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TANEYEV
Symphony in E minor (No. 1) / Symphony in D minor (No. 3) Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] 'The performances are of quality and the notes by Anastasia Belina with copious music-type illustrations, exemplary… a highly interesting and valuable disc.' BBC Music Magazine |
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RACHMANINOV
Symphony No 1 (with Respighi's Cinq Etudes-tableaux Op 160) Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Sep/2001 ] This disc completes Chandos' Rachmaninov symphonic cycle |
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GLAZUNOV
Symphony No. 6, Op. 58 / Characteristic Suite,Op. 9 Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Polyansky, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2004 ] On this disc the powerfully romantic Sixth Symphony is coupled with the rarely heard, but charmingly balletic Characteristic Suite. |
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GLAZUNOV
Introduction and Dance of Salome / The King of the Jews (Tsar Iudeskiy) Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Vareri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] 'The outstanding performances on this disc make a convincing case… But it's the shattering tension of the orchestral playing that really makes this disc special…' BBC Music Magazine |
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GLAZUNOV
Symphony No 4 & 5 Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Vareri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Polyansky |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 10 'The Big Lightning' Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor) / Valeri Polyansky, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2000 ] The monumental tenth coupled with the unusual! |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 4 (Composer's arrangement for two pianos) Rustem Haydroudinoff (piano) / Colin Stone (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] Recording of the Month - MusicWeb April 2005 "This will be compulsory and compulsive listening for admirers of DSCH" - MusicWeb |
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RACHMAINOV
Complete Piano Preludes Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] "Strong competition but this young Russian finds a distinctive voice in Rachmaninov" (Gramophone) |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Theatre Music Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Critic's Choice-The Best CDs of 2001 (BBC Music Magazine) |
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RACHMANINOV
Atudes-Tableaux, Opp 33 & 39 Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Nov/2006 ] BBC Magazine Award Finalist 2008 (Best instrumental recording) - 'These forthright, beautifully weighted performances keep the emotion in check but never at bay. Op. 39 No. 7 emerges as one of Rachmaninov's greatest creations in a drama of life and... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Sea Drift / Songs of Farewell / Songs of Sunset Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano) Bryn Terfel (baritone) / Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Gramophone 'Choral' award winner |
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FRANCOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC
Le Triomphe de la Republique ou Le Camp de Grand Pre SalomAFAC Haller / Antonella Balducci / Guillemette Laurens / Makato Sakurada / Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano / I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] Diego Fasolis has developed quite a reputation for innovative repertoire with the Suisse Radio musicians and is regarded as one of the leading lights in the performance of early music. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op.17 / Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Stunning performances." MusicWeb |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works, Volume 8 (Incl The Pageant of London) Sarah Connelly (mezzo) Philip Langridge (tenor) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] 'The nine orchestral songs prove the most rewarding. Connolly sings two exquisite Tagore songs with rapturous intensity, while Langridge is superb in Bridge's 1918 setting of Rupert Brooke's 'Blow Out, You Bugles'.' The Guardian |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Songs of love and loss (Incls 'Liederkreis, Op. 39' & 'Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42') Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Eugene Asti (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly here performs a collection of songs by Robert Schumann in a new album whose theme is 'Songs of Love and Loss'. There are two song cycles from the extremely prolific year of 1840 along with several songs from... |
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PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Choir and orchestra of the Enlightenment / Elizabeth Kenny [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Here is England's first great opera presented with a truly cohesive sense of theatrical purpose… Sarah Connolly is the driving force from the start" Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice (February 2009) |
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BRITTEN / HOWELLLS / IRELAND / RODNEY BENNETT / etc
My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "It is good to find an English singer in her prime championing the lesser-known art songs of her native tradition, and making them sound not so much twee as magical" (Financial Times) |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Phaedra, Op. 93 / A Charm of Lullabies / Lachrymae / Two Portraits / Sinfonietta, Op. 1 Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "Gardner's sensitivity to the bittersweet Thirties idiom of the first portrait and the elegiac eloquence of viola soloist Maxim Rysanov in the second combine to highly atmospheric effect. Imaginative programme, highly recommended." Editor's Choice... |
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GEFFREY BURGON
Viola Concerto ‘Ghosts of the Dance’ / Cello Concerto / Merciless Beauty Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Philip Dukes (viola) / Josephine Knight (cello) / City of London Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2010 ] Chandos releases premiere recordings of Geoffrey Burgon's viola and cello concertos, alongside the song cycle Merciless Beauty, all performed by the City of London Sinfonia under Rumon Gamba. |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Sea Pictures Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos Classics SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "[Davis's] patient and scrupulously observant conception of the whole work evinces a selfless authority, wisdom and instinctive ebb and flow" (Gramophone Magazine Award WINNER 2015 - Choral) |