Chandos Records

03/10/2025

HUGE news to start the month... Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady has secured the No. 1 spot in the Official Specialist Classical Chart! 🎭🎶

We are delighted with the news and send our congratulations to all involved! To the listeners, we are so pleased to read all of your positive words about the album. Thank you for your support.

If you haven't yet, you can order or stream the album here
👉 https://lnk.to/CHSA5358

Sinfonia of London

03/10/2025

October has arrived! 🎃🍂 and it brings exciting new music...
Today, Bennett; Duke: Violin Concertos, is here for you to enjoy!
🎵 https://lnk.to/CHSA5371FA 🎵

Both of these violin concertos have been long-neglected for the same reason: their composers were much better-known for their achievements in musical theatre rather than for their works for the concert hall.

Robert Russell Bennett studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and his output includes seven symphonies. He also orchestrated some of the highest-profile musicals in Broadway history, including works by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Vernon Duke received a rigorous training in classical music at the Kyiv Conservatory, was friends with Prokofiev, and composed ballet scores for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets russes, in Paris, as well as three symphonies. He remains better known as the creator of hit shows, such as Cabin in the Sky, and as the composer of numerous songs that became jazz standards, including April in Paris.

Chloë Hanslip, Andrew Litton, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra play both concertos with aplomb, and Andrew Litton also performs as pianist in Bennett’s Hexapoda, for violin and piano.

Violin Concertos etc. CHSA 5371

26/09/2025

Today's the day! 🎶🎭 Sinfonia of London

Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady is OUT NOW and we can't wait for you to enjoy it. Haven't ordered the album yet? You can order and stream it here...
👉 https://lnk.to/CHSA5358FA

John Wilson comments 🗣
"We have recorded every note, including underscoring, plus all the music written but cut before opening, with the instrumentation exactly as it was on opening night. Also, thanks to recent research, we have the restored original orchestrations.

The reason I want to record everything the composer, lyricist, book-writer, and orchestrator did is that I believe it is a piece of significance by people who were masters of their art and craft. This was not written in an afternoon; it was chiselled away for months. They were ruthless in excising anything they felt would not make the grade. We have a duty to set down as closely as we can their final thoughts on what they created."

Here are some great photos from the album recording sessions. What a fantastic cast! 👏

24/09/2025

Gramophone Music Awards 2025 🎶🏆

As you may have seen in our September newsletter, two Chandos albums have been nominated for a Gramophone Award!

Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano, from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and Walton: Violin Concerto, from John Wilson, Sinfonia of London, and Charlie Lovell-Jones have been selected in the Piano and Concerto categories.

The Shortlist will be reduced to three albums per category in the October issue of Gramophone and the category winners will be revealed at the Gramophone Awards ceremony! ✨

Find the nominated albums on our website - https://www.chandos.net/list

24/09/2025

So thrilled that Fantasia is Album of the Week! 📻 🎺 Thank you to for playing a track every day this week at 10:30am - tune in to listen 🎧
We kicked off the week in style with ’s gorgeous ‘Warm, hazy rain’ 🌧️ and I can’t wait to see what is on air tomorrow! 🎶

23/09/2025

My Fair Lady is out THIS Friday! Have you listened to the latest single from the album yet? Search on your preferred streaming platform or click the link in the post below 🎶✨

23/09/2025

10/09/2025

We’re excited to announce the addition of more Chandos Records titles to our Presto CD offering, including albums representing the diversity of music characteristic of this label, and many of them having been unavailable on CD for several years.

🔎 Explore the range here:
https://tinyurl.com/3fzs56wy

05/09/2025

New from Edward Gardner! ✨
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Helios & Symphony No. 5, is available right now.
Order or stream the album here 👉 https://lnk.to/CHSA5314

Edward Gardner’s series of Nielsen symphonies with the Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester continues with this recording of No. 5, complemented with the overture Helios and the Clarinet Concerto, featuring Alessandro Carbonare as soloist.

Nielsen composed Helios in 1903 on a trip to Greece, as his wife, Anne Marie, a sculptor, had won a grant to copy sculptures on the Acropolis. Over its ten-twelve-minute duration, the work depicts sunrise, noontime, and then sunset over the Aegean Sea, and is one of the composer’s most performed works.

The Clarinet Concerto dates from 1928 and is cast in one long movement falling into four sections. It is dedicated to Nielsen’s friend Aage Oxenvad who gave the first performance.

Composed between 1920 and 1922, the Fifth Symphony is unusually laid out in just two movements – the only piece by Nielsen to adopt this structure. Unlike his other mature symphonies, the fifth lacks a subtitle, and so could be considered to be more ‘pure music’ compared to the descriptive nature of the others. Nielsen described the symphony as ‘the division of dark and light, the battle between evil and good’ and the opposition between ‘Dreams and Deeds’.

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 / Clarinet Concerto / Helios CHSA 5314

03/09/2025

The 'ber months are here! 🍂 Here's what's to come in September...

🎵 Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto / Helios / Symphony No. 5
🎵 The World Feels Dusty
🎵 Fantasia
🎵 Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady

It's looking to be a great month for classical music, so join in on the excitement and pre-order the albums here
👉 https://lnk.to/ChandosSeptember25

Go to September Releases.