DVORAK
Complete Choruses & Duets (Incls Moravian Duets) Martina Kritznerova (soprano) Å arka Mistrova (mezzo) Daniela Demuthova (alto) Michal KruÅek (bass) / Prague Singers under Stanislav Mistr [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] New recordings of excellent performances by the multiple prize winning Prague singers under Stanislav Mistr. |
DEBUSSY
Complete Music for Piano Duo [3 CD set] Massimiliano Damerini, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] The only really complete edition of Debussy's output for piano duo! Recorded in 2012, Carrara, Italy. |
DEVIENNE / DONIZETTI / BEETHOVEN
Bassoon Trios Massimo Data (bassoon), Mario Carbotta (flute) & Piero Barbareschi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] A delightful programme featuring the bassoon in duo and trio formation chamber music, centred around the substantial and neglected Bassoon Trio WoO37 by Beethoven. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vocalise - Music for bassoon and piano Massimo Data (bassoon) & Piero Barbarsechi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] The Bassoon, the bass member of the woodwind family, is a surprisingly versatile, agile, and expressive instrument. Its expression ranges from the joyful and even comic, sonorous, melancholic to the mournful. Regretfully classical composers wrote... |
IGNAZIO CIRRI
12 Sonatas for Organ, Op. 1 Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] This is the lesser-known Cirri, Ignazio of that ilk, elder brother of the Giovanni Battista who after taking holy orders pursued a diverse career as a cellist and composer, and who in 1764, perhaps aided by Ignazio's contacts, settled in London,... |
AUGUST GOTTFRIED RITTER
Complete Organ Music Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2015 ] "Persuasive performances and well-framed recorded sound." (Choir & Organ) |
REINECKE / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / WIENIAWSKI / SIBELIUS / BRIDGE
Music for Viola & Piano Massimo Piva viola (viola) Inessa Filistovich (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] On this unique and originally programmed journey, the violist Massimo Piva takes the kind of fantasy journey (Fantasiereise) that forms one of the cornerstones of German Romanticism. It is in the context of highly wrought, fantastic tales that... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI / LUIGI CHERUBINI
Viotti: Violin Concerto No.22 / Cherubini: Symphony in D Massimo Quarta (violin) / Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni, Massimo Belli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Giovanni Battista Viotti was a man of humble origins who studied with Gaetano Pugnani in the tradition of the Corelli school. By the age of 20 he was already an esteemed violinist, performing concerts in Geneva, Bern, Berlin and Saint Petersburg, and... |
HANDEL
Romantic Organ Transcriptions Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] The art of transcription has been a part of the history of keyboard instruments since the Renaissance period, a time that saw the first publishing of sacred as well as secular vocal works. In the 19th century, however, the trend entered its golden... |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphonies, Five Pieces Op.16 Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] This new recording presents arrangements for piano 4‐hands or two pianos by orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg (the two Chamber Symphonies and the Five Pieces Op. 16), arranged by Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Schoenberg himself. The... |
BARTOK
Complete Music for Two Pianos Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] This 2CD set presents a complete survey of Bartók's music for two pianos. The works and arrangements here all stem from Bartók's special artistic collaboration with his wife, the pianist Dittá Pásztory. |
DOMENICO LABOCCETTA
Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist Matteo Malagoli (cello) Lisa De Polo (piano) Cristina Centa (harp) Yukiko Shimizu (soprano) Raffaele Giordani (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta. Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Clavier Ubung 111 Matteo Messori (historical organs) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] 'Third part of the Clavierubung consisting of various preludes on the catechism and other hymns for organ: For lovers and especially for connoisseurs of suchlike works, to refresh their spirits, provided by Johann Sebastian Bach,Royal Polish Court... |
JOHANN CASPAR KERLL
Kerll: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music; Matteo Messori Matteo Messori (harpsichord, organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] The first complete collection on record of the keyboard works by an organ virtuoso of 17th- century Austria and a notable forerunner of J.S. Bach. |
LUZZASCO LUZZASCH
Complete Keyboard Music Matteo Messori (harpsichords, organ & spinet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The Ferrara‐born Luzzasco Luzzaschi might not exactly be a household name, but his contribution to the development of the madrigal places him within that elite category of composers who helped shape the course of music history. The favourite musician... |
JOHANN GOTTFRIED MUTHEL
Complete Organ Music Matteo Venturini (Glauco Ghilardi Organs) [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Johann Gottfried Müthel was the last pupil of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. He was present at the master's deathbed, and he performed the funeral services, taking over the duties of the deceased Cantor. Mühtel's music ("full of novelty, taste and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Concerto Barocco Matthias Havinga (harpsichord, organ) / Seldom Sene (flute quintet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Masterpieces of the Baroque concerto as you've never heard them before: the sixth Brilliant Classics album from a much-acclaimed, ground-breaking young recorder quintet. As the forerunner of the piano and violin concertos, the concerto grosso is all... |
ANONYMOUS / SPEUY / van NOORDT / SWEELINCK / HAVINGHA
Dutch Delight: Organ Music from the golden age Matthias Havinga (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This beautiful programme, recorded in 2014, brings us back to the Golden Age of the Netherlands, the 16th and 17th century, in which cultural life blossomed thanks to the economical prosperity brought by the overseas trade. Wealthy merchants... |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Organ Music Matthias Havinga (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) received his main musical education from the famous teacher and composer Carl Friedrich Zelter, who thoroughly schooled him in traditional composition, counterpoint and music history. Zelter was also a great Bach admirer... |
POULENC / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy: Concerto for 2 Pianos Mattia Ometto (piano) & Leonora Armellini (piano) / Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Luigi Piovano (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Three 20th-century masters, painting glittering rainbows of colours with two pianos. From Javanese gamelan to Mozart, from nursery rhymes to passionate outbursts, from primitive percussion to the café chantant, Francis Poulenc gathered up almost... |