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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) [with Tchaikovsky - The Seasons] Alexander Warenberg (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] |
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition Alexander Warenberg (piano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Igor Markevitch [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Ravel's orchestration of Pictures, performed with freshness and vision by Markevitch and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 [recorded 1962-64] Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'The playing is very deeply committed, very intense, but never ponderously philosophical' Gramophone |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano variations and Bagatelles Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Dec/2006 ] A truly historic document: some 40 years ago Alfred Brendel recorded Beethoven's Bagatellen and Piano variations. Here the eminent pianist already showed his idiosyncratic self. Some people consider his playing dull; others find it refreshingly... |
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Allegri String Quartet
Sirmen: 6 String Quartets [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
Gran Partita for String Octet Amati & Talich Quartets [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Mozart's Serenade for wind ensemble K361, nicknamed 'Gran partita', is justly the most famous piece written for this combination of instruments. What is more, Mozart is a supreme master of the art of instrumentation. |
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MORALES / BRUDIEU / CEBALLOS / NAVARRO / FLECHA / ORTIZ
Ecos del Parnaso: Spanish Madrigals Amystis, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] The madrigal tradition in 16th-century Spain: a rich treasure-trove mined by a native consort group specialising in music of the period, full of little-known names and exciting discoveries. |
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ALFONSO XUARES
Xuáres: Sacred Music Amystis, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Alonso Xuárez (1640-1696) was a prominent Spanish composer of the Baroque era. Born in Toledo, Xuárez's musical genius blossomed early, and soon he held important musical posts at the Cuenca Cathedral and as Chapel Master of the Sevilla... |
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BERNARDINO de RIBERA / JUAN NAVARRO / SEBASTIEN de VIVANCO / TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
De Ribera & Navarro: Masters of Spanish Renaissance Amystis Ensemble / Ministriles de la Reyna, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The Amystis ensemble of singers and instrumentalists have won a following for their exploration of lesser-known sacred and secular masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age of the 16th century. |
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CARL HEINRICH REINECKE
Reinecke: Complete Cello Sonatas Ana Turkalj (cello), Aleck Carratta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The fundamentally Romantic idiom of Carl Reinecke coexists with the twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. He was a precocious and prolific composer, who wrote music from an early age after his birth in the North German town... |
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ANTONIO BAZZINI
Bazzini: Complete Opera Transcriptions Anca Vasile Caraman (violin) & Alessandro Trebeschi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "The playing of Anca Vasile Caraman and Alessandro Trebeschi is very good. There is a real sense of enjoyment in their performance, especially in the way that they bring out the differing characters of the operas, their composers and that of Bazzini" |
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W.A. MOZART
Mozart on Tour Part 1 - London and Mantua Andre Previn / Vladimir Ashkenazy / Heidrum Holtmann [ Brilliant Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] G :- Recordings of piano concertos K37, 41 & 414 |
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: 21 Sonatas Andrea Chezzi (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] Brilliant Classics has already published all 88 of Domenico Cimarosa's keyboard sonatas in their commonly encountered appearance as harpsichord pieces (BC95027), as well as an album of 30 sonatas in arrangements for guitar (BC94172). He may still be... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Die Kleine Kammermusik / 6 Partiten / Concerto in B Minor Andrea Coen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Kleine KammerMusik, consisting of VI Partias, intended for the violin / transverse flute as well as for the keyboard but in particular for the oboe, which for [their] simplicity and being singable can be used for beginners' exercise. |
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C. P. E. BACH
Complete Keyboard Variations Andrea Coen (pianoforte) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2016 ] Among the foremost contributions to the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel, most gifted musical son of J.S Bach, was the compendious, 30CD Brilliant Classics edition (BC94640) which spanned his diverse output of... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Letters to Friends Andrea Cortesi, Georgian Strings [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Giya Kancheli is a Georgian composer whose intensely personal style is closely related to Minimalism and New Spiritualism. Kancheli's "Letters to Friends" is an anthology of themes from his film music, rewritten and collected in a cycle for violin... |
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GLASS / KANCHELI / TUUR
Music for Violin & Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) Marco Ventur (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - 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. |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Miniatures for Violin and Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Any album of music by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli is eagerly awaited by a wide audience receptive to his particular, post-Soviet voice, which has touched the hearts and minds of many thousands of listeners through his music for both film and... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] These wonderful violin sonatas, written a few years before his death in an asylum, belie the dictum that "Schumann started as a genius, and ended as a talent". These are works by a passionate genius, highly original, full of feverish energy,... |
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FERDINAND REBAY
Rebay: Complete Music for Violin and Guitar Andrea Dieci (guitar), Piercarlo Sacco(violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] It was Jakob Ortner, one of the composer's colleagues at the academy in Vienna, who piqued Rebay's interest in the guitar. The enthusiasm and skill Ortner and his pupils displayed convinced Rebay that the guitar could handle any harmonic construction... |