LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2 Giovanni Bellucci (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Volume 2 of the Complete Piano Sonatas played by Giovanni Bellucci, contains the Sonatas Op. 22 till Op. 57, roughly named the Middle Period Beethoven (1770-1827). Giovanni Bellucci is one of the most interesting and extraordinary pianists of... |
LEO BROUWER
Works for solo guitar Giovanni Caruso (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Leo Brouwer was born in Havana in 1939, and we can trace his lineage as a guitarist back to Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909). |
TRANSCRIPTIONS
Earl Wild - Complete Piano Music Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Earl Wild (1915-2010) was without doubt one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His immense repertoire, his staggering virtuosity, his warmth and his charm deserve him the epithet legendary. Wild was a great improviser as well, and he... |
BONONCINI
Bononcini: Divertimenti da Camera, Transcription for Harpsichord; Giovanni Paganelli (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Like many of his compatriots Giovanni Battista Bononcini left his native country Italy to spread his wings across Europe, serving at important posts in Vienna and Berlin, to finally settle in London, where he became a fashionable composer and... |
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera) Gisela Litz, Rita Streich, Res Fischer / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Munchner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "The casting of a mezzo-soprano, as Humperdinck intended, rather than a soprano in the part of Hansel, means that there is more differentiation of voice here than in the Columbia (Karajan) disc…Rita Streich is very well cast as Gretel….That admirable... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tromboncino & Cara: Dialogo d'Amore Giulia Valentini (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Marcos Gutiérrez García (baritone) / Amorosa Caccia, L', Fabio Antonio Falcone [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The Frottola (literally a lie, a childish deceit) was a popular secular song in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th century, enjoying an immense popularity. For 3 or 4 voices, the uppermost containing the melody. The rhyme schemes of the texts have... |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / SIBELIUS / etc
Violin Concertos [special priced boxed set] Giuliano Carmignola, Ilya Grubert, Leonid Kogan, David Oistrakh, Dimitry Sitkovetsky (violins) [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] A delightful collection of Violin concertos, featuring some rarer works amongst the well known. |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Organ Music Giulio Piovani (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] This 3CD set contains the complete music written for organ by Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach (it was he who revived the Matthäus Passion and performed it for the first time since the master's death in... |
FRANCISCO TARREGA
Tarrega: Guitar Edition (solo works & transcriptions) Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2015 ] Francisco Tárrega may have written little, but the works that he did compose have been a cornerstone of every guitar player's oeuvre since the composer's death in 1909. Particularly famous is his Recuerdos de la Alhambra, one of the most beautiful... |
LUIGI MOZZANI / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Mozzani / Respighi: Complete Music for Guitar Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] The wirily coiffured man in his middle years who glares from the cover of this new Brilliant Classics release is Luigi Mozzani. Perhaps he has misgivings about his picture being taken; if so, it does not apparently unsettle his playing. |
LUYS MILAN / LUYS DE NARVAEZ
Milán (Luys) & de Narvaez (luys): Fantasias Giuseppe Chiaramonte (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] The vihuela experienced its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the first book of music written for this instrument appeared in Valencia in 1536. This was El Maestro by Luys Milán, followed by Luys de Narváez's Los seys libros del Delphín... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Foolish Heart: Madrigals for Three Sopranos Gálan, Alison Hill (soprano), Katy Hill (soprano), Lucy Page (soprano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Sensuous madrigals, sacred anthems, dazzling toccatas and a rare cantata from the golden age of the Italian renaissance. This release marks the debut on record of Galàn, a spirited, UK-based young ensemble committed to rediscovering the exciting... |
SCALERO
Scalero: Complete Music for Violin and Piano Gran Duo Italiano / Mauro Tortorelli (violin) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] World-premiere recordings bringing back to life the individual voice of an Italian émigré composer who taught many of the great names of American musical life in the middle of the last century. Rosario Scalero began his career as a violinist, in... |
MANUEL PONCE
Complete Guitar Music Gérard Abiton (guitar) & Beatrice Martin (harpsichord) Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo, Jean Thorel [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's best and most popular composers. His compositions are imbued with the native music and folklore of his beloved Mexico, irresistably lively, sensual and passionate. |
CASPAR JOSEPH MERTZ
Dances, Nocturnes and Etudes for Six‐String Guitar Graziano Salvoni (six-string 'Stauffer' guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] Here's another recording dedicated to the music of Caspar Joseph Mertz, the court guitarist of Empress Carolina Augusta whose performances became famous throughout Austria, Hungary and Germany during the 1800s, making him one of the most sought-after... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (Complete opera recorded in 1972) Gwyneth Jones / Dietrich Fischer Dieskau / Hamburg State Opera / Karl Bohm [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] This supposedly is the first commercial "live" recording of Salome but actually it is taken from rehearsals as well as the live performance November 4, 1970. |
BRAHMS
Late Piano Works Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] In 1971 Hakon Austbo won the prestigious Olivier Messiaen prize. His recording of Scriabin sonatas was praised by the Gramophone as 'Scriabin playing that can stand comparison with the finest on record'. |
MEDTNER
Piano Sonatas / Piano works (complete on 7 CDs) Hamish Milne (piano) with Boris Berezovsky & Geoffrey Tozer [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was a Russian composer who slowly invaded the recording industry. Especially his piano concertos, mainly no.'s 2 and 3, are receiving attention. But Medtner did write just music just involving the piano. Of his solo works... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert - Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 & 15 Hanna Shybayeva (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] New recording: one of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation's National Piano Competition. Shybayeva 'impresses with a solid sense of form... |
J.S. BACH
Complete Organ Works Hans Fagius (Organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 17 CD Box Set - released 7/Jun/2008 ] Brilliant Classics are pleased to present new packaging drawn from the Complete Bach Edition. |