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FINZI / LEIGHTON
Cello Concertos Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2001 ] This is a new coupling featuring these two cello concertos |
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PROKOFIEV
Divertimento, Op. 43 / Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125 / Sinfonietta, Op. 5/48 Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] 'The Divertimento is a lovely piece… its long neglect is puzzling since it is highly attractive and ought to be popular… the recording is first class - as, indeed are the performances. An indispensable item in any Prokofiev collection.' The Penguin... |
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MENOTTI
Apocalisse, Fantasia for Cello & Orchestra, Suite 'sebastian' Raphael Wallfisch, cello, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Apr/2001 ] 'His [Menotti's] may be an eclectic style, but this is music for enjoyment… the Chandos recording is clear and refined, making one hope that Hickox and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra will continue their Menotti exploration'. - Gramophone |
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BEETHOVEN
Mass Op 86 / Meeresstille und Gluckliche Fahrt Op 112 / etc Rebecca Evans, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2003 ] 'The Chandos team specialises in full and juicy recordings, and one of the joys of CHAN 0703, a Beethoven disc dominated by the Mass in C, Op. 86, lies in its well-balanced sound. No hiding under the orchestras coat-tails for the choir of Collegium... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3); Norfolk Rhapsodies Rebecca Evans (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] 'Impeccable playing' The Times |
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BEETHOVEN
Mass, Op. 86 in C major / Elegischer Gesang, Op. 118; etc Rebecca Evans (soprano) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) / Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] "Beethoven's radical rethink of the liturgy engenders a joyous reading from Hickox." - Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) January 2004 |
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VARIOUS
Regimental Marches Of The British Army Volume 1 The Regimental Band Of The Coldstream Guards [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] From 'The British Grenadiers' to the 'Grand March from Aida'. |
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TRADITIONAL
British Folksongs Tommy Reilly (harmonica), Skaila Kanga (harp) [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 3/Jan/2006 ] |
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CORNELIS DOPPER
Second Symphony, Paan I and 11 Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2001 ] The unfairly neglected music of Cornelis Dopper |
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CORNELIS DOPPER
Symphony No. 3 'rembrandt' / Symphony No. 6 'Amsterdam' Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2002 ] This is the first time that both works on this disc have been recorded. |
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Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Matthias Bamert
Hol, Richard - Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Sep/2001 ] Both works on this disc are premiere recordings |
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Residentie Orchestra the Hague Matthias Bamert, conductor
Verhulst - Symphony in E minor, Op. 46 [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] "This is enjoyable and cultivated music and is persuasively performed here, the Residentie Orchestra responging eagerly to Matthias Bamert's clear-sighted direction and ear for detail. The recording is excellent" (Gramophone) |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No 5 Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Järvi is too good a technician not to take his players with him. Indeed the Dutch musicians display a certain daredevil nonchalance as they breeze their way through the epic 635-bar finale." (Gramophone) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor Residentie Orchestra the Hague, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "[it is] as if Järvi wants to stress beyond all doubt that the symphony represents a new direction for Mahler: more experimental, more abstracted...[He] plainly revels in the spookhouse effects of the nocturnal inner movements" (Gramophone) |
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MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham - Volume 4 [Violin Concerto / A Midsummer Night's Dream] Rhian Lois (soprano I), Keri Fuge (soprano II) & Jennifer Pike (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2016 ] For this new recording of orchestral works by Mendelssohn, the CBSO and its principal guest conductor, Edward Gardner, join the violinist Jennifer Pike, who made a remarkable debut at Carnegie Hall this year. She here performs the Violin Concerto in... |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Facade - An Entertainment Richard Baker (narrator), Susana Walton (narrator), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] -The lighter side of William Walton |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Words and Music Richard Rodney Bennett (vocals and piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] Claire Martin wrote on Rodney Bennett: “He sings beautifully and he plays great piano, he has such a beautiful touch and really cool ideas. Plus he knows loads of great quirky songs…” |
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YORK BOWEN
Bowen: Chamber Works [incls 'Sonata for Clarinet & Piano op.109'] Robert Plane (bass clarinet) Mia Cooper (violin) & David Adams (viola) / Gould Piano Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "The Gould Piano Trio...well recorded, play with fine teamwork and a strong feeling for Bowen's idiom...this is a valuable introduction to a formidably well equipped, if doggedly conversative, late Romantic composer." (BBC Music) |
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BERNARDO PASQUINI
Sonate per gravicembalo Roberto Loreggian (harpsicord & spinet) with Francesco Ferrarini (cello) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] 'The excellent Roberto Lorregian brings an attractive improvisatory quality to his playing, starting some pieces with a flourish of his own and employing rubato here and there.' Gramophone |