Chandos
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Edward Gardner conducts Holst & Richard Strauss
CBSO Youth Chorus, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Edward Gardner
Here these showpieces are played with all the zest and freshness one may hope for from these highly skilled young musicians...It perhaps does not require a conductor of Edward Gardner's calibre... —
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The bulk of Britten's choral output, repackaged at budget level from full-price originals. Wonderfully sympathetic performances, rich recording. A top bargain for the Britten centenary. —
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These are performances on the largest scale…although of course only four instruments are playing, you have to remind yourself that you’re not listening to a symphony orchestra…I have found,... —
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Special offer. Gossec: Le Triomphe de la République
Salomé Haller (soprano), Antonella Balducci (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Claudio Danuser (baritone), Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) & Arnaud Marzorati (bass)
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano, Coro Calicantus & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Diego Fasolis and his performers deliver this extraordinary score with no hint of embarrassment at its pervasive simplicity in a brightly-hued recording. Choral vocal lines are mostly firm,... —
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These performances of his concertos are every bit as frisky and fun as the music itself. —
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Christopher Gunning - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 & Oboe Concerto
Verity Gunning (oboe)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Gunning
The piquant Concerto for oboe and strings, for me, takes the palm. Light on its feet, with some lovely moments for individual players in the first movement, it acquires a more ruminative, melancholy... —
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini
Svetla Vassileva (Francesca), Misha Didyk (Paolo), Sergey Murzaev (Lanciotto), Gennady Bezzubenkov (Ghost of Virgil) & Evgeny Akimov (Dante Alighieri)
BBC Singers & BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
This is an excellent way of coming to know a flawed but interesting piece of Rachmaninov, and it is much helped by excellent presentation from Chandos. —
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Imai's approach is slightly cool and measured, lacking the last degree of rhythmic excitement. But the lyrical passages are lovely. —
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