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MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Volume 1 BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "it is exciting and accessible music. The earlier Three Hungarian Sketches re each descriptive movements which are vibrant with local colour and melody. Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic play these scores with brilliance, and the Chandos sound is |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Italian Intermezzo: music without words BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] "There are excerpts here from operas one can wait forever to hear on stage....and every one of these tracks is well worth recording in purely musical terms...The performances are suitably vivid and sensitive, always finely controlled and shaped with |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Overtures, Vol.2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Alpesh Chauhan's début recording for Chandos - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (CHSA 5300) - met with widespread critical acclaim and awards, including recording of the week for both The Times and Presto Music, and the BBC Music magazine's... |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
The Birds of Rhiannon; Magnificat; The Gallant Weaver; etc BBC Singers; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, James MacMillan [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] premiere recordings of James MacMillan's music for chorus and orchestra |
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SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Morning Heroes / Hymn to Apollo Samuel West (orator) / BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] "This is a splendid disc. The performance standard is extremely high and Ralph Couzens' engineering is excellent. Similarly excellent are the notes by Andrew Burn. Bliss devotees should acquire this as a matter of urgency" (Recording of the Month MW |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szmanowski: Stabat Mater & Harnasie Lucy Crowe, Pamela Helen Stephen & Gabor Bretz / BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Oct/2013 ] "Lucy Crowe especially has a beautifully clean and pure voice and makes the most ethereal sound in this gorgeous music. Her partnership with Pamela Helen Stephen is a joy to hear." (Musicweb) |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Appalachia / The Song of the High Hills BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "This is a magnificent, clear-edged recording of two challenging, problematic works, performed here with vibrancy and confidence...Davis's diligent control of this extraordinary material makes for compelling listening." (Gramophone Award Finalist... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), David Soar, (bass) / BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] "... Davis's reading is warm and full of subtle atmospheric nuances... Davis takes full advantage of a magnificent SACD recording epically spacious, illuminating the excellent chorus and soloists vocal and instrumental in sharp detail " (BBC) |
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DAME ETHEL SMYTH
Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D / 'The Wreckers' Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Ethel Smyth was one of England's foremost Victorian composers, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first female composer to be honoured with a Damehood. She studied composition with Carl Reineke in Leipzig (alongside Dvorák, Grieg and... |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony No. 3 / Chain 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "On this evidence, Edward Gardner and the BBC SO are a dream team, pressing the claims of a composer who has been neglected since his death in 1994...This performance sets a seal on a disc that leaves one eager for its successors" Gramophone Magazine |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Concert Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner, with Louis Lortie, piano [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 Orchestral Finalist |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Symphony No. 2 / Cello Concerto Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] "The Symphony No. 2 gets a performance of élan from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra." Financial Times, 14th March 2015 |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Orchestral Works 4 [Incls 'Symphony No. 1'] BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner, Michael Collins (clarinet), Tasmin Little (violin) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "Gardner's interpretative decisions vary from Lutoslawski's, swifter in the fast movements, very slow in the Poco adagio...The composer had the balance between them just right but Gardner is very persuasive...Highly recommended." Editor's Choice Gram |
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JOSEF SUK
Orchestral works: Praga, Symphonic Poem / A Summer's Tale BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jirí Belohlávek [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Orchestral |
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JOSEF SUK
Symphony in E major, Op. 14 / The Ripening, Op. 34 BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jirí Belohlávek [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "Ripening, a symphonic poem, is a highly charged piece, full of poignant emotion and anguished outbursts. Its power is echoed by the First Symphony...in which Belohlávek inspires the BBCSO to a blazing performance." The Telegraph, 2nd September 2010 **** |
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J.S. BACH
The Conductors' Transcriptions (Incls Toccata and Fugue in D minor) BBC Symphony Orchestra. Leonard Slatkin, conductor [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2004 ] Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in multi-channel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "Bach poached from the organ loft, or ferried away from the recital stage and magnified to cinematic proportions" Editor's Choice Gramophone Oct 2004 |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Vocal and Orchestral Works BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / 5 Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] This exceptional box set offers Chandos' complete Lutosławski series, featuring a string of the composer's masterpieces performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner in exemplary partnership, along with some of Chandos' finest soloists,... |
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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol 1 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] "Certainly the drive and conviction behind these performances suggest that Oramo believes passionately in the music's worth, and the BBCSO revels in its expert orchestration. It all promises well for subsequent instalments" The Guardian |
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FLORENT SCHMITT
Schmitt: Symphony No.2 etc BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/May/2018 ] "Feverish, bacchanalian energies are unleashed in 'Orgie et Danses'…[in the Symphony] Oramo does an especially fine job stitching a narrative thread together from the multiple shifts of mood and perspective" BBC Music |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, etc BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2013, Sakari Oramo has a special affinity with the music of his compatriot the Finnish composer Sibelius, which this recording admirably demonstrates. Sibelius's ever-popular Lemminkäinen Suite... |