art of

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Opera Arias - Nessum Dorma; Casta Diva; O Mio Babbino Caro et al. / Pavarotti, Sutherland, Tebaldi

1 CD / Decca / 2012-07-24

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Nabucco; La traviata; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Alfredo Catalani: ...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Bergonzi, Carlo; Corelli, Franco; Cross, Richard; Freni, Mirella; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Krause, Tom; Milnes, Sherrill; Pavarotti, Luciano; Popp, Lucia; Sutherland, Joan,...
Conductors: Gardelli, Lamberto; Bonynge, Richard; Cleva, Fausto; Varviso, Silvio; Kertész, István; Karajan, Herbert von; Solti, Sir Georg; Lewis, Henry; Maazel, Lorin; Pritchard, John; Mehta, Zubin

Opera has it all - the radiant melodies, comic characters, rousing choruses and far-fetched plots. This stirring collection includes the most famous highlights from this...continue...

Méditation: The Beautiful Music of Massenet

1 CD / Decca / 2012-07-03

Works: Jules Massenet: Meditation (from "Thaïs"); Le Cid; Werther; Hérodiade; Manon; Esclarmonde; Thaïs; Valse très lente, for piano; Chérubin; Cendrillon; Oh! si les fleurs avaient...
Performers: Aragall, Giacomo; Calleja, Joseph; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Fleming, Renée; Gheorghiu, Angela; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Kaufmann, Jonas; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Lisni...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Mauceri, John; Armiliato, Marco; Abel, Yves; Rizzi, Carlo; Davis, Colin; Lewis, Henry; Agoult, Raymond

Julesl Massenet, who died 100 years ago in 1912, was a French composer best known for his operas, and was widely considered in his day...continue...

Opera 2012

2 CD / Decca / 2012-05-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore; Rigoletto; La traviata; Nabucco; V...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Bartoli, Cecilia; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bocelli, Andrea; Braun, Victor; Caballe, Montserrat; Calleja, Joseph; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Chiara...
Conductors: Ono, Kazushi; Mehta, Zubin; Luisi, Fabio; Pappano, Antonio; Antonini, Giovanni; Armiliato, Marco; Abbado, Roberto; Solti, Sir Georg; Wellber, Omer Meir; Bonynge, Richard; Molinari-Pradelli, France; C...

This magnificent collection features the greatest starts of opera including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Cecilia Bartolia, Andrea Bocelli and many...continue...

Classical 2012

2 CD / Decca / 2012-05-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339; Sergey Rachmaninov: Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giovanni Pergolesi: Nel c...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Bartoli, Cecilia; Bell, Joshua; Benedetti, Nicola; Bocelli, Andrea; Bolet, Jorge; Calleja, Joseph; Coker, Paul; Di Stefano,...
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun; Pappano, Antonio; Dudamel, Gustavo; Armiliato, Marco; Chailly, Riccardo; Callegari, Daniele; Chichon, Karel Mark; Karajan, Herbert von; Rizzi, Carlo; Hollingworth, Robert; Previn, ...
Ensemble: ; I Fagiolini

Classical 2012 allows you to sample some of the finest new recordings of the year and introduce yourself to some of the most exciting new...continue...

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Elder, Gheorghiu, Kaufmann [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Decca / 2012-05-01

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecourvreur
Performers: Borodina, Olga; Bottone, Bonaventura; Corbelli, Alessandro; Gheorghiu, Angela; Kaufmann, Jonas; Muraro, Maurizio
Conductors: Elder, Mark
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Andriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea's verismo drama explores celebrity,...continue...
Run Time: 150 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Subtitles: English
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And The Band Played On: Music Played On The Titanic / I Salonisti

1 CD / Decca / 2012-05-01

Works: Robert Vollstedt: Comic Cake Walk; Sydney Baynes: Destiny; John Philip Sousa: El Capitan; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, no 6; Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore, folk s...
Conductors:
Ensemble: I Salonisti

In this delightful collection, I Salonisti has gathered together a variety of pieces from the White Star Line Songbook, a compilation of overtures, waltzes, marches and even sacred music used for the ...continue...

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Elder, Gheorghiu, Kaufmann [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Decca / 2012-04-17

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecourvreur
Performers: Borodina, Olga; Bottone, Bonaventura; Corbelli, Alessandro; Gheorghiu, Angela; Kaufmann, Jonas; Muraro, Maurizio
Conductors: Elder, Mark
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea's verismo drama explores celebrity,...continue...
Run Time: 150 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Subtitles: English
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Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition: The Complete Decca Recordings

15 CD / Decca / 2012-03-20

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice; Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Vergiss mein nicht, vergiss mein nicht! BWV 505; Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde, BWV 439; Bist du...
Performers: Ayars, Ann; Britten, Benjamin; Curzon, Clifford; Dobson, Michael; Gal, Hans; Gauntlett, Ambrose; Gilbert, Max; Greene, Eric; Gunter, Horst; Lush, Ernest; McCallum, David; Newmark, John; Parsons, Will...
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Jacques, Reginald; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Neel, (Louis) Boyd; Henderson, Roy; Barbirolli, John; Boult, Adrian; Krauss, Clemens; Klemperer, Otto; Beinum, Eduard Van; Walter, Bruno

She was an artist held in awe and affection by numerous colleagues and countless fans worldwide and her reputation is undiminished to this day. A...continue...

Verdi: Il Trovatore / Pavarotti, Banaudi, Verrett, Nucci

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore
Performers: d'Artegna, Francesco Ellero
Conductors: Mehta, Zubin
Ensemble: Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra

"Verrett's portrayal, always one of her best roles, is given here with more feeling and involvement than anyone else in the cast...Vocally speaking, the two...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Comunale Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (06/18/1990-07/02/1990)....continue...

Richard Strauss: Arabella / Te Kanawa, Grundheber and Fontana

3 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Richard Strauss: Arabella
Performers: Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Fontana, Gabrielle [Vocals]; Runkel, Reinhild
Conductors: Tate, Jeffrey
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

"Jeffrey Tate's prime virtue is his ability to convey a score's harmonic and textural chiaroscuro and it is very evident here, though at some cost...continue...
Recording information: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (07/1986)....continue...

Rossini: La Cenerentola / Bartoli, Matteuzzi, Dara, Corbelli, Pertusi

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro Communale di Bologna

"All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Comunale di Bologna (06/22/1992-07/02/1992)....continue...

Puccini: La Bohème / Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Keenlyside, Simon
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala

"The husband-and-wife partnership of Gheorghiu and Alagna is formidably demonstrated in Decca's more recent recording...Gheorghiu's glorious singing is powerfully matched by the heroic tones of...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Studio, Piccolo Teatro, Milan, Italy (10/16/1998-10/29/1998)....continue...

Massenet: Werther / José Carreras and Frederica von Stade

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Jules Massenet: Werther
Conductors: Davis, Colin
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

"The pacing of each tableau vivant is handled so superbly by Sir Colin that there is not a single moment of longueur...The casting polarizes this...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, Tooting (02/1990)....continue...

Berg: Wozzeck; Schoenberg: Erwartung / Waechter, Silja, Winkler

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7; Arnold Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Performers: Silja, Anja; Wachter, Eberhard; Zednik, Heinz
Conductors: Dohnányi, Christoph von
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / McNair, Asaw, Lloyd, Davis

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64
Performers: Conway, Claudia; Ferguson, Carl; Long, Matthew [Vocals]; Newman, David; Rey, Sara
Conductors: Davis, Colin
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

"Everything is heard with great clarity, the sensuousness of Britten's ravishing score, with all its mysterious harmonies and sonorities, is fully realized, action and reaction...continue...
Recording information: Barbican Centre, London (12/1995)....continue...

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas; The Indian Queen / Bott, Kirkby, Ainsley, Thomas, Chance

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; Indian Queen, Z 630
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: ; The Academy of Ancient Music

"Catherine Bott's Dido is perfectly rendered as part of an integrated recorded sound in a performance that's breathtakingly well nuanced. Emma Kirkby's Belinda is similarly...continue...
Recording information: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (07/1994); Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (09/1992)....continue...

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / McNair, Ragin, Sieden

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

"Gardiner's account of the Vienna Orfeo ed Euridice is peerless...In detail after detail...and in sustainment of a delicately tenebrous, uniquely Gluckian atmosphere throughout, Gardiner's command...continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, London (05/1991)....continue...

Mercury Living Presence Collection [51 CDs]

51 CD / Decca / 2012-03-06

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106; Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra, Sz. 97; Romanian...
Performers: Bachauer, Gina; Belov, Rudolf; Fischer, Irwin; Glenecke, Thomas; Graham, Allan; Hood, Boyde [Trumpet]; Janis, Byron; Koves, Toni; London Symphony Orchestra; Menuhin, Yehudi; Metzenger, Edward; Miquel...
Conductors: Kubelik, Rafael; Hanson, Howard; Dorati, Antal; Fennell, Frederick; Paray, Paul; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; ; Menges, Herbert; Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Gnutov, Vitaly; Alessandro, ...
Ensemble: ; Battery B, 2nd New Jersey Light Artillery; Eastman Wind Ensemble

Mercury Living Presence is special in many ways - an American company, from the heyday of classical recording in the U.S. that reproduced some of...continue...
Includes work(s) by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky....continue...

Russian Fantasy: Piano Duets by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Glinka / Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy

1 CD / Decca / 2012-01-24

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Sergey Rachmaninov: Suite for 2 Pianos no 1, Op. 5 "Fantaisie-tableaux"; Mikhail Glinka: Valse-Fantaisie, for piano in B minor, G. vi193; Alexander Scri...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Ashkenazy, Vovka

Following their album of French music for two pianos, father and son Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy revel in their musical heritage with this dazzling programme...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk (08/07/2011-08/09/2011)....continue...

Violinist Nicola Benedetti: "Italia" - works by Vivaldi, Tartini, Veracini et al. / Nicola Benedetti, violin

1 CD / Decca / 2012-01-24

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in D major, RV 208 "Il grosso Mogul" - Grave; Il Giustino, RV 717; Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 9 no 5/RV 358; Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 530; Descript...
Performers: Benedetti, Nicola; Curnyn, Christian
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian
Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Nicola Benedetti's debut album on the Decca label is her first recording of baroque violin repertoire Recorded in Edinburgh, the album celebrates Nicola Benedetti's Scottish-Italian...continue...

The Decca Delius Edition / Charles Mackerras [8 CDs]

8 CD / Decca / 2012-01-24

Works: Frederick Delius: Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody; In a Summer Garden, rhapsody for orchestra, RT vi/17; A Village Romeo and Juliet; North Country Sketches, for orchestra, RT vi/20; Appalachia - Ame...
Performers: Evans, Rebecca; Forsberg, Bengt; Hampson, Thomas; Hoare, Peter [; Kars, Jean-Rodolphe; Little, Tasmin; Lloyd Webber, Julian; Mora, Barry; Partridge, Ian [Tenor Vocals]; Washington, Daniel
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Marriner, Sir Neville; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Collins, Anthony

Marking the 150th Anniversary of Delius' birth date in 1862, Decca Classics releases the 'Delius Edition' - the most comprehensive Collection of Delius' music ever...continue...

Maria / Cecilia Bartoli

2 CD / Decca / 2012-01-17

Works: Giovanni Pacini: Irene, o L'Assedio di Messina; Dopo tante e tante pene (alternative ending for Rossini's opera Tancredi), rondo; Giuseppe Persiani: Ines di Castro; Felix Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op. 9...
Performers: Albelo, Celso; Bartoli, Cecilia; Forster, Benjamin; Goldschmidt, Maria; Mermoud, Claudio; Pesch, Ada; Pezzotti, Daniel; Pickup, Robert; Pisaroni, Luca; Prelle, Una; Vengerov, Maxim [Violin]; Vicini, ...
Conductors: Fischer, Adam

"[Bartoli] has aimed not only to present Malibran's repertoire but also to capture her sound. Bartoli's rich voice, with its pyrotechnical capabilities and dramatic powers,...continue...
Recording information: Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zürich-Oberstras (2006-08-14_2006-08-16&2006-)....continue...

Beauty of the Baroque / Danielle De Niese, Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Decca / 2012-01-10

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Third and Last Booke of Songes; George Frederick Handel: Serse; Samson; Acis and Galatea; Rodelinda; The Triumph of Time and Truth; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; Claudio M...
Performers: Bennett, Mark [Trumpet]; Bicket, Harry; Caminiti, Daniele; Niese, Danielle de; Paronuzzi, Giorgio; Scholl, Andreas; Zeller, Martin
Conductors: Bicket, Harry
Ensemble: The English Concert

Since her early success in Glyndebourne's now famous production of Handel's Giulio Cesare, Danielle de Niese has become most closely associated with the music of...continue...
Recording information: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (08/12/2010-08/16/2010)....continue...

Sacrificium / Cecilia Bartoli [Deluxe Edition: 2 CD+DVD]

3 CD / Decca / 2012-01-10

Works: Nicola Porpora: Siface; Germanico in Germania; Semiramide riconosciuta; Adelaide; Antonio Caldara: Sedecia; La morte d'Abel figura di quella del nostro Redentore; Francesco Araia: Berenice; Carl Hein...
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia
Conductors: Antonini, Giovanni
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico

Recording information: Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes, Valladolid, Spain (2009-01-28_2009-01-31&2009-).

Featuring mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli on vocals, Sacrificium is the 2009 release from I...continue...

Strauss: Capriccio / Davis/Met, Renee Fleming [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Decca / 2011-12-20

Works: Richard Strauss: Capriccio, Op 85
Performers: Braun, Russell; Connolly, Sarah; Fleming, Renee; Kaiser, Joseph; Larsen, Morten Frank; Rose, Peter [bass voice]
Conductors: Davis, Andrew
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

"The role suits her ideally at this stage of her career, and she sang splendidly. The performance over all, sensitively conducted by Andrew Davis and...continue...
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One Fine Day / Soprano Katherine Jenkins

1 CD / Decca / 2011-12-13

Works: Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Music of the Night, song (for the musical The Phantom of the Opera); Michael K...
Performers: Jenkins, Katherine

Released three years after she left Decca for Warner Bros., One Fine Day is the third time that the classical label has raided the back catalog of Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins for a new "best-of" c...continue...

Wagner: Die Walkure / King, Rysanek, Nienstedt, Nilsson, Adam Burmeister - Bohm

4 CD / Decca / 2011-12-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Conductors: Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Artists:
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Theo Adam (Wotan), Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde), James King (Siegmund), Gerd Nienstedt (Hunding), Annelies Burmeister (Fricka/Siegrune), Gertraud Hop...continue...
Recording information: Bayreuth Festival (1967)....continue...

Richard Strauss: Salome / Catherine Malfitano, Bryn Terfel, Riegel, Schwarz, Begley

2 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Richard Strauss: Final Scene
Performers: Begley, Kim; Olsen, Frode; Paucker, Georg; Stene, Randi
Conductors: Dohnányi, Christoph von
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Artists:
Catherine Malfitano (Salome), Bryn Terfel (Jokanaan), Kenneth Riegel (Herodes), Hanna Schwarz (Herodias), Kim Begley (Narraboth), Randi Stene (Ein Page)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ch...continue...
Recording information: Groáer Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria (04/11/1994-04/18/1994)....continue...

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Terfel, Fleming, Murray, Pertusi, Lippert, Groop, Scaltriti

3 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Performers: Constable, John [Keyboards]
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg

Artists:
Bryn Terfel (Don Giovanni), Renee Fleming (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Michele Pertusi (Leporello), Herbert Lippert (Don Ottavio), Monica Groop (Zerlina), Roberto Scaltr...continue...
Recording information: Royal Festival Hall, London (10/05/1996/10/07/1996)....continue...

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina / Minjelkiev, Galuzin, Steblianko, Okhotnikov, Borodina, Alexeyev

3 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanschina
Performers: Kazakov, Andrei; Lupachev, Viacheslav; Volobuev, Grigori; Zagorodniuk, Uri
Conductors: Gergiev, Valery
Ensemble: Kirov Opera Chorus

Artists:
Bulat Minjelkiev (Ivan Khovansky), Vladimir Galusin (Andrey Khovansky), Alexei Steblianko (Vasily Golitsyn), Nikolai Ohotnikov (Dosifey), Olga Borodina (Marfa), Valery Alexeev (Shak...continue...
Recording information: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg (01/1991/02/1991)....continue...

Giordano: Fedora / Magda Olivero, Mario del Monaco, Tito Gobbi

2 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (Highlights); Umberto Giordano: Fedora
Performers: Carbonari, Virgilio; Cassinelli, Ricardo; Cesarini, Athos; Del Monaco, Mario; Gasparini, Annamaria; Monreale, Leonardo; Olivero, Magda
Conductors: Rescigno, Nicola; Gardelli, Lamberto
Ensemble: ; Monte Carlo Opera Chorus

Artists:
Mario Del Monaco (Loris Ipanoff), Magda Olivero (Fedora), Tito Gobbi (De Siriex), Leonardo Monreale (Lorek/Nicola), Lucia Cappellino (Olga Sokarev), Piero De Palma (Il Barone Rouvel...continue...
Recording information: Salle Alcazar, Monte Carlo (05/1969)....continue...

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, Ghiaurov

2 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers: Poli, Pier Francesco
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Roayl Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

Artists:
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli...continue...
Recording information: Kingsway Hall, London (06/28/1971-06/16/1971)....continue...

Massenet: Esclarmonde / Joan Sutherland, Jaume Aragall, Huguette Tourangeau

3 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Jules Massenet: Esclarmonde, opera in 4 acts
Performers: Grant, Clifford
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra

Artists:
Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Emperor Phorcas), Louis Quilico (L'Evèque de Blois), Ryland Dav...continue...
Recording information: Kingsway Hall, London (07/02/1975-07/15/1975)....continue...

Berlioz: Les Troyens / Francoise Pollet, Deborah Voigt

4 CD / Decca / 2011-11-21

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a
Performers: Belleau, Marc; Schirrer, Rene
Conductors: Dutoit, Charles
Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Artists:
Gary Lakes (Enée), Françoise Pollet (Didon), Gino Quilico (Chorèbe), Deborah Voigt (Cassandre), Michel Philippe (Panthée), Hélène Perraguin...continue...
Recording information: St Eustache, Montreal (10/07/1993-10/23/1993)....continue...