Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off
Until the 30th October we are offering huge savings on Chandos titles - up to 40% off downloads and up to 25% off CD, SACD, DVD, and Vinyl.
Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, BBC Singers (choir)
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Special offer. 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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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. — More…
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Special offer. Tavener: Fall and Resurrection
Patricia Rozario (soprano), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Martyn Hill (psaltis), Stephen Richardson (bass)
BBC Singers, St Paul's Cathedral Choir, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish', etc.
RecommendedPablo Strong (treble), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Simon Baker (counter tenor), Jamie Bernstein Thomas (narrator)
London Oratory School, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Building a Library, June 2005, Highly Recommended
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Special offer. MacMillan -The Birds of Rhiannon
BBC Singers, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, James MacMillan
MacMillan's colours can be garish, his gestures histrionic, but his is an art of passion and commitment: these are the effects of a composer seeking to make you feel and react strongly as well... — More…
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We are immediately struck, at the start of the Gloria, by the radiantly warm but clean orchestral sonority: only later does an uneasy suspicion arise that, apparently seduced by the sound, the... — More…
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Special offer. Stainer: The Crucifixion
Martyn Hill (tenor), Michael George (bass), Margaret Philips (organ)
BBC Singers, Leith Hill Festival Singers, Brian Kay
Stainer's Crucifixion unfolds with a seamless ease, never jolting the listener with gratuitous theatricality or the type of rhetorical intensity which the English find mildly embarrassing.
The... — More…CD
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
Susan Graham, Christine Brewer, William Burden, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Neal Davies
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Gian Carlo Menotti took as his starting-point for the libretto of Vanessa the atmosphere of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. His story is original, but the ideas that fired him can be found... — More…
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Special offer. Stephen McNeff - Beatrix Potter Suites
Imelda Staunton (narrator/soloist)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Clark Rundell
Stephen McNeff provided thoroughly approachable incidental music and simple songs, evoking the countryside atmosphere and characterising the various animals with catchy themes - most particularly... — More…
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Special offer. Bernstein: Kaddish, Chichester Psalms and Missa Brevis
Pablo Strong (treble), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Simon Baker (counter tenor), Jamie Bernstein Thomas (narrator)
London Oratory School, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
In the Concerto the orchestral playing is attractively deep and detailed and Chandos's sound engineering nicely shines the spotlight on soloists while giving brilliant weight to the sinister... — More…
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