JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 / Clarinet Quintet Michael Collins (clarinet) / Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] "Finely recorded, this is outstanding even by Collins and the Brodsky's standards." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Virtuoso Clarinet Vol 1 Michael Collins (clarinet) Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "I enjoyed this disc immensely and give it my strongest recommendation." International Record Review pick of the Month (Oct 2010) |
BERNHARD HENRIK CRUSELL
Crusell: Clarinet Concertos Michael Collins (clarinet), Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/May/2018 ] "These three early-19th-century concerto showpieces delightfully bring out the best of the clarinet as an instrument, and Michael Collins as a player of real virtuosity and character. Enjoy!" Recording of the Month Gramophone June 2018 |
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. |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concerto No. 5 in C major, `L`incendie par l`orage`/ Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major Michael O'Rourke (piano) / London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2005 ] "Excellent support throughout from Bamert, and first-class recording." (Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide) |
FARRENC / BEACH / CLARKE
Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach & Clarke Neave Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] For this their third album for Chandos, the Neave Trio chose to celebrate the work of three outstanding female musical pioneers. Louise Farrenc studied piano with Clementi and Hummel, and composition with Reicha. She was the first female Professor... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 / Suite from 'Katerina Ismailova' / etc Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Recorded in the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow on 14-17 April 1987. |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Howells: Missa Sabrinensis Neill Archer (tenor) Janice Watson (soprano) Della Jones (contralto) Martyn Hill (tenor) / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra., Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2005 ] 'Gratitude, then, for an essential contribution towards the re-evaluation of an original visionary…' Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' on Missa Sabrinensis |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Wind Serenades Netherlands Wind Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/2010 ] The Netherlands Wind Ensemble (Dutch: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, NBE) comprises musicians from all the major Dutch symphony orchestras. Playing together for the sheer joy of it, the NBE's twenty or so members meet up around eighty times per year. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Harpsichord Works (Volume 1) Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/1999 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "A disc to whet the appetite for further volumes in the series." (The Daily Telegraph ) |
CAPLET / BOULANGER / DEBUSSY / CHAMINADE
Paradis Sur Terre: A French Songbook Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Young Singer of the Year at the 2015 Opera Awards, Nicky Spence joins the highly praised accompanist Malcolm Martineau, just honoured with an OBE, in this unique collection of French songs from the turn of the last century, a repertoire that was very... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Olga Mykytenko - Verdi Arias Olga Mykytenko (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The Ukrainian soprano Olga Mykytenko has won numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Maria Callas International Singing Contest in Athens. Her extraordinary musicality, solid vocal technique, easy coloraturas, and strong... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fanfares Onyx Brass [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/May/2018 ] Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the label's successful history, this one may well be the loudest. In the vast acoustic of St Jude's Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw Op 54 (complete opera) OperaGlass Works / Robert Murray, Rhian Lois, Leo Jemison, Alys Mererid Roberts / John Wilson (cond) [ Chandos DVD / DVD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw has become notorious as at once the most stylish and elusively ambiguous of all nineteenth-century ghost stories. In June 1932, the eighteen-year-old Benjamin Britten heard a radio adaptation of James's... |
JACQUES IBERT
Neeme Järvi conducts Ibert Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] "Ibert emerges from it all as a fine composer, whose unity lies in his almost impudent diversity, and who is often far from frivolous as some have maintained..the disc allows Järvi to show off his Swiss orchestra to perfection. Very fine" Gramophone |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music For Maunday Thursday Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Feb/1998 ] "these singers are well on the way to achieving perfection here... overall this is a well-thought-out and moving performance" Gramophone [on another Palestrina recording with the same choir] |
ELGAR / DELIUS / HOLST
A Tribute To Elgar, Delius & Holst John Foster Black Dykes Band, John Foster [ Chandos Brass / CD ] John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world. In 2014, the band won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for a record 23rd time, and the British Open Championship for another... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
More Honourable Than The Cherubim PaTRAM Institue Male Choir [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "There's no shortage of Orthodox choral discs, but here is one worth adding to anyone's collection." BBC Music (5 Stars) Choral & Song Choice Oct 2021 |
COPLAND / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / BARBER / CRUMB
American Works for Cello & Piano Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Having explored much of twentieth-century British works for cello and piano, the Watkins brothers now turn their attention to the American contribution to this repertoire. The music spans a fascinating period of some four decades of intensive... |
PARRY / DELIUS / BANTOCK / FOULDS
British Works for Cello & Piano Vol 1 Paul Watkins (cello) / Huw Watkins (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] "Paul Watkins shows himself once again to be peerless in this repertory, while Huw demonstrates that his sparkling playing can be as effective in music of this period as it is so regularly in contemporary repertoire. They lavish great care and good... |