Andrew Millington plays the organ of Exeter Cathedral, performing works by Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Eugène Gigout.

• Data premiery 2018-01-11
• Nośnik DVD

Here is some of the finest piano music to have come out of the nineteenth century. Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos are individual creations of extraordinary expressive range and daring originality; they are among the most taxing works of the piano repertoire, as much for their interpretative challenges as their formidable technical ones.This recording finds Stephen Hough on top form. He has performed these works in concert for many years, and with his dazzling pianism, penetrating intellect, beauty of sound and clarity of line, he is superbly equipped for this music. Unusually, Hough alternates the Ballades and Scherzos, as he feels that this sequence gives us a closer sense of continuous and unfolding musical biography, and that by dispensing with the cycle format the listener is enabled to hear each piece as an individual entity – as eight startlingly original and unique works.

• Wykonawca Hough Stephen
• Data premiery 2006-03-07
• Nośnik CD

The works on this disc are all early, dating from the first half of the composing life of Saint-Saëns – that is, with the one exception of the Marche du couronnement which the composer wrote for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.   In Spartacus, the composer depicts Alphonse Pagès’s tragedy on the revolt headed by the ill-fated gladiator in 73 BC by use of bold, chromatic notes, followed by a military allegro which integrates them. After a tender theme, the bold notes return, now with a downward turn at the end, probably evoking Spartacus’s defeat, and the concert overture ends with a march that recalls the tender theme.   Equally dramatic is Saint-Saëns’s symphonic poem Phaëton. In ancient Greek myths, Phaëton, the son of Helios, is reluctantly given permission to drive his father’s sun chariot. As Phaëton fails to control the chariot, and carries the sun too close to the earth, Zeus intervenes and brings the unfortunate ride – and Phaëton himself – to an abrupt end by means of a thunderbolt. Saint-Saëns’s writing for large-scale orchestra (including contra-bassoon, tuba, two harps, and three timpanists) brings with it a pure, raw energy. The intense state of panic is signalled by a menacing low note on the trombone and further heightened through subsequent imitative entries that crowd in on one another. After Zeus’s massive thunderbolt, the music subsides into a feeling of loss and regret. Saint-Saëns’s other three symphonic poems are also on this disc – Le Rouet d’Omphale, Danse macabre, and La Jeunesse d’Hercule – as well as the ‘Danse bacchanale’ from Samson et Dalila and the ‘Marche militaire française’ from Suite algérienne.   The works are performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its Conductor Laureate, Neeme Järvi, who in the course of his conducting career has amassed a distinguished discography of more than 440 recordings, well over 150 of them for Chandos Records. Järvi is celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday this year, and to mark the anniversary we will release a two-disc set of highlights from his extensive Chandos discography in July.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2012-06-01
• Nośnik SACD

Susanne Heinrich’s first solo release for Hyperion was a deliciously atmsopheric award-winning disc of music by Abel. She continues her exploration of the world of the viol with this fascinating selection of works by the English composer Tobias Hume. Hume is a paradoxical figure: sometime mercenary solider and popularly described as a dilettante, the suggestive titles of some of these pieces reinforce that picture—a picture that is belied by the music itself. Many of these works show a deep understanding of pure, translucent emotion, as if to take a magnifying glass straight to the core of one’s feelings. A sense of melancholy and sadness, enhanced by Heinrich’s sympathetic playing, entices the listener into a world of dark enchantment.

• Wykonawca Heinrich Susanne
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

The works for stage and concert hall by Manuel de Falla starts off our new Spanish series with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Juanjo Mena. Nights in the Gardens of Spain is among Falla’s most impressionistic and poetic works, full of shimmering textures that recall Debussy, but with a hard-edged precision brought to the forefront by the piano. Each of the three movements is imbued with a strong sense of location. The first evokes the Generalife gardens of the Alhambra in Granada; the second, and most animated, displays a strong North African quality; and the third is inspired by the gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba. Here Falla’s lustrous and voluptuous writing is contrasted with a dramatic refrain full of energy, colour, and savagery, and the work offers one of the most sensuous endings in all music. It was performed by the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, as part of the conductor’s debut performance at the Proms in 2011. On this recording, they are joined by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, the exclusive Chandos artist and multi-award winning pianist.  Based on the novel by Alarcón, The Three-cornered Hat was commissioned in 1916 by the impresario Diaghilev for his Russian ballet company, the Ballets russes. Centred round sexual jealousy, possessiveness, mistaken identity, and deception, it tells the story of the failed attempts by an elderly local magistrate (whose three-cornered hat is a symbol of authority) to seduce the miller’s lovely wife. The music is exuberant, the principal characters wittily characterised, and the original production itself boasted an incredible wealth of talent: choreography by Léonide Massine, set and costume designs by Pablo Picasso, and the star ballerina Karsavina dancing the part of the miller’s wife. It was one of the company’s greatest successes, and put Falla on the international map as a composer.  Also on this disc is the Homenajes, in which Falla pays tribute to fellow musicians and composers. ‘Fanfare sobre el nombre de Arbós’ was written for the seventieth birthday celebrations of the conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós, while ‘Pedrelliana’ pays posthumous homage to Falla’s teacher Felipe Pedrell, who had informed so much of his musical thinking.

• Wykonawca Bavouzet Jean-Efflam , Lojendio Raquel
• Data premiery 2012-01-01
• Nośnik CD

  This recording unites familiar works (Handel, Telemann, J. F. Fasch) with rarities recovered from their archival sleep of centuries. The Thieme sonata is one of the first pieces ever written for solo trumpet(s); this and all the other pieces presented here display the level of virtuosity attained by the courtly trumpet repertoire of the Baroque period. It is well known that the Baroque trumpet, due to its emblematic significance, occupied a special position in the hierarchy of musical instruments. It was the symbol of celestial and earthly power. For this reason, trumpet literature of that time is nearly always splendid and joyful; sad emotions were not its domain. Within these boundaries there was nevertheless a broad gamut of expressive possibilities, from the chamber-music intimacy of the Telemann concerto and the gallant finesse of C. F. C. Fasch’s triple concerto to the cosmopolitan elegance of the Handel suite and the festive opulence of Endler’s sinfonia. On this recording, works have been assembled to demonstrate the musical splendour of German courts. An apparent exception is the Handel suite, but the connection of the house of Hanover with the British crown and Handel’s own origins justify this work’s acceptance into the German cultural tradition, even despite its French style.  

• Wykonawca Tarr Edward , Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
• Data premiery 2011-08-01
• Nośnik CD

Works for Violin & PianoGiuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)Sonata „Le Trille du diable” | “The Devil’s trill” Sonata (opr. Fritz Kreisler)1. I. Larghetto2. II. Allegro energico3. III. Grave. Allegro assaiHenryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)4. Polonaise brillante D-dur op. 4 | Polonaise Brillante in D major Op.4George Enescu (1881-1955)III Sonata skrzypcowa a-moll op. 25 | Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor Op.255. I. Moderato malinconico6. II. Andante sostenuto e misterioso7. III. Allegro con brio ma non troppo mossoSergey Prokofiew (1891-1953)II Sonata na skrzypce i fortepian D-dur op. 94b | Sonata for Violin & Piano No.2 in D major Op.94b8. I. Moderato9. II. Scherzo. Presto10. III. Andante11. IV. Allegro con brio

• Wykonawca Nadrzycki Jarosław , Imai Tadashi
• Data premiery 2011-07-20
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: 1. Wax Works 2. Hate to Create 3. Revolution 4. Dancing in the Flames of Insanity 5. Evolution 6. Fatal Vision 7. Death Charge (Doomsday) 8. Order of the Dragons 9. Elite Forces 10. Rejoice the Feast of Quarantine 11. Noise, Filth and Fury Requiem  

• Wykonawca Warfare
• Data premiery 2018-10-19
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: 1. The Hero 2. The Hero's Adversaries 3. The Hero's Helpmate 4. The Hero's Battlefield 5. The Hero's Works of Peace 6. The Hero's Retreat from the World and Fulfilment 7. Fruhling (Hesse) 8. September 9. Beim Schlafengehen 10. Im Abendrot (Eichendroff)

• Wykonawca Auger Arleen
• Data premiery 2002-10-28
• Nośnik CD

4-płytowe wydawnictwo Reel To Reel przedstawia aż 8 oryginalnych klasycznych zremasterowanych albumów słynnego amerykańskiego trębacza, kompozytora i wokalisty jazzowego Dizzy Gillespiego. Są to albumy: "Bird & Diz", "Have Trumpet Will Excite", "Afro", "Sonny Side Up", "Dizzy In Greece", "Perceptions", "Birs Works", "Duets (With Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt)". Cały materiał zawiera aż 55 utworów i został zremasterowany (Digitally Remastered). Opakowano w gustowny, elegancki, rozkładany digipack. Tracklista: CD 1  1. Bloom Dido 2. My Meloncholy Baby 3. Relaxin' With Lee 4. Leap Frog 5. An Oscar For Treadwell 6. Mohawk 7. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 8. My Man 9. Moonglow 10. St Louis Blues 11. Woody 'N' You 12. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 13. There Is No Greater Love 14. I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store) CD 2  1. Manteca Theme 2. Contraste 3. Jungla 4. Rhumba-Finale 5. A Night In Tunisia 6. Con Alma 7. Caravan 8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street 9. The Eternal Triangle 10. After Hours 11. I Know That You Know CD 3  1. Hey Pete 2. Yesterdays 3. Tin Tin Deo 4. Groovin' For Nat 5. Annie'S Dance 6. Cool Breeze 7. School Days 8. That'S All 9. Stablemates 10. Groovin' High 11. The Sword Of Orion 12. Jubelo 13. Blue Mist 14. Fantasia 15. Horn Of Plenty 16. Ballade CD 4  1. Jor-Du 2. Birk'S Works 3. Umbrella Man 4. Autumn Leaves 5. Tangorine 6. Over The Rainbow 7. Yo No Quiero Bailor 8. If You Could See My Now 9. Left-Hand Corner 10. Whisper Not 11. Wheatleigh Hall 12. Sumphin' 13. Con Alma 14. Haute Mon'

• Wykonawca Gillespie Dizzy
• Data premiery 2019-05-21
• Nośnik CD