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BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
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TRADITIONAL
Yiddish Baroque Music Di Tsaytmashin [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] A very special first recording: Yiddish music from the Baroque era! the Book of the Rejoicing Soul is an ancient Ashkenazi songbook, written by Rabbi Elkhanan Kirchen and published in the beginning of the 18th century in Bavaria. It contains songs of... |
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MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn Portrait: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, operas, songs, choral & instrumental] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Klara Wurtz, Gil Sharon, Frans Bruggen, Frank van de Laar, Jos van Immerseel, and many more [ Brilliant Classics / 41 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2009 ] This 40CD set includes all his major orchestral works, including the 5 symphonies, the evergreen violin concerto in E minor, the music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elijah, the First Piano Trio, Octet, Songs without Words and a selection of his Lieder. |
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BRAHMS
Lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) Wolfgang Sawallisch(piano), Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Johannes Brahms wrote some 200 songs, many of them for a single voice and piano accompaniment. The piano parts are played several outstanding accompanists: Gerald Moore, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Complete String Quartets Diogenes Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2016 ] This set presents the complete string quartets by Franz Schubert, including the completion of two unfinished movements, by Christian Starke. |
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MAX BRUCH
String Quartets Op. 9, Op. 10 and Op.Posth Diogenes Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This CD contains a World Premiere! The C minor Quartet by Max Bruch. In 2013 an unknown quartet was discovered in the archives of the Mozart-Stiftung in Frankfurt, further research made it clear it was by the 14-year old Max Bruch! This fresh and... |
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SCHUBERT
String Quartets Vol. 4 Diogenes Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] This 4th instalment of the complete String Quartets by Schubert presents one of the most famous string quartets ever written: the Quartet in D minor "Der Tod und das Mädchen" (Death and the Maiden), one of Schubert's grimmest and most powerful works,... |
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SCHUBERT
String Quartets Volume 6 Diogenes Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] This last recording in the Schubert Complete String Quartet cycle puts the crown upon a remarkable achievement by the German Diogenes Quartet, praised for its consistently high level of ensemble playing, full commitment and deep understanding of... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Complete Etudes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] In celebration of the Scriabin Centenary in 2015 this new recording presents the complete piano Etudes by the Russian Mystic. The three sets of Études clearly mark the development of Scriabin's musical language: the Opus 8 is strongly influenced... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Piano Music Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] "He emphasizes the music's lyrical beauty without sacrificing energy or forward mobility…few recordings are so intrinsically beautiful as Alexeev's." Jed Distler on Classicstoday.com. |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Preludes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The Complete Preludes constitutes another captivating milestone in Dmitri Alexeev's ongoing project to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, a cycle that already includes the complete Piano Sonatas (2-CD 94388) and... |
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FRANCIS CUTTING
Cutting: Lute Music Domenico Cerasan (Lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] The only available album dedicated to a notable musician of Elizabethan England. |
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DON COSSACK CHOIR
Don Cossack Choir - a film dedicated to Otto Hofner Don Cossack Choir / Serge Jaroff [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] G - The famous male choir with the magnificent low voices is almost nearing its centenary - it started in 1921. The DVD shows images from 1963 to 1969 of the choir and its founder and then conductor Serge Jaroff. |
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HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Schutz: Sacred Music Dresden Kreuzchor, Rudolf Mauersberger [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2013 ] This collection is a tribute to the great Baroque composer, who received most of his training in Venice from the organist of St Mark's, Giovanni Gabrieli. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Matthäus [St Matthew] Passion / Johannes [St John] Passion Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Siegfried Vogel, Adele Stolte / Dresdner Kreuzchor, Gewandhausorchester, Rudolf Mauersberger, Erhard Mauersberger [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "… the excellence of soloists, choir and obbligato instrumentalists (a superb gamba and oboe da caccia) and, above all, the profound understanding shown by the conductor, make this a most moving interpretation." Gramophone |
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BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 / Overtures, Haydn Variations Dresdner Philharmonie, Heinz Bongartz / London Symphony Orchestra, Rafaël Frühbeck de Burgos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] "I was in a perfectly blissful mood. I have seldom written music with such delight." Thus Brahms, notorious curmudgeon, to his friend Joseph Joachim, while engaged in his standard practice of arranging larger works - in this case the Second Serenade... |
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VAET
Sacred Music Dufay Ensemble, Eckehard Kiem [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] A 4CD with sacred vocal music by a master of the Flemish School of Polyphonists, Jakobus Vaet (1529‐1567). Little is known about Vaet's early years. We find him as Kapellmeister of the Hapsburg emperor Maximilian II in Vienna, where he was in... |
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CLAUDE BOLLING
Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio, Sonate pour Guitare Duilio Meucci (guitar), Claude Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Claude Bolling was born in 1930 in Cannes, where he became one of the most popular figures of the French jazz scene. He composed music for over 100 films, and he worked together with Duke Ellington, Juliette Greco, Liza Minelli and... |
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EGIDIO ROMUALDO DUNI
Duni: Trio Sonatas Op. 1 DuniEnsemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Colourfully scored premiere recordings of eighteenth-century chamber music by a little-known contemporary of Handel. Born near Naples, Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775) enjoyed success with operas presented in Rome and Milan in the 1730s before... |
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DEBUSSY
Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis-Music for Two Harps and Voice Duo Bilitis [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] To celebrate the Debussy-year 2018 (100 years after his death) the Duo Bilitis presents a highly original and attractive program: arrangements for two harps and voice of some very intimate and atmospheric works by the French master: the Danse sacrée... |