GABRIEL FAURE
In Paradisum - A Faure Recital Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Fauré's unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the Barcarolles reflecting a mature mastery. Lortie provides an object lesson in pacing of the Nocturnes." BBC Music |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 7 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "Louis Lortie is in sparkling form... Every bar of this Chopin disc is to be savoured, thanks to Lortie's subtle rubato and rhythmic inventiveness, as well as his delightfully relaxed virtuosity" International Piano |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin - Volume 1 [Nocturnes, Sonata, Scherzo] Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "Lortie's musicianship is imaginative but never eccentric, with a technique that is always at the service of the music." BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 **** |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin Volume 3 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] "Lortie is a model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without ever sounding effete, dramatic but never exaggerated, harmonically luminous, structurally immaculate - and surprising." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations / Symphony No. 4 / Piano Concerrto Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2012 |
RACHMANINOFF / SIBELIUS / GRIEG / TCHAIKOVSKY / MEDTNER / BRITTEN
Lines Written During A Sleepless Night Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "..she engages emotionally with what she sings, shaping vocal lines with rare sensitivity and a wide range of colours." Daily Telegraph Five Stars |
HERBERT HOWELLS
MARBECKS COLLECTALE: Howells: Stabat Mater Neill Archer (tenor) / London Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / CD - released 8/Aug/1994 ] |
EDMUND RUBBRA
Songs by Edmund Rubbra Lucy Crowe (soprano) Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo) Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) Timothy Ridout (viola) Catrin Finch (harp) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Whilst the English composer Edmund Rubbra is best known for his symphonic output, he composed a good deal of vocal music, and wrote songs throughout his compositional life. Rubbra studied with Cyril Scott and Gustav Holst, and was a great friend of... |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables / Silesian Triptych / Sleep, sleep / Lacrimosa / Les Espaces du sommeil / Paroles tissées Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Toby Spence (tenor) / Christopher Purves (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "Christopher Purves proves a wonderfully secure exponent in a reading which combines tingling atmosphere and arresting drama to consistently riveting effect." Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glazunov: Symphony No. 8, Op. 83; Commemorative Cantata, Op. 65; Poeme lyrique, Op. 12 Ludmila Kuznetsova. mezzo-soprano; Vsevolod Grivnov. tenor / Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] "The chorus sing as 'a teeming multitude' gathered to commemorate Pushkin's centenary" - Editor's Choice (Gramophone September 2003) |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Violin Concerto / Children's Suite Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, etc [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/1995 ] ..a 'rarity to treasure' (The Penguin Guide) |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto / Morning Song) Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] 'The Cello Concerto is rhapsodic in feeling and Raphael Wallfisch plays it with marvellous sensitivity and finesse, given splendid support by the LPO under Bryden Thomson.' The Penguin Complete Guide |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Symphony in E flat / Violin Concerto Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/1993 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello / Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in St Jude's Church, Central Square, London, July 1988 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] This album is a tribute features Lydia Mordkovitc's famous 1989 recording of Shostakovich's violin concertos with Neeme Järvi and the Scottish National Orchestra. Lydia Mordkovitch was one of the founding artists of Chandos and over the years made... |
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stanford: Symphony No. 5 "L'Allefro ed il Penseroso" / Irish Rhapsody No 4/ Irish Rhapsody No 6 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] Originally released in 1987 |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Moeran: Violin Concerto & 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
EDMUND RUBBRA
Rubbra: Symphony No 9 / The Morning Watch for chorus and orchestra Lynne Dawson, Della Jones / BBC Nationl Orchestra of Wales. Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/May/2000 ] Another from the highly-praised Rubbra symphony series! |
ENNIO MORRICONE / NINO ROTA / PAOLO SILVESTRI / GATO BARBIERI
Postcards From Italy: Italian Music For Film Marco Albonetti (saxophone), Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: 'Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It... |
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
Piano works (Incls 'Recueil de Mazurkas' & 'Trois Preludes en forme de Blues') Margaret Fingerhut (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] "…Margaret Fingerhut has an unerring sense of when to indulge the flamboyance, as well as of how to introduce a poetic quality without becoming unduly sentimental." Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 |