Artist: VA
Title: Decca Sound: The Piano Edition
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Decca Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (Image+.cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 55 CDs
Total Size: 12,6 Gb
Decca’s first FFRR concerto recording available for the first time: Eileen Joyce / Tchaikovsky 2nd Piano Concerto – never released on 78rpm and long thought lost, the test pressings were recently found at the International Piano Archives in Maryland
Includes the only Decca recordings by piano luminaries Argerich, Rubinstein, Lipatti, Michelangeli, Bernstein and Haskil
Select recordings played on composers’ own pianos – Thibaudet playing Chopin’s piano, Schiff and Malcolm on Mozart’s fortepiano
Award-winning recordings include: Larrocha Ravel Concertos [Grammy Award], Mustonen Shostakovich 24 Preludes [Edison and Gramophone Awards]
Previously unpublished recordings included – Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 with Joyce; Argerich/Schumann with Chailly [first time on CD – her first Decca recording]
First International CD releases include: Rogé: Bartok Concertos 1-3 · Kathleen Long: Mozart Concerto No. 24 (Van Beinum) · Friedrich Gulda’s first Decca recordings · Eden & Tamir: Two-Piano Encores · Kempff’s early Decca recordings of sonatas by Schubert and shorter pieces by Bach, Handel, Rameau, Couperin, Beethoven, et.al. · Wilhelm Backhaus’ 1954 Carnegie Hall Recital
Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1. Schumann: Piano Concerto (Chailly)
2. Martha Argerich
3. First CD release (previously digital only)
4. + Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Argenta)
5. Julius Katchen
Disc: 2
1. Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 (Haitink) · Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 (Previn)
2. Vladimir Ashkenazy
Disc: 3
1. Chopin: Études Op. 10 & 25; Trois nouvelles études
2. Vladimir Ashkenazy
Disc: 4
1. Rachmaninov: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 for two pianos; Symphonic Dances for two pianos
2. Vladimir Ashkenazy; André Previn
Disc: 5
1. Carnegie Hall Recital (30 March 1954) + Haydn: Sonatas 48, 52, 34, Fantasia Hob.XVII:4
2. Wilhelm Backhaus
3. First international release of Carnegie Hall Recital
Disc: 6
1. Carnegie Hall Recital (30 March 1954) + Haydn: Sonatas 48, 52, 34, Fantasia Hob.XVII:4
2. Wilhelm Backhaus
3. First international release of Carnegie Hall Recital
Disc: 7
1. Chopin/Godowsky: Études & Waltzes
2. Jorge Bolet
Disc: 8
1. Schubert/Liszt: Song Transcriptions
2. Jorge Bolet
Disc: 9
1. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Temirkanov) · Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Ashkenazy)
2. Shura Cherkassky
Disc: 10
1. Kaleidoscope (1 - 13, 1974) · Rachmaninov: Five Pieces
2. Shura Cherkassky
3. Cherkassky's first and last Decca recordings
Disc: 11
1. Beethoven: Eroica Variations · Schubert: Moments musicaux · Britten: Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca; Mazurka elegiaca*
2. Clifford Curzon; Benjamin Britten*
Disc: 12
1. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (Britten)
2. Clifford Curzon
Disc: 13
1. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24 (Kertész)
2. Clifford Curzon
Disc: 14
1. Gottschalk: Piano Music
2. Ivan Davis
3. Bonus: Carnival of the Animals (Rogé/Ortiz)
Disc: 15
1. Two Piano Encores + Poulenc: Sonata for four hands; Milhaud: Scaramouche; Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations
2. Bracha Eden; Alexander Tamir
3. First CD release
Disc: 16
1. The American Virtuoso
2. Includes Grainger's arrangements of Fauré and Gershwin
3. Alan Feinberg
Disc: 17
1. Brasiliero
2. Nelson Freire
Disc: 18
1. Chopin, Liszt, Ravel
2. + Liszt: Gnomenreigen; Bach/Kempff: Siciliano from Flute Sonata No.2
3. Benjamin Grosvenor
4. Grosvenor's debut disc plus the first CD release of Liszt: Gnomenreigen and Bach/Kempff: Siciliano
Disc: 19
1. Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Stein)
2. Friedrich Gulda
Disc: 20
1. The Early Recordings
2. Friedrich Gulda
3. First international CD release
Disc: 21
1. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Grieg: Piano Concerto (Maag)
2. + Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations (piano & orchestra version, Ashkenazy conducting)
3. Peter Jablonski
Disc: 22
1. Debussy: Préludes, Books I & II
2. Jean - Rodolphe Kars
3. Presented for the first time on one CD
Disc: 23
1. Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Vol.1: solo, Vol.2 piano duet with Jean - Pierre Marty)
2. Paganini Variations (1965 recording)
3. Julius Katchen
Disc: 24
1. Dohnányi: Nursery Variations; Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody (Boult)
2. + Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Solti)
3. Julius Katchen
Disc: 25
1. Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1&2 (Collins); Capriccio; Rondo (Martinon)
2. Peter Katin
Disc: 26
1. Bach Recital + Couperin, Rameau, Beethoven Handel
2. Wilhelm Kempff
3. First international CD release
Disc: 27
1. Schubert: Sonata D.845; Sonata D.960
2. Wilhelm Kempff
3. First international CD release
Disc: 28
1. Albéniz: Ibéria (analogue recording)
2. Alicia de Larrocha
3. Presented for the first time on one CD
Disc: 29
1. Liszt: Sonata in B minor · Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 · Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (Commisiona)
2. Alicia de Larrocha
Disc: 30
1. Liszt: Sonata in B minor · Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 · Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (Commisiona)
2. Alicia de Larrocha
Disc: 31
1. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 12 and No.11 (Hogwood)
2. Robert Levin (fortepiano)
Disc: 32
1. Schumann: Piano Concerto (Ansermet)
2. Dinu Lipatti Lipatti's only Decca recording.
3. + Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Fitelberg) Eileen Joyce
4. First - ever release of Joyce/Tchaikovsky (one of the first FFRR recordings)
Disc: 33
1. Liszt: Piano Works
2. Valentina Lisitsa
Disc: 34
1. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 (Van Beinum)
2. Kathleen Long First international CD release
3. + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Zecchi) · Schumann: Waldszenen Clara Haskil
4. Haskil's only recordings for Decca
Disc: 35
1. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Foster) · Piano Concerto No. 5 (Mehta)
2. Radu Lupu
3. Piano Concerto No. 3 - Lupu's first concerto recording for Decca (Nov. 1970)
Disc: 36
1. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Pathétique, Waldstein · 32 Variations in C minor
Disc: 37
1. Brahms: Piano works · Theme and Variations from Sextet
2. Radu Lupu
Disc: 38
1. Khachaturian: Piano Concerto (Fistoulari) · Saint - Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Martinon)
2. Moura Lympany
Disc: 39
1. Beethoven: Sonata Op. 111, Galuppi, Scarlatti
2. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Michelangeli's only recording for Decca
3. + Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 Leonard Bernstein
4. Bernstein's only recording as pianist for Decca
Disc: 40
1. Beethoven: Violin Concerto, arr. Piano; Bach: Keyboard Concerto BWV 1054 (Saraste) · Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34
2. Olli Mustonen
Disc: 41
1. Messiaen: Vingt régards sur l'Enfant - Jésus
2. John Ogdon
3. + Britten: Piano Concerto (Britten) Sviatoslav Richter
4. Richter's only concerto recording for Decca
Disc: 42
1. Messiaen: Vingt régards sur l'Enfant - Jésus
2. John Ogdon
3. + Britten: Piano Concerto (Britten) Sviatoslav Richter
4. Richter's only concerto recording for Decca
Disc: 43
1. Chopin: Complete music for piano and orchestra (Wit)
2. Kun Woo Paik
Disc: 44
1. Chopin: Complete music for piano and orchestra (Wit)
2. Kun Woo Paik
Disc: 45
1. Live in Zaragoza
2. Jorge Luis Prats
Disc: 46
1. Bartók: Piano Concertos 1 - 3 (Weller)
2. Pascal Rogé
3. First international CD release
Disc: 47
1. Fauré: Piano works
2. Pascal Rogé
Disc: 48
1. Satie: Piano works
2. Pascal Rogé
Disc: 49
1. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mehta)
2. Arthur Rubinstein Rubinstein's only Decca recording; his final concerto recording
3. + Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1 for Piano & Orchestra (Weller) Pascal Rogé
Disc: 50
1. Bach: Goldberg Variations
2. András Schiff
Disc: 51
1. Mozart: Piano music for four hands
2. András Schiff; George Malcolm
3. Performed on Mozart's own fortepiano
Disc: 52
1. Scarlatti: Sonatas
2. András Schiff
Disc: 53
1. Chopin: Piano works
2. Jean - Yves Thibaudet
3. Includes works performed on Chopin's Érard piano
Disc: 54
1. Conversations with Bill Evans
2. Jean - Yves Thibaudet
3. + Nyman: from The Piano - 1. The heart asks pleasure first; 2. Silver fingered fling
4. First international release of Nyman
Disc: 55
1. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Variations on I got Rhythm; Piano Concerto in F (Alsop)
2. Jean - Yves Thibaudet
3. Jazz - band Grofé versions
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