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Chandos Records Ltd | Chandos House, 1 Commerce Park, Commerce Way, Colchester, Essex C02 8HX, UNITED KINGDOM | +44 (0) 1206 225200 | marketing@chandos.net
Also Available: Latest releases with Edward Gardner
Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
Also sprach Zarathustra
Gustav Holst (1874-1934):
The Planets
Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra CBSO Youth Chorus | NYO | Edward Gardner
RELEASE DATE: 27 January 2017 Cut-off date: 16 January 2017
Reference • CHSA 5179
ISRC code • GBLWD17005NN
Barcode • 095115517925
Title • Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Label • Chandos
Genre • Classical
Format • SACD
Dealer Price • £9
Content
Artists
CBSO Youth Chorus
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Edward Gardner
FEBRUARY 2017 NEW RELEASE DISC OF THE MONTH
For its v ery first album on Chandos, the National Youth
Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed
acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully
revealed in this surround-sound recording. Their performance of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst’s The Planets is already a point of reference
in the UK after the immensely successful Prom concert
that preceded the recording. The concert’s five-star
review in The Daily Telegraph praised in particular the orchestra’s ‘great attack and complete absence of anything routine’, while The Guardian emphasised the great performance of the orchestra in this ‘graceful and evocative programme’, especially the ‘depth and richness of sound that belied their youth’.
This unique album is a first milestone in what promises to be a superb discography for the NYO.
Special notice: this album will also be released on
vinyl (see appropriate product sheet)
Further information | NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA
- LAUNCH EVENT: Southbank Center (UK), 7 Jan. 2017: filmed talks, videos,
performances, listening stations, CD sales
- CONCERTS: Nottingham, Birmingham, Jan. 2017 • Leeds, Barbican, Apr. 2017 •
Snape Malting Hall, Birmingham, Aug. 2017
- OTHERS: Video trailer to be released: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChandosRecordsLtd
CHSA 5178
‘The playing and singing of Gardner’s Bergen forces are as
intoxicating as any I know on disc.’
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Sunday Times (Culture)
‘An enormously impressive achievement... Gardner’s operatic
experience means he’s alive to the lyricism and drama of the
piece in equal measure: there’s ardent longing aplenty and a
real willingness to explore the sheer gorgeousness of the score.’ EDITOR’S CHOICE
Gramophone CHSA 5172
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