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RACHMAINOV
Complete Piano Preludes Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] "Strong competition but this young Russian finds a distinctive voice in Rachmaninov" (Gramophone) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Theatre Music Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Critic's Choice-The Best CDs of 2001 (BBC Music Magazine) |
RACHMANINOV
Atudes-Tableaux, Opp 33 & 39 Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Nov/2006 ] BBC Magazine Award Finalist 2008 (Best instrumental recording) - 'These forthright, beautifully weighted performances keep the emotion in check but never at bay. Op. 39 No. 7 emerges as one of Rachmaninov's greatest creations in a drama of life and... |
BARTOK
Bluebeard's Castle (complete opera in English) Sally Burgess / John Tomlinson / Orchestra of Opera North / Richard Farnes [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Sea Drift / Songs of Farewell / Songs of Sunset Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano) Bryn Terfel (baritone) / Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Gramophone 'Choral' award winner |
FRANCOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC
Le Triomphe de la Republique ou Le Camp de Grand Pre SalomAFAC Haller / Antonella Balducci / Guillemette Laurens / Makato Sakurada / Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano / I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] Diego Fasolis has developed quite a reputation for innovative repertoire with the Suisse Radio musicians and is regarded as one of the leading lights in the performance of early music. |
DAME ETHEL SMYTH
Smith: The Prison (Choral Symphony) Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton / Experiential Orchestra and Chorus, James Blachly [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral GRAMMY Awards 63rd Awards (2021) Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album |
FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works, Volume 8 (Incl The Pageant of London) Sarah Connelly (mezzo) Philip Langridge (tenor) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] 'The nine orchestral songs prove the most rewarding. Connolly sings two exquisite Tagore songs with rapturous intensity, while Langridge is superb in Bridge's 1918 setting of Rupert Brooke's 'Blow Out, You Bugles'.' The Guardian |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Songs of love and loss (Incls 'Liederkreis, Op. 39' & 'Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42') Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Eugene Asti (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly here performs a collection of songs by Robert Schumann in a new album whose theme is 'Songs of Love and Loss'. There are two song cycles from the extremely prolific year of 1840 along with several songs from... |
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Choir and orchestra of the Enlightenment / Elizabeth Kenny [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Here is England's first great opera presented with a truly cohesive sense of theatrical purpose… Sarah Connolly is the driving force from the start" Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice (February 2009) |
BRITTEN / HOWELLLS / IRELAND / RODNEY BENNETT / etc
My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "It is good to find an English singer in her prime championing the lesser-known art songs of her native tradition, and making them sound not so much twee as magical" (Financial Times) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Phaedra, Op. 93 / A Charm of Lullabies / Lachrymae / Two Portraits / Sinfonietta, Op. 1 Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Edward Gardner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "Gardner's sensitivity to the bittersweet Thirties idiom of the first portrait and the elegiac eloquence of viola soloist Maxim Rysanov in the second combine to highly atmospheric effect. Imaginative programme, highly recommended." Editor's Choice... |
GEFFREY BURGON
Viola Concerto ‘Ghosts of the Dance’ / Cello Concerto / Merciless Beauty Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Philip Dukes (viola) / Josephine Knight (cello) / City of London Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2010 ] Chandos releases premiere recordings of Geoffrey Burgon's viola and cello concertos, alongside the song cycle Merciless Beauty, all performed by the City of London Sinfonia under Rumon Gamba. |
HUBERT PARRY
Parry: Scenes from Shelley''s ''Prometheus Unbound'' / Blest Pair of Sirens Sarah Fox (soparno) Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo) David Butt Philip (tenor) Neal Davies (baritone) / Crouch End Fesitval Chorus, London Mozart Players [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "Worthy and welcome as earlier recordings are, they pale in energy, in precision and conviction beside the performances here." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Choral |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Christmas Music (Incls 'On Christmas Night' & 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols') Sarah Fox (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Joyful Company of Singers / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 22/Oct/2006 ] "Beautifully sensitive performances atmospherically recorded … irresistible … There's even a sprig of holly on the CD!" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
String Quartet No. 1 / Fantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings / Sonata for Violin and Piano Sarah Francis (oboe) / English String Quartet / Melbourne String Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "Here are some rarely recorded works by a superb composer in excellent performances at mid-price." American Record Guide |
MANUEL de FALLA
Falla: Love the Magician / Nights in the Gardens of Spain / Interlude and Spanish Dance from 'La vida breve' Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Geoffrey Simon [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Feb/2005 ] ' The brightly lit Chandos recording emphasis the vigour of Geoffrey Simon's very vital account…' - The Penguin Complete Guide |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book of the Seven Seals) Johannes Chum (tenor), Robert Holl (bassbaritone), Sandra Trattnigg (soprano), Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano) / Wiener Singverein, Kristjan Järvi [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] "With Robert Holl a sympathetically soft-grained God and Johannes Chum a sweetly lyrical rather than heroically over-forced St John, this Book now stands as top choice." (BBC Music) |
BERG
Complete Chamber Music Schoenberg Quartet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] 'The Lyric Suite is among the crowning works of modern quartet literature, and the Schoenberg Quartet has the measure of its diverse moods and twin-track trajectory of increasing dynamism and emotional intensity' - Gramophone |
SZYMANOWSKI / JANACEK
String Quartets Schoenberg Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] 'The Schoenberg Quartet adds that element of emotional daring which makes all the difference in the world. Outstanding.' Gramophone |
