List of Decca Records artists

Decca Records is a recording label. A division of Universal Classics, it is also known as Decca Music Group.

Classical

Vocal artists

• Roberto Alagna
• Ada Alsop
• Elly Ameling
• Arleen Auger
• Janet Baker
• Cecilia Bartoli
• Teresa Berganza
• Carlo Bergonzi
• Jussi Björling
• Barbara Bonney
• Olga Borodina
• Jean Borthayre
• Catherine Bott
• Roger Bourdin
• James Bowman
• Montserrat Caballé
• Nicole Cabell
• Joseph Calleja
• Giuseppe Campora
• José Carreras
• Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra
• Franco Corelli
• Fernando Corena
• Armand Crabbe
• Régine Crespin
• Maud Cunitz
• José Cura
• Libero de Luca
• Suzanne Danco
• Mario del Monaco
• Lisa Della Casa
• Alfred Deller
• Anton Dermota
• Giuseppe Di Stefano
• Plácido Domingo
• Otto Edelmann
• Margreta Elkins
• Kathleen Ferrier
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Kirsten Flagstad
• Renée Fleming
• Juan Diego Flórez
• Mirella Freni
• Angela Gheorghiu
• Nicolai Ghiaurov
• Matthias Goerne
• Galina Gorchakova
• Hilde Gueden
• Thomas Hayward
• Judith Hellwig
• Roy Henderson
• Wolfgang Holzmair
• Marilyn Horne
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky
• Giovanni Inghilleri
• Jacques Jansen
• Sumi Jo
• Louis Jordan
• Endre Koreh
• Richard Lewis
• Wilma Lipp
• David Lloyd
• George London
• Emmy Loose
• Christa Ludwig
• Walther Ludwig
• Enzo Mascherini
• Karita Mattila
• Sylvia McNair
• Janine Micheau
• Sherrill Milnes
• Liza Minnelli
• Martha Mödl
• Birgit Nilsson
• Magda Olivero
• Jessye Norman
• Julius Patzak
• Luciano Pavarotti
• Peter Pears
• Alfred Poell
• Giacinto Prandelli
• Leontyne Price
• Margaret Price
• Ruggero Raimondi
• Samuel Ramey
• Maria Reining
• Katia Ricciarelli
• Mado Robin
• Helge Rosvaenge
• Erna Sack
• Heinrich Schlusnus
• Paul Schoeffler
• Andreas Scholl
• Renata Scotto
• Anja Silja
• Gérard Souzay
• Cheryl Studer
• Isabel Suckling
• Joan Sutherland
• Kiri Te Kanawa
• Renata Tebaldi
• Bryn Terfel
• Conrad Thibault
• Günther Treptow
• Hermann Uhde
• Giuseppe Valdengo
• Arnold van Mill
• Anne Sofie von Otter
• Jennifer Vyvyan
• Anthony Way
• Ludwig Weber
• Ljuba Welitsch
• Wolfgang Windgassen
• Marcel Wittrisch
• Laura Wright
• Sophie Wyss
• Eugenia Zareska

Conductors

• Otto Ackermann
• Leroy Anderson
• Franz André
• Ernest Ansermet
• Ataúlfo Argenta
• Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Krešimir Baranović
• Samuel Barber
• Sir Thomas Beecham ^[1]
• Sidney Beer
• Eduard van Beinum
• Anthony Bernard
• Leonard Bernstein
• Harry Blech
• Leo Blech
• Ernest Bloch
• Herbert Blomstedt
• Karl Böhm
• Richard Bonynge
• Sir Adrian Boult
• Warwick Braithwaite
• Benjamin Britten ^[2]
• Frans Brüggen
• Basil Cameron
• Sergiu Celibidache
• Riccardo Chailly
• Albert Coates
• Eric Coates
• Anthony Collins
• Piero Coppola
• Sir Colin Davis
• Robert Denzler
• Roger Désormière
• Christoph von Dohnányi
• Antal Doráti
• Charles Dutoit
• Georges Enesco
• Alberto Erede
• Robert Farnon
• Iván Fischer
• Anatole Fistoulari
• Grzegorz Fitelberg
• Øivin Fjeldstad
• Wilhelm Furtwängler
• Pierino Gamba
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Valery Gergiev
• Isidore Godfrey ^[3]
• Walter Goehr
• Bernard Haitink
• Sir Hamilton Harty
• Christopher Hogwood
• Heinrich Hollreiser
• Robert Irving
• Herbert von Karajan
• Reginald Jacques
• Thomas Jensen
• Enrique Jordá
• István Kertész
• Royalton Kisch
• Erich Kleiber
• Hans Knappertsbusch
• Clemens Krauss
• Josef Krips
• Rafael Kubelík
• Franz Lehár
• Erich Leinsdorf
• Edouard Lindenberg
• Peter Maag
• Lorin Maazel
• Sir Charles Mackerras
• Klaus Mäkelä
• Nikolai Malko
• Sir Neville Marriner
• Jean Martinon
• Zubin Mehta
• Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
• Rudolf Moralt
• Charles Munch
• Karl Münchinger
• Riccardo Muti
• Boyd Neel
• Victor Olof
• Seiji Ozawa
• Philip Pickett
• André Previn
• Fernando Previtali
• Karl Rankl
• Victor Reinshagen
• Christophe Rousset
• Paul Sacher
• Sir Malcolm Sargent
• Hermann Scherchen
• Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
• Carl Schuricht
• Georges Sébastien
• Ivan Semenoff
• Sir Georg Solti
• Fritz Stiedry
• Robert Stolz
• Oscar Straus
• George Szell
• Stig Westerberg
• Mogens Wöldike
• Albert Wolff
• Eric Tuxen

Instrumentalists

• Valentina Lisitsa
• Salvatore Accardo
• Martha Argerich
• Claudio Arrau
• Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Wilhelm Backhaus
• Ellen Ballon
• Pierre Barbizet
• Antoine de Bavier
• Joshua Bell
• Yvonne Blanc
• Jacqueline Blancard
• Felicja Blumental
• Jorge Bolet
• Julian Bream
• Alfred Brendel
• Benjamin Britten
• Alfredo Campoli
• Kyung Wha Chung
• Aaron Copland
• Clifford Curzon
• Alicia de Larrocha
• Jeanne Demessieux
• Marcel Dupré
• Ludovico Einaudi
• Osian Ellis
• Mischa Elman
• Christian Ferras
• Julia Fischer
• Myers Foggin
• Pierre Fournier
• Nelson Freire
• Walther Frey
• Maurice Gendron
• Max Gilbert
• Arnold Goldsbrough
• Vicente Gómez
• Isador Goodman
• Frederick Grinke
• Arthur Grumiaux
• Friedrich Gulda
• Monique Haas
• Ida Haendel
• Håkan Hardenberger
• Clara Haskil
• Heinz Holliger
• Florence Hooton
• Peter Hurford
• Nobuko Imai
• Janine Jansen
• Leila Josefowicz
• Anton Karas
• Julius Katchen
• Peter Katin
• Wilhelm Kempff
• Zoltán Kocsis
• Gidon Kremer
• Georg Kulenkampff
• Charlie Kunz
• Katia and Marielle Labèque
• Alexandre Lagoya
• Chad Lawson
• Kathleen Long
• Radu Lupu
• Moura Lympany
• Nikita Magaloff
• Enrico Mainardi
• George Malcolm
• Stephan Moccio
• Viktoria Mullova
• Kaori Muraji
• Zara Nelsova
• David Oistrakh
• Gabríel Ólafs
• Franz Osborn
• Kun Woo Paik
• Walter Panhoffer
• Itzhak Perlman
• Anthony Pini
• André Previn
• Ossy Renardy
• Ruggiero Ricci
• Sviatoslav Richter
• Pascal Rogé
• Pepe Romero
• Max Rostal
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Christophe Rousset
• Joseph Saxby
• András Schiff
• Heinrich Schiff
• Andrés Segovia
• Guilhermina Suggia
• Akiko Suwanai
• Henryk Szeryng
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet
• Frederick Thurston
• Mitsuko Uchida
• Andrea Vanzo
• Julian Lloyd Webber
• Mary O'Hara

Ensembles

• Amadeus Quartet
• Amsterdam Quartet
• Beaux Arts Trio
• Boskovsky Quartet
• Carmirelli Quartet
• Griller Quartet
• Grimethorpe Colliery Band
• Koppel Quartet
• I Musici
• Musica Vitalis Quartet
• New Italian Quartet
• Orford String Quartet
• Quartetto Italiano
• Quintetto Chigiano
• Takács Quartet
• Trio di Trieste
• Vegh Quartet
• Vienna Octet
• Polteau Instrumental Ensemble
• D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
• Choir of King's College, Cambridge
• The Purcell Singers

Orchestras

• Belgrade National Opera Orchestra
• Boyd Neel String Orchestra
• BBC Theatre Orchestra
• Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
• Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
• Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
• London Chamber Orchestra
• London Mozart Orchestra
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• London Symphony Orchestra
• London Theatre Orchestra
• Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
• New Symphony Orchestra
• Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
• Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
• Radio Orchestra, Beromünster
• Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen
• Santa Cecilia Orchestra
• Stockholm Radio Orchestra
• Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
• Tonhalle Orchester Zurich
• Turin Symphony Orchestra
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Vienna Symphony Orchestra
• Zurich Collegium Musicum

Non-classical

Film composers

• John Barry
• Jerry Goldsmith
• James Horner
• Michael Kamen
• Michael Nyman
• Alan Silvestri
• John Williams
• Hans Zimmer

Jazz and popular artists released on Decca Records (US) label

• The Andrews Sisters
• Toni Arden
• Louis Armstrong
• Banana Splits
• Len Barry
• Vincent Bell
• Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra
• Owen Bradley Quintet
• Bob Braun
• Erskine Butterfield and his Blue Boys
• Don Cherry
• Rosemary Clooney
• Deborah Cox
• Jacob Collier
• Crazy Otto
• Bing Crosby
• The Cuff Links
• Bobby Darin
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Lenny Dee
• Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
• The Dream Weavers
• Deanna Durbin
• Yvonne Elliman
• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor
• Paul Evans
• Eddie Fontaine
• The Four Aces
• The Free Movement
• Judy Garland
• Jimmie Gordon
• Teddy Grace
• Earl Grant
• Dobie Gray
• Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra
• Keith Green
• Bill Haley & His Comets
• Adelaide Hall
• Glass Harp
• Bobby Helms
• Woody Herman & His Orchestra
• Milt Herth Trio
• Al Hibbler
• Billie Holiday
• Burl Ives
• Al Jolson
• Bert Kaempfert
• The Kalin Twins
• Kitty Kallen
• Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra
• The Kingston Trio
• Peggy Lee
• Jerry Lewis
• Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians
• Matthew's Southern Comfort
• Robert Maxwell & Orchestra
• Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
• Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
• The Mills Brothers
• Domenico Modugno (Italy)
• Russ Morgan
• Maurice Rocco
• Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band
• Les Paul and His Trio
• The Peppermint Rainbow
• Artie Shaw
• Georgie Shaw
• Ethel Smith
• The Spokesmen
• Morris Stoloff/Columbia Pictures Orchestra
• The Surfaris
• Sylvia Syms
• Debbie Taylor
• The Tyrones
• The Weavers
• The Who
• Wishbone Ash
• Victor Young & His Orchestra
• Helmut Zacharias (Germany)

Artists under the Decca Nashville label

• Gary Allan
• Rhett Akins
• Bill Anderson
• Jan Howard
• Jeannie Seely
• Jack Greene
• Mark Chesnutt
• Patsy Cline
• Helen Darling
• Roy Drusky
• Red Foley
• Rebecca Lynn Howard
• Chris Knight
• Brenda Lee
• Ronnie Dove
• Danni Leigh
• Loretta Lynn
• Grady Martin
• Moon Mullican
• One Flew South
• Dolly Parton
• Frazier River
• Webb Pierce
• Dawn Sears
• Shane Stockton
• Conway Twitty
• Kitty Wells
• Lee Ann Womack

Pop/rock artists who had more than one hit on Decca Records (UK)

• Father Abraham and The Smurfs (Netherlands)
• Chris Andrews
• The Animals (formerly on Columbia)
• The Applejacks
• Arrival (1971 to CBS)
• Winifred Atwell
• The Bachelors (Ireland)
• Dave Berry
• The Beverley Sisters
• The Big Three
• Los Bravos (Spain)
• Max Bygraves
• The Casuals
• Frank Chacksfield
• Jess Conrad
• Lyn Cornell
• Billy Cotton and his Band (first on Rex)
• Dana (on Rex)
• Billie Davis
• Terry Dene
• Jackie Dennis
• The Dennisons
• Karl Denver
• Ken Dodd (later on Columbia)
• Val Doonican (later on Pye, Philips)
• East of Eden
• Bern Elliott and the Fenmen
• Marianne Faithfull (later on Island)
• The Fortunes (later on Capitol)
• Billy Fury (later on Polydor)
• The Goons
• Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
• Ted Heath
• Heinz (later on Columbia)
• Engelbert Humperdinck
• The Johnston Brothers
• Tom Jones (later on Epic)
• Eden Kane (later on Fontana)
• Jonathan King (later formed UK Records)
• Kathy Kirby
• Lee Lawrence
• The Lumineers
• Mike Preston
• Alan Price (several other labels)
• P.J. Proby (later on Liberty)
• The Redskins
• Joan Regan (later on Pye)
• Neil Reid
• Paddy Roberts
• Lord Rockingham's XI
• The Rolling Stones (formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970)
• Lita Roza
• Paul & Barry Ryan
• Crispian St. Peters
• Doug Sheldon
• Peter Skellern
• The Small Faces (to Immediate in 1967)
• Cyril Stapleton
• The Stargazers
• The Sundowners
• Thin Lizzy (to Phonogram in 1974)
• Tommy Steele
• Them (to Tower Records in 1967)
• The Tornados
• Twinkle
• Unit 4 + 2
• Dickie Valentine (later on Pye Nixa)
• The Vernons Girls
• The Warriors
• David Whitfield
• Mark Wynter (later on Pye)
• Jimmy Young (formerly Polygon, later Columbia)
• The Zombies (CBS from 1967)

Pop/crossover artists

• AURORA
• Tori Amos
• Alexandra Burke
• Kerry Ellis
• Clay Aiken
• Bond
• Boyz II Men
• Jodie Brooke Wilson
• Amy MacDonald
• David Garrett
• Delta Goodrem
• The Love Willows
• Boz Scaggs
• David Sanborn
• Charlie Haden
• Brendan James
• Sonya Kitchell
• Najofondo
• Paula Cole
• Duel
• Matt Dusk
• Ludovico Einaudi
• Red Moon
• Rick Guard
• Louis Jordan
• Ute Lemper
• Annie Lennox
• Ashley MacIsaac
• Dominic Miller
• Morrissey
• Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
• Kristyna Myles
• Donny Osmond
• Ana Salazar
• Eimear Quinn
• Andrea Vanzo
• Vocal Sampling
• Russell Watson
• Hayley Westenra
• Imelda May
• Joe McElderry
• Kimberley Walsh

See also

• List of one-hit wonders on the UK Singles Chart

References

1. OCLC   1284412634
2. OCLC   1250276549
3. OCLC   53738284

External links

• Decca Records Web Page
• Decca Classics Web Page
• Decca Broadway Web Page
• Universal Music Classical Web Page