Chandos
Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Chandos)
Another way to listen to this imperishable masterpiece, beautifully arranged for and performed by lower, male voices [RMo]
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Volume 1 (Chandos)
Consistently magnificent performances, but comparison has a sting in the tail [MG]
Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds (Chandos)
Once again Impeccable music making from John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London [PRJ]
Path to the Moon Works for cello & piano (Chandos)
Three sonatas and a raft of transcribed songs offer fruitful material for the Chandos pairing [JW]
Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Choral Works (Chandos)
A full-blooded account of Mendelssohn’s weird pagan ballad, although his sister’s works will reward the curious listener in equal measure [RH]
English Guitar Concertos (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) The strong personality of dedicatee Julian Bream is ever present, but Ogden more than rises to the task. A fine disc [AD]
Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds (Chandos)
Three fulfilling works interconnected by pedagogical history [JF]
Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Chandos)
This SACD presents music, in fine performances, that is well worth getting to know [JQ]
Lalo: Orchestral Works (Chandos)
A typical Järvi performance for good or ill [NB]
Massenet: Thaïs (Chandos)
Massenet’s opera is superbly rejuvenated in a recording which sweeps the field of all other versions [MP]
L Bernstein: Jeremiah and Age of Anxiety (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) This disc in excellent sound is a worthy alternative to the composer’s own [JW]
Müller-Hartmann: Chamber music (Chandos)
An interesting byway of twentieth-century music [WH]
Lalo: Orchestral Works (Chandos)
Played with sensitivity balanced by enthusiasm [JF]
Bonis, Fauré, Hahn: Violin Sonatas (Chandos)
Three contrasting French sonatas offer rewarding virtues [JW]
Albinoni: Concerti a cinque (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) An outstanding issue in all regards [TB]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Chandos)
A wonderfully refined and also exciting new version [SB]
Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8 (Chandos)
Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy are an ideal partnership in demonstrating the zest, eloquence and operatic underpinning of Mozart’s piano concertos [MG]
Mompou: Piano music (Chandos)
Beautifully textured playing in these three atmospheric collections [RCh]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Chandos)
Wilson and Co triumph yet again [DMD]
Vaughan Williams: Music for Christmas (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Beautifully sensitive performances atmospherically recorded [RB]
Shostakovich: Symphony 14 (Chandos)
The programme is sombre but the performances are superlative [WH]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Chandos)
An enthusiastic welcome for a newly edited score of Ravel’s balletic masterpiece [PCG]
Alwyn: Film Music Vol. 2 (Chandos)
An excellent well-contrasted compilation of important British film music that needed to be rescued from oblivion [IL]
Müller-Hartmann: Chamber Works (Chandos)
A German traditionalist heard in music written before his enforced emigration to England [JW]
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