Chandos
Strauss: Salome (Chandos)
A thoroughly disappointing recording, poorly sung, indifferently conducted and afflicted by problems in the recorded balance [RMo]
Dring: Complete Works for Oboe (Chandos)
A disc of unexpected delights – delicious music played with wit and elegance [NB]
Peter Moore (trombone): Shift (Chandos)
Peter Moore has built on his astonishing debut and his world renown is well deserved [SA]
Ruth Gipps: Orchestra Works Volume 4 (Chandos)
This series goes from strength to strength – Symphony No.5 is quite a discovery [NB]
Walton: Violin Concerto and other works (Chandos)
Technically accomplished readings that lack the full emotional range implicit in the major works [NB]
Walton: Violin Concerto and other orchestral works (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London embark on a Walton odyssey [PH]
Corigliano: Symphony 2 (Chandos)
This new version of the Second Symphony now takes pride of place on the Corigliano part of the shelf [CC]
Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss (Chandos)
Undemanding delight, witty repartee, romantic enchantment [RB]
Greene: Jephtha (Chandos)
Maurice Greene’s accomplished, perceptive early English oratorio on disc at last, in an excellent performance [JW]
Medtner: Goethe Lieder (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Works of the most eloquent melodic and lyric faculty superbly presented [RB]
Bridge: Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) An extraordinarily rewarding series now celebrated in a fourth volume [RB]
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (Chandos)
A recording which has a lot going for it but which just misses the mark [JQ]
Williamson: Orchestra Works Vol. 1 (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) It is wonderful to have the first disc of this series [IL]
Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol. 5 (Chandos)
The excellence of the first four volumes is triumphantly maintained [NB]
Górecki: Complete Works for String Quartet (Chandos)
Górecki’s impressive quartets are well worth hearing [SB]
Foulds: A World Requiem (Chandos)
Déjà Review) Ventures like this give one hope for the future of recorded music [PCW]
Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol 5 (Chandos)
A worthy addition to this useful series [SB]
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (Chandos)
A more intimate, lower-key account which for me fails to stir the blood [RMo]
Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol 5 (Chandos)
Another album of discovery in Chandos’ ongoing survey of R R Bennett [PH]
Harpsichord Music from the Reign of Louis XIV (Chandos)
Fascinating corners in the vast harpsichord repertoire from the court of the Sun King [GH]
Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos)
Another group of exemplary performances show this composer in the best possible light [NB]
Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos)
A further opportunity to get to know her fine music [PH]
Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Sonatinas, Bach transcriptions (Chandos)
Busoni’s great Fantasia in its two piano version is the climax of this rewarding disc [SB]
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Chandos)
This is a disc that no lover of Sibelius will want to miss [WH]