DECCA至尊傳奇 (57CD)/V.A.

2019年為DECCA成立90週年，為了讓愛樂者親炙傳奇的「笛卡之聲」—古典錄音藝術最高典範之奧祕，特別為樂迷精選歷年來最具代表性的錄音；這些錄音為大師們多年來錄音與藝術成就之代表，「笛卡之聲」所代表的音色與音質更不在話下，絕對能滿足您對音樂最極致的追求。

英國DECCA唱片公司自1929年設立以來，一直是全球古典音樂出版之先驅，無論在藝術家的質、錄音曲目的量，以及尖端科技錄音技術的研發上，均領先歐陸，傲視全球。笛卡在近百年的經驗中，更發展出業界最為人稱道的獨特音響美學 —「笛卡之聲」。不但樹立了DECCA追求完美，一以貫之的形象，更可視為人類錄音科技之里程碑。

在90年的歷史中，歷經78轉唱片、FFRR的技術，以至目前最高水準的錄音規格，DECCA為無數頂尖音樂家保留其顛峰極致的音樂風華，其中就包括了帕華洛帝、卡拉揚、蕭提、安塞美、阿胥肯納吉、芭托莉、布蘭德爾、布烈頓、夏伊、費莉雅、弗萊明、吉妮楊森、蘇莎蘭、提芭蒂等巨星。

這套專輯共有57張CD，所有專輯均保留原始封面設計，並附132頁英、德文解說冊及豐富圖片。內容為DECCA最具里程碑意義的錄音，分別選自旗下Decca、Argo、L’Oiseau-lyre（天堂鳥）、Phase 4 Stereo（全方為立體聲）、Entartete Musik（頹廢音樂）、Headline等品牌與系列，包括獲得葛萊美獎肯定之錄音：潔西・諾曼、蕭提、塔卡契四重奏所演出的貝多芬專輯、小澤征爾的拉威爾專輯，內田光子的莫札特作品等；並有獲得留聲機雜誌肯定的夏伊布拉姆斯交響曲、海汀克的蕭士塔高維契交響曲、杜特華的霍爾斯特作品等，以及鄭京和、柯爾榮、阿胥肯納吉、顧爾達、布蘭德爾、內田光子、提鮑德等大師極受歡迎的協奏曲錄音。

輯中另也收錄必備的偉大合唱作品：霍格伍德指揮韓德爾《彌賽亞》、馬利納指揮莫札特《安魂曲》，同時還選集了「天堂鳥」的古代音樂錄音與Argo的當代作品。此外還附贈兩張78轉唱片時代的錄音：1929年Decca發行的第一張專輯 — 韓德森（Roy Henderson）指揮新交響樂團演出的戴流士《海流》。

已故「高音C歌王」帕華洛帝曾表示：「毫無疑問地，Decca是世界上最好的，並且可以持續經營很久的公司！太棒了！」憑藉優異的錄音技術，DECCA保留了許多傳世的偉大名演，廣為樂評與樂迷所稱道，也造就了DECCA最堅實的音樂寶庫。這些經典作品完整保留在一張又一張的完美錄音中亟待樂迷探索。

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ORHESTRAL

CD1 RAMEAU: Overtures  (L’Oiseau-lyre)

Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset

CD2 MOZART: Symphonies Nos 40 & 42 (Decca)

New Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini

CD3 BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Decca)

Concertgebouw Orchestra/Erich Klieber

CD4 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (Decca)

Jessye Norman/Reinhild Runkel/Robert Schunk/Hans Sotin

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Sir Georg Solti

CD5 BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Decca)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Riccardo Chailly

CD6 R. STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche;

Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils; Don Juan  (Decca)

Wiener Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan

CD7 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade (Decca)

Cleveland Orchestra/Maazel

CD8 ROMANTIC RUSSIA (Decca)

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti

CD9 HOLST: The Planets (Decca)

Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit

CD10 PROKOFIEV: Peter & The Wolf;

BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Phase 4 Stereo)

Sean Connery/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Antal Dorati

CD11 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies Nos 5 & 9 (Decca)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink

CD12 HERRMANN: The Great Movie Thrillers (Phase 4 Stereo)

LPO/Bernard Herrmann

CD13 WILLIAMS: Star Wars Suite; Close Encounters of the Third Kind  (Decca)

Los Angeles Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta

CD14 MAXWELL DAVIES: Symphony No.1; Points & Dances from “Taverner” (Headline)

Philharmonia Orchestra/Fires of London/Sir Simon Rattle

CONCERTO

CD15 MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 24  (Decca)

Cleveland Orchestra/Mitsuko Uchida

CD16-17THE FAREWELL CONCERT  (Decca)

Alfred Brendel/Wiener Philharmoniker/Sir Charles Mackerras

CD18 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5  (Decca)

Friedrich Gulda/Wiener Philharmoniker/Horst Stein

CD19 BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.1 • FRANCK: Variations Symphoniques

LITOLFF: Concerto Symphonique No.4  (Decca)

Clifford Curzon/London Symphony Orchestra/Georg Szell/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult

CD20 RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3  (Decca)

Vladimir Ashkenazy/London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn

CD21 GERSWIN: Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto  (Decca)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet/Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop

CD22 WALTON & STRAVINSKY: Concertos for Violin and Orchestra (Decca)

Kyung-Wha Chung/London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn

PIANO/KEYBOARD

CD23 J.S. BACH: Organ Works  (Argo)

Peter Hurford

CD24 J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations  (Decca)

Andras Schiff

CD25 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas – Moonlight, Pathetique & Waldstein  (Decca)

Radu Lupu

CD26 BRASILEIRO  (Decca)

Nelson Freire

CHAMBER

CD27 VIVALDI: The Four Seasons (Decca)

Janine Jansen

CD28 BEETHOVEN: String Quartets Nos 11 & 13 (Decca)

Takacs Quartet

CD29 DEBUSSY, SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT, BRIDGE, BRITTEN: Works for Cello & Piano (Decca)

Msitslav Rostropovich/Benjamin Britten

CD30 RAVEL: Piano Trio • DEBUSSY: Violin & Cello Sonatas (Decca)

Lynn Harrell/Itzhak Perlman/Vladimir Ashkenazy

CD31 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartets Nos 4, 8, 12 & 15 (L’Oiseau-lyre)

Fitzwilliam Quartet

CD32 REICH: Six Pianos • RILEY: In C  (Argo)

Piano Circus

CHORAL/SACRED

CD33-34HANDEL: Messiah (L’Oiseau-lyre)

Judith Nelson/Emma Kirkby/Carolyn Watkinson/Paul Elliott/David Thomas/Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood

CD35 MOZART: Requiem  (Argo)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner

CD36-37VERDI: Requiem  (Decca)

Joan Sutherland/Marilyn Horne/Luciano Pavarotti/Martti Talvela/Wiener Philharmoniker/Sir Georg Solti

CD38 ORFF: Carmina Burana  (Decca)

Lynne Dawson/John Daniecki/Kevin McMillan/San Francisco Girls Chorus/San Francisco Boys Chorus/San Francisco Symphony & Chorus/Herbert Blomstedt

CD39 BRITTEN: War Requiem  (Decca)

Galina Vishnevskaya/Peter Pears/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/London Symphony Chorus/The Bach Choir/Melos Ensemble/London Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Britten

CD40 A FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS  (Argo)

Willcocks/Kings

SONG/RECITAL

CD41 KATHLEEN FERRIER: An Anthology  (Decca)

CD42 A SONG FOR YOU plus ITALIA MIA  (Decca)

Mario del Monaco/Mantovani and his Orchestra

CD43 OPERATIC RECITAL plus Bonus Highlights  (Decca)

Renata Tebaldi/Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra/Alberto Erede

CD44-45THE ART OF THE PRIMA DONNA plus Lakmé Flower Duet  (Decca)

Joan Sutherland

CD46 CHANTS D’AUVERGNE Vol.1  (Decca)

Kiri Te Kanawa /English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate

CD47 THE VIVALDI ALBUM  (Decca)

Cecilia Bartoli/Arnold Schoenberg Chor/Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini

CD48 THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE  (Decca)

Renée Fleming/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffery Tate

CD49 WAGNER  (Decca)

Jonas Kaufmann/Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin/Donald Runnicles

OPERA

CD50 WAGNER: Der Ring Des Nibelungen – Great Scenes (Decca)

Wiener Philharmoniker/Sir Georg Solti

CD51 GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan (Decca)

D’Oyly Carte

CD52 PUCCINI La Bohème highlights (Decca)

Mirella Freni/Luciano Pavarotti/Elizabeth Harwood/Nicolai Ghiaurov/Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin/Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan

CD53 THE ORIGINAL THREE TENORS CONCERT, 1990 (Decca)

Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti/Zubin Mehta

CD54 AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTARTETE MUSIK (Entartete Musik)

Various

CD55 RAVEL: L’enfant et les sortileges; Sheherazade  (Decca)

Isabel Leonard/ Yvonne Naef/ Susan Graham/Saito Kinen Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa

BONUS Selection of highlights from the very first 78s on Decca and early FFRR recordings

CD56 DELIUS: Sea Drift

Roy Henderson/New English Symphony Orchestra & Choir/Anthony Bernard

ELGAR: Enigma Variations

National Symphony Orchestra/Malcom Sargent

BRITTEN: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings

Peter Pears/Dennis Brain/Boyd Neel String Orchestra/Benjamin Britten

CD57 GILBERT & SULLIVAN: Daphnis et Chloé Suite

Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/Charles Munch

RAVEL: Sheherazade

Suzanne Danco/Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/Ernest Ansermet

CHABRIER: España

National Symphony Orchestra/Victor Olof

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre

National Symphony Orchestra/Boyd Neel

BIZET: L'Arlésienne Suite

National Symphony Orchestra/Sidney Beer