The Decca Sound: Various Artists on Limited Edition 180-Gram Six-LP Box Set Plus Digital Downloads

The Decca Sound is an extremely limited edition six-LP vinyl box set of legendary recordings celebrating the world-renowned Decca Sound. The set features classic-status pioneering stereo recordings from the past 55 years starring a galaxy of internationally acclaimed artistic talent. Each LP is presented in a sleeve with the original cover art.

An accompanying 200-page booklet documents the development of the stereo recordings as they came to be in the 1950s through to the modern digital recordings as well as an article on Decca artists and repertory with particular reference to the artists featured in the set.

This is now a limited, numbered edition of 2,000 sets. The 180-gram vinyl has been manufactured at Optimal who are widely considered to be the best vinyl manufacturer today. The set also contains a voucher for a free digital download of all six albums.

Track Listing
LP 1
ERNEST ANSERMET
FALLA: El sombrero de tres picos
La vida breve - Interlude and dance
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Recorded 1961 · First released as SXL 2296

LP 2
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
London Symphony Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Recorded 1963 · First released as SXL 6057

LP 3
LORIN MAAZEL
RESPIGHI: Feste romane & Pini di Roma
The Cleveland Orchestra
Recorded 1976 · First released as SXL 6822

LP 4
SIR GEORG SOLTI · BIRGIT NILSSON
WAGNER: The Golden Ring - excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen
Wiener Philharmoniker
Recorded 1958-1965 · First released as SXL 6421

LP 5
RICCARDO CHAILLY
MESSIAEN: Turangalela-symphonie
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Takashi Harada, ondes Martenot
Recorded 1992 · First released as CD 436 6262
first LP release

LP 6
JANINE JANSEN
BEETHOVEN & BRITTEN*: Violin Concertos
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
London Symphony Orchestra*
Paavo Järvi
Recorded 2009 · First released as CD 478 1530
first LP release