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BEETHOVEN / WEINBERG / SHOSTAKOVICH / GUBAIDULINA / RACHMANINOV / etc
Russian Roots Katharina Konradi (soprano), Trio Gaspard [ Chandos / CD - released 7/Feb/2022 ] |
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MOZART / PUCCINI / GOUNOD / DVORAK / etc
Silver Voice: Opera Arias played by Flute and Orchestra Katherine Bryan (flute) / Orchestra of Opera North, Bramwell Tovey [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] With her first Chandos recording, the scintillating flautist Katherine Bryan explores the relationship between her instrument and the human voice by providing a new take on some of the world's most famous opera arias, from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro... |
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ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Évocations etc Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Fisher (solo tenor), François le Roux (baritone), CBSO Chorus, BBC Philharmonic [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] Maestro Yan Pascal Tortelier celebrates his twenty-five-year recording career and seventy-album discography on Chandos with this album of three of Roussel's most remarkable compositions. It follows a highly praised Birmingham concert with the same... |
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DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos, Vol 2 (Nos 1 & 4) Kathryn Stott (piano) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 22/Oct/2006 ] 'Beautifully recorded and executed, the new Chandos disc is self-recommending for collectors of Soviet music and/or 20th-century piano concertos.' Gramophone |
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SAINT-SAENS
Sonatas for Cello and Piano Kathryn Stott (piano) Christian Poltera (cello) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "Saint-Saëns certainly knew how to tap the technical resources of his soloists and Poltéra and Stott are as one in playing some fleet" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine January 2010 |
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FAURE
Sonatas for Cello and Piano Nos. 1 & 2 / Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello Kathryn Stott (piano) Christian Poltera (cello) Priya Mitchell (violin) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'Stott, always a devoted advocate of Fauré is a strong, sensitive and galvanising force at the piano throughout. The eloquent performances of the cello sonatas are complemented by the recording's crowning glory, a fervent account of the fabulous... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Orchestral works (Incls Masques et bergamasques & Dolly Suite) Kathryn Stott (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), Richard Davis (flute) / BBC Philharmonic. Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jun/2005 ] "Beautifully played and richly recorded, with Yan-Pascal Tortelier a most understanding interpreter, this neatly brings together the most popular orchestral pieces of Faure." (Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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FAURE
Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2 / Nocturne No 4 Kathryn Stott (piano) / The Hermitage String trio [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Stott and the Heritage Trio imbue the hushed sections with a sense of eerie menace, refusing to smooth the edges, which is certainly not to say they are rough and ready elsewhere...the exquisite account by Stott of the fourth Nocturne is the icing o |
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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jul/2024 ] Sinfonia of London's second album of works of Kenneth Fuchs features four world première recordings. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (highlights in English) Yvonne Kenny, Diana Montague, Rosemary Joshua, John Tomlinson, Andrew Shore [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] "Parry paces the score most persuasively, and the orchestral sound is aptly sumptuous...Diana Montague is a winningly expressive Octavian, and Rosemary Joshua a sweet-toned Sophie." (Penguin Guide) |
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ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian: Piano Concerto and Orchestral Suites Constantine Orbelian (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] Recorded ta the SNO Centre, Glasgow in August 1987 |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Complete Opera in English) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Neil Rosenshein (tenor) / Welsh National Opera [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Momentum Kleztory [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Originating in the villages and ghettos of Eastern Europe, klezmer has been played from the early middle ages. The Jews who emigrated to America in the 1880s to early 1900s brought klezmer with them. In the New World, klezmer was heavily influenced... |
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Kleztory, I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, conductor
Klezmer [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'Kleztory is made up of five musicians who have a typical Klezmer combination of clarinet, guitar, violin, double-bass and accordion. They play these premiere recordings which such verve that my feet haven't stopped tapping.' Classic FM Magazine |
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
A Sousa Celebration Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] "Looking for something foot-tapping and beguiling, and with a fund of tunes? This Chandos Sousa release could be the answer." Classical Source |
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ALBENIZ / BOCCHERINI / de FALLA / RAVEL / TARREGA / TRADITIONAL
Meisinger: The Spanish Album Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar) Patrycja Betley (percussion) Meisinger Soloists [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Born in 1984, Krzysztof Meisinger is one of the most fascinating and charismatic classical guitar players of our time, his artistic development having benefited from the profound influence of such teachers and music authorities as Aniello Desiderio... |
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DEBUSSY
Estampes and other works for piano Kyoko Tabe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] 'Kyoko Tabe's Debussy is far more sensual, though never excessively so… she seems to me closer to the Gieseking tradition.' BBC Music Magazine |
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GRIEG
Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 / Sonata, Op. 7 / Seven fugues for piano Kyoko Tabe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2002 ] 'I hope that Kyoko Tabe goes on to record more Grieg solo piano music, for she is an excellent pianist with the measure of this remarkable music.' - Musical Opinion |
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SCRIABIN / RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 / Six Choruses, Op. 15 Larissa Kostyuk (contralto) Oleg Dolgov (tenor) Tigran Alikhanov (piano) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orch / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] Valeri Polyansky and his Russian forces are renowned for their special affinity with their native music, nowhere more so than in their choral works. |
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VERDI
Macbeth (sung in English) Latonia Moore, Simon Keenlyside / English National Opera Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] This recording of Verdi's Macbeth marks the completion of the Peter Moores Foundation's remarkable Opera in English series. |