Producer(s) Igor Veprintsev Sound Engineer(s) Elena Buneeva Vladimir Kisselev Recorded in: Mosfilm Studio, Moscow May 1996 Recorded in: Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory June 1996

This album was nominated for the 2008 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Choral Performance."
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

Includes traditional march(es). Ensemble: Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor: Trevor Le M. Sharpe.

Richard Hickox's Vaughan Williams symphonies have collected many awards and accolades. Of major interest is the premiere recording of Vaughan Williams's Nocturne, which was only discovered in 2000. Its first known performance was given at the Three Choirs Festival in 2001, conducted by Richard Hickox. Recorded in: All Saints' Church, Tooting, London 21 & 22 January 2003 Producer(s) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens Matthew Walker (Assistant)

Classical Music

"...a good mixture of Grainger's compositions, recompositions and arrangements of folk-melodies is presented. Most rewarding, perhaps, are those in which strong folk material is made the basis of works that go far beyond the score of the initial tune.
A fine instance is Green Bushes. Butterworth used a variant of this in his The Banks of Green Willow, but with Grainger it serves quite different ends in a well-organized passacaglia. The two movements from his Youthful Suite are remarkable for a teenager without formal training in composition, although it is inevitably the later scores which show the inventiveness of his orchestral writing. Blithe Bells, which takes ''Sheep may safey graze'' as its starting point, is gently iconoclastic, My Robin is beautiful in an individual way and here played with the sort of ''drowsy lilt'' Grainger indicated. And there is excellent work from Moray Welsh in the quietly rhapsodic Youthful Rapture."

-- GRAMOPHONE

Recorded in: London Coliseum 2, 8 & 21 August 1973 Producer(s) Robert Kinloch Anderson Sound Engineer(s) Stuart Eltham Robert Gooch

Nikolai Medtner was an oustanding Russian composer who continued the late romantic tradition. His reputation has been overshadowed by the more showy works of his friend and contemporary Rachmaninov but his music, with its dark mysticism and ravishing lyracism, is well worth investigating. Geoffrey Tozer's substantial recorded survey of Medtner's music has helped generate new interest in the composer.

Classical Music

Dvorák's late symphonic poems on Erben's Czech 'folk' ballads are his most pungent orchestral compositions. Replete with macabre scenarios, in the manner of Grimm's fairy-tales, they tell stories with a sure instinct for primitive effect and scintillating orchestral detail. Järvi responds well to their febrile atmosphere, playing the melodies like songs – entirely appropriate since Dvorák used settings of Erben's verse as the basis for many of his themes. Just occasionally over-indulgent rubato compromises a clear sense of narrative and the neurotic world of The Hero's Song is rendered too literally, but these are mostly fine, perceptive performances. -- Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine

All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.

The works on this disc represent some of Boris Tchaikovsky's finest orchestral music, and the release marks the start of a mini-series of Boris Tchaikovsky's historical recordings which will feature some major Russian artists. These recordings from the 1980s, two of which are premieres, are here released for the first time.

Just occasionally Chandos receives an unsolicited demo that is really special. This recording is a case in point - a disc of music by a composer little known outside her native Poland, presented with such passionate and persistent advocacy by violinist Joanna Kurkowicz that it was quite impossible to resist. The CD is the result of many years of research by Kurkowicz, who refers to the music, quite simply, as 'amazing'. Kurkowicz hopes that this recording will expand awareness of Bacewicz's importance as a major composer of the twentieth century.

This first ever digital recording of Prokofiev's music for the ballet 'The Stone Flower' is released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. the story is an amalgamation of several of the folk-style tales in a book by the ural writer Paval Bazhov, cast in a Prologue, four acts and eight scenes which range from village and fairground to mountain caverns. 'The Tale of the Stone Flower' is Prokofiev's last ballet, and he never lived to see it performed. This is Chandos' first recording with Gianandrea Noseda, the new Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic. His work with the orchestra has been greeted with tremendous enthusiasm. Recorded in: New Broadcasting House, Manchester 21, 22, 24 & 28 January 2003 Producer(s) Brian Pidgeon (Executive) Mike George (Recording) Sound Engineer(s) Stephen Rinker Denise Else (Assistant) Nick Bell (Assistant)

The Ambache is a flexible group fo from three to thirty players. Since its formation in 1984, it has become known for its performances and for the cohesiveness of its collaborative, unconducted teamwork. The Ambache is famous for its championship of music by women composers. Their previous recording of Amy Beach (CHAN9752) was given a Rosette in the Penguin Guide to CDs. Recorded in: St Michael's Church, Highgate, London 28-30 October 2002 Producer(s) Rachel Smith Sound Engineer(s) Jonathan Cooper Matthew Walker (Assistant)