Double Decca
2 CDs for the price of 1.
Decca's famous 2-for-the-price-of-1 series "Double Decca" has sold 5 million CDS. The winning combination of world-class artists (such as Sir Georg Solti, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge) and popular classical repertoire has built the profile of the series the world over.
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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. The Essential Borodin
RecommendedNicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano), Borodin Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Georg Solti, Edward Downes, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean Martinon, Ernest Ansermet
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Building a Library, November 2006, Highly Recommended
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Special offer. Richard Strauss - The Great Tone Poems
RecommendedVienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended - Eine Alpensinfonie
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Special offer. Rachmaninnoff: Piano Concertos 1-4
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
The Rachmaninov dream team of the 1970s play this much-hackneyed score with a freshness, moving sincerity and exhilarating emotional power that galvanises the attention from start to finish.... —
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Special offer. Frederick Delius - Orchestral Works
RecommendedWelsh National Opera Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
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Building a Library, November 2002, First Choice
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedSiegfried Jerusalem, Susan Dunn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Becht, Peter Haage, Hans Hotter
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Städtischer Musikverein Düsseldorf, Riccardo Chailly
This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant.... —
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Solti seems freed from emotional inhibitions, with every climax superbly thrust home and the hushed intensity of the glorious slow movement captured magnificently on CD —
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Building a Library, April 2006, Mid-Price Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3
RecommendedAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 1999, Modern Instruments Choice
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Special offer. Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik
RecommendedRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works
Celia Nicklin (oboe), Iona Brown (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, The New Queen's Hall Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Barry Wordsworth, Adrian Boult
The sound of the LSO strings in 1910 must remain largely a matter of conjecture but this beautifully textured account on gut-string instruments cuts to the heart of the score and Wordsworth's... —