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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3 Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] The Doric String Quartet continues its cycle of Beethoven quartets with this third volume, featuring a mixture of works from the composer's early, middle, and late periods. Notable for the piano start of each of its four movements, op.18 no.3 also... |
GEROGE ENESCU
Enescu: String Octet, Piano Quintet Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective [ Chandos / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The Romanian composer George Enescu was a child prodigy and in October 1888, aged seven, become the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory (and the first non-Austrian), from which he graduated at the age of twelve. In addition to... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: Guys and Dolls - A Musical Fable of Broadway Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / 2 CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] John Wilson and Sinfonia of London continue their series of complete recordings of shows from the golden age of Broadway with Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The show opened in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won the Tony Award for Best... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx Adam Walker (flute), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2024 ] "An involuntary "whoa" escaped my lips when I heard the initial cannon volley that opens this new recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3. Each successive shot came more powerful and faster than I had expected." MusicWeb Recording of the Month |
FREDERICK BLOCK
Block: Chamber Works ARC Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Friedrich Bloch (Frederick Block once he arrived in America) was born in Vienna in 1899. His father, Sigmund, supported music as a pastime, but opposed it as a career. His heart was changed when his son returned home unscathed at the end of World War... |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Volume 4 [Nos 6, 13 & 15] Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] John Wilson's fourth volume devoted to music by Eric Coates opens with Music Everywhere, a rousing march that was commissioned by Britain's first independent TV and radio service, Rediffusion, for use as its signature tune. The concert waltz... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / FRANZ LISZT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas Vol. 7 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Barry Douglas's acclaimed survey of Schubert's piano sonatas continues with this programme pairing the Sonata in E flat major, D 568 with the Sonata in G major, D 894. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol.4 Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Barry Douglas's critically acclaimed series of Schubert's piano works reaches its fourth instalment. For this recording, Douglas has chosen to present three piano sonatas from the middle of Schubert's short life: No. 5 (D 537) and No. 11 (D 575),... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Plus One (with Rachmaninov: Six Moments musicaux) Barry Douglas (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Tchaikovsky's Grande Sonate, or 'Grand Sonata' (Bolshaya Sonata), in G major was dedicated to Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, and first performed at a private hearing, on 21 October 1879, by Nikolay Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory.... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Orchestral Works BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] When we recorded this album, in March 2022, no-one could have imagined that it would be Bramwell Tovey's last recording. Chandos Records would like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Bramwell Tovey, with whom the company had collaborated for... |
ROBERTO GERHARD
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote (complete ballet); Suite from 'Alegrías'; Pedrelliana BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Aug/2024 ] The Catalan Roberto Gerhard studied piano with Granados, and was the only Spanish composer to study with Arnold Schoenberg. It was, however, over twenty years before he committed himself to writing twelvetone music. In the interim, his output brought... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN / BUSH / RAWSTHORNE / BRIDGE / ORR / FENBY / etc
Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Rumon Gamba directs the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on the third instalment of his exploration of Overtures from the British Isles. As in the case of the previous volumes, the recorded repertoire is rarely played, and the album includes three world... |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: In memoriam / Suite from 'the Tempest', Op. 1 / Symphony in E 'Irish' BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2000 ] 'Hickox directs first-rate performances, full of colour and rhythmic life, in a nicely resonant acoustic that suits the young Sullivan's astonishing skill'. (BBC Music Magazine) |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Works for Brass Band Black Dyke Band, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Sir Arthur Bliss contributed two staples of the brass band repertoire - Kenilworth and The Belmont Variations , the enduring success of which inspired arrangers to turn to his other compositions, such as Eric Ball's Four Dances from the ballet... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies 2 & 5 CBSO Chorus, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2026 ] Commissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Soviet State Music Publishing House to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the 'Symphonic Dedication to October' eventually became Shostakovich's Second Symphony, and was first... |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: L'Arbre des songes / Timbres, espace, mouvement / etc Martyn Hill (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Olivier Charlier (violin) / BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "In the Violin Concerto (1985) Tortelier again favours a symphonic approach, and very effective it is too, with a soloist who's authoritative without being overly selfassertive." Gramophone |
PAUL BEN-HAIM
Ben-Haim: Music of Israel Claudia Barainsky (soprano), John Bradbury (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] "Altogether, a very worthwhile and rewarding release" Gramophone |
BACH / GABRIELI / MacMILLAN / SCHUTZ / WILLIAMS / PARK
Revoiced Corvus Consort, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Freddie Crowley [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "The combination of small-scale choir and saxophone quartet is a surprising one, though it would take a particularly crabbed purist not to deny its effectiveness." Gramophone |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
