Decca Classics is proud to announce Nelson Freire - Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019. The release pays tribute to the great Brazilian pianist, who passed away on 1 November 2021 and would have been 78 this October. A 2CD collection of previously unreleased Decca recordings, bonus tracks making their debut on disc and rare radio broadcast tapes – some of Nelson’s finest performances from a time he rarely recorded commercially. The Berlin Sessions : Rediscovered, unreleased recordings from 2014 of Gluck, Bach and Beethoven’s Andante favori – his only recording of this piece Rare Radio Tapes: Broadcast concerto performances from 1970-1985 including Beethoven 4 and Brahms 2, Bartok 1 and Richard Strauss’ Burleske New to CD: Bonus tracks never before released on CD including music by his beloved Villa-Lobos and Debussy The collection is accompanied by a new essay by Dominic Fyfe, Nelson’s long-time Decca producer.