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EDMUND RUBBRA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubbra: Symphony No. 1, Op. 44, etc. Howard Shelley (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD ] It was not until 1937 that Rubbra's first symphony was completed. Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 followed in quick succession, the fourth being completed in March 1942. |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Howard Shelley (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1985 ] Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 1, received positive reviews from Classics Today and the Penguin Guide, which awarded it a 3-star rating for general excellence. Critics praise the committed performance and Chandos' first-class production and recording... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Ballet Suites 1, 2 & 3 Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Original recording: City Hall, Glasgow & The Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow. April 1988 |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: The two Piano Quintets, Quartet for four Violins, Quartet for four Cellos Silesian Quartet and friends [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Adrian Thomas' notes are wholly admirable and the recording highly sympathetic. Another Bacewicz winner." MusicWeb |
JOACHIM MENDELSON / GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Mendelson / Bacewicz: String Quartets, etc Silesian Quartet, with Karolina Stalmachowska (oboe) & Piotr Salajczyk (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The award-winning Silesian quartet present a new album featuring two composers from Warsaw - Joachim Mendelson and Grażnya Bacewicz. After completing his music studies in Warsaw and Berlin, Joachim Mendelson moved to Paris in 1929, where he joined... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / ARTHUR BLISS / FRANK BRIDGE / LENNOX BERKELEY
Britten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley: English Music For Strings Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Orchestral |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Orchestral Music Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Puccini is renowned as one of the greatest opera composers of all time and his early works - before Manon Lescaut catapulted him to international fame - offer a fascinating insight into his development as a composer. John Wilson and Sinfonia of... |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Symphony in F Sharp / Straussiana / Theme & Variations Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "The playing of the Sinfonia of London is astonishingly brilliant, with Hollywood-dream glories in the string tone" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2020 WINNER - Orchestral |
EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: GriegL: Orchestral Music: Symphonic Dances Op.64; Six Songs for voice and orchestra, etc Solveig Kringelborn (soprano) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic / Gennady Rozhdestvensk [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2002 ] Rozhdestvensky's direction is adroit, affectionate and imaginative - Gramophone |
BACH / DUPHLY / COUPERIN / RAMEAU / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
La Sophie - Popular Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ ChaNdos Chaconne / CD ] "If this disc fails to ignite your enthusiasm for the harpsichord and its repertoire, then probably nothing else will…" BBC Music Magazine |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Pieces de clavecin Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Baroque Instrumental |
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Pieces de clavecin Volume 2 (Includes Suites in A & G) Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] 'Yates's strengths are clearly suited to those of Rameau: depth of characterisation, polarised moods and a delight in the instrument's sonorities.' - BBC Music Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Cembalo Transalpino Sophie Yates (solo harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 - 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and... |
MOZART / WAGNER / BRAHMS / REGER
Neeme Jarvi In Concert State Choir Latvija Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] The legendary conductor Neeme Järvi celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday in the summer of 2022, in Tallinn, giving a series of concerts with his beloved Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. This album serves not just as a commemoration of those... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera) Stuart Skelton; Erin Wall; Roderick Williams; Susan Bickley; Hanna Husáhr / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Opera |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: The Complete Mass Edition Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Janice Watson, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Padmore / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Richard Hickox's plaudit-winning Haydn Mass Edition is now available as a complete boxed set. A full price collection but now available at a special price. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Chandos Anthems Nos 5a, 6a & 8 Susan Gritton (sop) Thomas Hobbs (ten) Iestyn Davies (cntten) / Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layon [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "Layton directs his young singers with such a perfect control of texture and rhythm that there's no hint of stodginess" (Gramophone) |
JOHAN SVENDSEN / CARL NIELSEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Svendsen/Nielsen: Chamber Music Kenneth Sillito (violin) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Recorded at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall April 1993 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concoerto / Piano Concerto Tasmin Little (violin) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] Gramophone Magazine - Disc of the Month - May 2013 |
JOHN IRELAND / YORK BOWEN / WILLIAM ALWYN / ERIC COATES / JAMES FRANCIS BROWN
British Violin Sonatas Vol.3 Tasmin Little (violin) Piers Lane (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection." BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber |
