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SERGE PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies 3 & 4 (original 1930 version) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2000 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
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WAGNER
Overtures and Preludes Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Oct/2013 ] " Järvi is a master of this repertoire and he continually conjures splendid playing from his Scottish orchestra." (Gramophone) |
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WAGNER
Wagner Transcriptions Volume 5: Orchestral Works Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "It's still a pleasure, though, fresh and vigorous; Neeme Jarvi's fairly brisk reading, beautifully played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, amply explains why Clara Schumann warned Robert he had a new rival." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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ARAM KHACHATURIAN
An Introduction to Khachaturian: (Incls 'Spartacus Ballet Suite No 2' & Symphony No. 3) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Fedor Glushchenko [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'Chandos has released a knockout, state of the art digital recording.' (American Record Guide) |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Harmonielehre / Doctor Atomic Symphony / Doctor Atomic Symphony Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] "The music is played with huge élan by the RSNO...The results are highly charged and exciting performances of three works that place Adams at the very forefront of American contemporary classical music and deservedly so." MusicWeb |
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DUKAS / SAINT-SAENS / ROSSINI-RESPIGHI
The Sorcerer`s Apprentice / Danse macabre, Op.40 / La Boutique fantasque Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1990 ] Collect - the midprice Chandos label |
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SIBELIUS
Lemminkainen Suite / Luonnotar / etc Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/1992 ] |
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BERLIOZ
Overtures (Includes 'Le Carnaval Romain' & 'Le Corsaire') Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2002 ] "This is music-making with plenty of character, unflagging gusto, and a forthright sensibility" Fanfare |
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DEBUSSY
Orchestral Works (Incls 'La Mer' & 'Images for orchestra') Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stephane Deneve [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2012 ] "This is Debussy in the great French tradition, the sort of playing and conducting that used to be associated with national schools of performance. A major achievement." (10/10 ClassicsToday June 2012) |
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HOLST
An Introduction to Holst (Incls 'The Planets' & 'Brook Green Suite') Royal Scottish National Orchestra / women's voices of the RSNO Chorus / Sir Alexander Gibson / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'In every respect this latest Holst anthology from Chandos will be hard to beat. The recording is superb - very real indeed…' The Penguin Complete Guide |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
The Bolt (Complete Ballet) Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2004 ] "Rozhdestvensky plainly believes passionately in this score, and he draws an electrifying performance from the Swedish orchestra...demonstration sound." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Golden Age (Complete Ballet) Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2001 ] "..anyone with the least interest in Shostakovich, or ballet music, or Soviet music, or indeed Soviet culture as a whole, from investigating this weird and intermittently wonderful score. A really fascinating disc." Gramophone |
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CARL NIELSEN
Symphonies Nos. 1-6 (Complete) Gillian Keith (soprano) & Mark Stone (baritone) / BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2015 ] John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic here present a complete set of Nielsen's symphonies, following on from the successful release a year ago of Sibelius' complete symphonies. The two sets together celebrate the 150th anniversary this year of the... |
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Violin Concerto / String Sextet Andrew Haverson (violin) / RTE Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "[The Sextet] gets an absolutely cracking performance here from key members of Wilson's newly reformed Sinfonia of London led by Haveron" Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2020 |
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HANDEL / CIAMPI / ARNE / HAYES / SMITH
Handel's Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London Ruby Hughes (soprano) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Laurence Cummings [ Chandos Chaconne SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] "Ruby Hughes has a direct, clean, and unaffected soprano voice that, judging from descriptions, probably matches Frasi's quite well. The orchestral work under Cummings is exemplary" American Record Guide |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Moskva Cheryomushki, Op.105 (Complete Opera) Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2001 ] Complete operetta |
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REGER
Psalm 100, Op. 106 / Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (April 2002) |
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ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
The Seven Days of Passion Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] Grechaninov left Russia in 1922 and settled first in Paris and then in the United States where he obtained American citizenship in 1946. |
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BORTNYANSKY
Scared Concertos Vol 2 (Nos 10-16) Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Valeri Polyansky [ CHANDOS / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The rare repertoire featured in this series was originally recorded in Russia but never released. |
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TANEYEV
Symphony in B flat major (No. 2); Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12 Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] 'This is a striking, and very well-recorded pair of performances, well worth the attention of lovers of Russian music who have not yet encountered the works.' Gramophone |