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Challenger John Nethsingha Andrew
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge has selected some of\nthe best-known choral works of Samuel Sebastian Wesley for\ninclusion on this disc, interspersing them with one of his organ\nworks as…
Pike Jennifer Poster Tom Doric String Quartet
This is the sixth recording by the Doric String Quartet for\nChandos Records, and the discography is going from strength to\nstrength. The disc of Schumann’s String Quartets, Op. 41 was\n‘Recording of…
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Probably written for the virtuoso Kapelle at Cöthen (BWV1042) or\nthe concerts of the Leipzig Collegium Musicum which the composer\noften directed himself from the violin, Bach’s three well-known\nviolin concertos are joined…
Blazikova Hana Masaaki Suzuki Bach Collgium
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Kempf Freddy
Douglas Barry
This is Volume 2 in our series devoted to the works for solo\npiano by Johannes Brahms, with the acclaimed pianist Barry Douglas.\nSince winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky…
Davis Andrew Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
This disc marks the beginning of the partnership between the\nMelbourne Symphony Orchestra and its recently appointed Chief\nConductor, Sir Andrew Davis, who already boasts an impressive\ndiscography on Chandos.
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In the…
Schwarz Gerard Seattle Symphony
Dvořák’s was a strong voice in the re-establishment of Czech\nmusical identity, and the noble themes, open landscapes and dancing\nScherzo of the Symphony No. 6 bear the stamp of a genius…
Brookes Hazel Pollock David
On this recording we have a selection of works for solo\nharpsichord and for violin and continuo by Daniel Purcell, most of\nwhich are premiere recordings. Traditionally, Daniel Purcell has\nbeen known primarily…
Jarvi Neeme Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo, Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli, or as\nhe is more commonly known today, Franz von Suppé, was born in\nSpalato (Split), then part of the Austrian Empire, to parents of\nItalian / Belgian…
Ehnes James Jarvi Neeme Bergen Philharmonic
This two-disc set marks the beginning of a new project devoted\nto Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores. We start the survey with the\ncomplete score of The Sleeping Beauty, recorded on SACD. Swan Lake\nand…
Lortie Louis Gardner Edward Bbc Symphony
This recording of orchestral works by Karol Szymanowski form\npart of the Polish Music series on Chandos, and is performed by the\nBBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner. These performers have\nimpressed in…
Davis Carl
I decided to make this CD an instrumental one. Nowadays the originals are a button-press away on YouTube. A new interpretation would be exciting, especially played by a world class…
Seattle Symphony Schwarz Gerard
STRAVINSKY, I.: Firebird (The) / Fireworks (Seattle Symphony,\nSchwarz)
The scintillating orchestral effects of Fireworks so impressed\nSergey Dyagilev that the impresario was prompted to commission a\nnew work from Stravinsky for…
Luisi Fabio Wiener Symphoniker
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra proudly presents the first production of its own, newly founded label. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 1 was written only four years before the orchestra was founded…
Temirkanov Yuri
The St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra are one of the classical world’s most popular touring ensembles, bringing an inimitable style and character to their performances under the direction of Artistic Director…
Stile Antico
Texts inspired by the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter, set to music by some of the greatest Renaissance composers from England and the Continent. Included are two settings…
Bezuidenhout Kristian Mullejans Petra
Mozart places melody at the very heart of his concertos, most of which he composed for himself to perform. Introverted at the start, Piano Concerto No 17 subsequently burst into…
Blazikova Hana Suzuki Masaaki
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk\n(tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
In Volume 52 of his monumental sacred cantatas project, Masaaki\nSuzuki includes…
Shwarz Gerard Seattle Symphony
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Orchestral Suite and Waltz\nSequences
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Four Symphonic Interludes\nfrom Intermezzo
Jarvi Neeme
With a foreword by the long-standing Parry enthusiast HRH The Prince of Wales, this release features orchestral and choral works spanning the length of Parry’s composing life, many of which…
Watkins Paul Watkins Huw
In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries many British\ncomposers produced superb works for cello and piano, but few of\nthese actually made their way into the general repertoire. Here we\nhave four…
Davis Sir Andrew
Of the works performed here by the Royal Scottish National\nOrchestra under the prominent Delius interpreter Sir Andrew Davis,\nthe first three (Paris, the Piano Concerto, and Idylle de\nprintemps) offer a fascinating…
Zanasi Furio Eguez Eduardo
Early music specialist, baritone Furio Zanasi and La Chimera pay tribute to the Italian singer, Francesco Rasi (1574-1621), one of the most fascinating musicians produced by the early Baroque era…
Lugansky Nikolai
Following his much-praised Liszt recital, released in 2011, this\nnew recording is the second project on Naïve-Ambroisie from renowed\nRussian pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
Considered as one of the best performers of…
Diogenes Quartet
A prestigious project: the recording of the complete string\nquartets of Franz Schubert, by the German Diogenes Quartet.
Volume 1 offers one masterpiece, the famous Rosamunde Quartet in\nA minor, and…
Watkins Paul Gardner Edward
This is the fourth volume in Chandos’ series devoted to the\nmusic of the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski.
Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, described by\nGramophone as a ‘veritable…
Davis Sir Andrew Callow Simon
The Starlight Express was adapted from a book by Algernon\nBlackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland, for a theatre production in the\nWest End during the First World War, with music by Sir…
Choir St Johns Cambridge
Established in the 1670s, the Choir of St John’s College,\nCambridge is today one of the finest college choirs in the world,\nknown and loved by millions for its recordings and concert…
Little Tasmin Lane Piers
Tasmin Little has decided to showcase works by Ottorino Respighi\nand Richard Strauss in her latest recital disc for Chandos. She is\njoined by the well-respected Australian pianist Piers Lane.
Respighi…
Guliiaume Vincent
New naïve signing, and rising star of the piano, Guillaume Vincent’s first recording is dedicated to the demanding Rachmaninov Complete Preludes.
Born in Annecy in 1991, Guillaume Vincent took up…
Kopatchinskaja Patricia
This is the fourth recording by Patricia Kopatchinskaja on naïve; the second in the concerto repertoire. The collaboration with conductor/composer Peter Eötvos and the programme is an intense series of…
Halasz
Schubert’s last two symphonies are ambitious in scale and\nbrimming with striking ideas, though only two movements of the\nSymphony No. 8 were finished and the score rediscovered and first\nperformed 43 years…
Driver Danny
Hyperion presents a second volume of CPE Bach’s startlingly\noriginal and inventive keyboard sonatas. This release spans the\ncomposer’s career, taking the listener from the highly expressive\nmanner of his early works to…
Hasley Simon
Jonathan Dove wrote There Was a Child as a tribute to a friend’s son who died tragically young. Filled with both joyous celebration and heartfelt emotion, it’s a big, warm-hearted…
Various
‘Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon King. And all the people rejoiced and said: God save the King! Long live the King! May the King live for…
Gubisch Nora Altinoglu Alain
The mélodies presented here were written between 1903 and 1927. They display in exemplary fashion the different facets of the art of Ravelian song. Some malcontents have declared them ‘unclassifiable’…
Zaslavsky Roman
Asai Dai
Kaufman Richard
LSO Live presents Dimitri Tiomkin’s greatest film scores, the first of a new occasional LSO Live series of the greatest film music composers of all time.
The LSO’s association with…
Fischer Ivan
‘In full sail’ (his original title for the second movement) could be a motto for the whole symphony. Here is the young Mahler, full of optimism. We hear his love…
Dijkstra Peter Swedish Radio Choir
The CD features a.o. arrangements by Jan Sandström of improvised\nfolk songs of the Sami people - whose singing is among the earliest\ncontinuing vocal traditions of Europe - but also recent…
Florilegium
The wealth of secular and sacred music Bach produced in his\nlifetime belies the fact that very few bona fide works for chamber\nensemble exist (or survive). This prompted us, with a…
Bezaly Sharon Tognetti Richard Aco
On a wide selection of recordings – solo, with orchestra, and in\nchamber music – Sharon Bezaly has demonstrated not only ‘utter\ncommitment to the works’ but also ‘the most technically assured,\nbreathtakingly…
London Baroque
London Baroque presents a disc charting the Trio Sonata in\n18th-century France - a musical environment undergoing rapid\nchanges following the death of Louis XIV in 1715.
In 1725 François Couperin…
Dausgaard Thomas Swedish Chamber Orchestra
These two works from either end of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s career are linked by their tragic endings – the Sixth Symphony with its concluding Adagio lamentoso descending into the deep and…