Chandos

Mozart: Piano Concerti Nos 1-4 (Chandos)

Performances to encourage an investigation of Mozart’s rarely played apprenticeship to the piano concerto trade [MG]

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Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Chandos)

Cool, restrained and beautifully played in Nordic style [RMo]

Deja Review RVW Film Music v1 Chandos CHAN 10007

Vaughan Williams: Film Music, Vol 1 (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) Thrilling, evocative performances captured in the best Chandos sound. Especially important for presenting the full score of Scott of the Antarctic [IL]

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Gipps: Piper of Dreams (Chandos)

Wonderful playing in an essential addition to the Gipps discography [WK]

Deja Review MacMillan Birds of Rhiannon Chandos CHAN9997

MacMillan: The Birds of Rhiannon (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) A highly recommended collection of works for choir and orchestra by MacMillan, magnificently performed under the direction of the composer [CT]

Block: Chamber Works (Chandos)

Another laudable composer emerges in the ‘Music in Exile’ series [JW]

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Taneyev: Symphonies (Chandos/Presto)

Two most interesting Russian symphonies in accomplished and committed performances [JQ]

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Rodgers: Carousel (Chandos)

Wilson and his colleagues do full justice to this Broadway masterpiece [JQ]

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Elgar: Overtures (Chandos)

A much-admired Elgar Overtures disc still sounds resplendent [JW]

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Martin: Symphonies (Chandos)

A welcome reissue of Martin orchestral works [LW]

Schurmann: Orchestral Works (Chandos)

Brilliant recordings of wonderfully evocative music [PRJ]

Sutton: Orchestral works (Chandos)

A refreshing dose of new music in that much-loved English tradition [DC]

Bliss: Works for Brass Band (Chandos)

This outstanding disc will be self-recommending to all admirers of Bliss’s music and to brass band devotees [JQ]

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Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Chamber works (Chandos)

Assured playing, let down by the recording [SV]

Gerhard: Don Quixote, Alegrías, Pedrelliana (Chandos)

Attractive music, well presented [SB]

Addison: Film Music (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) One of the very best of Chandos’s British film music series [IL]

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Gipps: Piper of Dreams (Chandos)

A thrilling recital [SA]

Gerhard: La Dueña (Chandos)

An opera with patches of real brilliance in a more than acceptable recording [MP]

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Bliss: Works for Brass Band (Chandos)

A fine overview of Bliss’ endlessly impressive and engaging music [NB]

Deja Review Karlowicz Eternal Songs Chandos CHAN9986

Karłowicz: Three Symphonic Poems (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) Passionate, intense, vivid, powerful and highly charged. This is the product of a fertile musical imagination [JQ]

Schurmann Piano Concerto Chandos CHAN20341

Schurmann: Orchestral Works (Chandos)

An appealing entry point into Schurmann’s eclectic neo-Romanticism [NC]

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Weinberg: String Quartets Nos 6, 13 & 15, Vol. 4 (Chandos)

Stand-out performances [SA]

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Christine Brewer (soprano) Great Operatic Arias (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) Chandos’s faith in Brewer has been justified, completely and utterly [CC]

French Opera Overtures (Chandos)

A mixed bag of goodies, distinctive and well worth a listen [RMay]