9 / Richard Wagner: Walkürenritt aus "Die Walküre". +Roger Desormiere dirigiert - Georges Bizet: Patrie-Ouvertüre; Jeux d'enfants op. 22 / Emmanuel Chabrier: Habanera / Claude Debussy: Marche ecossaise / Charles Gounod: Ah, je veux vivre aus "Romeo et Juliette"; O legere hirondelle aus "Mireille" / Jacques Offenbach: Les Oiseaux dans la charmille aus "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" / Ambroise Thomas: Je suis Titania aus "Mignon" / Heinrich Proch: Deh! Torna mio bene / Gustave Charpentier: Depuis le jour aus "Louise". +Grzegorz Fitelberg dirigiert - Richard Wagner: Meistersinger-Ouvertüre / Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Klavierkonzert Nr.
3 / Alexander Borodin: Polowetzer Tänze aus "Fürst Igor" / Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff: Zar Saltan. +Wilhelm Furtwängler dirigiert - Johannes Brahms: Symphonie Nr. +Carlo Zecchi dirigiert - Gioachino Rossini: La Scala di Seta-Ouvertüre / Ildebrando Pizzetti: Suite aus "La Pisanelle" / Ludwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. +Piero Coppola dirigiert - Edvard Grieg: Symphonische Tänze op.1, 2, 4 / Robert Schumann: Symphonie Nr. +George Enescu dirigiert - Robert Schumann: Symphonie Nr. +Ernest Ansermet dirigiert - Claude Debussy: Petite Suite; La Mer / Maurice Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Sheherazade; La Valse. +Clemens Krauss dirigiert - Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio-Ouvertüre / Johannes Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre op. 80 / Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung op.
+Paul van Kempen dirigiert - Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser-Ouvertüre; Holländer Ouvertüre. +Malcolm Sargent dirigiert - Georg Friedrich Händel: Auszüge aus Der Messias, Israel in Ägypten, Xerxes, Rodelinda, Semele, Alexander's Feast, Solomon; Zadok the Priest; Alternative Takes zu Zakok the Priest, Xerxes, Messias; Feuerwerksmusik / Gustav Holst: Ballettmusik "The Perfect Fool". +Eduard van Beinum dirigiert - Benjamin Britten: 4 Sea Interludes aus "Peter Grimes"; Passacaglia aus "Peter Grimes" / Malcolm Arnold: Beckus the Dandipratt-Ouvertüre / Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr.
+Hans Knappertsbusch dirigiert - Richard Wagner: Rienzi-Ouvertüre; Ouvertüre & Venusbergmusik aus "Tannhäuser"; Vorspiele zu Akt 1 & 3 aus "Lohengrin"; Meistersinger Ausz. +Erich Kleiber dirigiert - Georg Friedrich Händel: Andante larghetto aus "Berenice" / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonie Nr.40 / Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 6 / Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge op. 235 / Johann Strauss II: Der Zigeunerbaron-Ouvertüre / Antonin Dvorak: Carnaval-Ouvertüre. +Jean Martinon dirigiert - Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Da, cas nastal! Prostite vi, kholmi, polya rodniye aus "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" / Emmanuel Chabrier: Suite Pastorale / Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin.
+Leo Blech dirigiert - Engelbert Humperdinck: Vorspiel zu "Hänsel und Gretel" / Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. +Sergiu Celibidache dirigiert - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonie Nr. 25 / Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Der Nußknacker-Suite op.
Artists: Roy Henderson, Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert, Frederick Riddle, Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman, Eileen Joyce, Clara Haskil, Suzanne Danco, Ada Alsop, Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Lewis, Trevor Anthony, Eugenia Zareska, Royal Choral Society, New English Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Queen's Hall Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, La Scala Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Anthony Bernard, William Walton, Hamilton Harty, Henry Wood, Willem Mengelberg, Albert Coates, Victor de Sabata, Roger Desormiere, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Piero Coppola, George Enescu, Ernest Ansermet, Clemens Krauss, Paul van Kempen, Malcolm Sargent, Eduard van Beinum, Hans Knappertsbusch, Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon, Leo Blech, Sergiu Celibidache. Release date: 4.10.2023. This comprehensively annotated and lavishly illustrated set has been newly remastered from the best available sources by Mark Obert-Thorn, Ward Marston and Andrew Hallifax and includes several new releases on CD. It is a must-have for any lover of historic recordings. The unique story of this set, which spans nearly twenty years, begins in May 1929 with Decca's first major recording, Delius' Sea Drift. At the heart of the pre-war recordings are inevitably old and new British/Irish conducting talents: Hamilton Harty, dynamic in Haydn and Walton; one of the rarest pieces in the collection is Bach's Concerto for Two Violins conducted by Mengelberg in 1936.The post-war material includes several big names from pre-war days who might otherwise have been forgotten: Albert Coates, Clemens Krauss, glowing with Strauss from Milan and London; Leo Blech's brilliant "Surprise Symphony" by Haydn. Leading composers and conductors include Fitelberg in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.
3 and Enescu in Schumann's Second. Then there are exciting young podium musicians who roiled London musical life in the postwar years: Celibidache's electrifying and headstrong Tchaikovsky, Martinon's exquisite Ravel, Coppola's majestic Schumann. An essay by remastering engineer Andrew Hallifax explains the story behind the first-ever release of Handel choruses conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.Mark Obert-Thorn explains his selection of treasures for this box, and introduces the history of Decca and its revolutionary development of "full frequency range recording" in the late 1940s. Peter Quantrill expands the historical perspective with notes on Decca and each conductor in the box.