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 |
PROKOFIEV
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / Suite from Cinderella, Op. 87 / Two Pushkin Waltzes, Op. 120 / etc Lina Prokofiev (narrator) / Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] No Prokofiev recorded anthology would be complete without a performance of Peter and the Wolf, and here the narrator comes in the person of Lina Prokofiev, the composer's widow. Recorded for Chandos when she was nearly ninety, Music magazine deemed... |
KORNGOLD
Lieder des Abschieds, Op. 14 / Symphony, Op. 40 Linda Finnie (contralto) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Edward Downes [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Scored for large forces - the rare Symphony in F Sharp major is a work of real imaginative power and ranks alongside the major symphonic works of Mahler and Bruckner; with a powerful and deeply felt slow movement of grandiose character. |
PROKOFIEV
Ivan the Terrible: Concert Scenario Linda Finnie (contralto) & Nikita Storojev (bass) / Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'Christopher Palmer strikes again! It is undoubtedly one of the great film scores, and Jarvi more than does it justice with the help of impassioned singing and playing from all concerned.' CD Review |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 / Scythian Suite, Op. 20, from `Ala et Lolly` Linda Finnie (contralto) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Neeme Jarvi's wide-screen spectacular captures the icy intensity in the scenes of devastation and the glitter of the musical patriotism in equal measure." (1001 recordings) |
ARTHUR BLISS
A Colour Symphony / The Enchantress / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2004 ] 'Chandos's generous compilation is an ideal introduction to his music… the Ulster Orchestra is outstanding and, as ever, Chandos' engineering produces a luxurious sound, highlighting the brilliance and richness of Bliss's orchestration.' - BBC Music... |
RAVEL
Orchestral Works (Including 'Daphnis et Chloe', Piano Trio in A minor & 'Bolero') Linda Finnie, mezzo-soprano Stephen Roberts, baritone, Rachel Masters, harp) / Belfast Philharmonic Society, Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2004 ] Tortelier's time with the Ulster Orchestra was extraordinarily fertile and these recordings represent the summit of their combined achievement. |