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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Overtures, Vol.2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Alpesh Chauhan's début recording for Chandos - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (CHSA 5300) - met with widespread critical acclaim and awards, including recording of the week for both The Times and Presto Music, and the BBC Music magazine's... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: All-night Vigil [Vespers], Op. 37 Evgeny Kachurovsky (baritone) Igor Morozov (tenor) / PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serge Rachmaninoff, PaTRAM* Institute Male Choir invites you to experience the extraordinary beauty of his choral tour de force, the All-night Vigil, composed in 1915. The Vigil is a traditional... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Busoni/Brahms: Violin Concerto Francesca Dego (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The celebrated violinist Francesca Dego is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her regular collaborator Dalia Stasevska for this recording of the violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni. A cornerstone of the repertoire, Brahms's Concerto dates... |
WALKER / Lili BOULANGER / PRICE / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / TAKEMITSU / etc
Path to the Moon Laura van der Heijden (cello) Jâms Coleman (piano) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "[Walker's Cello Sonata] a tautly argued piece that's a real discovery, persuasively played here...also a performance of Britten's Sonata that vividly captures its sense of dialogue and a many-coloured one of the 1915 Sonata by Debussy." Guardian |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto / Apollon musagète / etc James Ehnes (vioin) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "…James Ehnes gives a performance of unobtrusive elegance … Ehnes's intonation is, as ever, second to none." Gramophone |
FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn, (Felix & Fanny): Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A 22 / Gartenlieder, Op.3 / Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60, MWV D 3 Julia Doyle (soprano) Mark Le Brocq (tenor) Ashley Riches (baritone) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "There's a wonderful breadth to the sound caught in St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb by the Chandos team. This new recording is surely the new benchmark." Gramophone |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Bergliot / Symphonic Dances / etc Juni Dahr (reader) Mari Eriksmoen (soprano) Astrid Nordstad (mezzo) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner's rhythmic drive in the livelier sequences, you'll be compelled throughout" BBC |
MAURICE RAVEL / LENNOX BERKELEY / ADAM POUNDS
Ravel/Berkeley/Pounds: Orchestral Works Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "...perfect interpreters in Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, who luxuriate in Ravel's wondrous Le Tombeau de Couperin and make a persuasive case for Pounds's third symphony in this world premiere recording." Sunday Times |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol 1 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] "…It's difficult to imagine performances as dedicated and as perceptive as these… enthusiastically recommended ..." Collinscolumn |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M57 Sinfonia of London Chorus & Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] This recording uses John Wilson's new performing edition of the work, a project which Wilson took on during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. |
HUBERT PARRY
Parry: Scenes from Shelley''s ''Prometheus Unbound'' / Blest Pair of Sirens Sarah Fox (soparno) Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo) David Butt Philip (tenor) Neal Davies (baritone) / Crouch End Fesitval Chorus, London Mozart Players [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Hubert Parry regarded by many as the finest English composer since Purcell, and as the father of the modern English tradition, is best known for his hymn Jerusalem and his anthem I was glad, written for the coronation of Edward VII, in 1902. |
SIBELIUS / KLAMI / MELARTIN / MADETOJA / JARNEFELT / MIELCK / PALMGREN / etc
Overtures from Finland Oulu Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Robert Kajanus was the leading figure in Finnish music before Sibelius became established. His Overtura sinfonica is a late work, from 1926, which epitomises his style. |
AIRAT ICHMOURATOV
Ichmouratov: Viola Concerto No.1 / Piano Concerto Elvira Misbakhova (viola) Jean-Philippe Sylvestre (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Peacock [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] The Volga-Tatar-born Canadian composer and conductor Airat Ichmouratov conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in this recording of two of his major works, in Chandos' third album devoted to the works of this outstanding composer. |
BERNARD HERRMANN
Herrmann: Suite from 'Wuthering Heights' / etc Roderick Williams (baritone) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra Conductor, Mario Venzago [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] "Through their two voices - a radiant Keri Fuge and a towering Roderick Williams...stunningly recorded, serves as a tantalising example of what it might be to go on Herrmann's entire emotionally wrought journey." Recording of the Month BBC Music |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphony No.4 / Violin Concerto James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/May/2023 ] Nielsen's epic Violin Concerto was premièred in Copenhagen in February 1912, by the violinist Peder Møller. Nominally the work is structured in two movements; each opens with a slow section and moves to a faster one. |
MERCADANTE / BELLINI / RICCI / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI / VIARDOT
Casta Diva - Operatic Arias transcribed for trumpet Matilda Lloyd (trumpet) / Britten Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "The flawless tone, purity of line and dynamic subtlety she coaxes from her instrument are shown off to particularly impressive effect in Arban's set of variations from Norma...Overall, this is immensely assured and really great fun." BBC |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 4, Volume 3 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "Album of the Weekend" ClassicFM |
SERGE RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 / Preludes in C Sharp Minor Sinfonia Of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "… To experience the full magnificence of Rachmaninov's orchestration, we need Wilson's imaginative attention to details and Chandos's superior engineering" Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 12 & 15 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "Another terrific release from this source." Gramophone |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HERBERT HOWELLS / FREDERICK DELIUS / SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Music for Strings John Wilson, Sinfonia Of London [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "I expect it has been said before, but the Sinfonia of London belongs in the Formula 1 class of orchestras, and in this repertoire sits in pole position." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Orchestral |
