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Chandos Scoops Award!
John Wilson and Sinfonia of London triumph at BBC Music Magazine awards
Their acclaimed recording of Korngold's Symphony in F# has won this year's BBC Music Magazine Orchestral award, voted for by the listening public. On hearing the news, John Wilson said "It’s a great thrill to win the BBC Music Magazine award. The Korngold Symphony is a piece I’ve loved for years and have always wanted to record it. My thanks go to the BBC for their support and to the team at Chandos Records. But I couldn’t have done any of this without the terrific players who gave everything they could, every minute of every recording session - it was the privilege of my life to make music with them. From all of us at Sinfonia of London, thank you.’"
Schonberg: Erwartung etc
BBC Record Review
'Record of the week'
Gramophone Gala
Enjoy online charity gala Sunday from 7pm (BST)
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Covid-19
Updated 31st March 2020
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Dido & Aeneas
Chaconne release is BBC 3's Recommended Recording!
Sunday Times Pick
Shostakovich is Sunday Times Album of the Week!
Gerard Schurmann
Remembering Gerard, who passed on 24 March at 96.
Parry: Judith
BBC Record Review
'Record of the week'
Colli IP Cover Star
Federico Colli on latest International Piano magazine
Bartok with Bavouzet
BBC Building a Library recommended recording
Reicha 250 Anniversary
Enjoy Ivan Ilic's celebrated docu-series on composer.
Ralph Couzens Interview
Presto interviews Managing Director Ralph Couzens
Louis Lortie
Louis Lortie’s thirty-year relationship with Chandos Records has produced a catalogue of over 45 recordings, covering repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky. Current projects include the five Saint-Saëns piano concertos with Edward Gardner, solo piano works by Fauré and the complete works of Chopin.
Show Discography
“…Tilling’s is a wonderfully flexible instrument, silvery-bright at the top, but with an unexpected warmth and guttural edge lower in the voice that brings the bolder colours of cabaret to Korngold’s Schneeglöckchen… just when we’re settling into Korngold and Berg’s rhapsodic language, we’re pulled up by the almost Schubertian freshness and clean lines of Zemlinsky’s folk-poem settings. Tilling is at her best in these pencil-sketches of nature – birds, roses, stars, the moon – where restraint speaks louder than excess, and her interplay with pianist Paul Rivinius is at its most conversational and instinctive… “ ****
“…Tilling’s is a wonderfully flexible instrument, silvery-bright at the top, but with an unexpected warmth and guttural edge lower in the voice that brings the bolder colours of cabaret to Korngold’s Schneeglöckchen… just when we’re settling into Korngold and Berg’s rhapsodic language, we’re pulled up by the almost Schubertian freshness and clean lines of Zemlinsky’s folk-poem settings. Tilling is at her best in these pencil-sketches of nature – birds, roses, stars, the moon – where restraint speaks louder than excess, and her interplay with pianist Paul Rivinius is at its most conversational and instinctive… “ ****
Instrumental Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“… Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Faure’s unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the BArcolles reflecting a mature mastery. Nor is there just the rarefied Fauré on show, his insouciant charm and playfulness being to the fore and captured perfectly in the Theme and Variations… “
Instrumental Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“… Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Faure’s unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the BArcolles reflecting a mature mastery. Nor is there just the rarefied Fauré on show, his insouciant charm and playfulness being to the fore and captured perfectly in the Theme and Variations… “
