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BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: The Wooden Prince Suite / Hungarian Pictures Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Jul/1991 ] "The drama of the fairy story is told in glowing colours and, unlike most rivals, Jarvi ignores the many little cuts that the composer sanctioned, reluctantly or not, over the years. The opulent playing of the Philharmonia is greatly enchanced by the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Viola Sonatas Nos 1 and 2, etc. / Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Philip Dukes (viola), Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Recognised as one of the world's leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over thirty years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He joins forces with Peter Donohoe, acclaimed as one of the... |
BALAKIREV / CUI / BORODIN / MUSSORGSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Works by The Mighty Handful Philip Edward Fisher (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "[Pictures and Islamey] give him a chance to show off his virtuosity and assured technique...Still, the real interest here resides in the more modest works that come in between...This music may be light, but it still stands up to repeated listening." |
OLA GJEILO
Gjeilo: Northern Lights: Choral works Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Warmly appeasing choral music...Mainly mellow in tone, though Dark Night of the Soul strikes deeper." (BBC Music) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Symphony 7 / Sinfonietta Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] ..."the performances simply knock your socks off. The recorded sound is great, the Scottish National Orchestra plays like a world class band.. (a) marvelous, charming, sweeping Järvi Seventh" MusicWeb |
SERGE PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokoviev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in Glasgow City Hall, September 1988 |
Palm Court Theatre Orchestra. Anthony Godwin (conductor)
Puttin' on the Ritz [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] Popular light music from the 20s and 30s in a Palm Court style |
BAX / BLISS / MOERAN / FINZI
British Cello Concertos Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Ulster Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vernon Handley / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] This two-album set features British cello concertos from Raphael Wallfisch's best late-1980s recordings. He has always worked closely with leading British composers of our time and is now regarded as the finest performer of their works for cello.... |
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Cello Concerto / Northern Ballad No 3 / Overture to a Picaresque Comedy / etc Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/1987 ] '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 |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg (Complete opera in English) Norman Bailey, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Noel Mangin, Sadler's Wells Chorus & Orchestra, Reginald Goodall [ Chandos Opera in English / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "An ensemble singing an ensemble opera: that is perhaps the performance's greatest strength, but there are many moments when it rises far above that… Whether you were around or not, do listen to this supremely humane account of a supremely humane... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: A Mass Of Life - Requiem Bourneouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] Requiem June 1996; A Mass of Life July 1996. |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus' [ Chandos / CD ] First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words like a glove. |
VILLA-LOBOS / CHAVEZ / RODRIGO
Latin Winds RNCM Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Congratulations to all involved in this superb and enterprising issue, perhaps most of all to the brilliant young musicians of the RNCM. Manchester rules!" MusicWeb May 2018 |
MARCELLO
Sonatas for Harpsichord Roberto Loreggian, harpsichord [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] Chandos presents a premiere recording of Marcello's harpsichord sonatas |
JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: Quickening / Three Interludes from 'The Sacrifice' Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Gordon Jones (baritone) / BBC Philharmonic / James MacMillan [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The three interludes from MacMillan's opera The Sacrifice are more than an interesting filler. The same exuberant invention can be found here as in Quickening... The sound is stunning..." BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 ***** |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang (with Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98) Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Williams sings German as a non-native speaker in the best sense, harnessing the words with a sense of discovery of how much closer they bring him to the archetypes within the various verses" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2020 |
THOMAS ARNE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arne: The Six Organ Concertos Roger Bevan Williams (organ) / Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 22/Aug/1989 ] Recorded: 12-13 April 1987 |
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Bennett: Old American Dances Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra and its director Clark Rundell, with the guest conductor Mark Heron, explore the works of Robert Russell Bennett in this eagerly-awaited new recording. Bennett is best known for his orchestrations... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Symphony No 9 New World / My Home: Overture Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Jul/2005 ] "Jarvi's opening introduction establishes the spaciousness of his view, with lyrical, persuasive phrasing and a very slow speed, leading into an Allegro which starts relaxedly, but then developes in big dramatic contrasts. The Largo too is... |
LÉO DELIBES
Delibes: Ballet Suites Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] "The RSNO is on scintillating form, with idiomatically characterful woodwind, vibrant brass, luminescent strings and crisp percussion" Orchestral Choice - BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2020 |
