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MENDELSSOHN / EWALD / BOHME
Romantic Music For Brass Geoffrey Hardcastle (solo cornet) / Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo & multi-channel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet / Songs of the Sea / A Ballad of the Fleet Gerald Finley (baritone) / BBC National Chorus of Wales / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2006: Choral Recording - "An out-and-out winner, with Finley on top form - heartily recommended!" (Recording of the Month Gramophone July 2006) |
BERNARD HERMANN
Moby Dick (Cantata) / Sinfonietta for Strings Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Michael Schønwandt [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "The recorded sound of this new Chandos recording is natural and balanced with some lovely performances by chorus and orchestra. The recording features a demonstration-worthy bass and rich sonorities" (MusicWeb) |
KURT WEILL
Symphony Nos 1 & 2 / Quodlibet Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Antony Beaumont (cond) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jun/2006 ] 'This disc is marked by a sense of urgency and top quality playing.. The performers give a freshly inspiring account of this rarely heard but wonderfully entertaining work.' The Times |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Symphony No. 2 / Suite from the Film 'the Red Violin' Eleonora Turovsky (violin) / I Musici de Montreal / Yuli Turovsky, conductor [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "This new Chandos version of the Second Symphony now takes pride of place on the Corigliano part of the shelf" (MusicWeb) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78 Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Simon Callow (narrator) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Davis secures absolutely first-rate results from the Scottish CO. Elin Manahan Thomas's light and slivery soprano could hardly be more suited to the parts of the Laugher and Jane-Anne, while Roderick Williams is in glorious voice throughout."... |
GUILLAUME CONNESSON
Cosmic Trilogy / The Shining One Eric le Sage (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Stephane Deneve [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "If there's another living composer who combines fantasy with shimmering orchestral virtuosity as brilliantly as Guillaume Connesson, I've yet to hear him." (Daily Telegraph) |
HOLST
'The Perfect Fool', Op. 39 / The Golden Goose, Op. 45 No 1 / The Morning of the Year, Op. 45 No. 2 Joyful Company of Singers & BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Holst's distinctive sound is carefully manicured in this recording; the rapid "mercurial" passages of string-and wind-writing of The Perfect Fool are delivered with exemplary crispness and vitality…" Disc of the Month Gramophone Magazine, Feb 2009 |
KURT ATTERBERG
Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, with Sara Trobäck Hesselink (violin), and Per Högberg (viola) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "Järvi's is the truest and most opulent [Sixth Symphony]...The couplings are equally beguiling...Järvi's accounts of these at least match their rivals and together comprise an excellent start to the series." Gramophone Magazine, June 2013 |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Enrico Dindo (cello) / Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "His playing here is remarkably rich, obtaining deep and richly expressive tones from a Rogeri instrument from 1717. The cello sound is forward, bordering on the surrealist as with so many concerto recordings these days, but not intolerably massive... |
