Browse: Chandos (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Chandos.
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Wagner: The Mastersingers
RecommendedMargaret Curphey (Eva), Alberto Remedios (Walther), Norman Bailey (Hans Sachs), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Beckmesser), Ann Robson (Magdalene), Gregory Dempsey (David), Noel Mangin (Pogner), Stafford Dean (Nightwatchman)
Sadlers Wells Chorus & Sadlers Wells Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall
It's eminently listenable, capturing the musical and spiritual glow of Goodall's orchestra and voices, masterfully embodying the comedy's entwining pain and laughter. …this is not only something... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th June 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Offer, Maurice Ravel, Lennox Berkeley & Adam Pounds: Orchestral Works Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
The finale [of the Pounds] projects a mood of hard-won defiance, and the symphony as a whole is certainly worth experiencing – especially in a performance as scrupulously prepared and committed... — More…
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Unless it’s my imagination, there’s a magical and deeply touching, almost nostalgic hue to this one, as if enjoying the company of a beloved old friend before parting — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Josef Suk: Orchestral Works BBC Symphony Orchestra, with New London Chamber Choir, Jiří Bělohlávek
The symphony is attractively neat and satisfying, but Ripening is on a completely new emotional plane, with a Mahlerian juxtaposition of emotions, a scintillating emotional thrust and a virtuoso... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Disc of the month
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Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Spring Song & Suite from 'Belshazzar's Feast' RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The Lemminkäinen Suite has tended to be viewed as an important staging post on [Sibelius’s path to the symphony]…What Sakari Oramo shows is that it’s a marvellous achievement in its own right,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Doric Quartet, making sparing use of vibrato, play with much sensitivity. Their slow movements, in particular, are beautifully done...But elsewhere a determination to characterise the music... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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Gamba is adept at remaining alert to the changing moods of each piece, whether it be ensuring that things are kept fizzing along nicely in Leevi Madetoja's Comedy Overture, Op. 53, or bringing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th August 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Bartók: Violin Concertos & Viola Concerto James Ehnes (violin / viola)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Chandos could not have chosen a more ideal team for this project...Here they demonstrate an instinctive understanding for the different musical characteristics of each work...While encapsulating... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Disc of the Month
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Britten: Death in Venice Philip Langridge (Aschenbach), Alan Opie (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), Michael Chance (Voice of Apollo)
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
The Pears/Bedford version tends to emphasise the opera's elegiac side… The Chandos… is certainly not lacking in depth. But it also has an incisive clarity matching Richard Hickox's generally... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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…a significant recording of one of Weinberg’s most ambitious symphonies, and anyone interested in settling the issue of the composer’s achievement will be rewarded by taking a listen. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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