Decca Sound The Piano Edition (55 CDs Box Set)

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Previously unpublished recordings included – Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 with Joyce; Argerich/Schumann with Chailly [first time on CD – her first Decca recording]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: Rog?: 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: ?tudes Op. 10 & 25; Trois nouvelles ?tudes
2. Vladimir Ashkenazy

Disc: 4
1. Rachmaninov: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 for two pianos; Symphonic Dances for two pianos
2. Vladimir Ashkenazy; Andr? 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: ?tudes & 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 (Kert?sz)
2. Clifford Curzon

Disc: 14
1. Gottschalk: Piano Music
2. Ivan Davis
3. Bonus: Carnival of the Animals (Rog?/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 Faur? 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: Pr?ludes, 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. Dohn?nyi: 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. Alb?niz: Ib?ria (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, Path?tique, 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 - Sa?ns: 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 r?gards sur l'Enfant - J?sus
2. John Ogdon
3. + Britten: Piano Concerto (Britten) Sviatoslav Richter
4. Richter's only concerto recording for Decca

Disc: 42
1. Messiaen: Vingt r?gards sur l'Enfant - J?sus
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. Bart?k: Piano Concertos 1 - 3 (Weller)
2. Pascal Rog?
3. First international CD release

Disc: 47
1. Faur?: Piano works
2. Pascal Rog?

Disc: 48
1. Satie: Piano works
2. Pascal Rog?

Disc: 49
1. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mehta)
2. Arthur Rubinstein Rubinstein's only Decca recording; his final concerto recording
3. + Bart?k: Rhapsody No. 1 for Piano & Orchestra (Weller) Pascal Rog?

Disc: 50
1. Bach: Goldberg Variations
2. Andr?s Schiff

Disc: 51
1. Mozart: Piano music for four hands
2. Andr?s Schiff; George Malcolm
3. Performed on Mozart's own fortepiano

Disc: 52
1. Scarlatti: Sonatas
2. Andr?s Schiff

Disc: 53
1. Chopin: Piano works
2. Jean - Yves Thibaudet
3. Includes works performed on Chopin's ?rard 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 Grof? versions