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    Charlie Lovell-Jones, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London - William Walton: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Suite (2025)

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    Charlie Lovell-Jones, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London - William Walton: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Suite (2025)

    Charlie Lovell-Jones, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London - William Walton: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Suite from 'Troilus and Cressida'; Portsmouth Point (2025)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 63:20 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHSA 5360 | Recorded: 2024

    Sinfonia of London and John Wilson start a new series of recordings of works by Sir William Walton with this album featuring Charlie Lovell-Jones as soloist in the Violin Concerto. Lovell-Jones has soloed with major orchestras internationally, broadcasting on radio and television. As leader of the multi-award-winning Sinfonia of London, he has performed at the BBC Proms and recorded numerous albums, and is the winner of a number of significant international competitions. Commissioned by Jascha Heifetz, the Concerto was premiered in 1939, in America, and was enthusiastically received. Inspired by Walton's friend and lover Alice Wimborne, the work is extremely lyrical and passionate in nature, sporting a wild, virtuosic Tarantella as the second movement.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (2024)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (2024)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 499 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 249 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:47:18
    Classical, Musical | Label: Chandos Records

    Following the success of last year’s release of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London turn their attention to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel. As in the case of the previous release in the series, this world première recording of the complete score features every note of music played at the first Broadway performance, here in the full thirty-five-piece orchestration made by Don Walker for the original production. The outstanding cast, led by Nathaniel Hackmann (Billy Bigelow), Mikaela Bennett (Julie Jordan), Sierra Boggess (Carrie Pipperidge), and Julian Ovenden (Enoch Snow), also features Francesca Chiejina (Nettie Fowler) and David Seadon-Young (Jigger Craigin).

    John Mills, Sinfonia of London - Music for Strings: Ralph Williams, Herbert Howells, Frederic Delius, Edward Elgar (2023)

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    John Mills, Sinfonia of London - Music for Strings: Ralph Williams, Herbert Howells, Frederic Delius, Edward Elgar (2023)

    John Mills, Sinfonia of London - Music for Strings: Ralph Williams, Herbert Howells, Frederic Delius, Edward Elgar (2023)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 66:00 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5291 | Recorded: 2021-2022

    This keenly anticipated album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson features two of the greatest British works for string orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and Sir Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro. Elgar’s ground-breaking work, commissioned for the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra and premièred in 1905, is inspired by the baroque concerto grosso, and features a solo string quartet contrasted with the full symphonic string section. These orchestral forces were also adopted by Herbert Howells in his Concerto for String Orchestra, from 1938. Delius’s Late Swallows is the only piece not originally composed for string orchestra; it was arranged (from the slow movement of Delius’s String Quartet) by his amanuensis, Eric Fenby. Recorded in Surround Sound and available as a Hybrid SACD, and digitally in Spatial Audio.

    Timothy McAllister, James Buckle, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2024)

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    Timothy McAllister, James Buckle, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2024)

    Timothy McAllister, James Buckle, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:49
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    Sinfonia of London’s second album of works of Kenneth Fuchs features four world-première recordings. Two of the works feature soloists: the Bass Trombone Concerto loosely follows sonata form whilst utilising the full range of the instrument, and revelling in its lyrical side. Eventide, for alto saxophone and orchestra, is a re-working of an earlier concerto that Fuchs wrote for cor anglais. Described by the composer as a set of ‘fantasy variations based upon the simple triadic intervals typical of spirituals’, the alto saxophone version was composed for this album’s soloist, Tim McAllister. Point of Tranquility was originally composed for wind band, but Fuchs then prepared this orchestral version at the request of JoAnn Falletta for her Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Bacewicz, Enescu, Ysaÿe: Music for Strings (2024)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Bacewicz, Enescu, Ysaÿe: Music for Strings (2024)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Bacewicz, Enescu, Ysaÿe: Music for Strings (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 313 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:39
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    For this their fourth album of music for string orchestra, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London present a programme of works by three composers from the Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy, who were all themselves virtuosic string players. George Enescu studied in Paris and Vienna, spent much of his life in France, and was internationally lauded as a concert violinist and conductor in both Europe and America.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Maurice Ravel, Lennox Berkeley & Adam Pounds: Orchestral Works (2024)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Maurice Ravel, Lennox Berkeley & Adam Pounds: Orchestral Works (2024)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Maurice Ravel, Lennox Berkeley & Adam Pounds: Orchestral Works (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 221 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 153 Mb | 01:05:50
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    The three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel’s movement towards neoclassicism, its forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque. Originally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919 he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here).

    Sinfonia of London Chorus, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet) (2023)

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    Sinfonia of London Chorus, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet) (2023)

    Sinfonia of London Chorus, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet) (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 180 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 126 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:54:09
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    Ravel’s early masterpiece, Daphnis et Chloé, was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes, and was premièred in the Théâtre du Châtelet in July 1912. Described by Ravel as a ‘symphonie chorégraphique’ (choreographic symphony), the work was performed just twice in that 1912 season, and was given only three more performances the following year. Press reaction was muted, and it is now much more often performed as a concert work than as a ballet.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Complete Original Score) (2023)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Complete Original Score) (2023)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Complete Original Score) (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 488 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 231 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:39:43
    Classical, Musical | Label: Chandos Records

    Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! was first performed in 1943, and was a significant turning point in the history of musical theatre. It was the first musical to put drama and plot to the fore, portrayed by rounded, believable characters. It swept aside traditions that had their roots in vaudeville – star turns, comic sketches, and endless lines of high-kicking chorus girls. Oklahoma! does feature dance, but in the hands of the choreographer, Agnes de Mille, this was idiomatic to the plot, and revolutionary in terms of the fifteen-minute dream-sequence ballet at the close of Act I. The first collaboration between composer and writer, the show was a hit, running for more than five years on Broadway, and paving the way for their masterpieces to come.

    Adam Walker, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

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    Adam Walker, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

    Adam Walker, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 199 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:16
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    The Grammy-Award-winning Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is without doubt one of American music’s leading orchestral composers. His orchestral output has grown and developed to encompass a wide range of genres, from overtures and tone poems to suites and concertos (ten to date, including ones for string quartet, electric guitar, and piano, the last entitled Spiritualist), inspired by a diverse range of subjects, testimony to his wide sympathies and fields of knowledge.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor (2023)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor (2023)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 232 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:08
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    John Wilson and Sinfonia of London release their second album of Rachmaninoff. The Second Symphony was mostly composed in Dresden – where Rachmaninoff was escaping the political and professional pressures of Russia – in 1906 – 07. An hour’s worth of music, the symphony is one of his largest works after the operas, and is widely viewed as one of his greatest works. It was possibly of some significance to the composer, following the less than auspicious début of his First Symphony (which he withdrew after the première). First performed in St Petersburg and Moscow, conducted by the composer, the Second Symphony was an immediate success with audiences and critics alike, and remains a mainstay of the orchestral repertoire to this day. Rachmaninoff dedicated the score to his teacher Sergei Taneyev, who was a pupil of Tchaikovsky.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Isle of the Dead, Vocalise (2022)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Isle of the Dead, Vocalise (2022)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Isle of the Dead, Vocalise (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:14
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    Rachmaninoff’s tone poem The Isle of the Dead was composed in Dresden in 1908 – 09, inspired by the 1880 painting of that name by the Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin. The painting depicts a ferryman rowing a coffin towards the Isle of the Dead, and Rachmaninoff, unusually setting the piece in five beats to the bar, captures the atmosphere and the motion of oars in the water in the most extraordinary detail. Dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian-born coloratura soprano Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova, the ‘Vocalise’ was first performed, by her with the composer, in January 1916. After creating a version with orchestral accompaniment, Rachmaninoff then produced the version heard here, for orchestra alone. Following the Russian revolution and his exile to the USA, the compositional output of Rachmaninoff declined dramatically. In great demand both as a virtuoso performer and as a conductor, he toured extensively, but struggled to incorporate ‘modern music’ into his compositional style. In the mid 1930s he acquired a holiday villa in Lucerne, and surprised the world with his ‘Paganini’ Rhapsody, quickly followed by the Third Symphony. Sinfonia of London and John Wilson demonstrate exceptional ensemble playing throughout, and their glowing string sound suits this repertoire perfectly.

    Basil Poledouris - Robocop: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987) Remastered Expanded Limited Edition 2010

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    Basil Poledouris - Robocop: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987) Remastered Expanded Limited Edition 2010

    Basil Poledouris - Robocop: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)
    Sinfonia of London, conducted by Howard Blake & Tony Britton

    2010 Remastered Expanded Limited Edition
    EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 275 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 130 Mb | Scans ~ 44 Mb
    Soundtrack, Score | Label: Intrada | # Special Collection Volume 129 | 00:56:16

    At last! All-important cue underscoring first appearance of Robocop - with dynamic first statement of main theme, right down to clanking metal - makes it to CD! ROBOCOP has hit the market twice before, but both releases inexplicably deleted important cue plus subsequent variants as Robo first goes into action with hostage crisis. Paul Verhoeven sci-fi/actioner with Peter Weller inspires Basil Poledouris to create powerful music: otherworldly for creation of Robo, emotional for Robo's memories, riveting for explosive action set-pieces. Intrada also presents first-ever assembly of complete end credits on CD, as well as restoring cues to proper chronological order. Advertisement sequences (trademarks in numerous Verhoeven films) are scored by Poledouris and included in sequence as they comment on scenes outgoing or incoming. Intrada presents complete score in vibrant stereo, newly re-mixed and re-mastered from recently-discovered original 2" 24-track session masters plus 1" 8-track electronic session mixes, all stored in mint condition, courtesy MGM. Informative liner notes from Jeff Bond complete exciting package.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Hollywood Soundstage (2022)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Hollywood Soundstage (2022)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Hollywood Soundstage (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:49
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    Sinfonia of London and John Wilson present an album that celebrates the golden age of Hollywood. Sinfonia of London rose to fame in the 1950s as the leading recording orchestra of the day, appearing in the musical credits of more than 300 films, including the 1958 soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann for Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Reformed by John Wilson in 2018 as a recording orchestra, and made-up of some of London’s finest orchestral musicians, their first recording of Korngold’s Symphony in F# won the orchestral award from BBC music magazine, and drew critical acclaim worldwide. Korngold’s Overture from the private lives of Elizabeth and Essex which opens the programme is an excellent demonstration of his rich, chromatic sound-world that set a blue-print for the Hollywood sound and so many composers that followed. Although the songs were written by Harold Arlen, it was Herbert Stothart’s score for The Wizard of Oz that won the Oscar, and it is his suite from the movie that features here. There are also suites from Max Steiner’s Now, Voyager and Franz Waxman’s Rebecca (receiving here it’s premiere recording). Shorter pieces from David Raksin, Frederick Loewe, Johnny Mandel and Alfred Newman complete this rewarding programme.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - John Ireland: Orchestral Works (2022)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - John Ireland: Orchestral Works (2022)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - John Ireland: Orchestral Works (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 250 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:16
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    John Ireland was something of a child prodigy, entering the Royal College of Music at the age of fourteen. There he studied piano, organ and composition (under Charles Villiers Stanford). He quickly progressed to significant positions as an organist, whilst continuing to pursue his interests as a composer. The Forgotten Rite, from 1913, is one of his earliest orchestral compositions, and was premièred by Sir Henry Wood at the Queen’s Hall.

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Metamorphosen: R.Strauss; Korngold; Schrecker (2022)

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    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Metamorphosen: R.Strauss; Korngold; Schrecker (2022)

    Sinfonia of London & John Wilson - Metamorphosen: R.Strauss; Korngold; Schrecker (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:22
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records

    Following their critically acclaimed album of English Music for Strings, Sinfonia of London and John Wilson turn to Germany and three outstanding works for string orchestra. Franz Schreker’s Intermezzo, the oldest piece here, was composed in 1900, before Schreker’s rise to fame in the opera houses of Germany and Austria, but shows strong indications of what was to follow. Korngold composed the Symphonische Serenade following his return to Vienna from Hollywood after the Second World War, and shortly before he wrote his Symphony in F sharp. Korngold effortlessly conjures a vivid range of colours and textures from his large forces (32 violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, and 8 basses) in a work that explores the virtuosity of the players to the full. Composed in 1945, as a reaction to the horrors of the war, and the desecration of German culture, Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings seems to look backwards to the German romantic tradition (a trait even more evident in his Four Last Songs, of 1948). The moving final passage, marked ‘In Memoriam’, leaves the listener to contemplate in silence.