Classics
Re-issued, re-mastered, mid-price recordings.
Launched in October 2002, 'Classics' is a mid-price label that has become the main reissue label for Chandos. All releases are 24-bit digitally remastered and recoupled for maximum value, and include three-language notes and texts where appropriate.
-
Special offer. Delius: Sea Drift, Songs of Farewell & Songs of Sunset
RecommendedSally Burgess (mezzo-soprano), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Hickox
The huge power of Bryn Terfel’s singing was already making waves when he made these recordings aged 27, showcasing both his once-in-a-generation baritone voice and superstar artistry (not least... —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
-
Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Choral
-
-
Strauss R: Four Last Songs
Recommendedand other works
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
Awards:
-
Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
-
-
As a Prokofiev interpreter Neeme Järvi is among the best. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Orchestral
-
-
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
Boris Berman (piano) & Horacio Gutierrex (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Berman is incisive in Prokofiev's Concertos Nos 1, 4 and 5, but the highlight of this set is Horacio Gutiérrez's hair-raising playing in Concertos Nos 2 and 3. Terrific orchestral support. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Re-issue of the Month
-
-
-
Moeran: Orchestral Works
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Ulster Orchestra, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Vernon Handley, Norman Del Mar
-
Michael Tippett - Complete Symphonies
Faye Robinson (soprano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
The riot of proliferating counterpoint that is Tippett's Symphony No 1 presents enough problems of orchestral balance to give recording teams nightmares. Chandos has managed creditable degrees... —
-
Special offer. Doreen Carwithen: Piano Concerto, Bishop Rock, ODTAA, Suffolk Suite
Howard Shelley (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
-
Awards:
-
Building a Library, February 2001, Second Choice
-
-
Special offer. Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36
(sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor) & Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Composed in the wake of (and influenced by) Mendelssohn's epoch-making performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Paulus is an impressive work whose punchy choruses bring out the best in Hickox. —
