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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Solti dirigiert Wagner
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/2012
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Brahms: Serenade Nr.1, Op.11 & Nr.2, Op.16
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1968
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Brahms Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 + 4 Balladen
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Wiener Blut - Maske in Blau - Die Dollarprinzessin
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1993
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Glasunow: Jahreszeiten
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/2003
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dvorák: Slawische Tänze
Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/2006
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J.S. Bach: Messe in h-moll, BWV 232
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1971
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Berlioz:Nuits d'été - Canteloube:Chants de France
Suzanne Danco, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Martin Johnson, Lucie Daullene, Joseph Canteloube
Mélodies (French) - Released by Decca on 10/05/2019
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Tchaikovsky : Sleeping Beauty - Symphony No. 4
Anatole Fistoulari, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphonic Music - Released by Decca on 11/01/2019
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Bach, 3 Partiten für Violine solo
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1981
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
J.S. Bach: Orchestersuiten
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Peter Schreier
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/2008
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Mozart: Flute Concertos - Symphonies 39, 40, 25, 29, 32
Hubert Barwahser, Sir Colin Davis
Symphonic Music - Released by Decca on 7/02/2020
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Klarinettenkonzerte - Mozart/Spohr/Weber (Classical Choice)
Ernst Ottensamer, Sir Colin Davis, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1992
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Wagner: Die Walküre
London Symphony Orchestra, Léopold Stokowski
Classical - Released by Decca on 20/04/2015
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Die Romantiker von Schumann bis Wolf - Lied-Edition Vol. 3
Hermann Prey, Karl Engel, Gerald Moore, Leonard Hokanson
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1974
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1967
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vom Minnegesang bis zu Beethoven und Loewe - Lied-Edition Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1974
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Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795, Op.25
Hermann Prey, Leonard Hokanson
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1973
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tschaikowsky, Dornröschen
Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg
Classical - Released by Decca on 1/01/1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo