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Antony Rooley writes: 'Since 1963 I had been spending many hours in the British Library studying the sixteenth-century English lute manuscripts... what a unique collection! The "Jane Pickering Lute Book", "The John Sturt Lute Book",...

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Release Date: August 31, 2010

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The Bernard Herrmann / Phase 4 connection was one of the most significant in the artistic and audio history of Decca. Collected here and are significant recordings of his film music he recorded for the...

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Release Date: November 19, 2010

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In 1960, the Stuttgart-born conductor Karl M�nchinger (1915-1990), made a Decca recording of Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue that assured the piece it's immortality in years to come. M�nchinger recorded extensively for Decca with his Stuttgarter...

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Release Date: March 16, 2010

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Composers: ravel. Conductors: Bernard Haitink. Orchestras: Concertgebouw orchestra.

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Release Date: June 01, 2010

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PROKOFIEV: VLN CTOS NO 1 & 2 / PNO CTO NO 3

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Release Date: April 10, 2009

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During the 18th century it was common for noblemen to employ numbers of musicians to entertain themselves and their guests, and to add dignity and colour to occasions of Church and State. Music was frequently...

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Release Date: June 28, 2011

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Born in Vienna in April 1902, the cheery-looking Josef Krips seems to have been pre-destined to achieve eminence in the Viennese classics. He recorded with both, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the key London orchestras for...

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Release Date: March 08, 2011

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The late Sir Charles Mackerras's recording of his own arrangements of 'moments' from the G&S canon under the title Pineapple Poll. Like Gaite Parisienne and Le Beau Danube it is a 'jukebox' ballet, built on...

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Release Date: October 15, 2010

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One of the most entertaining composer autobiographies is Miklos Rozsa's Double Life, first published in 1982 - the same year that he scored his last film (the Steve Martin vehicle Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid)....

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Release Date: November 19, 2010

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This set of three CDs contains the complete Chansonnier Cordiforme, perhaps the most beautiful of all surviving music manuscripts, whose first owner was Jean de Montchenu (d. 1497). It was compiled during the 1470 's...

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Release Date: August 20, 2010

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The music on this pair of CDs falls into one of two categories: ballet music from an opera, or ballet music that was not originally intended for dancing at all, but that was subsequently adapted...

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Release Date: November 19, 2010

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BACH J.S: ST MATTHEW PASSION

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Release Date: May 31, 2011

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Returning Decca's pioneering recording of Facade to the catalogue, this generous collection of English music includes further gems from the Decca catalogue of orchestral pieces by Walton and two marches, by Bax and Bliss, respectively,...

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Release Date: September 24, 2010

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A composer with an extraordinary ear for sonority, original in his outlook, sometimes misunderstood, now revered, Percy Grainger is one of Australia's most unique sons, and, in the words of Sir Peter Pears, one of...

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Release Date: September 24, 2010

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As An Eleven-year-old in 1895, Wilhelm Backhaus Met And Performed for D'albert, Grieg, Nikisch And Brahms, Among Others. Here Was a Pianist Who Shunned Hectoring Gestures of the Late Romantic Ear for Economy And Purposefulness....

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Release Date: April 14, 2008