STRAVINSKY
Works for piano and orchestra Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] "So is this scintillating new album from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, the French pianist who always leaves the listener refreshed." (The Times) |
FOULDS
A World Requiem Jeanne-MichAle Charbonnet, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Stuart Skelton, Gerald Finley / BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Leon Botstein [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] "The revival of this important work after more than 80 years on Remembrance Sunday 2007 was well-justified by the commitment of the performers. It was wonderfully captured by the engineers and the set is beautifully presented too." (MusicWeb... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Symphonies Nos 1 - 9 London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox / BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "Well done to Chandos, too, for recording it all. It's testimony not just to their commitment to British music but, more generally, to their great artistic vision and their willingness to follow an idea, particularly when it is championed by such ent |
MENOTTI
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Muero porque no muero Cantata / etc Jennifer Koh (violin), Julia Melinek (soprano) / Spoleto Festival Orch., Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2002 ] 'Koh is outstanding, the orchestra first-class.' International Record Review |
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel & Gretel (Complete Opera in English) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo) Rebecca Evans (soprano) Rosalind Plowright (mezzo) / New London Children's Choir / Philharmonia Orch / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "After 40-odd years, this is the English Hansel to have." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine September 2007 |
ROSSINI
Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (highlights in English) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Brad Cohen [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The latest instalment in the lauded Chandos Opera in English label is Rossini's The Italian Girl of Algiers. One of Rossini's most wonderful comic operas, it has a plot full of wit, warmth and endearing craziness and music bubbling with fun and laughter. |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Incls Violin Concerto, Op. 24) Jennifer Pike (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] This is Volume 3 in our series of orchestral works by Miklós Rózsa. The composer's unique musical voice was highly influenced by his Hungarian roots, and his works often dazzle with virtuosity. The BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba here pull out all... |
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto / Finlandia, Op. 26 / Karelia Suite, Op. 11 / etc Jennifer Pike (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Jean Sibelius is perhaps best known for his seven great symphonies but there is also a large body of music for the concert hall, the theatre, and the salon, some of which is explored on this release. The Violin Concerto in D minor, Sibelius's only... |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FRANCK
French Violin Sonatas Jennifer Pike (violin) & Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] Jennifer Pike, an exclusive Chandos artist and one of the brightest up-and-coming stars on the musical scene today, named BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2002, here performs some of the greatest violin music in the repertoire. |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
SZYMANOWSKI / MOSZKOWSKI / WIENIAWSKI
The Polish Violin Jennifer Pike (violin), Petr Limonov (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] The acclaimed violinist Jennifer Pike returns to Chandos to explore her heritage through the repertoire of a group of composers fundamental to the history of Polish music for the violin. From Janiewicz in the late eighteenth century right through... |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / IRENE POLDOWSKI / GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
The Polish Violin Vol.2 Jennifer Pike (violin) Petr Limonov (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "Pike brings real late-Romantic sweep and panache to all those works, as well as to Grazyna Bacewicz's little solo Caprice, and a tango by Poldowski that closes the disc" The Guardian Five Stars |
DVORAK / JANACEK / SUK
Czech Violin Music Jennifer Pike (violin) & Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "She is particularly alluring in Dvorak's Romantic Pieces, by turns intimate, consoling and confiding - and always beautifully controlled...Pike and Poster make a great double-act...A fine recording and informative notes complete an enticing disc." |
SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
Violin Sonatas Jennifer Pike (violin) & Tom Poster (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] In 2002, at the age of twelve, Jennifer Pike notably became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. She has given performances throughout the UK and abroad and, now aged just twenty-three, is widely regarded as one... |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chausson: String Quartet Op 35 / Concert Op 21 Jennifer Pike (violin) Tom Poster (piano) / Doric String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "A real front-runner for the Concert, and the most convincing of advocates for the more problematic String Quartet." Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: The Sanguine Fan / Froissart Overture / 'Enigma' Variations Jenny Miller (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/1996 ] 'Bryden Thomson… finds all the charm of The Sanguine Fan ballet, characterising it well without inflating it…' ***The Penguin Complete Guide |
ROSSINI
The Thieving Magpie (Complete opera in English) Jeremy White (bass) Susan Bickley (mezzo) Majella Cullagh (soprano) / Geoffrey Mitchell Choir / Philharmonia Orchestra / David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] 'Majella Cullagh, topping the bill as Ninetta, the affianced heroine who hoards her secret near-fatally, wins our hearts and embraces Rossini's coloratura demands with astonishing ease and command.' - The Independent |
BO HOLTEN
Wisdom and Folly and other Choral Works Jesper Juul Sorensen (trombone) / Danish National Girls Choir/DR / Danish National Choir/DR / Bo Holten, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] "Music full of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interest" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
HANDEL
The Messiah (Complete Oratorio) Joan Rodgers, Della Jones, Bryl Terfel / Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2002 ] .."the choruses are fresh, resilient and fast without sounding breathless"-Guardian |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Hymnus Paradisi / A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song Joan Rodgers (soprano) / Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Bruce Ogston (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |