J.S. BACH
Chorales: Four-part Chorales BWV 253 - 483 and separate Cantata Chorales Nordic Chamber Choir / Soloists of the Freiburger Barockorchester / Nicol Matt, conductor [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Mar/2008 ] The Nordic Chamber Choir is a young choir, founded in Lübeck in 1997 by Hanno Kreft. The choir consists of a carefully chosen group of young international singers, and works in changing groupings, that are selected as required for the respective project. |
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Concertos Noriko Ogawa (piano) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Alexander Tcherepnin was the central figure in a significant Russian musical dynasty. |
GIOVANNI SALVATORE
Salvatore - Organ-Alternatim Masses Nova Schola Gregoriana, In dulci jubilo, Alberto Turco, Federico Del Sordo [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jun/2016 ] Salvatore lived from 1620 till 1688, living and working as organist in Naples. His most important work is the collection of "Ricercari a Quattro voci, Canzoni, Canzoni Francesi, Toccate, et Versi per rispondere nelle Messe con l'Organo al Choro" |
GIORGIO FEDERICO GHEDINI / PAUL HINDEMITH
Ghedini, Hindemith: Concertos & Concertante Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni|Massimo Quarta|Simonide Braconi|Enrico Bronzi|Massimo Belli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892 - 1965) was an Italian composer. Born in Cuneo in 1892 he studied organ, piano and composition in Turin, then graduated in composition from the Bologna Conservatory under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911. He worked as... |
Oistrakh Trio
Plays Russian Piano Trios [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / 3 CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / KHACHATURIAN / WIENIAWSKI / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
Leonid Kogan Edition [10 CD set] Oleg Kagan (violin) with Vladimir Yampolski, Grigory Ginzburg (pianos) / Various orchestras & conductors [ Brilliant Classics Historical Russian Archives / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "I generally couldn't imagine listening to 11 eleven consecutive hours of violin music. With Kogan, however, the hours flew by, and I've returned to quite a few of these performances several times." Raymond Tuttle (Classical Net) |
ANONYMOUS / PETER PHILIPS / CLEMENT COTTON / JOHN JOHNSON / etc
Elizabethan Pavans: Lute Music Oleg Timofeyev (10‐course lute by Ray Nurse, 1984, after Hans Frei) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] The Pavan is an ancient Spanish‐Italian Dance form, solemn, slow and stately. It gained great popularity in Renaissance England, in which it developed from a straight dance form in the time of Henry VIII to a highly sophisticated composition of a... |
RACHMANINOV / GRECHANINOV / TCHAIKOVSKY
Vespers (All-Night Vigil) / Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom [5 CD set] Olga Borusene (Sop) Yuri Korinnyk (Tenor) Mykhaylo Tyshchenko (Tenor) / The National Academic Choir of Ukraine Dumka. / Valery Polyansky [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "If only for the sake of the Liturgy, buy it!! " (MusicWeb Sept 2002) |
RACHMANINOV
Vespers Op 37 Olga Borusene, Yuri Korinnyk, Mykhaylo Tyshchenko / The National Academic Choir of the Ukraine 'Dumka' [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Rachmaninoff was not a great churchgoer, and in fact had stopped going completely by the time he composed his Vespers, and his other great a cappella work, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom op.31. Nevertheless, he retained a love for and interest in... |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Organ Music Olivier Penin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] César Franck (1822-1890), is widely considered one of the foremost 19th century French composers. He was not in fact French by birth, being born to parents of German stock in Liege, Belgium. He only became a full French citizen in 1873. A child... |
MICHEL CORRETTE
CORRETTE: Les delices de la solitude Op.20 Opera Prima Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Volume 2 [Incls 'Trittico Botticelliano'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco la Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] The second installment of the Complete Orchestral Works of Ottorino Respighi contains a wealth of the slightly lesser known works (the most famous of course being the Roman Trilogy, issued in the first volume) of the highest quality: the luminous... |
ELGAR / JANACEK / KALINNIKOV
Idyll: Serenades by Janácek, Elgar, Kalinnikov Orchestra da Camera 'Ferrucio Busoni', Massimo Belli (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] This is a unique coupling on record, but a perceptive and satisfying one: a trio of Romantically inclined serenades from composers of Northern Europe, writing in the last decades of the 19th century when the drive to define a Nationalist spirit... |
MILHAUD
Orchestral Music Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, Darius Milhaud [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2014 ] Darius Milhaud is one of the most colourful and versatile composers of 20th century France. On this release we hear a generous selection of his orchestral works. |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: The Complete Orchestral Music [8 CD set] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2015 ] The only edition of the orchestral works by Respighi, now available in a 8CD set! |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Vol 1 [Incls 'Roman Festivals'] Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2012 ] "La Vecchia secures eloquently wrought readings" (Gramophone) |
RESPIGHI
Complete Orchestral Music Volume 4 [Incls 'Ancient Airs and Dances'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Brilliant Classics' survey of Respighi's complete orchestral music continues here, with a release that explores the Italian composer's modernising of the past, as well as two of his most mature creations, written in the last eleven years of his life. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works [Incls 'Rapsodie Espagnole', 'La Valse', 'Daphnis & Chloe' & 'Bolero'] Orchestre National de France, Eliahu Inbal / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] An outstanding compilation of the very best of Ravel. Recordings originally made in Paris and released on Denon. |
CRISTIAN CARRARA
Magnificat / Ondanomala / Suite per bicicletta e orchestra Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy Flavio, Emilio Scogna [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] No, there are no bicycles in Suite per bicicletta and orchestra, which arose from a commission for the Orchestra Regionale Toscana and the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. The work was originally conceived as a show comprising music, text and... |
OCKEGHEM
Missa de Plus en Plus / Chansons Orlando Consort [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "A superb recording of the mass and if you can live with the chansons, then I would go for it." (MusicWeb Nov 2010) |