Presto CD,
Presto CDs reach 1,000!
Since the launch of our Presto CD project a year ago, we've been releasing a steady stream of 'new' old titles - restored to life as Presto CDs after being discontinued by the record labels.
We're now delighted to have reached a milestone in this project - there are now more than 1,000 Presto CDs in our range! A selection of the latest releases - focusing on Romantic favourites from Decca Classics - is below; why not browse through the rest of our Decca Presto CDs, or the full range?
Leopold Stokowski and others perform some of the music featured in Disney's whimsical Fantasia.
Available Format: Presto CD
Stirring themes from the golden years of Hollywood - Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Magnificent Seven and more!
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Barry Tuckwell, one of the true masters of the horn, performs Richard Strauss's two concertos with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Radu Lupu gives spirited performances of this ever-popular double-bill, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra under André Previn.
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Bartók's two concertos show Kyung Wha Chung at her most lively, with accompaniment from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and LPO under Georg Solti.
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The vividly Romantic palette of Alexander Scriabin is on display here, with Vladimiar Ashkenazy and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and pianist Peter Jablonski.
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A double-bill of Vaughan Williams - his elegiac Pastoral Symphony is paired with the deeply spiritual No. 3, inspired by Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Roger Norrington leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra on both journeys.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC
Poulenc's unique Concert Champêtre for harpsichord sits alongside his Sinfonietta and other orchestral works; Pascal Rogé does the honours at the harpsichord and piano, while Charles Dutoit conducts the Orchestra National de France.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC
Berlioz's perennially popular Symphonie fantastique receives an appropriately grotesque performance from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti.
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A disc focusing on Berlioz's overtures - both standalone numbers such as Le Carnaval Romain and Waverley and curtain-raisers to his operatic works. Charles Dutoit and the Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal give spirited performances of these lively pieces.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC
Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
