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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music / Absolute Jest Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "...a magnificent reading of Naïve and Sentimental Music…with the balance of pace and introspection skilfully managed by Oundjian." Recording of the Month BBC Music July 2018 |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Miss Julie (complete opera) Anna Patalong, Benedict Nelson, Rosie Aldridge, Samuel Sakker / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] ""It is sensationally gripping…There is a highly strung, obsessive streak to the music that could come straight out of Vertigo, and how heartening it is to find an English composer writing with such passion" Financial Times |
GERSHWIN / COPLAND / BARER
American Piano Concertos Xiayin Wang (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "This is a fine detailed and stylish account of [the Gershwin] that can sit confidently among the best." (Gramophone) |
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 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St John Passion (complete oratorio) Bach Camerata, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] "The solo line-up is without a weak link; among its glories Sophie Bevan's deeply affecting 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze', Benjamin Hulett's finely nuanced 'Erwage', and Robin Blaze's exquisitely judged 'Es ist vollbracht'." BBC Music |
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
Bantock: Omar Khayyam Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams / BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] "It's a fascinating rediscovery on a huge scale, especially in the detail and depth of SACD surround-sound, seductively performed by Handley's forces, Toby Spence appropriately poetic and Catherine Wyn-Rogers sensuous." BBC Music Five Stars |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Michelle De Young (mezzo); John Relyea (bass); Pál Mácsai (actor); Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Following outstanding reviews for his interpretation of Duke Bluebeard around the world, notably at the Paris Opéra and then in Philadelphia and New York with Michelle DeYoung, John Relyea stars in the first studio SACD Surround Sound recording of... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Two Rhapsodies / Dance Suite James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "A fierce, lucid account of Bartók's last great masterpiece, Concerto for Orchestra...The Bergen orchestra sounds wonderfully alive to Bartók's rhythmic exactitudes" The Observer |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano / director); Karin Egardt (oboe); Kevin Spagnolo (clarinet); Mikael Lindström (bassoon); Terése Larsson (horn) [ Chandos SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] Following his acclaimed recording of sonatas by contemporaries of Beethoven, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet further celebrates the great composer's anniversary year with this set of the complete Piano Concertos. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Belle Époque: French Music for Wind Orsino Ensemble, Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "A delightful and thoughtful debut disc from the Orsino Ensemble… a thoroughly charming recording." Five Stars BBC Music magazine - June 2021 |
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Bennett : Orchestral Works, Vol.3 Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] "Chandos's recording is full and rich... The Reflections on a sixteenth century tune is a real discovery that should surely be snapped up by Classic FM audiences." MusicWeb |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol.4 [Includes Concerto for Piano and Orchestra] Michael McHale (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2020 ] In this fourth volume in their Richard Rodney Bennett series, John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra turn to his Piano Concerto, commissioned by the John Feeney Trust for the CBSO and written in 1968. |
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Howard McGill (saxophone), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] The recent partnership of John Wilson and BBC SSO on record reaches this second volume in their invigorating exploration of fascinating orchestral works by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. Less well known than his widely famous film music (Murder on the... |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - The Mines of Sulphur (Complete Opera) Kristopher Irmiter (bass-baritone) Beth Clayton (mezzo-soprano) Brandon Jovanovich (tenor) James Maddalena (baritone) / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur is reminiscent of suspense thrillers from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Hitchcock. Love, longing, and dark as well as light comedy abound in this macabre tale of greed and retribution set in... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor) / Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm, Bergen Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Choir, etc, Edward Ga [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] With this surround-sound recording of Berlioz's Requiem, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tackle the infinite and the immeasurable.All the grandiose, striking beauty of the Requiem's large-scale ceremonial is encapsulated by... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (complete oratorio) Andrew Goodwin, Shane Lowrencev, Matthew Brook, Sasha Cooke / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "The marvelous solo singers are utterly convincing, from Andrew Staples' mellow tenor as the Narrator and Matthew Brook's complex Herod, to the love of Joseph and Mary (Williams and Cooke) for their baby and their rush to escape." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), David Soar, (bass) / BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] "... Davis's reading is warm and full of subtle atmospheric nuances... Davis takes full advantage of a magnificent SACD recording epically spacious, illuminating the excellent chorus and soloists vocal and instrumental in sharp detail " (BBC) |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Mary of Magdala Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano), James Platt (Bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Bliss composed The Enchantress in 1951, the year of his sixtieth birthday, for Kathleen Ferrier. The text is a free adaptation of the Second Idyll of Theocritus, made by Henry Reed, and well suited to Bliss's love of classical Greek... |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: the Beautitudes Emily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Excelling in recordings of Delius, Elgar, and Holst, Sir Andrew Davis here presents a spirited programme of works by Sir Arthur Bliss. It follows a recording of Morning Heroes that made the top recommendations of 2015; likewise recorded in... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1 and 3 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under its Chief Conductor, Edward Gardner, embarks on a new Brahms cycle with this first instalment, containing the first and third symphonies. Recorded in Surround Sound in Bergen's Grieghallen - the orchestra's... |
