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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