Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3; Sibelius: Symphony No 2

Drawn from exceptional musicians from across Europe, the Chineke! Orchestra is part of the Chineke! Foundation whose motto is ‘championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music’. In this live concert recording under conductor Roderick Cox they perform two popular works by Sibelius and Rachmaninov.

SIGCD548  84 minutes 38 seconds (2 discs)
‘[Chineke! Orchestra] are certainly on their way to showing that they can be considered on a par with any non-Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) orchestra. Since their previous recording … they have ...
‘The notorious difficulties of the solo writing seem to present no problem to the agile and sonorous pianism of the young Russian virtuoso Gerard Aimontche, while the American conductor Roderick Cox u ...