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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 / Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (cond) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1985 ] "As a Prokofiev interpreter Neeme Järvi is among the best." Gramophone |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Songs Sergej Larin (tenor) Elanora Bekov (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "(Larin) maintains a steady, well-focused line and generally very clear enunciation. Rachmaninov's emotional range is not, of course, as narrow as it can seem, even though he himself admitted that "the lighter shades do not come easily to me"."... |
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 |
GEORGES BIZET / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / PAUL DUKAS / MAURICE RAVEL etc
French Orchestral Favourites Sinfonia of London (orchestra), John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2026 ] Opera and ballet were the dominant musical genres in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France, and French orchestral music was much more poetic and narrative than the contrasting German symphonic tradition. Master-orchestrators such as Debussy... |
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 |
