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The Decca Sound / Highlights from the 50 CD Special Editon [5 CDs]

5 CD / Decca / 2011-11-15

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: España, rhapsody for orchestra (also vers. for 2 pianos); Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West; Turandot; Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"; O...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Auger, Arleen; Bartoli, Cecilia; Bell, Joshua; Bonney, Barbara; Bott, Catherine [Soprano Vocals]; Byram-Wigfield, Timothy [Organ]; Caballe, Montserrat; Carlin, Mario; Carreras, J...
Conductors: Argenta, Ataúlfo; Capuana, Franco; Maag, Peter; Martinon, Jean; Kertész, István; Willcocks, David; Ansermet, Ernest; Karajan, Herbert von; Monteux, Pierre; Britten, Benjamin; Fistoular...
Ensemble: ; Les Talens Lyriques; Matrix Ensemble; Melos Ensemble of London; New London Consort; Vienna Octet

Includes tracks from all 50 CDs in The Decca Sound box. 55 years of recording celebrating the glorious Decca Sound from the early days of...continue...

The Originals - Mahler: Symphony no 2 "Resurrection" / Solti

1 CD / Decca / 2007-07-10

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Performers: Harper, Heather
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Mahler: Symphony no 8 / Solti, Chicago Symphony, et al

1 CD / Decca / 2006-06-13

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 8 in E flat major
Performers: Harper, Heather; Kollo, René [Tenor Vocal]; Popp, Lucia; Shirley-Quirk, John; Talvela, Martti
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus

"Now at last Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand' can be heard on record at something approaching its full, expansive stature. Here is a version from...continue...

Essential Choral Classics

2 CD / Decca Import / 2006-06-13

Works: Carl Orff: Carmina burana; George Frederick Handel: Coronation Anthem; Der Messias; Gregorio Allegri: Miserere; Felix Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer; Elijah, Op. 70; César Franck: Panis angelicus...
Performers: Brown, Wilfred; Burrowes, Norma; Freni, Mirella; Goodman, Roy; Harper, Heather; Hussain, Alastair; Kollo, Rene [Tenor Vocal]; Krause, Tom; Minton, Yvonne [Soprano Vocals]; Morris, James; Norman, Jess...
Conductors: Dutoit, Charles; Willcocks, David; Daniel, Paul; Cleobury, Stephen; Gandolfi, Romano; Ottley, Jerold D.; Britten, Benjamin; Solti, Sir Georg; Preston, Simon; Marriner, Sir Neville; Guest, George; Hai...
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus; Cambridge University Music Society; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chr...

This 2-CD set Includes more than 21/2 hours of the greatest 'hits' of the chorus. Performances are by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Kings College Choir...continue...

Mahler: Symphony no 8 / Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw, et al

1 Super Audio CD / PentaTone Classics / 2006-05-16

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 8 in E flat major
Performers: Bork, Hanneke van; Cochran, William; Cotrubas, Ileana; Harper, Heather; Juda, Jo; Prey, Hermann [Baritone Vocals]; Sotin, Hans; Wijs, Kees De
Conductors: Haitink, Bernard
Ensemble: St. Pius X Children's Choir

The premiere performance of this symphony in Munich on September 12, 1910 featured a chorus of about 850, with an orchestra of 171. These massive...continue...

Mahler: Symphony no 2; Mozart / Klemperer, Baker, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2005-03-08

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 29 in A major, K 201 (186a); Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Harper, Heather
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Philharmonia Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra

Mahler's second symphony, like Beethoven's 'Eroica', has become one of Otto Klemperer's performing talismans: a constant source of inspiration, a constant success for him in...continue...

Beethoven: Symphonies no 8 & 9 / Szell, Harper, Crass, et al

2 CD / BBC Legends / 2004-10-19

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93; Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Crass, Franz; Dowd, Ronald; Harper, Heather
Conductors: Szell, George
Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra

Szell's recordings in 1968 of live performances of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 with the New Philharmonia were considered one of the sensations of...continue...

Great Performers of the Twentieth Century - John Barbirolli

2 CD / BBC Legends / 2000-07-25

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 4 in G major; Hector Berlioz: Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21; Edward Elgar: In the South (Alassio), Concert Overture, Op. 50; William Walton: Partita for Orchestra; Benjamin ...
Performers: Harper, Heather
Conductors: Barbirolli, John

"Glorious John" was not known in this country for his Mahler interpretation, but this 1967 concert of the Symphony No. 4, featuring soprano Heather Harper,...continue...

Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

2 CD / Decca Import / 1996-06-03

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Performers: Harper, Heather
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg

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Helen Watts is wonderfully expressive, whilst the chorus has a rapt intensity that is the more telling when the recording perspectives are so clearly...continue...

Mahler: The Symphonies / Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

10 CD / Decca Import / 1992-02-11

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"; Symphony no 3 in D minor; Symphony no 4 in G major; Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor; Symphony no 6 in A minor ...
Performers: Augér, Arleen; Buchanan, Isobel; Harper, Heather; Kollo, René [Tenor Vocal]; Popp, Lucia; Shirley-Quirk, John; Talvela, Martti; Te Kanawa, Kiri, Dame
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Glen Ellyn Children's Choir

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony / Previn, Harper, LSO

1 CD / RCA Records / 1990-08-21

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"
Performers: Harper, Heather; Shirley-Quirk, John
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

"Previn does not always relax, even where, as in the slow movement, he takes a rather measured tempo. The finale similarly is built up over...continue...