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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Complete Symphonies (with Rogue's Comedy Overture & Tintagel ) BBC Philharmonic / Vernon Handley [ Chandos Classics / 5 CD - released 3/Dec/2003 ] "Handley is in total sympathy with Bax's music and his direction is authoritative as well as idiomatic. Superb sound from the Chandos and BBC engineers. We would not be without this set" Penguin Guide |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Francesca da Rimini BBC Singers, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Gianandrea Noseda Rachmaninov series / CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] "This is an excellent way of coming to know a flawed but interesting piece of Rachmaninov, and it is much helped by excellent presentation from Chandos" Gramophone |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: The Symphonies BBC Philharmonic, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2003 ] "Handley is in total sympathy with Bax's music and his direction is authoritative as well as idiomatic. Superb sound from the Chandos and BBC engineers. We would not be without this set." Penguin Guide |
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GEORGE ENESCU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Enescu:: Symphony No..3 / Romanian Rhapsody Op 11, No 1 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "Under the baton of Rozhdestvensky, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra have a distinctively soviet contour, with astringent strings and vivid orchestral attacks." MusicWeb |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations / etc Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martinu: Piano Trios Nos 2 & 3 / Czech Rhapsody / Nocturnes The Bekova Sisters [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] The Bekova Sisters were born in Kazakhstan and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. After their much-publicised reunion in the West and sensational debut in 1989 on the South Bank, London, the Sisters have rapidly established themselves on the... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 / Love Songs of Hafiz Ben Johnson (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Dec/2014 ] "Johnson is a fine soloist [in the Songs of Hafiz], while Gardner's forces are ecstatic in these near-masterpieces; they also make a decent case for the disowned post-romantic First Symphony." (Sunday Times) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1 and 3 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under its Chief Conductor, Edward Gardner, embarks on a new Brahms cycle with this first instalment, containing the first and third symphonies. Recorded in Surround Sound in Bergen's Grieghallen - the orchestra's... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Music Vol 2 (Incls Visions Fugitives Op.22 & Piano Sonata No. 7 Op.83) Boris Berman (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Boris Berman was born in Moscow, Russia in the former Soviet Union. He studied piano at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow with the great Lev Oberin where he graduated with distinction in both piano and harpsichord. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge / Simple Symphony / Prelude and Fugue for strings Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Thomas [ Chandos / CD - released 22/Jul/1985 ] The Complete Music For Strings Recorded in the Guildhall, Southampton in July and October 1977. |
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DEBUSSY / BACH / FAURE / SHOSTAKOVICH / KHACHATURIAN / SATIE / etc
Golden Oldies: A 50th Birthday Celebration Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "In the greatest encore piece of them all the Brodsky's players battle exuberantly through Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance', with swoops and biting down bows and, surely, big smiles on their faces. The recording does them full justice." The Strad |
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ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK / ROZANNA PANUFNIK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Messages: Chamber Music for Strings Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Dec/2014 ] 2014 marks the centenary of Polish-British composer Andrzej Panufnik. Here the Brodsky Quartet joins in this year of reminiscence and celebration with Messages, a recording of works both by Andrzej and his daughter Roxanna Panufnik. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet D956 / Quartettsatz D703 Brodsky Quartet, with Laura van der Heijden (Cello) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, the Brodsky Quartet has performed more than 3000 concerts on the major concert stages of the world and has released more than seventy recordings. A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore... |
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VINCENT D'INDY
D'Indy: Orchestral Works Volume 6 - Wallenstein, Op. 12 / Lied, Op. 19 / etc Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir (cello) / Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Apr/2015 ] "Gamba's conducting evinces the care and thought characteristic of the retrospective as a whole. There's an admirable awareness of the crafted sensuousness of d'Indy's textures, the slightly studied novelty of his compositional style." Gramophone |
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SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
Berkeley: Piano Concerto,Op. 29 in B flat major / Berkeley, Michael-Gethsemane Fragment; Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, Op. 27 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto) Celia Craig (cor anglais) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Richard Hickox [ Chandos Berkeley Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] "This eloquent father-and-son series restores the scintillating concerto." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2005) |
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SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
Bantock: Omar Khayyam Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams / BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] "It's a fascinating rediscovery on a huge scale, especially in the detail and depth of SACD surround-sound, seductively performed by Handley's forces, Toby Spence appropriately poetic and Catherine Wyn-Rogers sensuous." BBC Music Five Stars |
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GUSTAV HOLST / RICHARD STRAUSS
Holst: Planets / R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra CBSO Youth Chorus & National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic,... |
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PAVEL HAAS / ANTOINE REICHA / LEOŠ JANÁCEK / BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Echoes of Bohemia: Czech Music for Wind Chamber: Orsino Ensemble, with James Baillieu (piano) [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Following their début album, Belle Époque, the Orsino Ensemble turns its attention to music from Bohemia. There is a strong tradition of Czech wind playing, and hence a wealth of great repertoire on which to draw. Antoine Reicha was a contemporary... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 4, Volume 3 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "Album of the Weekend" ClassicFM |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert - Symphonies, Volume 2 [Symphonies Nos 2 & 6, etc] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "I think it is safe to say these Schubert performances are excellent, and I would be surprised if you could do significantly better with any others. Highest recommendation!" MusicWeb recommended |