Browse: Chandos (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Chandos.
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Offer, Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil Arranged for all-male choir by Gretchaninoff, Lazarev and Sheehan
Igor Morozov, Evgeny Kachurovski, Alexis V. Lukianov, Patram Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko
The recorded sound favours the higher basses and lower tenors somewhat. However, the fervour of the singing cannot be faulted. — More…
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Lines Written During a Sleepless Night RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Offer, Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Sonically, it’s a variation on what we know from Wilson’s group: a rich string texture that concerns itself more with sonority than blend and with the sort of tight vibrato that can, in conjuring... — More…
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Britten: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto RecommendedTasmin Little (violin), Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
Shelley and Edward Gardner create something more mercurial [than Britten's own reading], Gardner conjuring that lithe, high-tension drama he has so successfully achieved with Britten's stage... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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Handel: Acis and Galatea Lucy Crowe (Galatea), Allan Clayton (Acis), Benjamin Hulett (Damon), Jeremy Budd (Coridon) & Neal Davies (Polyphemus)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Curnyn has hit on a secret that eluded previous interpreters of this work: it was conceived specifically to showcase the beauty of the English language…Channelling Handel’s enthusiasm, Curnyn... — More…
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Record Review, 16th June 2018, Recording of the Week
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera
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Elgar: King Olaf RecommendedEmily Birsan (soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Collegium Musicum Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Sir Andrew Davis
there's nothing stilted about Elgar's music: it crackles with confident vitality...the Norwegian choruses respond with crisp vigour and superb English diction, only faintly (and appropriately)... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The performances are all superbly judged and controlled, balancing fragility with strength, restraint with great depth of feeling… The early Divertimenti, played with considerable wit and elegance,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Sir Arnold Bax: Four Orchestral Pieces & Phantasy RecommendedPhilip Dukes (viola)
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
Dukes deliver the Phantasy's solo part with a forthright energy that seems to thwart loveliness of tone. In every other department these performances could hardly be finer. The orchestral playing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Tchaikovsky & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos RecommendedXiayin Wang (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
From the first bar, you know that this brilliant Chinese-American pianist is the business...she leads from the front throughout to exhilarating effect...If you do not have a recording of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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It may sound like faint praise to describe these as 'well-managed' performances, but to shape and steer all Seven Symphonies convincingly is no mean feat. When it comes to overview and attention... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral
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