PFITZNER
Palestrina Peter Schreier (tenor), Siegfried Lorentz (bass) & Rosemarie Lang / Chor der Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Pfitzner's opera on the great 16thâcentury composer Palestrina became popular with those in German musical society who had become hostile to the direction which Schoenberg and Busoni had taken |
JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10 Petra Somlai (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] The latest volume in a critically acclaimed series, presenting modern recordings of Dussek's exhilaratingly diverse cycle of piano sonatas on instruments of his own time. |
SCRIABIN
Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems Philadelphia orchestra / Riccardo Muti (with Stefania Toczyska, mezzo, & Dmitri Alexeev, piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] "This Muti box is very strong indeed and at less than Naxos price its virtues are irresistible….Brilliant Classics have issued a splendid set with sumptuous sound and a propulsive pulse." (MusicWeb) |
MARTUCCI
Complete Orchestral Works The Philharmonia / Francesco D'Avalos [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Martucci wrote 'absolute' music which is not based on any extra-musical ideas. He often conducted Wagner's music. There are, however, no Wagnerian traces in his own works. In his compositions Martucci's style is more based on the tradition of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: The complete overtures and orchestral music (Incls 'Siegfried Idyll') The Philharmonia, Yuri Simonov [CD 1 & 2] / Various orchestra & conductors [CD 3] [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2016 ] This 3CD set contains the complete Overtures as well as the orchestral interludes from Wagner's operas. |
GLASS
The Secret Agent (Film Scores Volume V) Philip Glass Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Lieder for Piano 4-hands Piano Duo Nadan [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] With his Liebeslieder-Waltzes Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) presented a beautiful tribute to the musical tradition of Vienna, the Habsburg capital, a tradition that, starting with the ländler, had taken shape in the waltzes of Schubert and later of the... |
CAMILLE SAINT SAENS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / MAURICE RAVEL
Famous Works for Piano Duo Piano Duo Van Veen: Jeroen van Veen (piano), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a... |
SIMEON TEN HOLT
Canto Otinato, for four pianos Piano Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Apr/2012 ] 'My compositions take shape without any predetermined plan and are, as it were, the reflection of a quest for an unknown goal.' Simeon ten Holt. |
VIVALDI
Concertos (12) pour hautbois [oboe] ou violin, Op. 7 Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe) / L'Arte dell'Arco, Federico Guglielmo (violin/conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This new instalment of the complete recording of Vivaldi's Op.1-12 contains the 12 Violin Concertos Op.7, published in Amsterdam in 1720. Prompted by the popular success of the previously published La Stravaganza and L'Estro Armonico Vivaldi wrote... |
WAGNER
Complete Piano Music [2 CDs] Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Today Richard Wagner is best known for his extraordinary operas; any success in other domains was dwarfed by these compositional feats in the world of musical theatre. But Wagner's piano works can be seen to be just as important in understanding the... |
BEETHOVER / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complete variations on a waltz by Diabelli Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/May/2015 ] In 1819 composer and publisher Anton Diabelli got the idea to invite composers from the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire to compose variations on a waltz by his own hand. This original concept contains all variations by the 51 composers |
Francesco Cilea
Complete Piano Music Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano), Marco Gaggini (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Francesco Cilea may now be best remembered as a composer of durable, blood-and-thunder staples of the verismo operatic school such as Adriana Lecouvreur and L'Arlesiana, but he addressed himself to chamber and instrumental music at both the beginning... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla - Café 1930 Piercarlo Sacco (violin), Andrea Dieci (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] It had previously been said that in Argentina 'everything can change except the Tango'. And then there was Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionised this genre in the mid-20th century. Creating a new genre that would become known as the Nuevo Tango,... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: La Calle 92 Piercarlo Sacco (violin & viola), Andrea Dieci (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Astor Piazzolla, Argentina's most famous composer, was the grandson of Italian immigrants, and the melancholy for an abandoned and lost country lends a sweetly poignant note to his music. He was unique in the way he was able to weave the "sweet... |
J. S. BACH
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] Hans von Bulow called Bach's Well Tempered Clavier 'The Old Testament' of music - Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas being the so called 'New Testament. Bach's set of 48 preludes and matching fugues is the ultimate in keyboard instruction. Intended for his... |
PADRE ANTONIO SOLER
Keyboard Sonatas Vol 4 Pieter Jan Belder (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] Antonio Soler was born in 1729, and received his early musical instruction from his father, a military musician in the Spanish Army. At the age of 6 he entered the Abbey of Montserrat and became a choirboy in the famous escolania. He also learned how... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Toccatas Pieter Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] A Toccata (from Italian Toccare, to touch) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard instrument, featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages with or without imitative or fugal interludes. |
WILLIAM BYRD
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Volume 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord, organ & virginal) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Second volume of a unique project: the first complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book! The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the largest surviving collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, comprising more than 300 works, written by... |
JEAN-FRANCOIS DANDRIEU
Dandrieu: Premier livre de Pièces d'Orgue Pieter-Jan Belder (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Dandrieu's Premier Livre de Pièces d'Orgue was printed a year after the composer died in 1738. It contains six suites of pieces in differing church tones, each followed by six versets suitable for performance under the canticle Magnificat. While... |