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TRADITIONAL
British Folksongs Tommy Reilly (harmonica), Skaila Kanga (harp) [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 3/Jan/2006 ] |
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CORNELIS DOPPER
Second Symphony, Paan I and 11 Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2001 ] The unfairly neglected music of Cornelis Dopper |
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CORNELIS DOPPER
Symphony No. 3 'rembrandt' / Symphony No. 6 'Amsterdam' Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2002 ] This is the first time that both works on this disc have been recorded. |
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Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Matthias Bamert
Hol, Richard - Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Sep/2001 ] Both works on this disc are premiere recordings |
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Residentie Orchestra the Hague Matthias Bamert, conductor
Verhulst - Symphony in E minor, Op. 46 [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] "This is enjoyable and cultivated music and is persuasively performed here, the Residentie Orchestra responging eagerly to Matthias Bamert's clear-sighted direction and ear for detail. The recording is excellent" (Gramophone) |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No 5 Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Järvi is too good a technician not to take his players with him. Indeed the Dutch musicians display a certain daredevil nonchalance as they breeze their way through the epic 635-bar finale." (Gramophone) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor Residentie Orchestra the Hague, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "[it is] as if Järvi wants to stress beyond all doubt that the symphony represents a new direction for Mahler: more experimental, more abstracted...[He] plainly revels in the spookhouse effects of the nocturnal inner movements" (Gramophone) |
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MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham - Volume 4 [Violin Concerto / A Midsummer Night's Dream] Rhian Lois (soprano I), Keri Fuge (soprano II) & Jennifer Pike (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2016 ] For this new recording of orchestral works by Mendelssohn, the CBSO and its principal guest conductor, Edward Gardner, join the violinist Jennifer Pike, who made a remarkable debut at Carnegie Hall this year. She here performs the Violin Concerto in... |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Facade - An Entertainment Richard Baker (narrator), Susana Walton (narrator), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] -The lighter side of William Walton |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Words and Music Richard Rodney Bennett (vocals and piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] Claire Martin wrote on Rodney Bennett: “He sings beautifully and he plays great piano, he has such a beautiful touch and really cool ideas. Plus he knows loads of great quirky songs…” |
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YORK BOWEN
Bowen: Chamber Works [incls 'Sonata for Clarinet & Piano op.109'] Robert Plane (bass clarinet) Mia Cooper (violin) & David Adams (viola) / Gould Piano Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "The Gould Piano Trio...well recorded, play with fine teamwork and a strong feeling for Bowen's idiom...this is a valuable introduction to a formidably well equipped, if doggedly conversative, late Romantic composer." (BBC Music) |
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BERNARDO PASQUINI
Sonate per gravicembalo Roberto Loreggian (harpsicord & spinet) with Francesco Ferrarini (cello) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] 'The excellent Roberto Lorregian brings an attractive improvisatory quality to his playing, starting some pieces with a flourish of his own and employing rubato here and there.' Gramophone |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Roderick Williams (baritone) Iian Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] In this, the first of a series of three recordings of Schubert's great song cycles for Chandos, Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside bring their formidable talents to bear on one of the pinnacles of classical lieder. |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges) Roderick Williams, baritone BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] "Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended" - MusicWeb Oct 2004 |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] 'Finally, there's a real treat: the first recording of a recently discovered Nocturne, an intensely moving setting of Walt Whitman's 'Whispers of Heavenly Death' composed in 1908. It's evocatively sung here by Roderick Williams.' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (An Opera in Two Scenes, Libretto by Paul Dehn) Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] "A long-neglected British opera at last makes a sparkling début on record" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
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NIELS W. GADE
Symphonies Vol 4 (Symphony Nos 1 & 5) Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Danish National Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Hogwood [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] 'Splendidly played and evocative recordings to finish Hogwood's fine Gade cycle.' Gramophone |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Cotswold Romance / The Death of Tintagiles Rosa Mannion / Thomas Randle / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Richard Hickox directs a vivid performance [of A Cotswold Romance] with splendid support from his assembled forces. Although not major works, these are notable additions to the catalogue, and the performances could hardly be better' BBC ***** |
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HANDEL
Serse (complete opera) Rosemary Joshua, Anna Stéphany, David Daniels, Joélle Harvey / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2013 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine September 2013 |