Chandos
Fuchs: Orchestral works Vol. 2 (Chandos)
Fuchs writes music we need to hear in these difficult times [PRJ]
Enescu, Ysaÿe and Bacewicz: Music for Strings (Chandos)
John Wilson’s latest recording of string music is a winner [SB]
Parry: Prometheus Unbound (Chandos)
A splendid debut commercial recording of a work that deserves to be better known than as just a historical curiosity [NC]
Bridge, Frances-Hoad & Walton: Cello Concertos (Chandos)
A well-planned and brilliantly played programme but the recording lacks bite [NB]
Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 ‘Babiy Yar’ (Chandos)
There’s a great deal to admire in this ‘Babiy Yar’, though it doesn’t shake allegiances to some earlier recordings [JQ]
Tippett: A Child of Our Time (Chandos)
An impressive achievement which serves as a fine memorial to a distinguished British conductor [JQ]
Rawsthorne: The Film Music (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Highly recommended to film music fans and admirers of English 20th Century music, particularly of Alan Rawsthorne [PC] [GSD]
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3 (Chandos)
Vibrant performances of Nielsen’s masterpieces, but the competition is formidable [LW]
Nielsen: Symphony No 3 and Flute Concerto (Chandos)
Good performances but no special interpretative insights [PBW]
Delius: Hassan (Chandos)
A welcome new recording of a substantial Delius score as originally conceived [NB]
Grieg: Symphonic Dances (Chandos)
Exemplary performances of some rare Grieg [SB]
Bax: Tone Poems (Chandos)
An essential acquisition for all Baxians [RB]
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral works (Chandos)
A very enjoyable Tchaikovsky collection, vividly played and recorded [JQ]
Delius: Hassan (Chandos)
The warmest welcome for a superb new realisation of Delius’s greatest work of incidental music [PCG]
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol 1 (Chandos)
A very promising beginning to the Doric’s Beethoven cycle, marked by excellent engineering, superb emotion, and precise attention to detail [MZ]
Yoshimatsu: Symphony No 4, Trombone Concerto (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Much of this music is delightful, particularly the symphony, where Yoshimatsu wears his heart unselfconsciously on his sleeve. The BBC Philharmonic plays beautifully with Ian Bousfield a fine soloist in the concerto [CT]
Bainton & Clifford: Orchestral Music Vol. 2 (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Committed readings of unjustly neglected works from the forgotten byways of the British Musical Renaissance [HC]
Shostakovich: Symphony 13 (Chandos)
Shostakovich and Pärt, cheek by jowl, on this uneven disc [NC]
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 for two pianos (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) This will be compulsory and compulsive listening for admirers of DSCH [PCW]
Arnold: Overtures (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Hugely entertaining music conducted with incisiveness and flair [JQ]
A Room of Her Own (Chandos)
A handful of unfailingly accomplished, virtually unknown trios, in handsome performances and ideal sound [RHa]
Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds (Chandos)
A crisp interpretation of Ravel’s reverie that highlights its sui generis brilliance against his Boulangerist successors [NC]
Mozart: Piano Concertos – Vol. 9 (Chandos)
Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy are unsurpassed in sensitively conveying Mozart’s varieties of mood, but K415’s finale is diminished by a plethora of eingangs and a rescoring [MG]
Rachmaninoff: All-night Vigil (Chandos)
Musically and sonically outstanding [JQ]
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