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Chad Smith (saxophones), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Saxophobia: Celebrating The Sax Craze Of The 1920s [ Chandos / CD - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Famously invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, the saxophone quickly became an established part of French and British military bands, but remained a novelty instrument elsewhere until it gained a foothold in vaudeville and ragtime bands in 1920s... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Works for Piano Duet and Two Pianos, Volume 2 Hélène Mercier (piano), Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Alongside their respective solo careers, Hélène Mercier and Louis Lortie regularly meet to perform as a highly sought-after piano duo. Both born and raised in Montreal, they have formed a musical partnership that goes back to the 1980s, developing... |
Elena Urioste (violin), Tom Poster (piano)
Thème Varié [ Chandos / CD - due 17/Jul/2026 ] Conceived as a treasure-trove of lesser-known French and Belgian repertoire, the works on this album span a forty-year period, from 1892 to 1932. A number of unifying threads run through the programme, perhaps the most significant of which is the... |
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... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FRANZ LISZT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas Vol. 7 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Barry Douglas's acclaimed survey of Schubert's piano sonatas continues with this programme pairing the Sonata in E flat major, D 568 with the Sonata in G major, D 894. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol.4 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Barry Douglas's critically acclaimed series of Schubert's piano works reaches its fourth instalment. For this recording, Douglas has chosen to present three piano sonatas from the middle of Schubert's short life: No. 5 (D 537) and No. 11 (D 575),... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Plus One (with Rachmaninov: Six Moments musicaux) Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Tchaikovsky's Grande Sonate, or 'Grand Sonata' (Bolshaya Sonata), in G major was dedicated to Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, and first performed at a private hearing, on 21 October 1879, by Nikolay Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory.... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Orchestral Works BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] When we recorded this album, in March 2022, no-one could have imagined that it would be Bramwell Tovey's last recording. Chandos Records would like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Bramwell Tovey, with whom the company had collaborated for... |
ROBERTO GERHARD
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote (complete ballet); Suite from 'Alegrías'; Pedrelliana BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Aug/2024 ] The Catalan Roberto Gerhard studied piano with Granados, and was the only Spanish composer to study with Arnold Schoenberg. It was, however, over twenty years before he committed himself to writing twelvetone music. In the interim, his output brought... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN / BUSH / RAWSTHORNE / BRIDGE / ORR / FENBY / etc
Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Rumon Gamba directs the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on the third instalment of his exploration of Overtures from the British Isles. As in the case of the previous volumes, the recorded repertoire is rarely played, and the album includes three world... |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: In memoriam / Suite from 'the Tempest', Op. 1 / Symphony in E 'Irish' BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2000 ] 'Hickox directs first-rate performances, full of colour and rhythmic life, in a nicely resonant acoustic that suits the young Sullivan's astonishing skill'. (BBC Music Magazine) |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Works for Brass Band Black Dyke Band, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Sir Arthur Bliss contributed two staples of the brass band repertoire - Kenilworth and The Belmont Variations , the enduring success of which inspired arrangers to turn to his other compositions, such as Eric Ball's Four Dances from the ballet... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies 2 & 5 CBSO Chorus, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2026 ] Commissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Soviet State Music Publishing House to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the 'Symphonic Dedication to October' eventually became Shostakovich's Second Symphony, and was first... |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: L'Arbre des songes / Timbres, espace, mouvement / etc Martyn Hill (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Olivier Charlier (violin) / BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "In the Violin Concerto (1985) Tortelier again favours a symphonic approach, and very effective it is too, with a soloist who's authoritative without being overly selfassertive." Gramophone |
PAUL BEN-HAIM
Ben-Haim: Music of Israel Claudia Barainsky (soprano), John Bradbury (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] "Altogether, a very worthwhile and rewarding release" Gramophone |
BACH / GABRIELI / MacMILLAN / SCHUTZ / WILLIAMS / PARK
Revoiced Corvus Consort, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Freddie Crowley [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "The combination of small-scale choir and saxophone quartet is a surprising one, though it would take a particularly crabbed purist not to deny its effectiveness." Gramophone |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schmidt - Symphony No. 2 in E flat major Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1989 ] "Their sound is glorious and Chandos advocate it to us with all its damask lustre and density without rendering it opaque." MusicWeb |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (op. 18, Nos. 2 and 5; Op. 59, No. 2; Op. 130; Op. 133) Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] For this second volume of Beethoven's string quartets, the Doric String Quartet has combined one middle period, one late, and two early quartets to create a programme that works on its own terms, as well as forming part of the complete cycle. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The String Quintets Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Following their acclaimed recordings of Mendelssohn's string quartets, here... |
MEL BONIS / GABRIEL FAURÉ / REYNALDO HAHN / LILI BOULANGER
Le Temps retrouvé Elena Urioste (violin), Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] The three sonatas on this album were all published during the decade 1916 - 26, a musical period to which we often find ourselves drawn, when the world - and the artistic landscape - was changing beyond recognition. |
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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... |
ARVO PART
Part: Complete Symphonies Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 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... |
ANTOINE REICHA
Reicha Rediscovered, Volume 3 Ivan Ilić (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] For this his third volume of works by Antoine Reicha, the pianist Ivan Ilic turns to one of the composer's most extraordinary works, L'Art de varier, Op. 57. 'The Art of Variation' consists of fifty-seven variations on a theme (that the number of... |
Francis Jackson (organ York Minster) Michael Austin (orgab Birmingham Town Hall
Pipes Of Splendour [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] |
EDOUARD LALO / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / PABLO de SARASATE
Lalo / Saint-Saens / Sarasate: Music for violin and orchestra James Ehnes (violin) / BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Mar/2025 ] "There's also much to enjoy, albumwide, from the playing here. Ehnes, with that elegant, effortless technique of his own, brings a cool, cantabile purity to the Saint-Saëns concerto's lilting central movement, its silky woodwind soloists also lovingl |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 9 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Following his acclaimed recording of Beethoven's concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet returns to his exploration of Haydn's sonatas, described by the magazine Gramophone as 'a major modern recording landmark in the Haydn... |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Volume 12 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] Jean-Efflam Bovouzet's acclaimed cycle of Mozart's piano concertos reaches its conclusion with this twelfth volume. The programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D major Rondos... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos, etc., Vol.10 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ Chandos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy continue their acclaimed survey of Mozart's Piano Concertos with this tenth volume, concentrating on the very early works of the child-genius composer. As an exercise, his father, Leopold, tasked the... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: In Years Defaced / Prelude Op 25 / Romance Op 11 / Concerto for Small Orchestra John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Tasmin Little (violin) / City of London Sinfonia, Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE: Editor's Choice (May 2001) |
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 - Concerto For Orchestra; Sonnets To Orpheus; Diversions Jonathan Aasgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] John Wilson's series of orchestral works by his mentor and friend Sir Richard Rodney Bennett reaches Vol. 5, featuring three works composed between 1973 1989. |
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 |
RUTH GIPPS
Gipps: Piper of Dreams Juliana Koch (oboe), Michael McHale (piano), Julian Bliss (clarinet) [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] "I have nothing but praise for the irreproachable musicianship displayed by Juliana Koch (principal oboe with the LSO), who in turn enjoys sterling support from Michael McHale... All in all, a delectable disc." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2024 |
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 |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Early Chamber Works - Nonet / Piano Trio / Piano Quintet Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is best known for his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, which brought him international success as well as propelling his career at home in the UK - success which was remarkable in stuffy late-Victorian England because of his... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / DORA PEJACEVIC
Brahms & Contemporaries Vol.3 Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (ensemble) [ Chandos / CD - released 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... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quintet; Songs; Piano Quartet Karim Sulayman (tenor), Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective [ Chandos / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The Lebanese-American Karim Sulayman joins the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for this album of works by Reynaldo Hahn. |
