Decca
The name "Decca" has its origins in a portable gramophone called the Decca Dulcephone, patented in 1914 by the manufacturers of the instrument, Barnett Samuel and Sons. Invented by Wilfred S. Samuel, the name is the result of the fusion of the word ‘Mecca’ with the initial D of ‘Dulcephone’. The company then renamed itself the ‘Decca Gramophone Company’, and at the same time became known as ‘The Supreme Record Company’. It was bought in 1929 by the former stockbroker Edward Lewis.
In 1939 Decca was the only record label in the United Kingdom, aside from EMI. Within a few years it had become the second biggest label in the world. During the 1930s and 1940s, Decca counted within its catalogue a plethora of legendary signatures: including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, the Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, the Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan, Bob Crosby, the Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers, Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
In 1966 Edward Lewis created Deram, the first British label devoted entirely to pop and rock music. Deram released the albums Songwriter and Night Flight by Justin Hayward, and in 1969 launched a progressive rock section of the label, entitled Nova, which lasted less than a year. Consequently, the 1970s were disastrous years for the Deram label as a whole. Meanwhile, Decca became increasingly famous for its classical repertoire. On the death of Edward Lewis in January 1980, the company Polygram took on what remained of Decca. Deram reappeared briefly during the early 1980s with albums by the groups Bananarama, the Mo-debts and Splodgenessabounds.
In 1997 Seagram bought MCA, Universal Studios and Polygram Deutsche Grammophon. Decca Records has now become a trademark of Universal Group; comprising Decca Classics (employing a blue and red logo), Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and Verve Music Group, Concord Records, Blue Thumb, and UCJ Round Records.
Today, Decca Records continues to support our chosen artists and unearth new talent, be it in pop, rock, folk or Americana (especially in its Broadway repertoire), releasing albums by Robert Plant, Imelda Peut, William Orbit, Kirsty Almeida, Melody Gardot, Eric Whitacre and Nikki Yanofsky. It also promotes the classical music of a new generation of great artists; including Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nelson Freire, Cecilia Bartoli, Renee Fleming, Juan Diego Flórez, Jonas Kaufmann, Janine Jansen and Albrecht Mayer. Decca continues to release music from older classical musicians such as Wilhelm Backhaus, Benjamin Britten, Clifford Curzon, Radu Lupu, Kathleen Ferrier, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Julius Katchen, Georg Solti, Alicia de Larrocha and Luciano Pavarotti.
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Mozart: Symphonies 35, 41, 36, 38 - Posthorn Serenade
Eduard van Beinum, Eugen Jochum, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sinfonías - Editado por Decca el 8/06/2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Matthäus Passion - QS
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 9/03/1998
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Symphony No.9 In D Minor Opus 125 "Choral" - L. Van Beethoven
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/1966
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Munchinger Miniatures
Música de cámara - Editado por Decca el 18/10/2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Franz Liszt: Liebestraum - Virtuose Klaviermusik
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2011
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Tchaikovsky : Symphonies 4 & 5
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Albert Wolff, Carl Schuricht
Sinfonías - Editado por Decca el 6/03/2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms 2. Sinfonie, Franck Sinfonie in d-moll
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2004
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Der Bettelstudent - Gasparone - Die Dubarry
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Best Of Pavarotti & Friends - The Duets
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2008
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Liszt : Piano works (9CD)
Piano solo - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2001
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Sweet Smell Of Success (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe Edition)
Elmer Bernstein, Chico Hamilton
Bandas sonoras de cine - Editado por Decca el 1/10/1957
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Purcell: Theatre Music (6CD set)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/1990
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Beethoven: Klavierkonzerte
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2008
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Strawinsky: Feuervogel/Pulcinella
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2002
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Mendelssohn, Bruch: Konzerte für 2 Klaviere
Marielle Labèque, Katia Labèque, Philharmonia Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 2/04/1993
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Mitternacht - Midnight - Minuit - Nocturnes
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2003
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Mozart: Messe c-moll (Audior)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Clásica - Editado por Decca el 1/01/2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo