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Kleztory, I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, conductor
Klezmer [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'Kleztory is made up of five musicians who have a typical Klezmer combination of clarinet, guitar, violin, double-bass and accordion. They play these premiere recordings which such verve that my feet haven't stopped tapping.' Classic FM Magazine |
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
A Sousa Celebration Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] "Looking for something foot-tapping and beguiling, and with a fund of tunes? This Chandos Sousa release could be the answer." Classical Source |
ALBENIZ / BOCCHERINI / de FALLA / RAVEL / TARREGA / TRADITIONAL
Meisinger: The Spanish Album Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar) Patrycja Betley (percussion) Meisinger Soloists [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Born in 1984, Krzysztof Meisinger is one of the most fascinating and charismatic classical guitar players of our time, his artistic development having benefited from the profound influence of such teachers and music authorities as Aniello Desiderio... |
DEBUSSY
Estampes and other works for piano Kyoko Tabe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] 'Kyoko Tabe's Debussy is far more sensual, though never excessively so… she seems to me closer to the Gieseking tradition.' BBC Music Magazine |
GRIEG
Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 / Sonata, Op. 7 / Seven fugues for piano Kyoko Tabe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2002 ] 'I hope that Kyoko Tabe goes on to record more Grieg solo piano music, for she is an excellent pianist with the measure of this remarkable music.' - Musical Opinion |
SCRIABIN / RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 / Six Choruses, Op. 15 Larissa Kostyuk (contralto) Oleg Dolgov (tenor) Tigran Alikhanov (piano) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orch / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] Valeri Polyansky and his Russian forces are renowned for their special affinity with their native music, nowhere more so than in their choral works. |
VERDI
Macbeth (sung in English) Latonia Moore, Simon Keenlyside / English National Opera Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] This recording of Verdi's Macbeth marks the completion of the Peter Moores Foundation's remarkable Opera in English series. |
FRANK BRIDGE / WILLIAM WALTON / CHERYL FRANCES HOAD
Bridge/Walton/Frances-Hoad: Cello Concertos Laura van der Heijden (cello) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Laura van der Heijden joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth for this album of British cello concertos. Frank Bridge's Oration, composed in 1929 - 30 was intended as an outcry against the inhumanity of warfare, and... |
WALKER / Lili BOULANGER / PRICE / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / TAKEMITSU / etc
Path to the Moon Laura van der Heijden (cello) Jâms Coleman (piano) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "[Walker's Cello Sonata] a tautly argued piece that's a real discovery, persuasively played here...also a performance of Britten's Sonata that vividly captures its sense of dialogue and a many-coloured one of the 1915 Sonata by Debussy." Guardian |
LEOŠ JANÁCEK / ZOLTÁN KODÁLY / ANTONÍN DVORÁK / VITESZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest Laura van der Heijden (cello) Jâms Coleman (piano) [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] The label début of the Exclusive Chandos Artist Laura van der Heijden explores the rich musical heritage of Bohemia. |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches / Three Bavarian Dances / etc Leon Goossens (oboe) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar, George Hurst / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1999 ] "A great bargain and highly recommended." (MusicWeb) |
HINDEMITH
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50, Concerto for Violin, etc Leonidas Kavakos (violin) BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Three of Hindemith's strongest works |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Symphony No. 8 / Suite from 'the Census List' Lev Butenin (reciter) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Critic's Choice-the Best CDs of 2001 (BBC Music Magazine) |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de Vanus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2003 ] 'The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem'. (Gramophone |
Life Divine
Black Dyke Mills Band, Peter Parkes, Derek Broadbent, conductors [ Chandos Brass / CD - released 19/Apr/2003 ] Chandos Brass now at a special price |
SERGEI: PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / Suite from Cinderella, Op. 87 / Two Pushkin Waltzes, Op. 120 / etc Lina Prokofiev (narrator) / Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] No Prokofiev recorded anthology would be complete without a performance of Peter and the Wolf, and here the narrator comes in the person of Lina Prokofiev, the composer's widow. Recorded for Chandos when she was nearly ninety, Music magazine deemed... |
KORNGOLD
Lieder des Abschieds, Op. 14 / Symphony, Op. 40 Linda Finnie (contralto) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Edward Downes [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Scored for large forces - the rare Symphony in F Sharp major is a work of real imaginative power and ranks alongside the major symphonic works of Mahler and Bruckner; with a powerful and deeply felt slow movement of grandiose character. |
PROKOFIEV
Ivan the Terrible: Concert Scenario Linda Finnie (contralto) & Nikita Storojev (bass) / Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'Christopher Palmer strikes again! It is undoubtedly one of the great film scores, and Jarvi more than does it justice with the help of impassioned singing and playing from all concerned.' CD Review |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 / Scythian Suite, Op. 20, from `Ala et Lolly` Linda Finnie (contralto) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Neeme Jarvi's wide-screen spectacular captures the icy intensity in the scenes of devastation and the glitter of the musical patriotism in equal measure." (1001 recordings) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 / Scythian Suite, Op. 20, from `Ala et Lolly` Linda Finnie (contralto) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/1988 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "Neeme Jarvi's wide-screen spectacular captures the icy intensity in the scenes of devastation and the glitter of the musical patriotism in equal measure." (1001 recordings) |
