LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Complete Guitar Quintets Eros Roselli (guitar) / La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "If you're looking for a set of Luigi Boccherini's complete guitar quintets on original instruments, you need look no further than this splendid two-disc set" (AllMusic.com) |
ALBENIZ
Iberia (complete); Suite Espagnole; Piano Sonata No. 5 in G-flat; other piano works (Rec 1968-1974) Esteban Sanchez (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 17/Aug/2005 ] "The small pieces are no less deliciously played. While the sonics are close-up and boxy, you still perceive Sánchez's extraordinary tonal genius and communicative immediacy. No Albéniz fan can afford to miss these amazing... |
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Ponchielli: Piano Music Ester Fusar Poli (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Charming salon miniatures and a grand funeral march by the verismo composer of La Gioconda. Ponchielli's career developed during a rapidly evolving era in Italian musical culture that posterity squeezed him between Verdi on the one hand and his... |
Eva Katrine Dalsgaard (viola), Giovanni Punzi (clarinet), Tanja Zapolski (piano) Copenhagen Phil, Vincenzo Milletari
BRUCH: Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra Op.88, 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op.83; Giovanni Punzi, Eva Katrine Dalsgaard [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Ripe and romantic chamber and orchestral music from the Indian summer of Bruch's career. The spring of Bruch's invention was running dry in the first decade of the last century when it was refreshed once more by the sound of the clarinet. Just as... |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Rosemarie Lang, Manfred Jung, Wolf Appel, Ulrik Cold, Gert Westphal / Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post‐Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossible, and led surely if not inevitably to the... |
CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV / ALBENIZ / SATIE / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUBERT / etc
The Piano Collection (25 CD Set ) Evgeny Kissin, Halane Grimaud, Hakon Austbo, Martijn van den Hoek, Sviatoslav Richter, Klara Wartz, Alfred Brendel, Emil Gilels (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics / 25 CD Box Set - released 16/Dec/2006 ] 25 CD's offers superb quality piano music equally superbly executed by outstanding musicians such as Alfred Brendel, Sviatoslav Richter, Hélène Grimaud, Håkon Austbø, Emil Gilels, Yevgeny Kissin… and the list goes on. |
ARENSKY / BORTKIEWICZ / KABALEVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Russian Piano Concertos Evgeny Kissin, In-Ju Bang, Felicja Blumental, Ştefan Doniga, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony etc [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2018 ] There is a special quality to Russian Piano Concertos: apart from their jawdropping virtuosity and orchestral brilliance they share that common Slavonicflavor, an undefinable mixture of melancholy and passion, whether smouldering or blazing. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Russian Legends (100 CD Set - everything from Schubert song transcriptons to Shostakovich concertos) Evgeny Kissin, Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Lazar Berman, David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Viktor Tretiakov, Gidon Kremer, Mstislav Rostropovich, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 100 CD Box Set - released 21/Jul/2008 ] Brilliant Classics series of historic radio recordings from Russian archives has proved very popular all over the world. A great opportunity to acquire an valuable collection of historic material in one purchase. |
CARLO AMBROGIO LONATI
Lonati: Complete Sinfonias Ensemble Giardino di Delizie, Ewa Anna Augustynowicz [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] Another long-forgotten name takes his place in the huge library of Baroque composers published by Brilliant Classics thanks to spirited advocacy from a lively young Roman early-music group. The Milanese composer, impresario and singer Carlo... |
BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Sonatas for 2 Flutes Fabiano Martignago (recorder), Luca Ventimiglia (recorder) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Composing came easily to Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755). Having arrived in Paris in 1724, he embarked on writing what would become a vast catalogue of instrumental music focused on the flute (or recorder), which so tickled the palates of his... |
ANTONIO VALENTE
Valente: Intavolatura de Cimbalo Fabio Antonio Falcone, Ensemble L'Amorosa Caccia [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Antonio Valente lived and worked in 16th century Napoli, then under Spanish rule and the cultural hotspot of Europe. Valente's Intavolatura de Cimbalo is the first Neapolitan publication for keyboard instrument andthe first that shows the word... |
ANTONIO CAVAZZONI / ANDREA ANTICO
The Renaissance Keyboard Fabio Antonio Falcone (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] On this CD Fabio Antonio Falcone presents recordings of possibly the two oldest examples of printed keyboard music. He uses three instruments, each of distinctive character: an Italian harpsichord after Alessandro Trasuntino (Venezia 1531) and a... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Giovanni de Macque: The Keyboard School at Gesualdo's Court Fabio Antonio Falcone (harpsichord & virginal) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] This release presents a fascinating view of the cultural life of early 17th century Naples. The aristocracy surrounded themselves with artists of the highest calibre, and music was an essential part of the entertainment of the happy few. The 25... |
GIOVANNI MARIA PELAZZA
Pelazza: Organ Music Fabio Macera (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Rescued, revived and presented on record for the first time, sacred and secular organ works by a friend to Verdi, Puccini and Saint-Saëns. Almost forgotten today, the Piedmontese musician Giovanni Maria Pelazza was born in 1847 and at the age of... |
PASQUALE PERICOLI
Pericoli: Cello Sonatas (6) Federico Bracalente (cello) & Nicola Procaccini (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Little is known about the life of Pasquale Pericoli, who lived and worked in the second half of the 18th century. He is known to have produced operas in Stockholm for some years, he himself claimed to be of Neapolitan origin. |
COSTANZO ANTEGNATI
Antegnati: 12 Ricercari Federico Del Sordo at the Meiarini organ (1630), Chiesa S. Maria del Carmine Brescia harpsichord fretted clavichord [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Costanzo Antegnati (1549-1624) was scion of the Antegnati family, recognized as the leading organ builders in the northern Italian province of Brescia. Four generations of skilled craftsmen from the same family produced some of the best-known... |
AURELIO BONELLI
Bonelli: Complete Keyboard Music Federico del Sordo (organ, harpsichord, clavichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Following the release last year of works by Holzer, Antegnati and Pellegrini, the renowned organist Federico Del Sordo further delves into the world of Renaissance and early Baroque keyboard repertoire. In this set, he turns his attention to Italian... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telelmann: Fantasias (12) for solo violin, TWV 40:14-25 Federico Guglielmo (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] Few violinists have better credentials for performing this music than Italian maestro Federico Guglielmo, leader of the early music ensemble "L'Arte dell'Arco" and celebrated violinist himself, with an impressive discography to his name. |
VIVALDI
Violin Sonatas Op 2 Federico Guglielmo (violin) / L'Arte Dell'Arco [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Vivaldi published this Opus in 1709 in Venice, and in 1712 again in Amsterdam with Roger, who was to become his main publisher. Vivaldi was a notable violin virtuoso himself, no wonder these sonatas demand a high technical level of the performer.... |
TOMASO ALBINONI
Albinoni: The Late Violin Sonatas L'Arte Dell'Arco / Federico Guglielmo (baroque violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] During Albinoni's lifetime (1671-1751) four separate collections of sonatas with violin were published under his name, though only the Trattenimenti armonici Op.6 were prepared by their composer. |