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HUMPERDINCK
Hansel & Gretel (Complete Opera in English) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo) Rebecca Evans (soprano) Rosalind Plowright (mezzo) / New London Children's Choir / Philharmonia Orch / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "After 40-odd years, this is the English Hansel to have." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine September 2007 |
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ROSSINI
Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (highlights in English) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Brad Cohen [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The latest instalment in the lauded Chandos Opera in English label is Rossini's The Italian Girl of Algiers. One of Rossini's most wonderful comic operas, it has a plot full of wit, warmth and endearing craziness and music bubbling with fun and laughter. |
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MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Incls Violin Concerto, Op. 24) Jennifer Pike (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] This is Volume 3 in our series of orchestral works by Miklós Rózsa. The composer's unique musical voice was highly influenced by his Hungarian roots, and his works often dazzle with virtuosity. The BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba here pull out all... |
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SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto / Finlandia, Op. 26 / Karelia Suite, Op. 11 / etc Jennifer Pike (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Jean Sibelius is perhaps best known for his seven great symphonies but there is also a large body of music for the concert hall, the theatre, and the salon, some of which is explored on this release. The Violin Concerto in D minor, Sibelius's only... |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FRANCK
French Violin Sonatas Jennifer Pike (violin) & Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] Jennifer Pike, an exclusive Chandos artist and one of the brightest up-and-coming stars on the musical scene today, named BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2002, here performs some of the greatest violin music in the repertoire. |
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MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
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SZYMANOWSKI / MOSZKOWSKI / WIENIAWSKI
The Polish Violin Jennifer Pike (violin), Petr Limonov (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] The acclaimed violinist Jennifer Pike returns to Chandos to explore her heritage through the repertoire of a group of composers fundamental to the history of Polish music for the violin. From Janiewicz in the late eighteenth century right through... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IRENE POLDOWSKI / GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
The Polish Violin Vol.2 Jennifer Pike (violin) Petr Limonov (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "Pike brings real late-Romantic sweep and panache to all those works, as well as to Grazyna Bacewicz's little solo Caprice, and a tango by Poldowski that closes the disc" The Guardian Five Stars |
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DVORAK / JANACEK / SUK
Czech Violin Music Jennifer Pike (violin) & Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "She is particularly alluring in Dvorak's Romantic Pieces, by turns intimate, consoling and confiding - and always beautifully controlled...Pike and Poster make a great double-act...A fine recording and informative notes complete an enticing disc." |
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SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
Violin Sonatas Jennifer Pike (violin) & Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] In 2002, at the age of twelve, Jennifer Pike notably became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. She has given performances throughout the UK and abroad and, now aged just twenty-three, is widely regarded as one... |
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ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chausson: String Quartet Op 35 / Concert Op 21 Jennifer Pike (violin) Tom Poster (piano) / Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "A real front-runner for the Concert, and the most convincing of advocates for the more problematic String Quartet." Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 |
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BO HOLTEN
Wisdom and Folly and other Choral Works Jesper Juul Sorensen (trombone) / Danish National Girls Choir/DR / Danish National Choir/DR / Bo Holten, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] "Music full of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interest" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Hymnus Paradisi / A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song Joan Rodgers (soprano) / Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Bruce Ogston (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
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RACHMANINOV
Complete Songs Vol.3 (Incls 'Vocalise') Joan Rodgers (soprano) Maria Popescu contralto) Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor) Sergei Leiferkus (baritone) Howard Shelley (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
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HANDEL
Acis and Galatea (opera recorded in 1959) Joan Sutherland / Peter Pears / Owen Brannigan / Philomusica of London / Sir Adrian Boult [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] Originally released on LP by Decca in 1960, this vintage recording, representing a rare collaboration of Peter Pears and Joan Sutherland, has been out of the catalogue for many years and is sure to make a renewed impact in all its remastered glory. |
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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Music for Violin and Piano Joanna Kurkowicz (violin) Gloria Chien (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "This is a splendid opportunity to get to grips with a large body of Bacewicz's chamber music." MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Violin Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 7 Joanna Kurkowicz (violin) / Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "A generation younger than Szymanowski and half a generation older than Lutosawski and Panufnik, Grazyna Bacewicz is a revered figure in Polish music. The orchestral heart of her output as a composer is the seven concertos she wrote for her own... |
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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Violin Concertos Nos 2, 4 & 5 Joanna Kurkowicz (violin) / Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] This is Volume 2 in our series devoted to the music of Grażyna Bacewicz who was regarded by Witold Lutosławski as 'a distinguished Polish composer of the twentieth century and one of the foremost women composers of all time'. Bridging the gap between... |
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YOSHIMATSU
Piano Concerto 'Memo Flora'; While an Angel Falls into a Doze . . .,; etc John Barrow flute, Joe Houghton oboe, Kate Wilson harp, Jonathan Price cello, Kyoko Tabe piano, Manchester Camerata. Sachio Fujioka [ Chandos New Direction / CD - released 10/Jul/2005 ] Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo in 1953, at a time when Japanese composers had embraced the trend towards avant-garde techniques. While absorbing these, Yoshimatsu opposed the general fashion, returning to popular rhythms and romantic melody and... |
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Orchestral Works (Incls Concertino for Clarinet & Die Brautwahl) John Bradbury (clarinet) Nelson Goerner (piano) / BBC Philharmonic, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics 241 / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2017 ] 'Since Neeme Järvi and Chandos parted company some years back the byways of the CD repertoire have been much the poorer served. With this disc, business resumes as usual…' BBC Music Magazine |