10 years on from BBC Young Musician 2016 🎶
A final that introduced a new generation of classical stars — including Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jess Gillam.
From that stage to the world stage, their journeys continue to inspire.
Seiji Ozawa’s daughter Seira unboxes a very special new release ✨
Mixed and mastered from the original Philips quadraphonic tapes, this 1975 recording of Dvořák’s New World Symphony captures Ozawa with the San Francisco Symphony during a defining early chapter of his career.
For this new edition, Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios has created a fresh stereo mix directly from the original four-track quadraphonic master tape, preserving a pure analogue path all the way to the cutter head.
A remarkable recording, newly reissued for a new generation of listeners.
Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony
Making his North American debut with the ensemble in 1962, Ozawa was appointed Music Director in 1970, a role he held until 1977. He brought a vitality that helped redefine the orchestra’s identity. As Barack Obama later observed, “with his mop haircut, and his turtlenecks, and his love beads, he almost looked like a Beatle”. Performances took on a new sense of occasion, and audiences grew significantly whilst the orchestra’s visual identity evolved through bold, contemporary design. Musicians frequently noted Ozawa’s clarity and physicality, which made complex scores effortless. Under his leadership, the San Francisco Symphony returned to the recording studio, signed with major international labels, and undertook its first European tour in decades.
Ozawa’s history with San Francisco formed an integral chapter in his illustrious career. His 1975 recording of Dvořák’s New World Symphony with the SFO explores one part of this chapter and has been newly remastered as part of Decca Pure Analogue, available now.
Batch 2 of our all-analogue vinyl series DECCA PURE ANALOGUE is out today. In this set we present four newly remastered landmark recordings from the Decca & Philips archives.
Each release has been mastered and cut directly from the original analogue tapes by the team at Emil Berliner Studios. Titles below ⬇️
🎶 Seiji Ozawa & San Francisco Symphony - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
🎶 Sir Georg Solti & BRSO - Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
🎶 Zubin Mehta & LA Philharmonic:- Varèse: Arcana; Intégrales; Ionisation
🎶 Bernard Haitink & Concertgebouworkest - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 & Adagio from No. 10
We are really excited that our new track, ‘Dark is the Night’ is out today! It’s one of our favourite Latvian folk songs and holds a lot of symbolic meaning.
The track was arranged for us by composer Jēkabs Jančevskis who managed to put this folk song in a completely different light, transporting us through the music to the Latvian countryside🌲We hope you enjoy! 🥰
Listen now via the link in our bios 🔗🎶
Tchaikovsky - born on this day, in 1840...
Yunchan Lim brings quiet intensity to Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons 🎹
Written as twelve musical portraits of the year, the cycle reveals a more intimate side of the composer.
📹 Live from Wigmore Hall, UK, 4 October 2023.
Alis Huws - Greensleves
This new single is brand-new harp arrangement by Alis of the popular English folk song that takes you on a journey of unrequited love 💘
🌟I am very excited to be releasing my second EP with @deccaclassics , The Red Violin by John Corigliano.
All of the tracks are out now and you can listen everywhere via the link in my bio, I hope you enjoy it 🎶🎻
デッカ・クラシックスより、最新シングル「The Red Violin Caprices」が、2026年5月1日（金）より配信スタートとなりました。
この曲は、映画『レッド・バイオリン』の音楽を手がけたジョン・コリリアーノによる楽曲で、HIMARIによる演奏です。ぜひお聞きください。
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The influence of Strauss on Solti 🎼
The relationship between Richard Strauss and Georg Solti was brief but had a lasting impact. They first met in Munich in 1949 at the Staatsoper, where Solti conducted Der Rosenkavalier for Strauss’s 85th birthday. Later Solti was invited to Garmisch and the young conductor was treated “like a colleague”. Solti said: “He gave me advice which guided me throughout my entire career, including not to get too involved with the music, but to stay somewhere outside it - not to lack passion but to be dispassionate in the execution. (Good advice but not always easy for me).” Solti later reflected, “I met him only three times, but he had a great influence on my professional life.”
That influence comes full circle in this recording of Eine Alpensinfonie. Recorded by Sir Georg Solti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1979 at the Herkulessaal, Munich. It was a performance shaped by Solti’s relationship with Strauss, he studied the composer’s own recording before taping this uniquely authentic performance in Munich. The images above show Solti’s annotated score for the work, offering a glimpse into his interpretative approach.
Newly remastered from the analogue tapes, the recording will be released as part of our Decca Pure Analogue series on 8th May.
