Chandos offers some of its classic recordings in a new format –
high-quality preloaded memory sticks – for the first time.

Initially, twelve collections will be made available on USB drives from Chandos’ catalogue, each stick either based on a themed series, such as ‘film music’ and ‘Contemporaries of Mozart’, or a composer, for example Sir Malcolm Arnold and Sir William Walton. The Vaughan Williams symphony collection will include a bonus interview with Richard Hickox and James Jolly.

Customers have a choice of purchasing the music files in Lossless FLAC or WMA, each offering sound of CD quality. Each memory stick comes loaded with the artwork, sleeve notes, and, where necessary, full texts and translations. Each stick will in addition offer all the tracks as MP3s, free of charge.

Memory sticks offer two clear advantages over compact discs: first, they take up virtually no room at all, yet offer a huge amount of music; second, a vast quantity of music will be available for less money than the equivalent amount on CDs. A further advantage is that the music will transfer much faster to your computer than at current download speeds.

Ralph Couzens, the Managing Director of Chandos Records, says: ‘We feel that the memory stick offers a new and genuinely advantageous way of purchasing music for the collector. We are able to offer our recordings at a very competitive price whilst still maintaining the sound quality for which we have become famous. Its space saving appeal is something that many serious collectors will very much welcome.’

All titles available from

www.chandos.net

The twelve titles, available from 22 February 2011, are:

For further information, please got to the Chandos webpage