When I first went to London in 1950 I was more than fortunate to be able to hear several performances by the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

‘I was lucky enough to live at an extremely active and productive time’ Ernest Ansermet.

Ansermet’s words, spoken during an interview, sums up the great conductor’s historical position, while being highly indicative of his humility at the same time.

From the outset of the formation of Eloquence, the series championed the recordings of Zubin Mehta, many of which had never been released on CD. Several of these were recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the first major orchestra Mehta was to conduct. Cyrus Meher-Homji reflects on Mehta’s seminal LA years.

Yvonne Minton was lucky enough to have the right vocal equipment and musicality at exactly the right time for the singing of Gustav Mahler’s songs and symphonies. Aside from Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, no other Australian singer has achieved anything like the international career of mezzo-soprano Minton.

‘Put a little smile on the face of the music…’ Mark Ainley casts a bird’s eye view over Andor Foldes’s crystalline Mozart.

Niek Nelissen considers Edo de Waart’s Russian recordings with the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

From May through to November 2018, Eloquence will reissue the historic 1950s recordings of Russian operas recorded by the Belgrade National Opera. Peter Quantrill tells the story.

From the goldfields in Western Australia, whose capital city is the most remote in the world, Joyce defied incongruous and humble beginnings to forge a career that took her to the international pinnacle of twentieth-century pianism.

Acclaimed by Herbert von Karajan, no less, as ‘the Carmen of the century’, Teresa Berganza was a singer who defied easy categorization.

Raymond Tuttle profiles the American conductor a selection of whose orchestral encores are released on Decca Eloquence this month.

David Tunley, renowned scholar and Campoli biographer, profiles the great violinist in tandem with the release of ‘The Bel Canto Violin’ – six 2CD volumes encompassing all of Alfredo Campoli’s Decca LPs.

In November 2017, Eloquence collects together all of the solo organ recordings that Simon Preston made for Argo. Most of these are issued on CD for the first time.