Decca Eloquence

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Has this wonderful label been withdrawn? There were some amazing vintage Decca recordings available recently. Now most seem to have disappeared.

Please tell me I've got it all wrong. I'd be too pleased to feel offended.

[Gordon]

Has this wonderful label been withdrawn? There were some amazing vintage Decca recordings available recently. Now most seem to have disappeared.

Please tell me I've got it all wrong. I'd be too pleased to feel offended.

Don't believe so unless this is very recent news. Or is it just some deletions? Last week's [was it] CD Review had some Eloquence releases or am I dreaming. If they were going down under [sorry] I'm sure they'd have said so. The back of the new CRQ magazine has a full page ad for their latest offerings. Great label I've got tons of my favouite Kingsway Hall recordings from them, otherwise unavailable, so thanks to Eloquence. Thanks Ozzies, we'll let you win the Ashes. No evidence on the google machine.

[HighlandDougie]

See:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/ll/Australian%2BEloquence/medium-CD

[Gordon]

See:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/ll/...ence/medium-CD

Lubbly Jubbly!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well that's good news. I had tried the Presto website and only found a sprinkling of recordings. It's good to be proved wrong.

[umslopogaas]

Decca Eloquence has a full page advert in January's Gramophone, sharing the page with DG: 15 Decca discs and 5 DG.

[Barbirollians]

They have a Facebook page where they actually ask for people to recommend stuff from their old catalogue to reissue .

[Bryn]

They have a Facebook page where they actually ask for people to recommend stuff from their old catalogue to reissue .

Almost, but not quite, worth signing up to Facebook for. I'd be in there recommending the full Malcolm Binns survey of Beethoven's fortepiano sonatas, playing instruments from the Colt Clavier Collection, replete with the original programme notes from the LP issues.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Almost, but not quite, worth signing up to Facebook for. I'd be in there recommending the full Malcolm Binns survey of Beethoven's fortepiano sonatas, playing instruments from the Colt Clavier Collection, replete with the original programme notes from the LP issues.

And the DECCA "Headline" series, too - one, in particular!

[silvestrione]

And the DECCA "Headline" series, too - one, in particular!

Would that be 'Transit'? I used to own the LP. A fascinating work.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Would that be 'Transit'? I used to own the LP. A fascinating work.

- there have been three occasions since the mid-'90s when it has been rumoured to be "imminent" for CD release (it was even given an NMC catalogue number). None of them emerged.

[Nick Armstrong]

They have a Facebook page where they actually ask for people to recommend stuff from their old catalogue to reissue .

https://www.facebook.com/#!/AustralianEloquence

[Karafan]

They have a Facebook page where they actually ask for people to recommend stuff from their old catalogue to reissue .

Indeed they do, Barbs, but my entreaties on behalf of the Beethoven symphonies* with the VPO under Schmidt-Issterstedt (great 1960s performances from the Sofiensaal) appear to have fallen upon deaf ears! If anyone ever sees them being re-released on Eloquence, please let me know. A princely reward awaits you.

(*Inexplicably, they seem to have re-released the Herbie '60s cycle, which is already available in umpteen guises, whereas S-I has not been in the catalogue for some years. I guess they feel HvK is the bigger 'pull'...?)

[Richard Tarleton]

I bought this after Jonathan Swain played Shallow Brown on CD Masters - a lovely album

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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