Browse: Chandos (label)

…the masterly Concerto for Piano an Wind used Stravinsky as a model without losing originality. The Trumpet Concerto is full of sparkle and energy too; but it too has an elegiac, haunting soliloquy... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 More…

Ogden, as ever, puts his own convincing mark on works such as the Granados Andaluza and the Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 12, from microsecond caesura, to decisions on where to accent, where to hold... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

They are tidy performances of what are equally tidy but otherwise fairly unremarkable mid-18th century pieces, though the sonatas da chiesa and sonatas di camera indicate Janitsch was writing... — The Guardian, 11th January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

It is hard not to be beguiled by the charms of Fauré's First Piano Quintet when played with the kind of understanding displayed by The Schubert Ensemble. They are similarly convincing in the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With a barrage of astringent chord clusters at the beginning of his ballet Les Élémens, Jean-Fery Rebel brings the soundworld of Ligeti kicking and screaming to 18th-century Paris...The Philadelphians... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Besides the stellar quality of Little's playing (as ever, warmly engaging and technically bombproof), Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic provide accompaniments in a special class. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Conti gets to the heart of both symphonies, finding the inner warmth that eluded Ruud for BIS. The Italian orchestra (who have made several film music recordings) play Rota's lines with greater... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 More…