The King's Singers
The King's Singers: Original Debut [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/1992 ] Recorded in: Olympic Studios, Barnes. Released on Collect - the midprice Chandos label. |
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 |
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... |
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 |
TRADITIONAL
Klezmer Kleztory, I Musici de Montraal Yuli Turovsky, conductor [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented Multichannel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - Some of the world's best Klezmer musicians are joined by I Musici de Montréal, an award-winning ensemble that has made many recordings for Chandos, and... |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - The Mines of Sulphur (Complete Opera) Kristopher Irmiter (bass-baritone) Beth Clayton (mezzo-soprano) Brandon Jovanovich (tenor) James Maddalena (baritone) / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur is reminiscent of suspense thrillers from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Hitchcock. Love, longing, and dark as well as light comedy abound in this macabre tale of greed and retribution set in... |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Laura Claycomb (soprano) / Barry Banks (tenor) / Christopher Maltman (baritone) / London Symphony Chorus & Orchatra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] This performance of Orff's popular dramatic cantata Carmina burana was recorded live at the Barbican Centre in November 2007, Richard Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus with Laura Claycomb, Christopher Maltman... |
FRANK BRIDGE / WILLIAM WALTON / CHERYL FRANCES HOAD
Bridge/Walton/Frances-Hoad: Cello Concertos Laura van der Heijden (cello) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Laura van der Heijden joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth for this album of British cello concertos. Frank Bridge's Oration, composed in 1929 - 30 was intended as an outcry against the inhumanity of warfare, and... |
Legends in Brass (Works of James Curnow, Cyril Jenkins, Eric Leidzen and others)
Sellers Engineering Band. Conducted by Phillip McCann & Norman Law [ Chandos Brass / CD - released 1/Dec/2004 ] Recorded in: Dewsbury Town Hall 23-25 October 1993 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches / Three Bavarian Dances / etc Leon Goossens (oboe) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar, George Hurst / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1999 ] "A great bargain and highly recommended." (MusicWeb) |
TOMMASO BERNARDO GAFFI
La forza del divino amore Leona Peleskova (soprano) Marivi Blasco (soprano) Sergio Foresti (bass) / Ensemble 'Pian & Forte', Antonio Frigé [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] Bernardo Gaffi's La forza del divino amore (The Power of Divine Love) is an intriguing rarity, and receives its premiere recording here. |
HINDEMITH
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50, Concerto for Violin, etc Leonidas Kavakos (violin) BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Three of Hindemith's strongest works |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Symphony No. 8 / Suite from 'the Census List' Lev Butenin (reciter) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Critic's Choice-the Best CDs of 2001 (BBC Music Magazine) |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de Vanus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2003 ] 'The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem'. (Gramophone |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de VACnus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50 / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem" Gramophone |
Life Divine
Black Dyke Mills Band, Peter Parkes, Derek Broadbent, conductors [ Chandos Brass / CD - released 19/Apr/2003 ] Chandos Brass now at a special price |