Real and Right and True marked the debut of prolific Australian composer Calvin Bowman on Decca (Australia). The album title is derived from a set of nine poems by celebrated Australian cartoonist,... more
A clear crowd favorite at the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition with his incendiary technique and warm stage presence, Moye Chen was awarded the George Frederick Boyle Prize and was signed... more
In Her Autobiography (the Flagstad Manuscript, 1952) Kirsten Flagstad Tells of the Joy She Experienced on Finding, When She Began to Give Concerts in the United States, That the Americans So Took to... more
A newly remastered collection of Decca and Philips recordings made by the under-rated Dutch conductor in Austro-German classics including a little-known account of Beethoven's Prometheus Overture.... more
Born in Lucerne in 1911, Albert Ferber studied with a pupil of Alfred Cortot and often played for Rachmaninov in Switzerland. International critics visiting the 1939 Lucerne Festival were impressed... more
In the words of the composer and critic Virgil Thomson, the unique sonorities of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under it's founder-director Ernest Ansermet were 'smooth as a seashell, iridescent... more
Two rare L'Oiseau-Lyre recordings of French Baroque masterpieces, newly remastered and making their first appearance on CD. From the time of it's foundation in 1932 by the Australian-born,... more
Supplementary to his legendary Beethoven cycles for Decca are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt's recordings for Philips, Mercury, Deutsche Grammophon and Accord. They date from 1944 (Sutermeister) to 1972,... more
Three original Argo and Decca albums compiled together for the first time: Lassus with an English accent. Five Eloquence albums dedicated to the art of Simon Preston were enthusiastically welcomed by... more
The Tchaikovsky ballet score recordings by the Ukrainian-born conductor Anatole Fistoulari are prized 'as being among the finest ever made' (Gramophone). As a companion issue to the abridged 'Swan... more