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CZERNY / DEBUSSY / HELLER / GLASS / CAGE / BORTKIEWICZ / RACHMANINOV / etc
Virtuoso Piano Etudes Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2019 ] This monumental set dedicated to the Virtuoso Piano Étude offers a rewarding opportunity to witness two centuries in the evolution of masterpieces for the study of the piano. |
LEO BROUWER
Brouwer: Hika / Tres Apuntes / Danza caracteristica / etc Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] This recording presents some of the most significant early pieces by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (b.1939); it also includes other works, such as Hika from 1994 and the third and fourth series of his Estudios sencillos (1981), which show clear... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Complete Guitar Music Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "This is an excellent and inexpensive collection very nicely recorded without the feeling of being too close to the performer or too distant. Even if you are not an aficionado of the guitar there is much here to enjoy" (MusicWeb) |
GLASS / NYMAN / REICH / TORKE
A Minimal Sax: Glass, Nyman, Reich, Torke Freem Saxophone Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2019 ] 'A Minimal Sax' takes a journey through the last 30 years of minimalist music, one of the most influential artistic movements of the last century. An accomplished young Italian ensemble takes us from the purism of New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Edition: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, dances, operas, songs, instriumental & incidental music] Alfred Brendel, Staatskapelle Dresden, Elly Ameling, Suske Quartett, Janet Baker, Yefim Bronfman, Walter Klien, Academy St Martins-in-the-Fields, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 86 CD Box Set ] t would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through his mastery of rhythm, melody and harmonic... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas (complete) (Rec 1967) Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Brilliant classics / 9 CD - released 17/Nov/2005 ] A complete set by the legendary and somewhat rebellious Austrian virtuoso pianist and philosopher, who was also a composer and a performer of jazz music. |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin and Piano Fulvio Luciani (violin), Massimiliano Motterle (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one of the most successful and remarkable composers of the first half of the 20th century in Italy. His style is influenced by Neo-Classicism, vivid, brilliant, with the occasional odd dissonance, strongly rhythmical and... |
Gabor Tokodi (mandora)
Music For Mandora [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] Elegant Baroque suites for a rarely heard predecessor to the modern guitar. It is an unfortunate accident of history that the mandora, if heard at all, is now encountered in company with the 'Jew's harp' thanks to a pair of undistinguished... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Complete Piano Concertos Gabriel Tacchino (piano) / Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by Louis de Froment. [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. Saint Saëns' piano concertos are... |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings Gabriele Pieranunzi (solo violin), with Salvatore Lombardo, Loana Stratulat (violins), Luca Improta (viola) & chamber ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Paganini was the first great 'star' of instrumental music, the precursor of the rock stars of today, able to induce collective hysteria as well as to dictate fashion and to influence the behaviour of entire generations. He did this by transforming... |
JULIAN ARCAS
Arcas: Complete Guitar Music Gabriele Zanetti (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Julian Arcas (1832-1882) was born in Almeria, Spain in a musical family: his father was guitarist and passed his passion soon over to his son. The family moved to Malaga where Julian took lessons with the famous José Asencio. From his 16th on Julian... |
IACOMO CARISSIMI
Jephthah / The Judgment of Solomon / Jonah Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The effect is madrigalian rather than Handelian and the text is more sensitively conveyed. The rich continuo resources of the ensemble-chamber organ and double harp, chitarrone, archlute and bass violin-well captured on this recording, effectively... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Alto Cantatas Gabriella Martellacci (alto) / Gruppo Instrumentale di Roma, Giorgio Sasso [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The author of around 800 cantatas, Alessandro Scarlatti was the most prolific composer of this particular chamber genre during the Baroque period. In this engaging release we are introduced to two examples, both 'with instruments' and written for... |
SCHOENBERG / BACH / ZEMLINSKY / BRAHMS / BERG
Towards Verklärte Nacht Gabriella Sborgi (mezzo‐soprano), Sextet of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Alessandro Maria Carnelli (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Aug/2016 ] This CD presents a fascinating musical illustration of the paths which led to the composition of Verklärte Nacht, Arnold Schoenberg's masterpiece for string sextet. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Cello Sonatas Gaetona Nasillo (cello) Allessandro Commellato (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Best known now as a young friend and ever-patient amanuensis to the increasingly cantankerous Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries was himself the most talented member in a distinguished family of musicians. |
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
Cello Sonatas Op 5 Jaap ter Linden (cello) Lars Ulrik mortensen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] When thinking of important cello repertoire from the Baroque period of course J.S. Bach's suites spring to mind immediately. But there is so much more out there to be discovered from this period. And not just from Germany. Italian composer and... |
YANN TIERSEN
Tiersen: La Plage, Arrangements for Guitar George Tossikian (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Played by Jeroen van Veen, the solo- piano collection (95129) of themes from Yann Tiersen's film scores is a Brilliant Classics best seller. Now also available, some of Tiersen's best- known melodies arranged for guitar by George Tossikian. |
SCHUTZ
Passion Music: Resurrection History & Dialogues Gerd Tark (tenor) / Cappella Augustana under Matteo Messori [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 22/Apr/2006 ] For this recording Matteo Messori thoroughly researched the extant material to make well-informed decisions about the use of instruments together with the vocal parts. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Quintets, Sextet and Octet Gewandhaus Quartett [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2011 ] Probably no composer other than Mozart displayed such a prodigious talent in childhood as that displayed by the young Mendelssohn. |
BRUCKNER
Symphonies 1-9 (complete) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk‐Sinfonie-Orchester, Václav Neumann (No. 1), Franz Konwitschny (No. 2), Kurt Sanderling (No. 3), Heinz Rogner (No [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] These recordings of Bruckner's mature symphonies, never before collected in a single set, are marked by their comparative swiftness and clarity of texture at a time, in the postwar era, when Bruckner was a byword for expansive, hymn‐like solidity |
