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MICHAEL BERKELEY
Baa Baa Black Sheep: A Jungle Tale (Complete opera) Malcolm Lorimer (boy treble) Ann Taylor-Morley (mezzo-soprano) William Dazeley (baritone) Fiona Kimm (contralto) / Chorus of Opera North; English Nort [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] 'This recording was made at performances by a uniformly strong Opera North cast... warmly recommended: even if you don't think you like contemporary opera, give it a try.' - BBC Music Magazine |
ENNIO MORRICONE / NINO ROTA / PAOLO SILVESTRI / GATO BARBIERI
Postcards From Italy: Italian Music For Film Marco Albonetti (saxophone), Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: 'Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amarcord d'un Tango Marco Albonetti (soprano saxophone), Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneón), Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Apr/2022 ] Marco Albonetti writes: '"Amarcord" signifies memory, the nostalgic re-enactment of the past. Here, it evokes the idea of joining two instruments, the saxophone and the bandoneón, both of which were invented in the middle of the nineteenth century.... |
ROSSINI
Complete Piano Edition Vol. 4 - Peches de Vieillesse / Album pour les enfants degourdis Marco Sollini (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] The fourth volume of this well-received series, is subtitled 'Post-Adolescent Shrewdness' and covers Book 6 of the Péchés de vieillesse. This substantial works of 13 books offers the listener an ironic and irreverent look - visually and aurally of... |
ROSSINI
Complete Piano Works, Volume 2 Marco Sollini (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] This is the second in Chandos' series of Rossini's complete piano works. |
ROSSINI
Complete Piano Works, Volume 3 (Incls 'Album pour les enfantes adolescentes') Marco Sollini (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 22/Oct/2006 ] ‘The relish and panache of his (Sollini) playing here are not to be gainsaid and the recordings are superb’' Gramophone |
ROSSINI
Complete Piano Edition (Volume 1) Marco Sollini (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] This is the first in Chandos' new series of Rossini's complete piano works. The disc contains many premiere recordings |
Margaret Fingerhut, piano
Berkeley, Sir Lennox / Michael Berkeley-Piano Works (Includes Six Preludes, Op. 23 & (1955) premiere) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] 'Margaret Fingerhut is an accomplished and stylish advocate; she is particularly eloquent in the dark colours of the Michael Berekely, and gives a penetrating account of the Sonata... For anyone interested in 20th-century British music, this is... |
Margaret Fingerhut, piano
Bloch - Piano music [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2002 ] "merits a strong recommendation." (BBC Music Magazine) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Endless Song: Encores for Piano Margaret Fingerhut (piano) [ CHANDOS / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Pianist Margaret Fingerhut presents a collection of encore like pieces that explore the way in which composers have transformed the piano, in essence a percussion instrument, into one that can sing. |
LEIGHTON
Solo Piano Works Margaret Fingerhut (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Margaret Fingerhut's strong and immaculate performances recall Leighton's own powerful style as a pianist almost exactly, and the recordings reveal his fine ear for keyboard resonance." (BBC Music) |
ARNOLD BAX
Orchestral Works, Volume 7 (Winter Legends & Symphonic Variations) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] This is the only available recording of Winter Legends, one of Bax's most successful works for piano and orchestra, and there is only one other recording of the Symphonic Variations. |
DUKAS
The Essential Paul Dukas (Incls Symphony in C major & L'Apprenti sorcier) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / Ulster Orchestra / BBC Philharmonic / etc [ Chandos 241 / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "This is a notably generous double collection which is handsomely what it says on the box." (MusicWeb June 2006) |
GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites / Lyric Suite / Piano Concerto Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "As a well-filled, single-disc collection of Grieg's Greatest Hits, this is a great buy." American Record Guide! |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Moeran: Symphony in G minor / Overture for a Masque / Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "Handley's reading is superb, and both the remastered sound and generous timing of this disc require an automatic recommendation." American Reocrd Guide |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica / Four Last Songs / Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "This would be my present first choice ... The Bergen players are especially effective, the huge orchestration never cluttered or opaque in SACD spaciousness ..." BBC Music magazine - Christmas 2017 |
SCHULHOFF / KRENEK / d'INDY
The 20th Century Concerto Grosso Maria Prinz (piano); Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute) Christoph Koncz (violin); Robert Nagy (cello) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marrine [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] .On this disc, we feature the works of three composers - Vincent d'Indy, Ernst Krenek, and Erwin Schulhoff - who all in the mid- to late-1920s adopted neoclassicism and chose to write works in the neo-baroque concerto grosso style, using a... |
JOHAN HALVORSEN
Orchestral Works Vol 1 Marianne Thorsen (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] "Järvi is back to his old exciting, vigorous self, and the orchestra plays with total commitment and enthusiasm. Great sound too. A terrific release." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com June 2010) |
JOHAN HALVORSEN
Orchestral Works (4 CD set) Marianne Thorsen (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "Halvorsen was a natural tone-painter and story-teller...The Bergen Philharmonic under Jarvi once more provide beautifully idiomatic performances caught in rich Chandos sound...a musical delight." Gramophone Magazine on Vol 4 |
JOHAN SVENDSEN
Orchestral Works Vol 3 Marianne Thorsen (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] Neeme Järvi brings us Vol. 3 in his survey of orchestral works by the Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen. This series has received great reviews for its idiomatic performances by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the violinist Marianne Thorsen.... |
