Decca Sound - The Analogue Years (Decca

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In the late 1940s, the pioneering Decca engineers perfected a new set of microphone techniques that allowed the full range of frequencies to be fully heard by listeners for the first time, and the term full frequency range was launched. It was a major revolution in sound quality, and the beginnings of high fidelity. Perfected with the birth of stereo in the mid-1950s, Decca's Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound became a worldwide hallmark of sonic excellence and a golden age of classical recorded music was born. The Analogue Years presents a 50-Album overview across 54 CDs, in original jackets, of the celebrated international s that emerged from the London-based record label in that pre-digital era. * Saint-Saëns: Tone Poems; Piano Concerto No.1 * Bruckner: Symphony No.6 * Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 * Debussy: Piano Works * Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande; The Tempest * Prokofiev: Symphony No.2; The Love For Three Oranges; Scythian Suite * Bartók: Suite No.1; Two Pictures; Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody * Prokofiev: Symphony No.5; Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture; Capriccio Espagnol * Debussy & Franck Violin Sonatas * Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony; Valse-Scherzo * Gershwin: An American In Paris; Copland: Appalachian Spring * Wolf-Ferrari: Il Segreto di Susanna * Surinach & Montsalvatge Piano Concertos * Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.15, 8 & 9 * Schubert: Rosamunde * Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps * Schumann & Grieg Piano Concertos * Haydn: Symphonies Nos.94, 100 & 104 * Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust * Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust * Walton & Stravinsky Violin Concertos * Chopin: Etudes * Offenbach: Le Papillon; Massenet: Le Cid * Holst: The Planets; Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 * Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Prometheus; Le Poeme de L'Extase * Dvorak: Tone Poems & Overtures * Bloch: Schelomo; A Voice In the Wilderness; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol * Mendelssohn: Sextet; Borodin: Quintet * Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 * Verdi: Requiem * Mahler: Symphony No.2 - "Resurrection" * Beethoven: Symphony No.9 - "Choral" * Britten: Cello Symphony; Haydn: Cello Concerto * Kodaly: Hary Janos; Dances of Galanta; The Peacock Variations * Sibelius: Symphonies Nos.1 & 4; Karelia Suite * Mozart: Wind Serenades * Bruch: Scottish Fantasia; Hindemith Violin Concerto * Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1; Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27, K.595 * Hérold: La Fille mal Gardée; Gounod: Ballet Music From "Faust" * Martin: Etudes; Concerto for Timpani & Winds; Honegger: Symphony No.2 * Verdi: Otello * Verdi: Otello * Strauss: Thousand And One Nights * Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Scenes * Rossini: Overtures; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto * Puccini: La Bohème * Puccini: La Bohème * Sibelius: Symphony No.2; Dvorak: Symphony No.7 * Schubert: Symphonies Nos.8 & 9 * Tchaikovsky: 1812; Capriccio Italien; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 * Grieg: Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto * Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges * Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar; Glazunov: Stenka Razin * Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar; Glazunov: Stenka Razin