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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power, heightening with a modern and cinematic style a... |
CORREA DE ARAUXO
Correa de Arauxo: Organ Music; Francesco Cera [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] 17th-century Spanish toccatas, fantasias and inventions by a master organ composer from Seville. It may be pure coincidence, but in 1626, it was two enlightened intellectuals from Seville - artist Diego Velázquez and composer Francisco Correa de... |
ANONYMOUS / ANTICO / GABRIELI / CABEZON / ASTON / etc
The Organ at European Courts Francesco Cera (Positive organ [organ ottavino] of the Neapolitan school, dated 1772) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] The organ is usually associated with the church and sacred music. However, in Renaissance and early baroque small organs were often used in noble mansions and courts for performance of secular music. Collections of instruments held by courts in... |
HENRI D'ANGELBERT
D'Anglebert: Complete Harpsichord Music Francesco Cera (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Apr/2016 ] "The historical importance of d'Anglebert, the quality of his oeuvre and the splendid interpretation by Francesco Cera justify the accolade of Recording of the Month." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2016) |
GIOVANNI MARIA TRABACI
Music For Organ & Harpsichord Francesco Cera (organ & harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Giovanni Maria Trabaci lived from 1575 till 1647. A highly prolific composer he left a vast oeuvre of vocal and instrumental music. Especially his works for keyboard are important: his bold, forward looking style, full of daring chromatisms and... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Transcriptions, Violin Sonata No.1, Songs, Hungarian Dances Francesco Dillon (cello), Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Johannes Brahms was a keen transcriber, he wrote numerous arrangements of his own works and those of others. Moreover he was happy when others transcribed his works for other instruments, that is when it was done by musicians he trusted. He... |
JOSEPH-MARIE-CLEMENT DALL'ABACO
Dall'Abaco, J: Capricci (11) Francesco Galligioni (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] A significant if little-known staging post in the history of the solo cello. Born in Brussels in 1710, Joseph Marie Clément Ferdinand Dall'Abaco displayed such an aptitude for the cello that at the age of 19, he was appointed cellist in the chapel... |
GIOVANNI PLATTI
Platti: Cello Sonatas Francesco Galligioni (cello) / Members of L'Arte dell'Arco [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] "What this set confirms is that Platti was not just another run-of-the-mill Baroque composer churning out reasonably well-wrought but formulaic pieces on deadlines, but a figure with a distinctive creative imagination" Fanfare |
FRESCOBALDI / GESUALDO
Music for Accordion Francesco Gesualdi (Accordion) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] Two masters of the Italian Renaissance, played on…the accordion! The accordion is slowly emancipating, shedding its "light entertainment" image and claiming its right as a serious and valuable musical instrument. Its possibilities are enormous,... |
MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Chamber Music For Violin, Cello & Piano Francesco Manara (violin), Luca Signorini (cello) & Dario Candela (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Mario Pilati (1903-1938) was an important figure in Italian musical life in the 20-ties and 30-ties of the 20th century. After winning the prestigious Coolidge Prize his works were also performed in the USA, a.o. by the Boston Symphony Orchestra... |
FRANCESCO MANCINI
12 Recorder Sonatas Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorders), Caroline Boersma (cello) & Sergio Ciomei (harpsichord) / Ensemble Tripla Concordia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) was born in Naples, and worked initially as an organist at the Cappella Reale, an institution he would direct some years later until he was replaced by Alessandro Scarlatti in 1708. |
LEO ORNSTEIN
Ornstein: Complete Music for Violin and Piano and for Flute and Piano Francesco Parrino (violin), Stefano Parrino (flute), Maud Renier (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Leo Ornstein was born in 1895 in the Ukraine, and emigrated with his family in 1906 to the USA, where he became a famous pianist and leading figure in the American Avant‐Garde, writing highly experimental music in which tonal clusters played an... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Complete Piano Music Francesco Pasqualotto (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] A must for Brucknerians: a new album of almost unknown music by the Austrian symphonic genius, and a collection currently unrivalled on record. You might expect that such music as Bruckner wrote for the piano was composed early in his career, which... |
MERULO
Merulo: Organ Music Il Primo Libro de Ricercari da Cantare A Quattro Voci Francesco Tasini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) was an important composer, organist and publisher in Late-Renaissance Italy. He obtained the prestigious post of organist of the famous San Marco in Venice. His keyboard style is highly innovative, and was the basis of... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas BWV1001-1006 Francesco Teopini (classical guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Why transcribe and perform the sonatas and partitas for solo violin on the guitar? It is surely the works themselves that provide the justification; their indestructible melodic poetry and their rich implied counterpoint at which the original violin... |
ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18 Camilla Patria (cello) Elena Ballario (piano) Franco Mezzena (violin) Sergio Patria (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris's Schola Cantorum. |
PROKOFIEV
Complete Music For Violin (Includes Violin sonatas & Cinq Malodies, Op. 35b) Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker under Lorin Maazel / Philharmonia Orchestra under Mariss Jansons [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] Prokofiev did not play the violin himself. Nevertheless he composed a substantial amount of varied works for this instrument: orchestral and chamber music. |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Piano Works Frank van der Laar, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Pieter-Jelle de Boer [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Felix Mendelssohn was a virtuoso pianist, and it is worth remembering that he was born in 1809, with his friend Schumann being born a year later in 1810, as was Chopin, and Liszt following in 1811. These composers were among the greatest pianists of... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & 5 Helen Donath (soprano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "A highly recommendable issue for impecunious Mahler fans." (MusicWeb April 2003 Bargaibn of the Month) |
CESAR FRANCK
César Franck Edition François-Joël Thiollier (piano) Martijn van den Hoek (piano), Muza Rubackyte (piano) Mariana Sîrbu (violin) Ruxandra Colan (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] This remarkable set reveals the full breadth and genius of a creative career known to most merely by the tip of the iceberg: a small number of seminal works written in the composer's final decade of life. César Franck (1822-1890), although considered... |
