JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Ballet Suites / Twelve Waltzes and Coda London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano/director) [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] "Howard Shelley's light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity." BBC Music |
SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL
Herschel: Symphonies (Nos 2, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17) London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 20/Mar/2003 ] 'Matthias Bamert's lively direction and the higly professional playing of the London Mozart Players provide Herschel with the best imaginable advocacy...' Gramophone |
VOGLER
Symphonies, Overtures and Ballets London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The celebrated Contemporaries of Mozart series continues apace with the compositions of German composer George Joseph Vogler. The London Mozart Players which celebrates their 60th anniversary in 2009 perform under the direction of Matthias Bamert. |
SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Parry: Symphony No. 2 'The Cambridge' / Symphonic Variations London Philharmonic Orchestra, Matthias Bamert [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Oct/1992 ] "Bamert proves a masterly interpreter and takes us convincingly through the symphonic terrain of a highly influential composer....The sound is rich and full to match the outstanding playing." Penguin Guide |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams:Complete Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos Classics / 6 Hybrid SACD - released 27/May/2022 ] 'Impeccable playing' The Times |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral Works London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "Punchy, in-your-face accounts, in turbo charged sound." BBC Music |
GABRIEL FAURE
In Paradisum - A Faure Recital Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Fauré's unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the Barcarolles reflecting a mature mastery. Lortie provides an object lesson in pacing of the Nocturnes." BBC Music |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 7 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "Louis Lortie is in sparkling form... Every bar of this Chopin disc is to be savoured, thanks to Lortie's subtle rubato and rhythmic inventiveness, as well as his delightfully relaxed virtuosity" International Piano |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 4 Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "Passionately delivered, with a personality all of its own, outstandingly produced and engineered, this is a release to relish. Concertos 3 and 5 eagerly awaited." classicalsource.com 5 out of 5 stars |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations / Symphony No. 4 / Piano Concerrto Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2012 |
RACHMANINOFF / SIBELIUS / GRIEG / TCHAIKOVSKY / MEDTNER / BRITTEN
Lines Written During A Sleepless Night Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "..she engages emotionally with what she sings, shaping vocal lines with rare sensitivity and a wide range of colours." Daily Telegraph Five Stars |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTALE: Howells: Stabat Mater Neill Archer (tenor) / London Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / CD - released 8/Aug/1994 ] |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables / Silesian Triptych / Sleep, sleep / Lacrimosa / Les Espaces du sommeil / Paroles tissées Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Toby Spence (tenor) / Christopher Purves (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "Christopher Purves proves a wonderfully secure exponent in a reading which combines tingling atmosphere and arresting drama to consistently riveting effect." Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glazunov: Symphony No. 8, Op. 83; Commemorative Cantata, Op. 65; Poeme lyrique, Op. 12 Ludmila Kuznetsova. mezzo-soprano; Vsevolod Grivnov. tenor / Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] "The chorus sing as 'a teeming multitude' gathered to commemorate Pushkin's centenary" - Editor's Choice (Gramophone September 2003) |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Violin Concerto / Children's Suite Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, etc [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/1995 ] ..a 'rarity to treasure' (The Penguin Guide) |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto / Morning Song) Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] 'The Cello Concerto is rhapsodic in feeling and Raphael Wallfisch plays it with marvellous sensitivity and finesse, given splendid support by the LPO under Bryden Thomson.' The Penguin Complete Guide |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Symphony in E flat / Violin Concerto Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/1993 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello / Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in St Jude's Church, Central Square, London, July 1988 |
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stanford: Symphony No. 5 "L'Allefro ed il Penseroso" / Irish Rhapsody No 4/ Irish Rhapsody No 6 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] Originally released in 1987 |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Moeran: Violin Concerto & 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |