GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Flavio (complete opera) Tim Meade, Rosemary Joshua, Iestyn Davies, Hilary Summers, Renata Pokupic / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Curnyn and his spruce period band finely catch the tone and tinta of his delectable opera. Tempi - mobile but never frenetic - are aptly chosen, rhythms buoyant" (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Baroque Vocal) |
Timothy West (Narr), Samuel West, Dominic Matham, Sinfonia 21, Sir Edward Downes
Prokofiev - Eugene Onegin (Melodrama in sixteen scenes) [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] Incidental music to the play |
SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019) Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Sarah Fox, Henry Waddington / London Mozart Players, William Vann [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Conductor William Vann, who avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry's great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you'd think he'd been conducting this music all his life" Gramophone Award 2020 Short List |
SARASATE / SCARLATTI / BACH / RACHMANINOFF
A Life in Music - Vintage Tommy Reilly Tommy Reilly (harmonica); Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Øivind Bergh (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Aug/2019 ] Born in Ontario in August 1919, Tommy Reilly studied violin from the age of eight, and began playing harmonica at the age of eleven. Though he had played in England in 1935 - 37 and continental Europe in 1937 - 39, it was not until his arrest (while... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade, Op. 35 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] This disc marks the beginning of an new recording relationship between Chandos Records and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conducting this performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's ever popular symphonic suite Sheherazade is Peter Oundjian, who this season... |
SCHUBERT / FAURE / MASSENET / ELGAR / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Violin Favourites Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] |
Tribute To Elgar, Delius, Holst
Black Dyke Mills Band, Peter Parkes, conductor [ Chandos Brass / CD - released 19/Apr/2003 ] Chandos Brass now at a special price |
HANDEL
Chandos Anthems Trinity College Choir Cambridge / Academy of Ancient Music / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "Stephen Layton directs the small forces of the Academy of Ancient Music with precision and tact." (MusicWeb May 2009). |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Three Piano Trios, Op.1 Trio Goya [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] "Immaculate and tasteful playing on perfectly chosen instruments" The Strad |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Heart of Invention: Piano Trios Trio Goya [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Trio Goya perform all four works with vigour and sensitivity" Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
beethoven: Triple Concerto (with Brahms - Double Concerto) Trio Poseidon / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neemw Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |
MASSENET
Neeme Järvi conducts Massenet Truls Mørk (cello) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2014 ] Jules Massenet has long been associated primarily with opera, while his orchestral works have gone unappreciated. This collection of overtures, ballet music, and concert pieces, each with its own unique orchestral colour, showcases Massenet's... |
ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony in seven songs to poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Op. 1 / Incidental music to Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline' Turid Karlsen (soprano) Jaroslav Brezina (tenor) Franz Grundheber (baritone) / Members of Bremen Shakespeare Company / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ; [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] This disc contains the premiere recording of Zemlinsky's complete incidental music to Shakespeare's Cymbeline. |
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
Harty: A John Field Suite Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] |
ARNOLD BAX
Orchestral Works, Volume 3 (Includes November Woods; Tintagel & The Happy Forest) Ulster Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - 'The Celtic twilight in Bax's music is ripely and sympathetically caught… The Chandos recording is superb.' The Penguin Complete Guide |
ARNOLD BAX
Orchestral Works, Volume 4 (Includes The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew; Into the Twilight & On the Sea Shore ) Ulster Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] 'With readings as affectionate and illuminating as these, Bax's music can rarely have been better communicated.' Hi-Fi News and Record Review |
ELGAR
Wand of Youth Suites / Nursery Suite / Dream Children Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] 'The playing in Ulster is attractively spirited; the music-making engagingly combines refinement and warmth. The Nursery Suite is strikingly well characterised, and with first-class digital sound this is highly recommendable.' Penguin Guide |
DELIUS
Florida Suite / North Country Sketches / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring / etc Ulster Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2000 ] '…the Chandos recording allows Delius's palette of colours to shine through' BBC Music Magazine |
BRITTEN / BRIDGE / BAX / STANFORD
Works by the Sea Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] 'This record gives an excellent introduction to twentieth-century English programme music.' Tower Records, Guide to Classical Music |
DELIUS
The Essential Delius (Incls 'Florida Suite', 'A Song before Sunrise' & 'the Walk to the Paradise Garden') Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] 'Well-filled 2-CD set, an embarrassment of riches. It is well-played, splendidly recorded, delicately shaded, and rich in expression' American Record Guide |