DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets [complete] (recorded 2016) Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / 6 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ] This new box set with the Brodsky Quartet features Shostakovich's fifteen string quartets at a special price. |
BRAHMS
String Quartet No. 1 & Piano Quintet Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] The Brodsky Quartet presents this second volume in its exploration of Brahms's complete string quartets. |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
String Quartets Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] "The Brodsky Quartet play with intensity compositions that chart a journey from the romantic to the modern." (Financial Times) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: String Quartet / Piano trio / etc Brodsky Quartet with Sioned williams (harp) & Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "For those of us who recall the Brodskys as "Cool Britannia" clotheshorses, their 40th anniversary this year - well, for two of the line-up - comes as a shock. Less surprising is their compelling account, forthright and dramatic, rather than hazily... |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Verklarte Nacht (with Schubert 'Death & the Maiden' arr Mahler) Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
ROSSINI
The Barber of Seville (Complete Opera in English) Bruce Ford (tenor) Andrew Shore (baritone) Della Jones (mezzo) / English National Opera [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2000 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
LEHAR / OFFENBACH / STRAUSS / etc
Bruce Ford sings Viennese Operetta (operetta in English) Bruce Ford, tenor, Chorus Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 5/Nov/2002 ] world renowned tenor Bruce Ford performing arias from Viennese operettas |
W.A. MOZART
Idomeneo, King of Crete (Complete opera in English) Bruce Ford (tenor) Diana Montague (mezzo) Rebecca Evans (soprano) Nicolai Gedda (tenor) / Opera North / David Parry [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] The Chandos Opera in English series continues |
BARTOK
Bluebeard's Castle -: Sung in English (translation by Chester Kallman) Sally Burgess, Sir John Tomlinson / Opera North Orchestra, Richard Farnes [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] |
WILLIAM BOYCE
Boyce: 12 Overtures / 3 Concerti Grossi Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Collect / 2 CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] Collect - the midprice Chandos label |
CORELLI
Concerto Grossi Op. 6 Cantilena / Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Collect / 2 CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] Collect - the midprice Chandos label |
JOHN HEBDEN
Hebden: String Concertos Cantilena / Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/May/2002 ] Hebden's counterpoint flows so irresistibly - Gramophone |
THOMAS ARNE
Four Symphonies Cantilena / Adrian Shepherd (cond) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] Recorded in: Glasgow City Hall 7 January 1985 |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 / Valiant for truth / Prelude and Fugue in C minor / etc Carys Lane (soprano) Ian Watson (organ) Malcolm Hicks (organ) / Richard Hickox Singers; London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. - "this stimulating VW compilation undoubtedly deserves a hearty welcome." (Gramophone) |
VIVALDI
Suonata a quattro al Santo Sepolcro / In furore iustissimae irae / Concerto a quattro, RV 129 'Madrigalesco' / etc. Catherine Bott (soprano) / The Purcell Quartet with Stephen Preston (flute) Jane Rogers (viola) and Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double-bass) [ Chandos Chaconne Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] 'Catherine Bott shows there's more Vivaldi beyond the Gloria' - Classic CD |
W. A. MOZART
Duo Sonatas Volume 3 Catherine Mackintosh and Geoffrey Govier (Duo Amadè) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Here's Mozart interpretation in the raw, not overlaid with effusive graciousness, neither apologetically insipid nor crude, but very expressive on its own terms. Listen and ponder. These are committed performances throughout." Gramophone Magazine,... |
TORELLI
Concertos Catherine Weiss (violin) Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) David Blackadder (trumpet) / Collegium Musicum 90 / Simon Standage (violin and director) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] 'This is another enlightening disc that Baroque enthusiasts will welcome.' Gramophone |
GUSTAV HOLST / RICHARD STRAUSS
Holst: Planets / R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra CBSO Youth Chorus & National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic,... |
ARNOLD / BOZZA / DAHL / MAURER / etc
Center City Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] the third release on Chandos from the USA's Brass Quintet. |