ALBERTO GINASTERA / HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS / JOSE EVANGELISTA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ginastera/Villa-Lobos/Evangelista - Music for Strings I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] '…splendidly performed… an absolute knockout. Recommended with enthusiasm.' Gramophone |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Organ Concertos Iain Quinn (organ), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "The organ employed in this recording, despite only being built in 1969 by Grant, Degens and Bradbeer Ltd, has a light yet warm sound that suits this performance and sounds in keeping with Haydn's music" MusicWeb |
PALL ISOLFSOON & JORUNN VIDAR
Icelandic Works for the Stage Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] Páll Ísólfsson was the first director of the Reykjavík Music School, which opened in 1930. Like other musicians, he was forced by the lack of opportunity in Iceland to study abroad but, unlike others, he was able to return and work as the Organist at... |
DAG WIREN
Wirén: Orchestral Works Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Bright and lively music from the Swedish composer Dag Wirén is unveiled here in surround-sound by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba, only a few years after the completion of their Grammy-nominated and highly acclaimed series devoted to... |
MOMPOU / DEBUSSY / ALBENIZ / RAVEL / FALLA
Iberia y Francia Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "these are compelling performances informed by the palette of Goya and undergirded with an inerrantly zesty rhythmic élan." Gramophone Editor's Choice October 2019 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Imogen Cooper Plays Beethoven [incls 'Diabelli variations'] Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "Cooper never goes for effect per se: her goal is purely expressiveness. Für Elise comes like a thoughtful coda." BBC Music Five Stars |
CHOPIN
Imogen Cooper's Chopin Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] "This is intelligent music-making of the hihest order and, with a total duration of 80 minutes, real value for money" InternationalPiano |
RAVEL / LISZT / FAURE
Le temps perdu Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 21/Sep/2021 ] Borrowing the title from Proust's great novel, Imogen Cooper's latest recital features a collection of pieces that she learnt as a teenager in Paris, or in her twenties working with Alfred Brendel in Vienna, but none of which she has performed on the... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Op112 Inga Nielesn (sop) Deon van der Walt (tenor) Annemarie Moller (mezzo) / Danish National Radio Symphony & Choir, Gustav Kuhn [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "The chorus and orchestra are first rate and the recording sponsored by Danish Radio, is full-bodied and atmospheric. A valuable rarity." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
JOSEF HAYDN [transc Stegmann]
Ivan Ilić plays Haydn: Symphonies [transcribed for piano by Carl David Stegmann] Ivan Ilić (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2019 ] "This well-recorded release further demonstrates his penchant for unusual, fresh, and impeccably executed program building." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
JOSEPH JONGEN
Jongen: 13 Preludes / 24 Petits Preludes Ivan Ilić (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rocking Horse Road Jacqui Dankworth and the Brodsky quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Jacqui Dankworth is one of the most highly regarded and celebrated vocalists in the UK. The Sunday Times called her 'One of our finest singers, regardless of category' |
PURCELL / SCHUBERT / DOVE / BARBER
Solitude James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] "Together these make for a rewarding programme that repays concentration. Gilchrist is, as ever, a hugely clear and communicative singer, in perfect balance with Tilbrook's sense of focus and poise" Guardian |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janet Hilton Plays Weber Janet Hilton (clarinet) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Lindsay String Quartet / Keith Swallow (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1982 ] 'Janet Hilton's is a very fine performance. The slow movements are ruminative and beautifully played.' Fanfare |
AARON COPLAND / WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI / CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland / Lutoslawski / Nielsen: Works for Clarinet & Orchestra Janet Hilton (clarinet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Matthias Bamert [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1989 ] "Janet Hilton's new record couples two of the best, and most attractively complementary, twentieth-century clarinet concertos with what at the moment seems to be every clarinettist's favourite fill-up." Gramophone |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani Jaroslav Saroun (piano) Vaclav Mazacek (timpani) / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Jira Belohlavek [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Jiri Belohlavek has a superb command of the work's ebb and flow." |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / Waltz Suite, Op. 110: Nos. 1, 3 & 4 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Järvi celebrates [the symphony's] epic grandeur" International Record Review |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn Piano Sonatas Vol 8 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] After leaving the boys' choir of St Stephens Cathedral in Vienna, one of the ways the young Haydn found to support himself was as a harpsichord teacher. The three early sonatas featured on this recording were almost certainly intended for his... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Bavouzet Plays Schumann Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "Bavouzet brings [the later works] to life here with a radiant energy that utterly refutes the notion that Schumann's creative powers were by now fast waning." BBC Music Five Stars |
CLEMENTI / DUSSEK / HUMMEL / WOLFL
The Beethoven Connection: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Sonatas Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Piano |