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BARRY DOUGLAS / JOHN FIELD / TRADITIONAL
Celtic Nocturne: Piano Works Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Barry Douglas CBE has established a major international career since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, in Moscow. In demand as a soloist and as a recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed with... |
ARVO PART
Part: Complete Symphonies Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - due 17/Apr/2026 ] The four symphonies of Arvo Pärt were composed over a span of forty-five years, and bear little or no relationship with one another - four individual pieces that represent his output at separate parts of his creative journey. The First Symphony was... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / DORA PEJACEVIC
Brahms & Contemporaries Vol.3 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (ensemble) [ Chandos / CD - due 8/May/2026 ] 'We can imagine some eyebrows being raised at the description of Dora Pejačević as a contemporary of Brahms; the two composers were born more than fifty years apart, and their lives only overlapped by twelve years. Yet both works by Pejačević are... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Horn Concertos, Rondo K371 Martin Owen (horn), Manchester Camerata (orchestra), Gabor Takacs-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - due 15/May/2026 ] Mozart composed all of these pieces for the virtuoso horn player Joseph Leutgeb (or Leitgeb) (1732 - 1811). Leutgeb was born in Vienna and established his reputation as a soloist there before working in Salzburg, where Mozart made his... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Works for Solo Piano Vol.3 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 24/Apr/2026 ] All the works recorded here were composed between 1825 and 1835, when Mendelssohn was aged between sixteen and twenty-six. He spent much of this decade travelling, from Berlin to Paris via Weimar, then London and Scotland before work in Düsseldorf... |
GEORGES BIZET / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / PAUL DUKAS / MAURICE RAVEL etc
French Orchestral Favourites Sinfonia of London (orchestra), John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - due 1/May/2026 ] Opera and ballet were the dominant musical genres in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France, and French orchestral music was much more poetic and narrative than the contrasting German symphonic tradition. Master-orchestrators such as Debussy... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx Adam Walker (flute), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2024 ] "An involuntary "whoa" escaped my lips when I heard the initial cannon volley that opens this new recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3. Each successive shot came more powerful and faster than I had expected." MusicWeb Recording of the Month |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / ARVO PÄRT
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 / Arvo Part: de Profundis Albert Dohmen (baritone), Estonian National Male Choir, Bbc Philharmonic, John Storgards [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Jun/2024 ] John Storgårds's acclaimed series of Shostakovich symphonies continues with this recording of Symphony No. 13. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the bass-baritone Albert Dohmen and the Estonian National Male Choir. The symphony, subtitled 'Babiy... |
FREDERICK BLOCK
Block: Chamber Works ARC Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Friedrich Bloch (Frederick Block once he arrived in America) was born in Vienna in 1899. His father, Sigmund, supported music as a pastime, but opposed it as a career. His heart was changed when his son returned home unscathed at the end of World War... |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 4 [Nos 6, 13 & 15] Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] John Wilson's fourth volume devoted to music by Eric Coates opens with Music Everywhere, a rousing march that was commissioned by Britain's first independent TV and radio service, Rediffusion, for use as its signature tune. The concert waltz... |
