In the late 1940s, the pioneering Decca recording 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 recording’ 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 53 CDs, in original jackets, of the celebrated international recordings that emerged from the London-based record label in that pre-digital era.

Contents:
CD 1
Camille Saint-Saëns
Phaéton, Op.39
Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op.31
Danse macabre, Op.40
La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op.50
Marche héroïque in E flat, Op.34
Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit

Piano Concerto No.1 in D, Op.17
Pascal Rogé (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit

Total Playing Time: 1:17:33

CD 2
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.6 in A major
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:01:09

CD 3
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

Total Playing Time: 1:07:36

CD 4
Claude Debussy
Préludes - Book 1, L.117
Children's Corner, L.113
Pascal Rogé (piano)

Total Playing Time: 1:08:44

CD 5
Jean Sibelius
Pelléas et Mélisande - Incidental Music to Maeterlinck's play, Op.46 (1905)
The Tempest - Overture, Op.109, No.1
The Tempest - First Suite, Op.109, No.2
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Horst Stein

Total Playing Time: 1:22:07

CD 6
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.2 in D minor, Op.40
The Love for Three Oranges, Symphonic Suite, Op.33 bis
Scythian Suite, Op.20 - "Ala and Lolly"
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller

Total Playing Time: 1:15:30

CD 7
Béla Bartók
Suite No.1 (Op.3), Sz31
2 Pictures, (Op.10) Sz.46

George Enescu
Roumanian Rhapsody in A, Op.11, No.1
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti

Total Playing Time: 1:06:26

CD 8
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.5 in B flat, Op.100

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival, Overture, Op.36
Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34
The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Total Playing Time: 1:16:49

CD 9
César Franck
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A

Claude Debussy
Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano, L.140
Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Radu Lupu (piano)

Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro

Claude Debussy
Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, L.137
Melos Ensemble

Total Playing Time: 1:06:35

CD 10
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, Op.58
Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Valse-Scherzo, Op.34
Boris Belkin (violin), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Total Playing Time: 1:03:33

CD 11
George Gershwin
An American in Paris

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring

Leonard Bernstein
Overture Candide
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Aaron Copland
Lincoln Portrait, for Speaker and Orchestra (1942)
Gregory Peck (speaker), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

William Kraft
Contextures
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Total Playing Time: 1:16:58

CD 12
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Il segreto di Susanna
Maria Chiara, Bernd Weikl, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lamberto Gardelli

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
Act 1: Ritorna vincitor!

I Masnadieri
Act 2: Dall' infame banchetto...Tu del mio Carlo

I vespri siciliani
Act 5: "Mercè, dilette amiche"
Maria Chiara, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Nello Santi

Otello
Act 4: "Era più calmo?..."Piangea cantando".."Ave Maria"
Maria Chiara, Rosanne Creffield, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Nello Santi

Total Playing Time: 1:19:00

CD 13
Carlos Surinach
Concerto for Piano & Orchestra

Xavier Montsalvatge
Concerto Breve for Piano & Orchestra
Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Gabriel Fauré
Fantaisie for piano & orchestra, Op.111

César Franck
Variations symphoniques
Alicia de Larrocha (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Total Playing Time: 1:20:12

CD 14
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.15 in E flat minor, Op.144
String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
String Quartet No.9 in E flat major, Op.117
Fitzwilliam Quartet

Total Playing Time: 1:23:05

CD 15
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde, D.797 (Incidental music to Helmina von Chézy's Play)
1. Overture (Die Zauberharfe, D.644)
2. Entr'acte No. 1
3. Ballet Music No. 1 - Andante un poco assai
4. Entr'acte No. 2
5. Romance: "Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshöh'n"
6. Chorus of Spirits: "In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht"
7. Entr'acte No. 3 - Andantino
8. Shepherd's melody
9. Chorus of Shepherds: "Hier auf den Fluren...."
10. Chorus of Huntsmen: "Wie lebt sich's so fröhlich im Grünen"
11. Ballet Music No.2
Rohangiz Yachmi, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Münchinger

Carl Maria von Weber
Overture Preciosa

Robert Schumann
Overture Genoveva, Op.81
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Münchinger

Total Playing Time: 1:15:07

CD 16
Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps

Maurice Ravel
Boléro

Arnold Schoenberg
Variations, Op.31
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:06:02

CD 17
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54

Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Radu Lupu (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Total Playing Time: 1:01:14

CD 18
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.94 in G Major, Hob.I:94 - "Surprise"
Symphony No.100 in G Major, Hob.I:100 - "Military"
Symphony No.104 in D Major, Hob.I:104 - "London"
Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Doráti

Total Playing Time: 1:14:51

CD 19/20
Robert Schumann
Szenen aus Goethes 'Faust' für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elizabeth Harwood, John Shirley-Quirk, Meriel Dickinson, Peter Pears, Jenny Hill, Margaret Cable, John Elwes, Neil Jenkins, John Noble, Jennifer Vyvyan, Felicity Palmer, Meriel Dickinson, Pauline Stevens, Robert Lloyd, Elisabeth Harrison, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, Aldeburgh Festival Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550
London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 1:12:44 / 1:11:20

CD 21
William Walton
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D
Kyung Wha Chung (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Total Playing Time: 52:32

CD 22
Frédéric Chopin
12 Etudes, Op.10
12 Etudes, Op.25
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Total Playing Time: 1:02:57

CD 23
Jacques Offenbach
Le Papillon
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Jules Massenet
Le Cid
Act 2: Ballet Music
The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Total Playing Time: 1:14:28

CD 24
Gustav Holst
The Planets, Op.32
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78 "Organ Symphony"
Anita Priest (organ), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Total Playing Time: 1:23:37

CD 25
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op.20
Vladimir Ashkenazy  (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Promethée - Le Poème du Feu, Op.60
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), The Ambrosian Singers, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Le Poème de l'Extase, Op.54
The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Total Playing Time: 1:06:13

CD 26
Antonín Dvorák
The Water Goblin (Vodnik), symphonic poem, Op.107
Muj Domov Overture, Op.62 (My Country)
The Noon Witch, Op.108
Husitská Overture, Op.67 (Hussite)
The Golden Spinning Wheel (Zlaty kolovrat), Op.109
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Total Playing Time: 1:23:20

CD 27
Ernest Bloch
Schelomo
Voice in the Wilderness, for cello and orchestra (1936)
János Starker (cello), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta

Total Playing Time: 1:05:27

CD 28
Felix Mendelssohn
Sextet in D, Op.110

Alexander Borodin
Piano Quintet in C minor

Franz Adolf Berwald
Grand Septet in B flat major
Members Of The Wiener Oktett

Total Playing Time: 1:14:14

CD 29
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 - "Scottish"
Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 - "Italian"
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

Total Playing Time: 1:06:20

CD 30
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem
Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:23:54

CD 31
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.2 in C minor - "Resurrection"
London Symphony Chorus, Heather Harper, Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:20:38

CD 32
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 - "Choral"
Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, James King, Martti Talvela, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Total Playing Time: 1:08:33

CD 33
Benjamin Britten
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op.68

Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto In C, H.VIIb, No.1
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 1:00:10

CD 34
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János Suite
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Háry János, Singspiel in 5 Scenes, Op.15
Olga Szönyi, John Leach, London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Dances Of Galanta (Galántai táncok)
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

The Peacock (Fölszállot a páva), for unaccompanied chorus
London Symphony Chorus, István Kertész

Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song for Orchestra, "The Peacock"
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész

Total Playing Time: 1:14:39

CD 35
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
Karelia Suite, Op.11
Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63
Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel

Total Playing Time: 1:23:05

CD 36
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in B flat, K.361 "Gran partita"
Serenade in C minor, K.388 "Nacht Musik"
London Wind Soloists, Jack Brymer

Total Playing Time: 1:09:03

CD 37
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy, Op.46
David Oistrakh (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein

Paul Hindemith
Violin Concerto (1939)
David Oistrakh (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Hindemith

Total Playing Time: 1:01:00

CD 38
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor, Op.15
Clifford Curzon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat, K.595
Clifford Curzon (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, George Szell

Total Playing Time: 1:21:46

CD 39
Ferdinand Hérold
La fille mal gardée (Arr. Lanchbery) - Highlights
Act 1
1. Intro II Dance III Lise and the Ribbon Lise
10. Thomas and Alain
12. Picnic - XV The Fanny Ellsler Pas-de-Deux
16. Simone - XIX Storm and Finale
Act 2
22. Spinning - XXIV Harvesters
27. Thomas, Alain and the Notaries
28. Pas-de-Deux - 30 Finale
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Lanchbery

Charles Gounod
Faust, Ballet Music (1869)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:06:28

CD 40
Frank Martin
Etudes
Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments, Percussion & Strings

Arthur Honegger
Symphony No.2 for trumpet and strings
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Total Playing Time: 1:02:08

CD 41/42
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello
Tom Krause, Nello Romanato, Aldo Protti, Athos Cesarini, Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Ana Raquel Satre, Libero Arbace, Fernando Corena, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Total Playing Time: 1:08:28 / 1:15:36

CD 43
Josef Strauss
Feuerfest, Op.269

Johann Strauss II
Kaiserwalzer, Op.437

Josef Strauss
Jokey-Polka, Op.278

Johann Strauss II
Wo die Zitronen blüh'n, Op.364
Napoleon-Marsch, Op.156 (1854)

Carl Michael Ziehrer
Fächer - polonaise Op.525

Johann Strauss
Loreley-Rhein-Klänge, Op.154

Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus-Quadrille, Op.363
Tausendundeine Nacht, Op.346
Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op.325
Anton Karas, Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky

Josef Strauss
Dorfschwalben aus Österreich (Village Swallows from Austria"), Op.164

Johann Strauss II
Voices of Spring, Op.410 (Frühlingsstimmen)
Hilde Gueden, Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips

Total Playing Time: 1:15:42

CD 44
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake, Op.20 - Highlights
1. Introduction
Act 1
2. No.1 Scène (Allegro giusto)
3. No.2 Valse (Corps de Ballet)
4. No.8 Danse des coupes (Tempo di polacca)
Act 2
5. No.10 Scène (Moderato)
6. No.11 Scène (Allegro moderato)
7. No.13d Danse des petits cygnes (Allegro moderato)
8. No.13e Danse des cygnes: Pas d'action: Odette et le prince/Deuxième danse de la reine des cygnes (Andante)
Act 3
9. No.20 Danse hongroise (Czárdás)
10. Pas de deux
11. No.24 Scène (Allegro - Valse - Allegro vivo)
Act 4
12. No.27 Danses des petits cygnes (Moderato)
13. No.29 Scène finale (Andante)
Steven Staryk, Tibor de Machula, Phia Berghout, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Anatole Fistoulari

Charles Lecocq
Mam'zelle Angot - ballet (Arr. Gordon Jacob) - Highlights
14. Overture
15. 3. Mazurka
16. 5. Tempo di marcia - Gavotte
17. 8.Allegro-Gavotte
18. 11. Allegro-Presto XII. Adagio
19. 13. Allegro moderato
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Anatole Fistoulari

Total Playing Time: 1:09:47

CD 45
Gioacchino Rossini
La gazza ladra: Overture
La scala di seta: Overture
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture (Sinfonia)
Semiramide: Overture
William Tell: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Ruggiero Ricci (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Gamba

Total Playing Time: 1:11:29

CD 46/47
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème
Ettore Bastianini, Carlo Bergonzi, Cesare Siepi, Renato Cesari, Fernando Corena, Renata Tebaldi, Piero de Palma, Gianna D'Angelo, Giorgio Onesti, Attilio D Orazi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin

Total Playing Time: 55:45 / 55:46

CD 48
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43

Antonín Dvorák
Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op.70
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

Total Playing Time: 1:21:20

CD 49
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.9 in C, D.944 - "The Great"
London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips

Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 - "Unfinished"
Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips

Total Playing Time: 1:16:13

CD 50
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ouverture solennelle "1812, " Op.49
The Band Of The Grenadier Guards, London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Alwyn

Capriccio italien, Op.45
Slavonic March, Op.31
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Alwyn

Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
Julius Katchen (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

Total Playing Time: 1:11:44

CD 51
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Op.23: Incidental Music
1. Act 1 - Prelude
2. No.13. Morning mood
3. No.12. The death of Ase
4. No.16. Anitra's dance
5. No.8. In the hall of the Mountain King
6. No.4. Ingrid's Lament
7. No.15. Arabian dance
8. No.21.Peer Gynt's homecoming.Stormy evening on the sea
9. No.19. Solveig's song
10. No.9. Dance of the Mountain King's daughter
London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Clifford Curzon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

Total Playing Time: 1:08:38

CD 52
Maurice Ravel
L'Enfant et les sortilèges - Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties
Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Flore Wend, Hugues Cuenod, Lucien Lovano, Genevieve Touraine, Pierre Mollet, Adrienne Migliette, Juliette Bise, Gisele Bobillier, Suzanne Danco, Motet de Geneve, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Ma mère l'oye: Suite
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Total Playing Time: 1:04:24

CD 53
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No.2, Op.9 "Antar"

Alexander Glazunov
Stenka Razin - Symphonic Poem Op.13

Mily Alexejewitsch Balakirev
Thamar - symphonic poem

Anatole Konstantinovich Liadov
Kikimora, Op.63
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet