Your top ten Decca CDs for your personal Decca box

[umslopogaas]

This is a massive cheat, because most of these are multi-disc sets, but looks like I'm not the only one! This is actually drawn from my LPs, but I know most have also made it to CD.

1. Der Rosenkavalier/Solti
2. Salome/Solti
3. Elektra/Solti
4. Das Rheingold/Solti
5. Die Walkure/Solti
6. Siegfried/Solti
7. Gotterdammerung/Solti
8. Mahler symph. 2/Solti
9. Handel Concerti Grossi op. 6, nos. 1-12/Marriner
10. Beethoven symph. 9/Solti (Solti-Decca Silver Jubilee, with Chicago SO)

And no, I'm not a Solti fanatic, but he was a great conductor and one of Decca's stars, and I like his style.

[barber olly]

This is a massive cheat, because most of these are multi-disc sets, but looks like I'm not the only one! This is actually drawn from my LPs, but I know most have also made it to CD.

1. Der Rosenkavalier/Solti
2. Salome/Solti
3. Elektra/Solti
4. Das Rheingold/Solti
5. Die Walkure/Solti
6. Siegfried/Solti
7. Gotterdammerung/Solti
8. Mahler symph. 2/Solti
9. Handel Concerti Grossi op. 6, nos. 1-12/Marriner
10. Beethoven symph. 9/Solti (Solti-Decca Silver Jubilee, with Chicago SO)

And no, I'm not a Solti fanatic, but he was a great conductor and one of Decca's stars, and I like his style.

Only a semi-massive cheat - you could have put the Ring in one box and have the complete Beethoven Syms! Perhaps we should have a sub list of 10 favourite Solti recordings!

[mathias broucek]

umslopagaas - which Solti Mahler 2

I would suggest the LSO one!

[umslopogaas]

Mathias

Woops, forgot he made two. Yes, it was the earlier LSO one with the sunlit tree branches photograph on the cover that I had in mind. SET 325-6, a 2 LP box set dated 1966. One of the first recordings I ever bought, I was a teenager and couldnt afford it, but I heard a friend's copy and just had to have it.

[mathias broucek]

Mathias

Woops, forgot he made two. Yes, it was the earlier LSO one with the sunlit tree branches photograph on the cover that I had in mind. SET 325-6, a 2 LP box set dated 1966. One of the first recordings I ever bought, I was a teenager and couldnt afford it, but I heard a friend's copy and just had to have it.

Worth buying just for the spne-tingling major-to-minor trumpet at the end of the first movement!

[BBMmk2]

1 Schubert: Impromptus. Radu Lupu.
2 J S Bach(any in Andras Schiff's cycle).
3 Peter Hurford: The Romantic Organ
4 Mahler Symphony no.8/Solti
5 Ravel (again any of Duotoit's cycle)
6 Dvorak Symph Poems LSO/Kertesz
7 Shostakovich symphony no.8. RcO/Haitink
8 Rachmaninov PC no.3. Ashkenazy/LO/Previn
9 Britten War Requiem.(Britten etc).
10 Franz Scmidt: Symp 4/Schoenberg Chamber Symphonyt. LA PO/Mehta