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Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Collector's Edition / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano [5 CDs]

5 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-10-30

Works: Claude Debussy: Préludes (24) for piano, Books I & II, L.117, 123; Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon; Ballade (slave), for piano (or piano, 4 hands), L. 70; Valse romantique, fo...
Performers: Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam

Selling for the price of three CDs, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's vivid interpretations of Debussy's complete works for piano are available for the first time in a...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk....continue...

Petits-Fours: Favourite Encores / Brodsky Quartet

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-02-28

Works: Pablo de Sarasate: Playera; Spanish Dances (2) for Violin and Piano, Op. 23; Manuel de Falla: Siete Canciones Pupulares Españolas; Edward Elgar: Chanson de matin, Op. 15 no 2; La capricieuse, Op...
Performers: Fisher, Philip Edward [Piano]; Smissen, Robert

Chandos Records has signed an exclusive contract with the Brodsky Quartet in time for the celebrations of its fortieth anniversary in 2012. Formed in 1972,...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk (09/07/2011-09/08/2011)....continue...

Vienna Premiere, Vol. 1-3 / Works by the Strauss Family & their contemporaries, Marily Hill Smith, soprano

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-07-26

Works: Carl Millöcker: Die Sieben Schwaben-Marsch, for orchestra; Jonathan-Marsch, for orchestra; Klopf' an!, polka-française; Johann Strauss II: Concurrenzen (Rivalry), waltz for orchestra, Op....
Performers: Smith, Marilyn Hill [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Rothstein, Jack [Violin]
Ensemble: Johann Strauss Orchestra

The Glière Orchestral Collection / Richard Watkins, horn; Peter Dixon, cello

5 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-07-26

Works: Reinhold Glière: Symphony no 3 in B minor ("Il'ya Muromets"), Op. 42; Symphony no 2 in C minor, Op. 25; The Zaporozhy Cossacks, symphonic poem, Op. 64; Symphony no 1 in E flat major, Op. 8; The ...
Performers: Dixon, Peter; Watkins, Richard
Conductors: Downes, Edward; Sinaisky, Vassili
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic

This Chandos box set, which includes many rarities in the concert and record repertoires, is the most comprehensive survey of composer Sir Edward Downes; it...continue...
Recording information: Studio 7 Concert Hall, New Broadcasting House, Manchest....continue...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays works by Ravel, Debussy & Massenet

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2010-11-16

Works: Claude Debussy: Fantaisie for piano & orchestra, L. 73; Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major; Concerto for Piano left hand; Jules Massenet: Impromptus (2) for piano; Toccata for piano in B fl...
Performers: Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs French repertoire on this his second disc of concertos for Chandos. His recording of the Bartok Piano Concertos was released in September...continue...

Complete Tranquility

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-01-26

Works: Johann Christian Bach: Concerto in C minor for cello and orchestra; Count Unico-Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto armonico no 3 in A major; Concerto armonico no 4 in F minor; Concerto armonico no 1 in ...
Performers: Aubut, Alain; Baskin, Theodore; Hall, Lucia; Hurtubise, Benoit; Hutchins, Timothy; Montreal, I Musici de; Norris, David Owen; Prevost, Christian [Violin]; Shaverdian, Gregory [Piano]; Shostakovich, D...
Conductors: Turovsky, Yuli; Shostakovich, Maxim
Ensemble: Ensemble Repercussion; I Musici de Montréal

With fine performances from I Musici de Montreal, 'Complete Tranquility' is a generous three-disc set packed full of music that will encourage you to slow...continue...

Dance / Kathryn Scott

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2008-10-28

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Fantastic Dances (3) for Piano, Op. 5; Alberto Ginastera: Danza de la moza donosa; Béla Bartók: Romanian Folkdances (6) for Piano, Sz 56; Antonin Dvorák: Dumka for...
Performers: Stott, Kathryn

Kathryn Stott writes "This year is very much a celebration for me – a fiftieth birthday and thirty years on the concert platform! When Ralph...continue...

Debussy: Complete Works for Piano Vol 3 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2008-05-27

Works: Claude Debussy: Nocturne, for piano, L. 82; Suite bergamasque; Danse bohémienne, for piano, L. 9; Arabesques (2) for Piano; Poèmes (7) de Banville; Mazurka, for piano, L. 67; Children's C...
Performers: Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam

"His pointedly unsentimental way with the piece seems to wash away years of lazy convention in interpreting Debussy as simply a musical impressionist; here it...continue...

Debussy: Complete Works for Piano Vol 2 / Bayouzet

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2008-01-08

Works: Claude Debussy: Ballade (slave), for piano (or piano, 4 hands), L. 70; Valse romantique, for piano, L. 71; Tarentelle styrienne; Images oubliées; Estampes (3) for Piano; Pour le piano, suite f...
Performers: Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet here presents his second volume of Debussy's Complete Works for Piano, which reveals a more reflective, private period in Debussy's compositional career. Opening...continue...

Field: Piano Works / O'Rourke

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-09-11

Works: John Field: Sonata for Piano no 1 in E flat major, Op. 1/1, H. 8/1; Sonata for Piano no 2 in A major, Op. 1/2, H. 8/2; Sonata for Piano no 3 in C minor, Op. 1/3, H. 8/3; Sonata for Piano (no 4) in B ...
Performers: O'Rourke, Míceál

A fellow countryman of John Field's, Micheal O'Rourke performs this 2-CD recital with intelligence and taste, much of the repertoire not otherwise available. A large...continue...

An Introduction to Claude Debussy

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-09-19

Works: Claude Debussy: Children's Corner; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Petite suite for Piano 4 hands; La plus que lente; L'isle joyeuse; Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque); La mer
Performers: Bell, Derek; Fleming, Colin
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra

Debussy's most famous music on one CD, making it an ideal introduction to composer Yan Pascal Tortelier's French repertoire, of which this disc undoubtedly represents...continue...

The Film Music of William Alwyn Vol 3 / Gamba, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-01-24

Works: William Alwyn: The Music Box; The Million Pound Note; The Way Ahead; Swiss Family Robinson; The Rocking Horse Winner; Geordie; The Cure for Love; Penn of Pennsylvania; The True Glory; The Running Man
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gambas recordings with the BBC Philharmonic in Chandos popular Film Music series are regarded as top choices in the repertoire, as much for the...continue...

Lumbye - Festival at Tivoli / Rozhdestvensky, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-01-24

Works: Hans Christian Lumbye: Champagne Galop for orchestra (or piano); Queen Louise's Waltz; Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop; Concert-Polka, for 2 violins; Mon Salut A St. Petersbourg, March; Petersborgerin...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Danish National Orchestra

Lumbye is regarded as the Danish Johann Strauss as his music possesses a similar heady mixture of irresistible melodies and infectious dance rhythms, from lilting...continue...

Ravel: Orchestral Music / Tortelier, Ulster Orchestra

4 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-10-19

Works: Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; Alborada del Gracioso, for orchestra; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée; Tzigane; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Boléro; Valses nobles et senti...
Performers: Blake, Christopher; Finnie, Linda [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Fleming, Colin; Masters, Rachel; Miller, Charles; Roberts, Stephen; Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus; Ulster Orchestra

"...for those who above all simply with to luxuriate in some of the most spellbinding scores in existence, Torelier's set could well prove to be...continue...

The Strauss Family in London / Georgiadis, London SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-06-29

Works: Johann Strauss I: Huldigung der Königin Victoria von Grossbritannien, Op. 103; Frederika, polka for orchestra, Op. 239; March of the Royal Horse Guards, for orchestra; Alice, polka for orchestra...
Conductors: Georgiadis, John
Ensemble: Eduard Strauss Orchestra; Johann Strauss Ensemble; London Symphony Orchestra

A Strauss Celebration / Rothstein, Johann Strauss Orchestra

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-05-25

Works: Johann Strauss II: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214; Kaiser Franz Joseph Marsch, Op. 67; Wiener Bonbons, Op. 307; Fata Morgana, Op. 330; Morgenblätter, Op. 279; Cagliostro in Wien; Das Spitzentuch...
Conductors: Rothstein, Jack [Violin]
Ensemble: Johann Strauss Orchestra Vienna

Rossini: Complete Piano Edition Vol 1 / Marco Sollini

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-04-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Waltz for piano in E flat major; Thème, for piano in E flat major; Work(s); Scherzo for piano in A minor; L'amour à Pékin ("Mon coeur blesse"), for voice & piano (P&...
Performers: Sollini, Marco

These are works which Rossini composed at the end of his life, after twenty years of ill health. He refused to permit their publication and...continue...

Louis Lortie plays Ravel's Complete Music for Solo Piano

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-01-20

Works: Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Le tombeau de Couperin; Sérénade grotesque; Jeux d'eau; Valses nobles et sentimentales; La valse; Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antiq...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Debussy: Complete Works for Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier

4 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-01-20

Works: Claude Debussy: La mer; Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra; Printemps, symphonic suite for chorus, piano & orchestra, L. 61; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Images for Orchestra; Jeu...
Performers: Bell, Derek; Blake, Christopher; Fleming, Colin; Ingelton, Rachel; King, Christopher; Martin, Louise; Masters, Rachel; McChrystal, Gerard; Michael McGuffin [Piano/Conductor]; Queffelec, Anne
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra

Bear Essentials - British Film Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: Ron Goodwin: The Trap; Battle of Britain; 633 Squadron; Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Sir Arthur Bliss: Things to Come, F 131; Alan Rawsthorne: Uncle Silas; The Cruel Sea; William W...
Performers: Carewe, Mary [soprano]; Dukes, Philip; Roscoe, Martin; Wild, Earl
Conductors: Goodwin, Ron; Gamba, Rumon; Marriner, Sir Neville; Hickox, Richard; Stephens, D. S.; Horenstein, Jascha
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Air Force Regiment Band; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Prokofiev: Waltzes /Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-06-24

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Mephisto Waltz; Pushkin Waltzes (2), for orchestra, Op. 120; Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118; Cinderella Suite no 1, Op. 107; Cinderella, Suite no 3 for orchestra, Op. 109
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

Chandos makes its highly acclaimed disc of Prokofiev's waltzes available on its mid-price label. Prokofiev's waltzes contain some of the composer's most beguiling music. Neeme...continue...

Poulenc: Works for Solo Piano / Eric Parkin

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-10-22

Works: Francis Poulenc: Suite for Piano in C major; Les biches, suite for piano (from the ballet), FP 36; Mouvements perpétuels (3); Les soirées de Nazelles, for piano, FP 84; Intermezzo no 3 for ...
Performers: Parkin, Eric

Glazunov: Symphony no 3, Concert Waltzes / Polyansky, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-04-23

Works: Alexander Glazunov: Symphony no 3 in D major, Op. 33; Concert Waltz no 1 in D major, Op. 47; Concert Waltz no 2 in F major, Op. 51
Conductors: Polyanskii, Valeri
Ensemble: Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Favourite Encores / Järvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-08-28

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comique in 3 acts; Mikhail Glinka: Kamarinskaya (Russian scherzo), fantasy for orchestra, G. ii105; Valse-Fantaisie, for orchestra in B minor...
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

"The Detroit Symphony has never sounded better, and the engineering of the recording is outstanding." -Fanfare "An attractive collection of encores... an entertaining and tuneful...continue...

Debussy: Estampes / Kyoko Tabe

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-06-26

Works: Claude Debussy: Poèmes (7) de Banville; Estampes (3) for Piano; Arabesques (2) for Piano; Le petit nègre; Children's Corner; La plus que lente; L'isle joyeuse; Clair de lune
Performers: Tabe, Kyoko [Piano]

Grainger Edition Vol 16 - Solo Piano 1 / Thwaites

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-02-27

Works: Percy Grainger: Klavierstücke, for piano (juvenilia); Birthday Gift, for voices, 2 horns & piano (juvenilia); Andante con moto, for piano (YT unnumbered); Klavierstück, for piano in D major...
Performers: Thwaites, Penelope

"...There is a personal character to his [Grainger's] music...which gradually emerges as...Penelope Thwaites journeys through the first decade of his composing life... The unique Grainger...continue...

Glinka: Symphony on Russian Themes, etc / Sinaisky, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-01-23

Works: Mikhail Glinka: Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonesa (Spanish Overture no 1), for orchestra, G. ii3; Overture, for orchestra in D major, G. i129; Souvenirs of a Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish O...
Conductors: Sinaisky, Vassili
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

This is perhaps the most complete, and certainly the best performed album devoted to the orchestral music of Mikhail Glinka to appear on CD. It...continue...

French Favourites - Ravel, Milhaud, Debussy / Järvi, Detroit

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-09-26

Works: Maurice Ravel: La valse; Boléro; Claude Debussy: La mer; Darius Milhaud: Suite provençale, for orchestra, Op. 152a
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

"The virtuosity is simply strong staggering, and Jarvi conducts the most convincing performance I have ever heard." -American Record Guide...continue...

Schreker: Fantastic Overture, etc / Vassili Sinaisky, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-03-28

Works: Franz Schreker: Prelude to a Drama (Vorspiel); Valse lente, for orchestra; Ekkehard Overture for orchestra, Op 12; Der Schatzgräber, opera in 4 acts (w/prologue and epilogue); Der Ferne Klang, o...
Conductors: Sinaisky, Vassili
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"Performances of Frnaz Schreker's operas are still scandalously rare...This new Chandos release is undoubtedly the best yet...Pride of place on the disc goes to the...continue...

Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernières /Stephens, Odgen

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1999-11-30

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Mandolin in C major, RV 425; Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G major, S. 28; Mauro Giuliani: Grand Duo Concertante, for flute (or violin) & guitar in A major...
Performers: Ogden, Craig [Guitar]; Stephens, Alison

Borodin: String Quartet no 2; Dvorak: Serenade / Turovsky

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-07-15

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Serenade for Strings; Nocturne for String Orchestra in B major, Op. 40/B 47; Waltzes (2) for strings (arr. from Waltzes for piano, B. 101), B. 105; Alexander Borodin: Quartet for...
Conductors: Turovsky, Yuli
Ensemble: I Musici de Montreal

Gliere: Overtures & Orchestral Works / Sinaisky, BBC Phil

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-03-18

Works: Reinhold Glière: Gyul'sara, opera; Concert Waltz, Op. 90; Shakh-Senem, opera; Ballad, Op. 4; Overture on Slavonic Themes; Heroic March for the Buryiat-Mongolian ASSR, Op. 71; Overture
Performers: Dixon, Peter
Conductors: Sinaisky, Vassili
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"Like Ippolitov-Ivanov, Gliere became fascinated with the folk music of the Soviet Union during his travels through the various republics... If the resulting compositions have...continue...

Russian Dances / Neeme Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-07-01

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden; Mlada (ii), "magical" opera-ballet in 4 acts; Alexander Glazunov: Scènes de ballet, suite for orchestra in A major, Op. 52; Raymonda, Op. 57; Sergey Pro...
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

Sibelius: Scènes Historiques, etc / Gibson, Scottish Natl

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-02-01

Works: Jean Sibelius: Scènes historiques no 1, Op. 25; Scènes Historiques II (3), suite for orchestra, Op. 66; Rakastava (The Lover), suite for string orchestra, triangle & timpani, Op. 14; Piec...
Conductors: Gibson, Alexander, Sir
Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Poulenc: Complete Music for Piano Duo / Tanyel, Brown

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano 4 hands; Le bal masqué; Elégie for 2 Pianos, FP 175; L'embarquement pour Cythère for 2 Pianos; Sonata for 2 Pianos
Performers: Brown, Jeremy; Tanyel, Seta

20th Century Original Piano Transcriptions / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Sergei Prokofiev: Pieces (10) for Piano from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75; Maurice Ravel: La valse; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene