ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Symphony No. 4 / Ten Biblical Songs Brian Rayner Cook (baritone) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1988 ] Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow on 27-29 October 1987 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Late String Quartets Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / 3 CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "There is no shortage of outstanding recordings of these summits of the quartet repertory... they certainly have their own distinctive virtues...Technically, these performances are immaculate" Guardian |
PAGANINI / PIAZZOLLA / PUCCINI / TURINA / VERDI / WOLF
In the South Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] "Not unexpectedly, the performances by the Brodsky Quartet are full of spontaneously imaginative insights and equal to all the diverse demands of these six composers." (Gramophone) |
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK / ROZANNA PANUFNIK
Messages: Chamber Music for Strings Brodsky Quartet [ CHANDOS / CD - released 2/Dec/2014 ] 2014 marks the centenary of Polish-British composer Andrzej Panufnik. Here the Brodsky Quartet joins in this year of reminiscence and celebration with Messages, a recording of works both by Andrzej and his daughter Roxanna Panufnik. String sextets... |
BARBER / BRUBECK / COPLAND / DVORAK / GERSHWIN
New World Quartets Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "the most persuasive playing comes in the shorter items. Gershwin's sultry Lullaby is nicely contrasted with the spicy seasoning and rhythmic zest of Copland's Two Pieces and the 'Hoe-Down' from Rodeo" (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Petits Fours: Favourite Encores Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] "so swaggeringly sensual is the Brodsky's Playera (Sarasate), so alluringly suave their Caprice viennois (Elgar), in which they are joined by gifted viola player Robert Smissen, that it becomes hard to imagine these pieces played any other way - or... |
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... |