Decca Classics

Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Antal Doráti and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra:

• 18 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets
• Highlights include: Performances of Bartok’s Suite No.1, 2 Pictures, Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta – “Bartok was in his [Doráti’s] blood-stream”, wrote critic Robert Layton

And recordings of works by a trio of composers Doráti knew well and worked with: Strauss, Stravinsky and Copland including:

• The first-ever studio recording of Strauss’s opera Die Ägyptische Helena boasting a stunning cast headed by Gwyneth Jones, Willard White and the young Barbara Hendricks
• Sonically excellent interpretations of Firebird and The Rite of Spring that even half a century later still leap out of the loudspeakers – some of the earliest Decca digital recordings that remain benchmarks to this day
• Doráti’s last sessions in Detroit included Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Doráti had been a lifelong champion of the composer and the atmosphere was clearly special at those sessions
• The recordings are accompanied by a 52pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Dominic Fyfe, Label Director, Decca Classics
• Two-piece capbox, 52pp booklet, 18 spined wallets, original jackets / Approx. dimensions: 128x128x46mm