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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... |
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. |
KURT WEILL
Weill: In Search of Youkali Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Murray Grainger (accordion), Marianne Schofield (double-bass), William Vann (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] Winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, the British mezzo-soprano Katie Bray has become known for her magnetic stage presence and gleaming, expressive tone. Katie... |
MADELEINE DRING
Dring: Songs Kitty Whately (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Mar/2026 ] English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately presents an album of songs by Madeleine Dring. Born in 1923 to a theatrical family, Dring was admitted to the Royal College of Music at the age of nine. She went on to study composition with Herbert Howells, also... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Volume 1 (Incls Bridge on the River Kwai & Hobson's Choice ) London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] 'This splendid CD is as much a tribute to the skills of the late Christopher Palmer who created the suites for this recording as it is to the performers and engineers and the ever-imaginative Arnold.' Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol.6 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] For the sixth volume of his Chopin project, the Canadian pianist and exclusive Chandos Artist Louis Lortie has built a programme that includes works from the earliest to the latest periods in the composer's life, all of which have connection with or... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 4 Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "Passionately delivered, with a personality all of its own, outstandingly produced and engineered, this is a release to relish. Concertos 3 and 5 eagerly awaited." classicalsource.com 5 out of 5 stars |
ROBERT KAJANUS / LEEVI MADETOJA / SELIM PALMGREN / VAINO RAITIO / JEAN SIBELIUS
Pictures from Finland Madetoja Music High School's Girls' Choir, Soma Ensemble, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 18/Jul/2025 ] Following their successful album Overtures from Finland (CHSA5336) Rumon Gamba conducts the Oulu Sinfonia in another programme of works from their native land. The album takes its title from Selim Palmgren's four-movement suite, which was written in... |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Martin Roscoe (piano), Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 and 1919 whilst living at Brinkwells in Sussex. |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Symphony No 7 / Four Songs for Tenor and Orchestra Martyn Hill (tenor) / Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "I found his interpretation of the Seventh fully acceptable...I found myself in his more leisurely company enjoying the scenery." MusicWeb |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major; Piano Concerto No.2 in A flat major Michael O'Rourke (piano) / London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2005 ] "The soloist is very persuasive, and he receives admirable support from Bamert and the London Mozart Players. First-class, natural balanced recording." (Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide) |
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE / CECILE CHAMINADE / LILI BOULANGER / Dame ETHEL SMYTH
A Room Of Her Own Neave Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] "…These chamber works are still not in the mainstream. The Neave Trio … put their case eloquently." - The Guardian |
HUGO ALFVÉN / EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Alfvén / Rautavaara: Orchestral Works Neeme Jarvi / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Hugo Alfvén was an accomplished writer and painter as well as musician and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1872, he studied first at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (the Royal College of Music) and then in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and Brussels. Influenced by... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / CLARA SCHUMANN
Robert & Clara Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Sep/2024 ] Following the success of last year's release of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London turn their attention to Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. As in the case of the previous release in the series, this world première... |
STRAUSS / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS MENDELSSOHN etc
Festmusik: A Legacy Onyx Brass, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Described as 'easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain' by BBC Music Magazine, Onyx Brass continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, presenting it in the entertaining and... |
AIRAT ICHMOURATOV
Ichmouratov: Symphony 'On the ruins of an Ancient Fort' / Overtures Orchestre de la Francophonie, Jean-Philippe Tremblay [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] The second album of orchestral works by Airat Ichmouratov features three works united by an ear for bold orchestral colour, a dramatic sense of form, and a firm dedication to tonality. |
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... |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyric Pieces Volume 1 Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] If Chopin 'invented' the Mazurka, then surely by the same token Grieg 'invented' the Lyric Piece. Over his lifetime he published ten volumes of Lyric Pieces, containing sixty-six individual works. Born in Bergen, Grieg studied in Leipzig and became... |
MICHAEL TIPPETT
Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joshua Stewart (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2024 ] "Its greatest glory is perhaps the powerfully galvanised singing of the well-focused BBC Symphony Chorus - a broad spectrum of visceral expression across a huge dynamic range with every word clearly audible." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Choral |
BASSMAN / DOBSON / LANGFORD / LEIDZEN / PRYOR / TRADITIONAL
Shift Peter Moore (trombone) / Tredegar Brass Band [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] "This the first time I have heard the Tredegar Band and I hope it won't be the last. They are a tremendous outfit with a punchy, vibrant sound and crisp ensemble." Gramophone |
