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LULLY / MARAIS / REBELI
Comédie et Tragédie, Vol. 1: Orchestral music for the theatre Tempesta di Mare & Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This is Volume 1 of Tempesta di Mare's two disc project of late seventeenth century French instrumental music. 'Suites' of music were often compiled from stage works that were being performed at the time and presented in the form of instrumental... |
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol.4 Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Nov/2024 ] This volume of modern premières of works by Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758) was recorded in concert, the programme opening the 2023 International Fasch Festival, in Zerbst, the city in which he was Capellmeister to the princely court. Tempesta... |
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Premiere recordings This is Volume 2 in Chandos' series of orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of J.S. Bach and Telemann. In his day, his output in terms of cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber music was performed... |
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Orchestral Works, Volume 3 Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] This is the third and concluding volume in Tempesta di Mare's series of orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of J.S. Bach and Telemann. In his day, the works of Fasch - cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber music - were... |
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JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH
Janitsch: Rediscoveries from the Sara Levy Collection Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Players [ Chandos / Chaccone / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "They are tidy performances of what are equally tidy but otherwise fairly unremarkable mid-18th century pieces, though the sonatas da chiesa and sonatas di camera indicate Janitsch was writing for highly competent instrumentalists...and remain a bit |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: The Concerti-En-Suite Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "..beautifully blended sound of the whole: crisp strings, mellow woodwind, subtle-but-there harpsichord and theorbo and a gorgeous soft-focus halo of horns. In short, every instrumental timbre is beautifully looked after." Gramophone |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (complete opera) Tim Mead, Mary Bevan, Anna Dennis, Hilary Summers, Patrick Terry / Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / Chaccone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] "...Christian Curnyn's answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part counterpoint of music that fairly bursts with its composer's early genius." Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Nov 22 |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Flavio (complete opera) Tim Meade, Rosemary Joshua, Iestyn Davies, Hilary Summers, Renata Pokupic / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Curnyn and his spruce period band finely catch the tone and tinta of his delectable opera. Tempi - mobile but never frenetic - are aptly chosen, rhythms buoyant" (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Baroque Vocal) |
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LEOS JANACEK / ZOLTA KODALY
Janacek - Glagolitic Mass / Kodaly - Psalmus Hungaricus, Op. 13 Tina Kiberg (sop) Randi Stene (mez) Peter Svensson (ten) Ulrik Cold (bass) Per Salo (organ) / Danish National Radio Choir, Charles Mackerras [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Mackerras's new version is of particular interest as it embodies another of the reconstructions that have been painstakingly made of Janacek's original intentions in different... |
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SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019) Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Sarah Fox, Henry Waddington / London Mozart Players, William Vann [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Conductor William Vann, who avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry's great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you'd think he'd been conducting this music all his life" Gramophone Award 2020 Short List |
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SARASATE / SCARLATTI / BACH / RACHMANINOFF
A Life in Music - Vintage Tommy Reilly Tommy Reilly (harmonica); Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Øivind Bergh (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Aug/2019 ] Born in Ontario in August 1919, Tommy Reilly studied violin from the age of eight, and began playing harmonica at the age of eleven. Though he had played in England in 1935 - 37 and continental Europe in 1937 - 39, it was not until his arrest (while... |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade, Op. 35 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] This disc marks the beginning of an new recording relationship between Chandos Records and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conducting this performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's ever popular symphonic suite Sheherazade is Peter Oundjian, who this season... |
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SCHUBERT / FAURE / MASSENET / ELGAR / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Violin Favourites Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] |
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TRADITIONAL
The Voice of Wales Tredegar Orpheus Male Voice Choir / Rhos Orpheus Male Voice Choir [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1991 ] The choir popularly known as "Tredegar Orpheus" can trace its origin to the 1880's when it was known as the Tredegar Male Voice Society. In October 1909 a group of 20 or so men decided to form a glee party to take part in an eisteddfod which was... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / PAUL JUON / NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Berlin Stories: Mendelssohn, Juon, Skalkottas Trio Gaspard [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Berlin Stories is the first in a new series of recordings by the Trio Gaspard, based on different cultural capitals and composers associated with them. The album features three composers who lived and worked in Berlin for a period of their lives -... |
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / LEONID GOROKHOV
Haydn: Piano Trios II / Gorokhov: For Gaspard Trio Gaspard [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Described by Gramophone as 'an album of joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the appetite for future instalments', the first volume of Trio Gaspard's Haydn cycle was enthusiastically received by buyers and critics alike. As in the case of that... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Joseph Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 3 Trio Gaspard [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jun/2024 ] Those who have followed this series so far will not be surprised by the high levels of virtuosity and performative imagination that are evident throughout. - Gramophone |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Three Piano Trios, Op.1 Trio Goya [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] "Immaculate and tasteful playing on perfectly chosen instruments" The Strad |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Heart of Invention: Piano Trios Trio Goya [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Trio Goya perform all four works with vigour and sensitivity" Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
beethoven: Triple Concerto (with Brahms - Double Concerto) Trio Poseidon / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neemw Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |