Chandos
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]
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 & Flute Concerto (Chandos)
An essential Nielsen recording that crackles with the chaotic energy of the life-force [NC]
A Room of Her Own (Chandos)
The Neave Trio charm us in this collection of rarities [RCh]
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral works (Chandos)
A very well played anthology of what is not Tchaikovsky’s most memorable or celebrated music [RMo]
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Apollon Musagète (Chandos)
Superb recordings of all the works here [SB]
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]
