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My Brilliant Friend - The Complete Series
[ Via Vision / 3 DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship. She met Raffaella... |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 4 (recorded in 1990) The Britten Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] In his String Quartets, the most challenging and complicated musical form,Tippett draws inspiration from the late quartetsof Beethoven, particularly in hisfugal writing, and the intricate and complex textures of the 4 voices. |
David Bowie
Brilliant Adventure (18 x LP Box Set) [ PLG UK / Vinyl Box Set - released 26/Nov/2021 ] The latest in an award-winning and critically acclaimed series of box sets, Brilliant Adventure (1992 - 2001) includes newly remastered versions of some of Bowie's most underrated and experimental material: Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of... |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Medtner: Incantation, Complete Songs, Vol. 1 Ekaterina Levental (mezzo-soprano), Frank Peters (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Medtner's legacy for solo piano is now widely esteemed alongside Rachmaninov and other giants of the Russian 'silver age': melodists to their core, romantics at heart, yet rigorous craftsmen to their fingertips, who took their muse seriously and... |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Medtner: Angel - Complete Songs, Vol. 3 Ekaterina Levental (mezzo-soprano), Frank Peters (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Anybody who has entered into the cosmos of Medtner's music, and especially of his songs, will be aware of its introvert, secretive, sometimes even hermetic character. |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Piano Music (LP) Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The LP version of a highly successful CD issue of the complete piano music by John Adams (born 1947). "Minimalism, but not as you know it", thus described The Guardian the John Adams' music. John Adams is active in almost every musical genre,... |
JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris, Psalms & Capriccio's Peter Schreier (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), René Jacobs (alto) & Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia, trumpet & conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] "Zelenka was one of Bach's and Telemann's most musically colourful contemporaries." (Gramophone) |
DEBUSSY / FRANCK / RAVEL
French Violin Sonatas Shlomo Mintz (violin) & Yefim Bronfman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon/ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Taking into account the very engaging recording quality of this issue, the marvellously finished performances and the generously well-conceived coupling, I have no real hesitation in recommending this new disc." (Gramophone) |
My Brilliant Friend Series 2: The Story Of A New Name
[ ViaVision / 3 DVD - released 5/Nov/2020 ] Directed by Saverio Costanzo and based on the internationally bestselling Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, the critically acclaimed global smash hit returns for a second series. Lila and Elena are sixteen. Lila is just married, but worries... |
JOHANN KRIEGER
Krieger: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music Alejandro Casal (harpsichord/organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Johann Krieger (1652-1735) was an important composer of the German keyboard school, and together with Buxtehude, Böhm, Muffat, Pachelbel, Kuhnau and Lübeck he paved the way for the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Krieger was for most part of his life... |
PIETRO DEGLI ANTONI
Sonatas (12), Op. 4 Alessandro Ciccolini (violin) / Il Coro d'Arcadia [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Pietro degli Antoni (1639-1720) was a founding member of the famous Accademia Filarmonica in his native Bologna, an institution bringing together professional musicians "so well united that they always play together, creating fine sound". Many famous... |
ALFREDO CASELLA
Casella: Complete Music for Cello and Piano Andrea Favalessa (cello) Maria Semeraro (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Casella was, if it isn't a contradiction in terms, a kind of neoclassical Romantic; of sufficient pianistic skill that he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 and thus perhaps escaped from the pressure to plough the furrow of... |
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (W.F.): Cantatas Barbara Schlick (soprano) Claudia Schubert (alto) Wilfried Jochens (tenor) Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) / Das Kleine Konzert, Das Kleine Konzert [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] Recorded 15-22 April 1991, Wuppertal-Barmen, Immanuelskirche |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Choral Works & Folksongs [6 CD set plus CD Rom] Chamber Choir of Europe. Nicol Matt. with Jargen Meier, piano, and Martina Schrott, harp / Amadeus Choir [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Brahms's choral music ranges from the severe magnificence of the Fest- und Gedenk-sprüche to the ravishing opulence of the Op.17 Songs for female voices, horns and harp. Brahms conducted amateur choirs throughout his professional life, both as a... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Op 41 The National Academic Choir of the Ukraine 'Dumka' / Yevhen Savchur [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] After their successful recording of Rachmaninov' s Vespers the Dumka Choir made a new recording of Tchaikovsky's masterwork the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, in which he captures the spirit of the Russ. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, J. S.: Motets / Easter Oratorio BWV 249 Christine Brenk (soprano) Anne Greiling (alto) Frank Bossert (tenor) Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) / Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2007 ] It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving ones associated with him. There is a case for regarding the six motets catalogued BWV 225-230 as... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: 'Elias', Op. 70 / 'Paulus', Op. 36 (Rec 1994) Christine Schafer (soprano) Cornelia Kallisch (alto) / Andreas Schmidt (bass) Czech Philharmonic / Helmuth Rilling [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Is this a Bargain of the Month? That's for the Editor to decide. For my money, this is set fair to be a Bargain of the Year. Urgently recommended." (MusicWeb April 2003) |
EDUARDO GARRIDO / NIKITA KOPSHKIN / REGINALD SMITH-BRINDLE / ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
Easy Studies for Guitar Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2017 ] The growing library of guitar music on Brilliant Classics already encompasses several albums of etudes and miniatures written for students and amateur players. From rare to well-known, there are the studies of Gangi (BC95204), Tansman (BC95221),... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses The Moscow Academy of Choral Singing, Victor Popov [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] In the field of choral music Tchaikovsky is known as the first Russian composer to have composed cycles of the Liturgy and the Vespers, but his considerable output of secular choral music is less well-known, and a delightful surprise. |
![MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, [The Damnation of Faust] Op. 24 cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10204/10204703.jpg)
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, [The Damnation of Faust] Op. 24 Denés Gulyás, Maria Ewing, Robert Lloyd / Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, Kölner Rundfunkchor, Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart, Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] 'Inbal has a fine ear for Berlioz's orchestration, matched by sensitive recording, so that time and again details spring into dramatic life…a distinctive and intelligent performance… No lover of the work should miss hearing it.' Gramophone, July 1991 |
