Posts tagged as "alexander-gibson"

Brava Berganza!

March 16, 2018

A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most associated with her, from Rossini to folk and popular songs from her native Spain. Born in 1935, Teresa Berganza was in her mid-twenties when she made the recordings on this album, yet […]

Teresa Berganza – Eighteenth-Century Portraits

March 16, 2018

To complement a 2CD set of Rossini and Spanish songs entitled ‘Brava Berganza’ (482 6397), Eloquence has also reissued more buried treasure from the Decca discography of Teresa Berganza. The compilation takes its title from a 1961 album made, like the Rossini arias on ‘Brava Berganza’ with Sir Alexander Gibson conducting the orchestra of the […]

Witches’ Brew

May 26, 2016

Issued in the US under the title ‘Witches’ Brew’, Alexander Gibson and the New Symphony Orchestra of London recorded this album in 1959 and the performances remain today as characterful and incisive as they were then. While pieces from this recording have previously appeared on Decca, this is its first complete release on the label. […]

Bizet: L’Arlésienne; Carmen; Jeux d’enfants; Dukas: L’Apprenti sorcier

March 15, 2016

Lorin Maazel’s late-1970s recordings of the L’Arlésienne suites and Jeux d’enfants remain some of the most scintillating and beautifully recorded in the catalogue. They have received limited CD release and are back now, coupled with a rare recording by Sir Alexander Gibson of the Carmen Suite and Weller’s much-requested recording of Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, both […]

Debussy: Préludes – Books I & II; Fantasie; Messiaen: Piano Works

March 12, 2016

Indian-born, of Jewish-Viennese parents and raised in Paris, virtuoso pianist, Jean-Rodolphe Kars, converted to Catholicism in 1976 and was baptised in 1977. Mysteriously, in 1981, he put an end to his career as a pianist, entering the priesthood in 1986. During the late-1960s and early 70s, Kars made a few recordings for Decca, all of […]