Chandos

A fine recital of songs is a welcome addition to the Quilter discography [PT]

A nice selection of music for trumpet and orchestra that just lacks the needed impact [MBu]

A finely played piano concerto and orchestral works by a most highly regarded North American composer of his generation [EJW]

A joyful celebration of women’s voices and women composers [PT]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A welcome reissue of Martin orchestral works [LW]

Brilliant recordings of wonderfully evocative music [PRJ]

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

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

Assured playing, let down by the recording [SV]

Attractive music, well presented [SB]

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

A thrilling recital [SA]

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

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

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