The Chandos catalogue contains a range of classical music - for example, much orchestral, choral and chamber music by such lesser-known British composers as Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Charles Villiers Stanford and Arnold Bax, conducted by eminent conductors including Richard Hickox, Gianandrea Noseda, Neeme Järvi and Vernon Handley.
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Chandos Records arose from a band music publisher Chandos Music, founded in 1963, and Chandos Productions, a record production company which produced LPs for Classics for Pleasure, and, especially, RCA's work in the UK.
The ensemble also made the premiere recording of the work for Chandos Records.
An international soloist, with over 30 recordings on the Chandos Records label, Lortie is particularly known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven.
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Other labels the orchestra has recorded for include Argo, Capriccio Records, Chandos Records, Decca Records, EMI, Hänssler Classic, Philips Records, and Hyperion Records.
For Tactus Records, Bressan recorded the Vespro della Beata Vergine Maria of Pier Francesco Cavalli, then for Chandos Records a series of world premiere recordings of Venetian late baroque works: Benedetto Marcello's requiem (1999), then the opera Arianna (2000), Antonio Calegari's 1779 oratorio La Resurrezione di Lazzaro and the Messa per San Marco of Baldassarre Galuppi (2003).
In 1992, Swiss conductor Matthias Bamert became principal conductor of the LMP and during his time, produced a considerable body of recording with Chandos Records (which continues to this day).
The Autumn Chorus to Pan was recorded in June 2008 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus under Jiří Bělohlávek together with other choral works by Joseph Marx for the British label Chandos Records.
2007: as Nymph in Rusalka, Richard Hickox (cond), Australian Opera Orchestra, Cheryl Barker, Rosario La Spina, Bruce Martin, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Anne-Marie Owens; Chandos Records
BBC Radio 3 chose the recording by Rustem Hayroudinoff (Chandos Records) as the finest version of the Complete Études-Tableaux, in its programme Building a Library.