PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin James Ehnes (violin) with Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] "This is an outstanding Chandos set from James Ehnes of Prokofiev's complete works for violin. It includes quite stunning performances of the two violin concertos." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2013) |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Works for Violin and Piano Volume 3 James Ehnes (violin) & Andrew Armstrong (piano) [ CHANDOS / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] "Ehnes and Moretti possess precisely the degree of finesse required to bring both piquancy and a sense of stylish panache to the music here." (Daily Telegraph) |
BARTOK
Violin Sonatas & Rhapsodies James Ehnes (violin) Andrew Strong (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "They are performances of outstanding musical insight and technical brilliance...James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong perfectly encapsulate the anxieties projecting in both works...But they also find room for repose and reflection...As with Ehnes's... |
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Incls Divertimento for Violin and Orchestra) James Ehnes, violin. BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] "A beautiful and moving release. Five masterpieces of lyrical serial music that just demands to be discovered. I cannot praise this CD too highly" MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Two Rhapsodies / Dance Suite James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "A fierce, lucid account of Bartók's last great masterpiece, Concerto for Orchestra...The Bergen orchestra sounds wonderfully alive to Bartók's rhythmic exactitudes" The Observer |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Works for Violin & Orchestra James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Sibelius studied the violin in his youth, and actively entertained the prospect of a career as a professional violinist for much of his student life. After graduating from the Helsinki Music Institute, in 1890, he went to Vienna to continue his... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 James Ehnes (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 7/Oct/2013 ] "The Bergen Philharmonic offers the most polished playing, driven by Järvi at often faster than usual tempos...when it matters Järvi abandons his brisk manner for an understated yet manifest sensitivity to Tchaikovsky's poignant lyricism." BBC Music |
DOHNANYI
Violin Concerto No. 2,Op. 43 in C minor / Concertino for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 45 / Piano Concerto No. 2,Op. 42 in B minor James Ehnes (violin) Clifford Lantaff (harp) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Philharmonic .Matthias Bamert, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] "These beautifully crafted compositions offer tangible proof that a true master could breath new life into late Romanticism decades after the style had apparently fallen out of fashion. As always the recording has a rich ambiance, which serves... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 33 / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 53 James Ehnes (violin) Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Jul/2005 ] 'James Ehnes is an excellent soloist in the magnificent Violin Concerto on this Chandos release. His phrasing has a most natural elasticity and he has a sure sense of the dramatic that seems to filter through to the orchestra, who impart a layer of... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Violin Concerto Nos 1 and 2 / Viola Concerto James Ehnes (violin / viola) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "I can't think of a finer CD version of the First Concerto than this...[Ehnes's] rich, yielding tone makes an even stronger impression [in the Viola Concerto], reminiscent of William Primrose in his prime" Gramophone Award Finalist 2012: Concerto |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 / etc James Ehnes (violin & viola) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] The virtuosic and nine-times Juno-winning Canadian James Ehnes is centre stage in a new recording of orchestral works by Berlioz, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. This recording follows an extraordinarily rare... |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Cox and Box / Trial by Jury (Complete operettas) James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Donald Maxwell, Rebecca Evans / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] "If you are a G& If S fan, you won't be able to live without this disc; if you are not, this CD just might convert you." (William Dart NZ Herald 3rd Aug 2005) |
ROGER QUILTER
Quilter: Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Born in Sussex in 1877, Roger Quilter was a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory, in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of... |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Songs of Lennox Berkeley James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "The tenor James Gilchrist sings sweetly and cleanly, without affectation, and Anna Tilbrook is finely responsive to the subtleties of the piano parts." (Daily Telegraph) |
JANACEK / MARTINU / HAAS
Czech Music for Strings Janácek Chamber Orchestra [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] "The centrepiece of this disc is Pavel Haas's Study, written in 1943 in the concentration camp at Terezín...Its quality is undeniable, and while we should never forget the circumstances in which it was written, it also seems right that Haas's music... |
PUCCINI
Tosca (Complete Opera in English) Jane Eaglen soprano, Dennis O'Neill tenor, Gregory Yurisich bar, Philharmonia Or [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] 'Jane Eaglen's Tosca is a high-voltage performance.'-BBC Music Magazine |
SCHOENBERG
Pierrot Lunaire (with Webern-Concerto, Op.24) Jane Manning (Sprechstimme) / Nash Ensemble / Simon Rattle [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/1991 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Jane Manning has very much made the work her own, and her partnership with Simon Rattle may be regarded as definitive." (1001 recordings on Pierrot Lunaire) |
DONIZETTI
Mary Stuart (Scenes from the opera in English) Janet Baker, English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 17/Nov/2001 ] Janet Baker made her last appearances with English National Opera |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera recorded in English in 1971) Janet Baker / Robert Ferguson / Anne Collins / Katherine Pring / Clifford Grant / Sadler's Wells Chorus and Orchestra / Raymond Leppard [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Richly enjoyable...Baker catches the langour and the selfish ambition of this unpleasant character with subtly varied tone...And the diction! Put down the libretto, listen, and weep for what was." Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Historic |
DONIZETTI
Mary Stuart (Complete Opera in English) Janet Baker, Rosalind Plowright, English National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2001 ] Janet Baker made her last appearances with English National Opera |