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ROSSINI / BODDECKER / GUBAIDULINA / PIAZZOLLA / HAGEN / etc
Bassoon Kaleidoscope Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) with accompliment [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] The programme on this new recording spans nearly 400 years, and brilliantly showcases the many colours and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. |
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SCHUBERT
The Last Years - The Great String Quartets / Piano Trios / String Quintet / Octet Brandis Quartet / Klaviertrio Amsterdam / Berlin Philharmonic Octet [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "I really admire these heartfelt accounts for their warm expressiveness and sumptuous textures. I certainly fully intend to revisit this set in the future." (MusicWeb Feb 2005 on the String Quartets) |
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The Brilliant Corners
Somebody Up There Likes Me / Joyride [ Cherry Red / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Works 1540; Bruno Forst (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] In 1992 a (misfiled) manuscript was discovered in the Madrid Palacio Real Library: the Arte Novamente Inventada pera aprender a tager (Newly devised method for learning to play), which proved to be the first book of keyboard music to be printed in... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Complete Music for Violin and Piano Bruno Monteiro (violin), Joao Paulo Santos (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] For all the Eastern-tinted opulence of his sole opera, King Roger, and assorted, lush vocal cycles, it is in the works scored for violin that we may hear most characteristically the voice of Karol Szymanowski. The reasons are personal as much as... |
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ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Complete Music for Violin and Piano Bruno Monteiro (violin), Joao Paulo Santos (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Nov/2016 ] Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was a Czech composer of GermanJewish descent. He received his musical education in Cologne, Leipzig and Vienna. Under the Nazis he was captured for his Jewish identity and his music, which the Germans considered Entartet,... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Complete String Quartet (23 CD set ) Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Haydn's string quartets span his creative life - from the 1750s and the Opp. 1&2 sets through to his last unfinished quartet in D minor Op.103 of 1803. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 9 Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio's for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 1 [Op 9 Nos 1-6] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 2 [Op 33 and 42] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 4 [Op 71 and 74] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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RAVEL
Complete Melodies Monica Piccinini, Christian Immler, etc., Filippo Farinelli (piano), Claudia Giottoli (flute), Giacomo Menna (cello) / ECU Ensemble, Marco Momi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] Exquisite, refined, exotic, full of colouristic effects and unheard-of timbres, Ravel's songs are a cornerstone of the 20th century song repertoire. This new recording contains the complete songs, accompanied by piano or by instrumental ensemble. |
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JOHANN MELCHIOR MOLTER
Molter: Orchestral Music & Cantatas; Camerata Bachienis, Julia Kirchner (soprano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Johann Melchior Molter was born in 1696 in Thüringen, where his musical talent was quickly recognised. He served in the orchestra at the court of Karlsruhe. Later he broadened his horizon by going to Italy, where he encountered Albinoni, Vivaldi... |
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: L'Impresario in Angustie (complete opera recorded in 2017) Camilla Antonini, Lavinia Bini, Paola Cigna, Alejandro Escobar, Luca Gallo, Marco Filippo Romano / Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forli, Aldo Salvagno [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The Neapolitan Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was certainly a prolific composer of operas, having more than 80 titles to his name. Though many have only recently enjoyed a revival, they were widely admired in his day. |
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TRADITIONAL CATALAN SONGS
Traditional Catalan Songs for Voice, Lutes and Viol The Canigó Early Music Ensemble, William Gaston Waters [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] A unique collection of songs from Catalonia, a Spanish region rich in culture and with a strong identity, its origins going back to the Middle Ages, a period in which troubadours sang of love, war, nature, honor and betrayal. |
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HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Heinrich Schutz Edition (19 CDs featuring Symphoniae Sacrae, Cantiones Sacrae, the St Matthew St Luke and St John Passions and much more) Capella Augustana / Matteo Messori [ Brilliant Classics / 19 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] |
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FRANCISCO SOTO DE LANGA
Soto De Langa: 20 Laude Spirituali Capilla Musical de la Iglesia Nacional Espanola de Roma|Alessandro Quarta [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Born in the context of the popular devotion of the peoples of the Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages, the spiritual lauda became well established in the central part of Italy, where a strong oral tradition is still preserved today. They were... |
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BIANCA MANA MEDA
Lacrime Amare: Bianca Maria Meda Motets Cappella Artemisia, Candace Smith [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] The revival on record of forgotten music by a Benedictine nun: a valuable discovery for fans of the early Baroque. Even in the extensive library of little-known composers whose music has found a niche on Brilliant Classics, the name of Bianca... |
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MARCO ANTONIO CENTORIO
Centorio: Vocal and Instrumental Music Cappella Musicale della Cattedrale di Vercelli / Denis Silano (direction) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] The first-ever album dedicated to the work of a master contrapuntalist of early-17th-century northern Italy. Who was Marco Antonio Centorio? Given how little attention has been paid to his music in modern times, a surprising amount is known about... |
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JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Chamber Music, The Court and the Village Cappella Musicale Enrico Stuart [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Boismortier (1689-1755) was a highly successful composer, active at the same time as Jean-Louis Rameau (1683-1764) during the Rococo era and the reign of Louis XV. He wrote over 100 compositions during his lifetime, and their characteristic lightness... |