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Final Cut: Film Music for Four Guitars / Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-06-26

Works: Rachel Portman: Chocolat; Gustavo Santaolalla: The Motorcycle Diaries; Elliot Goldenthal: Frida; N/A: Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? song (for the film Don Juan Demarco); James Horner: Titanic; ...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

This disc comprises some of cinema's most memorable musical moments, as chosen and arranged for four guitars by the members of the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet....continue...
Recording information: Liverpool University Recording Studio (12/16/2011-12/20/2011)....continue...

On Christmas Night / works by Rutter, Burton, Mathias, Darke and Poston

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2011-10-25

Works: John Rutter: What sweeter music; Christmas Traditional: Noël nouvelet, carol (French); Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); I Saw Three Ships, carol; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English); ...
Performers: Challenger, John [Organ]; Clapham, Geoffrey; Gregory, Julian; James, Freddie [Organist]; Leslie, Huw; Macdonald, Basil; Neill, Henry
Conductors: Nethsingha, Andrew
Ensemble: St John's College Choir cambridge

A joyous celebration of music for the festive season! This disc was recorded in the College Chapel in full surround-sound, and recreates to a spectacular...continue...
Recording information: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, England (01/14/2011-01/16/2011)....continue...

My True Love Hath My Heart - English Songs, Howells, Britten Ireland, et al. / Sarah Connolly, ms

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-10-25

Works: Benjamin Britten: Folksongs (7), Volume 3; How sweet the answer, folksong for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 4); Corpus Christi Carol, for voice or unison chorus & organ; Early one morning, for voic...
Performers: Connolly, Sarah [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)]; Martineau, Malcolm

Connolly received excellent reviews for her recital performance of 'English Songs' on April 11, 2011 at Alice Tully Hall, NYC. The NY Times wrote: 'Ms...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)....continue...

Christmas Carols from York Minster / Francis Jackson

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-10-09

Works: Christmas Traditional: The First Nowell (English); While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel); Coventry Carol (2); Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582); The Holly and the Ivy (E...
Performers: York Minster Choir
Conductors: Jackson, Francis

Recording information: York Minister (1973/1976)....continue...

A Festival of Christmas / Walters, Royal Liverpool PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-10-09

Works: Christmas Traditional: Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); The infant King (Basque); I Saw A Maiden (Basque); The Boar's Head Carol; Deck the Halls (Welsh); Edmund Walters: Where Was Jesus Born?; Th...
Performers: Stroud, Cynthia
Conductors: Walters, Edmund
Ensemble: Liverpool Philharmonic Choir; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; St. Ambrose RC Junior School Choir

Vaughan Williams: The First Nowell, etc / Hickox, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-10-09

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; On Christmas Night, ballet; The First Nowell, opera (completed by Douglas)
Performers: Cullen, Joseph [Choral Conductor/Organ]; Fox, Sarah; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia; Joyful Company of Singers

"There's no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than with this enchanting RVW disc, which contains some delightful rarities. OK, so there are...continue...

Howells: Choral Works / Spicer, Bicket, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-07-25

Works: Herbert Howells: Te Deum ("For the Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol"); Even such is time; The summer is coming; The House of the Mind, motet for chorus & organ; Two Madrigals, for chorus; Salve...
Performers: Bernays, John; Bicket, Harry; Carwood, Andrew; Cotterill, Marianne; Crookes, Anna; Daneman, Sophie; Gritton, Susan; Hadleigh-Wilson, Nicholas; Kemp, Nicola-Jane; Lane, Carys-Anne; Lumsden, Andrew; Mi...

This collection is drawn from four successful releases from the early 1990s with the dynamic Finzi Singers, directed by Paul Spicer. The Singers produce sounds...continue...
Includes work(s) for chorus: nunc dimittis by Herbert Howells....continue...

Rimsky-Korsakov: Overtures & Suites from the Operas

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-06-27

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; The Snow Maiden; Mlada; Christmas Eve Suite (Noch' pered rozhdestvom), for orchestra (with optional chorus ad lib); The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane...
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

"Neeme Jarvi draws the most seductive response from the SNO; he consistently creates orchestral textures which are diaphanously sinuous. Yet the robust moments...are caught just...continue...

Family Carols / Willcocks, Bach Choir, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-10-05

Works: John Francis Wade: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles); Christmas Traditional: Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night"); The First Nowell (English); A Maiden Most Gentle (French); The Gloucester Wass...
Performers: Bates, Nigel; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Scott, John
Conductors: Willcocks, David
Ensemble: Fanfare Trumpeters; Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble

The Bach Choir's Family Carols is a fairly standard choral Christmas album. There are no twists and turns in the arrangements, and the carols are all quite familiar. That's not a bad thing, however, i...continue...

Bear Essentials - Lullaby Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-08-24

Works: Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque; Préludes, Book 1; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Concerto for Horn no 4 in E flat major, K 495; Camille Saint-Saën...

Classics - Bax: Orchestral Works Vol 5 / Thomson, London PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-11-25

Works: Arnold Bax: Festival Overture; Christmas Eve on the Mountains, tone poem for orchestra; Pieces (3) for Small Orchestra; Nympholept; Paean, for orchestra (arr. of piano piece); Overture to a Picaresqu...
Performers: Hicks, Malcolm
Conductors: Thompson, Bryden
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

"Bryden Thomson draws out all the romance and passion of these complex, colourful scores... You can sense the sultry, perilous enchantment of the midsummer forest...continue...

Tsar of Instruments - Gliere, Glinka, etc / Iain Quinn

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-02-25

Works: Alexander Glazunov: Prelude and Fugue for organ no 1 in D major, Op. 93; Prelude and Fugue for organ no 2 in D minor, Op. 98; Fantasy for organ in G minor, Op. 110; Reinhold Glière: Fugue on a T...
Performers: Quinn, Iain

Grainger Edition Vol 17 - Solo Piano 2 / Thwaites

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-02-26

Works: Percy Grainger: Tiger, Tiger, for piano (KS 4, KJBC 9); The Hunter in His Career, song for piano (OEPM 4); The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol, folk song for piano (BFMS 2); The Rival Brothers, folk ...
Performers: Thwaites, Penelope

Penelope Thwaites is known world-wide as a leading authority on Grainger's music and was awared the International Percy Grainger Society's Medallion in recognition of her...continue...

The Film Music of Malcolm Arnold Vol 2 / Rumon Gamba, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-11-28

Works: Malcolm Arnold: Trapeze, film score; The Roots of Heaven; Machines, symphonic study for orchestra, Op. 30; No Love for Johnnie, film score; David Copperfield, film score; You Know What Sailors Are, f...
Performers: Bradbury, John; Dyson, Phillip; Janes, Paul
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"...As in his concert music, Arnold can turn his hand from deliberately vulgar material to music of nostalgic sentimentality with almost schizophrenic facility. But despite...continue...

Moeran: Songs of Springtime, etc; Warlock / Finzi Singers

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-10-24

Works: E.J. Moeran: Songs of Springtime, for chorus; Phyllida and Corydon; Peter Warlock: A Cornish Carol; I Saw a Fair Maiden; Benedicamus Domino; The Full Heart; The Rich Cavalcade; Corpus Christi; All th...
Performers: Carwood, Andrew; Crookes, Anna; Wagstaff, Lindsay; Wheatley, Rachel

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
The Peter Warlock of the evergreen CapriolSuite and the boisterous songs seems a world away from the introverted and intense artist of...continue...

Bartók: Piano Music / Geoffrey Tozer

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1999-11-30

Works: Béla Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Songs (15) for Piano, Sz 71; Little Piano Pieces (9) (Kilenc kis zongoradarab), Sz. 82, BB 90; Out of Doors, suite for piano, Sz. 81, BB 89; Sonata for Piano,...
Performers: Tozer, Geoffrey [Piano/Composer]

"This disc presents a wide variety of Bartok's solo piano music, from the lively and exotic to the rudely disruptive. Tozer captures the multiplicity of...continue...

Grainger Edition Vol 13 - Works for Chamber Ensemble

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1999-09-21

Works: Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone, song for violin, cello & piano (OEPM 2); Shepherd's Hey!, folk song for violin, cello & piano (realized by Peter Barry Ould); Ha...

"All are exquisitely shaped miniatures. The longest work is the five-movement 'Scandinavian Suite'--just under 16 minutes. The scoring and writing are almost always ingenious and...continue...

Britten: Choral Edition Vol 2 / Spicer, The Finzi Singers

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1998-02-17

Works: Benjamin Britten: Jubilate Deo, for chorus & organ in E flat major; Te Deum in C major; Antiphon, Op. 56b; Missa Brevis, for boys' chorus & organ in D major, Op. 63; A Wedding Anthem, for soprano, te...
Performers: Burt, Robert; Drake, Susan; Elliott, Rachel; Lane, Carys-Anne; Lumsden, Andrew; Milhofer, Mark; Simpson, Olive; Wagstaff, Lindsay; Wheatley, Rachel
Conductors: Spicer, Paul
Ensemble: Finzi Singers

Following the exemplary first volume, The Finzi Singers continue their prestigious Britten recording cycle with Volume Two of their Britten Choral Edition. The Finzi's are...continue...

A White Christmas with Grimethorpe

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-11-19

Works: Irving Berlin: Holiday Inn; J. Fred Coots: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland; Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride, arranged for band; Bob Geldof / Midge Ure: Do They Know It's C...

A Christmas Fantasy / Huddersfield Choral Society, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-11-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English); The Twelve Days of Christmas; Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night"); Leroy Anderson: A Christmas...
Performers: Anthony Cooke; Black Dyke Mills Band; Keith Rhodes; Society, Huddersfield Choral
Conductors: Newsome, Roy; Rhodes, Keith

A Christmas Celebration / Kay, Huddersfield Society, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-10-10

Works: Traditional: Ding Dong! Merrily on high; Deck the hall; O Tannenbaum; Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child "Coventry Carol"; Kumbaya; Joys Seven; The Holly and the Ivy; Tomorrow shall be my dancing d...
Performers: Lindley, Simon; McCann, Phillip
Conductors: Kay, Brian; McCann, Phillip
Ensemble: Huddersfield Choral Society; Sellers Engineering Band

Stokowski Encores / Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-04-18

Works: George Frederick Handel: Chandos Anthem no 6 in E minor, "As Pants the Hart", HWV 251b; Giovanni Gabrieli: Sacrae symphoniae, Book 1; Jeremiah Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March; Johann Mattheson: Sui...
Performers: Addinall, Patrick
Conductors: Bamert, Matthias
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Album for Children, etc; Mozart / Yurovsky

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-10-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Album pour enfants, Op. 39; Marc Bélanger: Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings); Leopold Mozart: Toy Symphony (Cassation), for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns ...
Performers: Montreal, I Musici de
Conductors: Turovsky, Yuli
Ensemble: I Musici de Montreal

Recording information: Eglise De La Nativite De La Sainte Vierge, La Prairie, (05/26/1992-05/30/1992)....continue...

The World's Most Beautiful Melodies Vol 3 / Phillip McCann

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-09-01

Works: Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy; James L. Molloy: Love's Old Sweet Song; George Bennard: The Old Rugged Cross; Luigi Arditi: Il bacio; Traditional: Danny Boy "Londonderry Air"; Shepherd's Song "La Bayl&...
Performers: Lindley, Simon; McCann, Phillip; Newsome, Roy
Conductors: Newsome, Roy; Blackledge, Douglas
Ensemble: Sellers Engineering Band

Vaughan-Williams: Hymns and Choral Music / Westminster Abbey

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-09-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Hymnal; O taste and see; Wassail Song ("We've been awhile awandering"), song for chorus (English Folksongs for chorus no 5;; Te Deum for chorus & organ (or orchestra) ...
Conductors: Robinson, Christopher; Guest, Douglas
Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir; Worcester Cathedral Choir

Walton: In Honour of the City of London, etc / Willcocks

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-10-01

Works: William Walton: A Queen's Fanfare, for brass; In Honour of the City of London, for double chorus & orchestra; Coronation March "Crown Imperial"; Anniversary Fanfare, for brass; Coronation March "Orb ...
Performers: Scott, John
Conductors: Willcocks, David

Traditionally British / Brand, Black Dyke Mills Band

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Traditional: The Blaydon races; Drink to me only with thine eyes; Greensleeves; Charlie is my darling; My love is like a red, red rose; Coming through the rye; Loch Lomond; The girl I left behind me;...
Performers: Berry, Frank; Clough, John; Hirst, David; Shepherd, James
Conductors: Brand, Geoffrey; Newsome, Roy
Ensemble: ; Black Dyke Mills Band