Since you are interested in Orchestral works: Praga, Symphonic Poem / A Summer's Tale, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
OLA GJEILO
Gjeilo: Northern Lights: Choral works Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Warmly appeasing choral music...Mainly mellow in tone, though Dark Night of the Soul strikes deeper." (BBC Music) |
JAMES MacMILLAN
MacMillan: Quickening / Three Interludes from 'The Sacrifice' Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Gordon Jones (baritone) / BBC Philharmonic / James MacMillan [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The three interludes from MacMillan's opera The Sacrifice are more than an interesting filler. The same exuberant invention can be found here as in Quickening... The sound is stunning..." BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 ***** |
ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 / In the South BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] 'Critical comment on the recording of the Second Symphony: Elgar's Second Symphony blossoms in the hands of Richard Hickox and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.' Classic FM Magazine 'Disc of the month' |
BERNSTEIN
Kaddish (Symphony No. 3); Chichester Psalms; etc Pablo Strong (treble) Ann Murray (mezzo) Simon Baker (counter-tenor) Jamie Bernstein (narrator) / BBC Singers / BBC Symphony / Slatkin [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - Missa Brevis and of Symphony No. 3 Kaddish with a new text written and narrated by Bernstein's daughter Jamie, as well as the popular Chichester... |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Symphony No. 2 / Little Suite (Mala suita) / Cello Concerto Paul Watkins (cello)/ BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Concerto / GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Orchestral |
ARGENTO / MANTYJARVI / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / MARTIN / HARRIS
Shakespeare in Song Phoenix Bach Choir / Charles Bruffy (director) [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] A unique collection of Shakespeare songs which will appeal to lovers of song and admirers of the Bard. On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in multichannel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
MANTYJARVI / TICHELI / MARTIN / CLAUSEN
Eternal Rest Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] Phoenix Bach Choir & Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy |
JOSEF RHEINBERGER
Sacred Choral Works (Incls Mass, Op. 109) Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "This new recording was made by two professional American choirs, the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale, conducted by Charles Bruffy. The two groups come together annually to record double choir works. The resulting ensemble is... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Randall Scarlata (baritone) / Company of Music / Tolzer Knabenchor / Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederosterreich / Kristjan Jarvi [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] "Bravo and thrice-triple bravo! Bernstein's flower child finally comes of age." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) ; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 ; The Running Set ; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 Rebecca Evans (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - This latest SACD release in the series features the premiere recording of the reconstructed Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2. |
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) |
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) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphony No 4 / Mass in G minor / Six Choral Songs Richard Hickox Singers / London Symphony Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in multichannel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. Nominated for two Grammys, including the prestigious 'Classical album of the year' award. |
ALBAN BERG
Orchestral Works Robert Murray (tenor) Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Saga Danielsson (child soprano) Geraldine McGreevy (soprano); Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight, this set represents an outstanding addition to the... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] "The surround sound balance offers considerably enhanced definition" (Gramophone) - On Hybrid Surround Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
WAGNER
The Ring, an orchestral adventure (with Siegfried Idyll) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] "Dutch composer Henk de Vlieger describes his symphonic synthesis of the complete Ring cycle as "An Orchestral Adventure"… A bold concept, which in a performance as fine as this works remarkable well…" (Gramophone) |
WAGNER
Tristan and Isolde - An Orchestral Passion Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "...with fine playing and vivid sonics, this disc is certainly recommendable." (ClassicsToday Feb 2011) |
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger: an Orchestral Tribute (arranged by Henk de Vlieger) / Eine Faust-Ouvertüre / Overture to ‘Columbus’ Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] Neeme Järvi conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the fourth album of their Wagner series. |
SUPPE
Overtures & Marches Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "Jarvi is back with the orchestra with which he won so many laurels in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He brings both zip and sentiment to these orchestral delights. He is, for example, as soulful as Bruch in the preamble to Dichter und Bauer and... |
SAINT-SAENS
Orchestral Works (Incls 'Phaéton, Op. 39' & 'Danse macabre, Op. 40') Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] The works on this disc are all early, dating from the first half of the composing life of Saint-Saëns - that is, with the one exception of the Marche du couronnement which the composer wrote for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902. |