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BRIDGE / IRELAND / BLISS / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
British Violin Sonatas, Volume 2 Tasmin Little (violin), Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] "These are splendid, sensitive, insightful interpretations by two great advocates of British music. I hope Vol. 3 is forthcoming!" (Gramophone) |
FRANCK / SZYMANOWSKI / FAURE
Franck / Szymanowski / Fauré : Chamber Works Tasmin Little (violin) & Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] "With a sympathetic recording and good notes this disc continues the fine legacy of recordings made by this outstanding duo" MusicWeb June 2017 |
RICHARD STRAUSS / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Strauss / Respighi: Violin Sonatas Tasmin Little (violin) & Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "They also display an intense sympathy with Strauss's melodic style, especially in their delicate and atmospheric account of the slow movement...[the extracts from Sei Pezzi] make for an enjoyable filler." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin Concerto / Polonia / Crown of India: Interlude Tasmin Little (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Little...finds an element of wit in the fast-moving figuration [of the finale], leading to a more tender treatment of the lyrical contrasting sections." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2010 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Chamber Works Tasmin Little (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "[Little focuses] on the work's outspoken brilliance, with Lane always as a highly reactive partner" (Gramophone) |
WALTON / EGAR / BRITTEN / VIVALDI / MONTI / etc
The Best of Tasmin Little Tasmin Little (violin), with Piers Lane, Martin Roscoe, Tim Hugh, John Lechan & others [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Following the announcement by Tasmin Little of her intended retirement from the concert platform, Chandos wanted to create an album that would stand as both a tribute to, and celebration of, her outstanding career as a performer. |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Symphony No. 6 / Concerto grosso No. 2 Tatiana Grindenko (violin) Alexander Ivashkin (cello) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] Throughout this disc, the echt-Russian timbres of Valeri Polyansky's band have a compulsion of their own, empowering what rhetoric there is with what seems like the appropriate clout.' - International Record Review |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 9 Op.70 / The Adventures of Korzinkina / Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 / etc Tatiana Polyanskaya (piano) Vladimir Goncharov (trumpet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] 'This CD centres on the lighter side of Shostakovich - or, more accurately, his lighter sides, since the styles range from the pointed neo-Classical wit of the Ninth Symphony to the Keystone Kops mayhem of the First Piano Concerto to the more genial... |
ARENSKY
Symphony No. 1, Op. 4; Cantata on the Tenth Anniversary of the Coronation, Op. 26; Fantasia on Themes by I.T. Ryabinin, Op. 48; etc Tatiana Sharova (soprano) Andrei Baturkin (baritone) Tatiana Polyanskaya (piano) Dmitri Miller (cello) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] 'This is a sympathetic overview of Arensky's career and a second volume would be welcome. The booklet notes are a helpful introduction to the man and his music.' - International Record Review |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry (Song Cycle), New Babylon (from the film) Tatiana Sharova (soprano) Ludmila Kuznetsova (mezzo soprano) / Russian State Symph. [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "The recording, by Russian engineers, feels almost too good to be true!" Gramophone June 1998 |
PROKOFIEV
Zdravitsa (Hail to Stalin) / Autumnal, Op. 8 / Hamlet, Op. 77 / Flourish Mighty Land / Egyptian Nights, Op. 61 Tatyana Sharova (soprano) Andrei Baturkin (baritone) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2003 ] This disc comprises some of Prokofiev's lesser-known orchestral works, as well as two striking choral works, some of which are not otherwise available. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Aleko Sergey Murzaev, Evgeny Akimov, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Svetla Vassileva / Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Apr/2010 ] "Noseda's skill here is to maintain control of pacing and to keep the drama both tense and fluid...Turin's Teatro Regio chorus adeptly assumes its role as a band of Bessarabian gipsies and the BBC Philharmonic plays superbly." (Daily Telegraph) |
J.S. BACH
Trio Sonatas Nos. 1-6, BWV525-530 Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ CHANDOS / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Bach compiled his set of six trio sonatas for organ during the late 1720s. They are thought to have been put together as training material for Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann and can be grouped among other pedagogical keyboard collections such as the... |
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Orchestral Works (Incls 'Concerto in B flat') Tempesta di Mare / Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] Richard Stone of Tempesta di Mare describes the pieces as 'fantastic, true discoveries… they have the breadth and complexity of J.S. Bach without the austerity, and have a much more evolved sense of orchestral colour that's truly extraordinary'. |
LULLY / MARAIS / REBELI
Comédie et Tragédie, Vol. 1: Orchestral music for the theatre Tempesta di Mare & Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This is Volume 1 of Tempesta di Mare's two disc project of late seventeenth century French instrumental music. 'Suites' of music were often compiled from stage works that were being performed at the time and presented in the form of instrumental... |
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Premiere recordings This is Volume 2 in Chandos' series of orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of J.S. Bach and Telemann. In his day, his output in terms of cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber music was performed... |
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Orchestral Works, Volume 3 Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] This is the third and concluding volume in Tempesta di Mare's series of orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of J.S. Bach and Telemann. In his day, the works of Fasch - cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber music - were... |
JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH
Janitsch: Rediscoveries from the Sara Levy Collection Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Players [ Chandos / Chaccone / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "They are tidy performances of what are equally tidy but otherwise fairly unremarkable mid-18th century pieces, though the sonatas da chiesa and sonatas di camera indicate Janitsch was writing for highly competent instrumentalists...and remain a bit |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: The Concerti-En-Suite Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "..beautifully blended sound of the whole: crisp strings, mellow woodwind, subtle-but-there harpsichord and theorbo and a gorgeous soft-focus halo of horns. In short, every instrumental timbre is beautifully looked after." Gramophone |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op.44 / The Spirit of England, Op.80 Teresa Cahill (sop) Anne Collins (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] "Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight." Penguin Guide |
