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]
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Chandos)
Cool, restrained and beautifully played in Nordic style [RMo]
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]
Gipps: Piper of Dreams (Chandos)
Wonderful playing in an essential addition to the Gipps discography [WK]
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]
Taneyev: Symphonies (Chandos/Presto)
Two most interesting Russian symphonies in accomplished and committed performances [JQ]
Rodgers: Carousel (Chandos)
Wilson and his colleagues do full justice to this Broadway masterpiece [JQ]
Elgar: Overtures (Chandos)
A much-admired Elgar Overtures disc still sounds resplendent [JW]
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]
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]
Gerhard: La Dueña (Chandos)
An opera with patches of real brilliance in a more than acceptable recording [MP]
Bliss: Works for Brass Band (Chandos)
A fine overview of Bliss’ endlessly impressive and engaging music [NB]
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: Orchestral Works (Chandos)
An appealing entry point into Schurmann’s eclectic neo-Romanticism [NC]
Weinberg: String Quartets Nos 6, 13 & 15, Vol. 4 (Chandos)
Stand-out performances [SA]
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]
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