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ROBERT SCHUMANN / CLARA SCHUMANN
Robert & Clara Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Sep/2024 ] Following the success of last year's release of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London turn their attention to Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. As in the case of the previous release in the series, this world première... |
CAPLET / BOULANGER / DEBUSSY / CHAMINADE
Paradis Sur Terre: A French Songbook Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Young Singer of the Year at the 2015 Opera Awards, Nicky Spence joins the highly praised accompanist Malcolm Martineau, just honoured with an OBE, in this unique collection of French songs from the turn of the last century, a repertoire that was very... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Kennedy Plays Elgar Favourites Nigel Kennedy (violin) Peter Pettinger (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1984 ] Also featuring Steven Isserlis (cello) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Olga Mykytenko - Verdi Arias Olga Mykytenko (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The Ukrainian soprano Olga Mykytenko has won numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Maria Callas International Singing Contest in Athens. Her extraordinary musicality, solid vocal technique, easy coloraturas, and strong... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fanfares Onyx Brass [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/May/2018 ] Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the label's successful history, this one may well be the loudest. In the vast acoustic of St Jude's Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw Op 54 (complete opera) OperaGlass Works / Robert Murray, Rhian Lois, Leo Jemison, Alys Mererid Roberts / John Wilson (cond) [ Chandos DVD / DVD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw has become notorious as at once the most stylish and elusively ambiguous of all nineteenth-century ghost stories. In June 1932, the eighteen-year-old Benjamin Britten heard a radio adaptation of James's... |
JACQUES IBERT
Neeme Järvi conducts Ibert Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] "Ibert emerges from it all as a fine composer, whose unity lies in his almost impudent diversity, and who is often far from frivolous as some have maintained..the disc allows Järvi to show off his Swiss orchestra to perfection. Very fine" Gramophone |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music For Maunday Thursday Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Feb/1998 ] "these singers are well on the way to achieving perfection here... overall this is a well-thought-out and moving performance" Gramophone [on another Palestrina recording with the same choir] |
Palm Court Theatre Orchestra. Anthony Godwin-conductor
Down Peacock Alley [ Chandos Flyback / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] Popular light music from the 20s and 30s in a Palm Court style |
ALBERT KETELBEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Grand Passions of Albert W. Ketelbey (Including 'In a Persian Market '; 'Bells across the Meadows' & 'Sanctuary of the Heart The Palm Court Theatre Orchestra, directed by Anthony Godwin [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] 'The performances are all one could ask, the recording is excellent, the notes and the packaging are very good.' - American Record guide |
ELGAR / DELIUS / HOLST
A Tribute To Elgar, Delius & Holst John Foster Black Dykes Band, John Foster [ Chandos Brass / CD ] John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world. In 2014, the band won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for a record 23rd time, and the British Open Championship for another... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
More Honourable Than The Cherubim PaTRAM Institue Male Choir [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "There's no shortage of Orthodox choral discs, but here is one worth adding to anyone's collection." BBC Music (5 Stars) Choral & Song Choice Oct 2021 |
PARRY / DELIUS / BANTOCK / FOULDS
British Works for Cello & Piano Vol 1 Paul Watkins (cello) / Huw Watkins (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] "Paul Watkins shows himself once again to be peerless in this repertory, while Huw demonstrates that his sparkling playing can be as effective in music of this period as it is so regularly in contemporary repertoire. They lavish great care and good... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Cello Concerto / Eclogue / etc Paul Watkins (cello), Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] "Nothing is exaggerated or over-assertive...allowing Finzi's very individual musical voice to speak for itself, as it does so clearly in all the other performances on this disc too." The Guardian |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dutilleux: Cello Concerto & Selected Orchestral Works Boris Pergamenschikow (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / CD ] The virtues of those earlier issues remain evident here, with meticulously prepared, well-played performances, and recordings carefully adapted to the coloristic subtlety and textural delicacy of the music. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Lieder ohne Worte - Songs without Words - seems to be a description invented by Mendelssohn himself for these short, lyrical and descriptive piano pieces which he composed so prolifically. Indeed, it is arguable that these works define his pianistic... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Vol.1 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "Brilliantly and excitingly played: Peter Donohoe's Mendelssohn series gets off to a great start…impresses with its warm and rich sound." ***** Pizzicato.lu |
DORA PEJACEVIC
Pejacevic: Piano Concerto / Symphony Peter Donohoe (Piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos / CD - released 5/May/2022 ] Countess Mária Theodora (Dora) Paulina Pejacevic was born in September 1885 in Budapest. Young Dora grew up with all the advantages of an aristocrat: a fairy-tale life of opulent palaces set in idyllic landscapes; privilege, comfort, leisure, and... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Scottish, Irish, Cornish, English Dances The Philharmonia, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "resplendently recorded....It sports the booziest bassoon solo I have ever heard in the Vivace of the Scottish Dances." MusicWeb |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba (orchestral suite) / Metamorphoseon Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "I shall be surprised and disappointed if the arrival of this disc does not popularize this work and I strongly recommend that you buy it and have a little game asking your friends to guess the composer." (Gramophone) |
