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SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: The Harmonious Echo Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), David Owen-Norris (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Although most widely remembered for his operettas in partnership with W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most famous of all British composers of the nineteenth century. He was revered as a composer of oratorios, and was urged by Queen Victoria... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Four Orchestral Pieces / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / etc Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Dec/2013 ] "The Melbourne orchestra sounds wonderful in these works...Gardner's account [of the Four Orchestral Pieces] certainly affirms this as undue neglect." (Sunday Times) |
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
Tansman: Symphonies, Volume 3: Symphony No 2 & 3 / Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] 'After hearing this spectacularly engineered new SA-CD, I really do believe that Alexandre Tansman's time has come…there's no need to hesitate over Oleg Caetani's performances' International Record Review of Volume 1 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Lyrical Clarinet Volume 3 Michael Collins (clarinet) Michael McHale (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "One has to salute the extraordinary facility and irresistibly seductive, lyrical grace of Michael Collins's playing, surely one of his instrument's greatest living exponents." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2020 |
SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Clarinet concerto and Orchestral works Michael Collins (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] Rumon Gamba leads the BBC Philharmonic in this collection of lesser-known pieces by the British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold. Born in 1921, he was inspired by Louis Armstrong to take up the trumpet at the age of twelve. Following study at the Royal... |
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 |
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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... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Violin, Flute & Clarinet Concertos Kim Sjogren (violin), Niels Thomsen (clarinet), Toke Lund Christiansen (flute) / Danish National Symphony Orchestra / Michael Schonwandt [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] "there is real depth here, thanks in no small measure to Schønwandt. The recording is first class." Penguin Guide |
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... |
