Latest News: Classical, Chandos (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Peter Donohoe plays Busoni 6th August 2021The British pianist is a clear-eyed but infectiously enthusiastic guide through the Italian composer-pianist's weird and wonderful world, taking in the 7 Elegien, Sonatina super Carmen, and two Toccatas.
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Recording of the Week,
Sibelius from Edward Gardner, the Bergen Philharmonic, and Lise Davidsen 2nd July 2021The Norwegian soprano combines drama and delicacy in the tone-poem Luonnotar, whilst the Bergen string sound in Tapiola, Rakastava and Pelléas & Mélisande is a thing to marvel at.
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Recording of the Week,
American Quintets from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective 28th May 2021An arresting debut album from the shape-shifting ensemble features piano quintets by Amy Beach and Florence Price, plus Samuel Barber's Dover Beach with bass Matthew Rose in superb voice.
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Interview,
Francesca Dego on Paganini's Violin 22nd February 2021The violinist talks about her new recording on Paganini's own violin, featuring works by, dedicated to and responding to the great composer.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts English music for strings 29th January 2021Sinfonia of London and conductor John Wilson present their latest stunning album of music for string orchestra by Britten, Bridge, Berkeley, and Bliss.
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Interview,
Ivan Ilić on L’art de varier 13th January 2021The pianist talks to Katherine about the third volume of his acclaimed Antoine Reicha series on Chandos (released last Friday), which features just one work - an extraordinary set of 57 variations composed in 1802–03.
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Recording of the Week,
Verklärte Nacht from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1st January 2021Schoenberg's masterpiece is framed by works for voice and orchestra (also on the theme of 'transfigured night') by Franz Lehár, Oskar Fried, and Erich Korngold.
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Interview,
Anna Patalong and Benedict Nelson on Miss Julie 20th August 2020The British soprano and baritone (and real-life couple) discuss bringing William Alwyn's unjustly neglected opera to life last year for a concert-performance at the Barbican followed by a studio recording, released on Chandos last month.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson and Sinfonia of London perform Respighi's Roman Trilogy 31st July 2020For his third album with Sinfonia of London, John Wilson turns to Respighi's dazzling triptych of orchestral works depicting the city of Rome through the ages.
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Recording of the Week,
William Alwyn's Miss Julie from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 3rd July 2020Real-life husband-and-wife Anna Patalong and Benedict Nelson star in the English composer's 1977 opera, based on Strindberg's great naturalistic drama from 1888.
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Interview,
Edward Gardner on Schoenberg 9th June 2020The British conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of Erwartung & Pelleas und Melisande, released on Chandos last month, and socially-distanced music-making in Bergen.
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Recording of the Week,
Korngold's Violin Concerto from John Wilson, Andrew Haveron and the RTE Concert Orchestra 3rd April 2020A bracing, unsentimentalised take on the composer's most popular work, plus an exuberant account of the youthful String Sextet from the Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble.
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Recording of the Week,
Charles Hubert Parry's Judith from William Vann and the London Mozart Players 21st February 2020Parry’s 1888 oratorio on the Apocryphal tale of an avenging Jewish widow emerges as a worthy successor to Mendelssohn’s Elijah in this gripping world premiere recording with Sarah Fox, Kathryn Rudge and Toby Spence.
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Interview,
John Wilson on Sinfonia of London 30th January 2020The British conductor talks to James about his new ensemble and their first two recording projects of music by Korngold plus a selection of French orchestral works.
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Recording of the Week,
Lines Written During a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection 3rd January 2020The young British soprano Louise Alder traces her family history through a programme of Rachmaninov, Grieg, Medtner, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Britten, with superb support from Joseph Middleton.
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Recording of the Week,
Bliss from Sarah Connolly, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 8th November 2019Davis continues his advocacy for the English composer with three relatively late works - the dramatic scena The Enchantress (written for Kathleen Ferrier), the Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, and the 1963 cantata Mary of Magdala.
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Interview,
Ralph Couzens on Chandos 3rd October 2019To mark their fortieth anniversary, the British independent record-label's Managing Director talks to Katherine about their evolution and plans for the future...
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Recording of the Week,
Ethel Smyth's Mass in D from Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 27th September 2019Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D and overture to The Wreckers.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts Korngold's Symphony in F sharp 30th August 2019John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London show their impressive credentials when it comes to the music of Korngold, with a thrillingly-performed account of the Symphony in F sharp.
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Interview,
Ivan Ilić on Stegmann's transcriptions of Haydn 12th August 2019The Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about discovering and recording solo piano arrangements of Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44 by Carl David Stegmann, a conductor, composer and tenor who sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni.