STEFANO CASARINI
Casarini: 24 Etudes for Guitar Adriano Sebastiani [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Stefano Casarini (born 1954) is one of the most remarkable guitarists and guitar composers of present day Italy. Standing in a long line of tradition of the great guitar composers of his country he writes bold, evocative and deeply felt music,... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
El Otro Astor - Music for guitar & strings Alessio Nebiolo (guitar) / Quartett Orfeo, with Nadio Marenco (accordion) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] Most albums of music by the undisputed master of Argentine tango, Astor Piazzolla are still issued at full price but following the success of 'Café 1930' (94896) with guitarist Andrea Dieci and violinist Piercarlo Sacco, Brilliant Classics presents... |
GILARDINO
Sicilian Guitar Music Angelo Marchese [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] |
NAPOLEON COSTE
Coste: Guitar Music Flávio Apro (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Napoleon Coste (1805-1883) was one of the most important and influential protagonists of the guitar in the 19th century. He was a prodigy, touring Europe in his early years giving highly successful concerts, publishing his own music, inventing new... |
Daniele Ruggieri (flute), Alberto Mesirca (guitar)
MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND GUITAR, Rochberg, Riley, Ribot, Goljiov, Wuorinen, Crawford Seeger, Delpriora; Daniele Ruggeri, Alberto Mesirca [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] A brief history of 20th-century American music and a valuable, offbeat addition to the comprehensive Brilliant Classics library of guitar music. Among the most extensive works here is the cycle of Cantos Desiertos (1996) composed for flute and... |
GINASTERA / LAURO / MONTANA / PALACIOS
Latin American Guitar Music Deion Cho (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This is the CD debut of Korean guitarist Deion Cho, first prize winner of the Concorso Internacional de Guitarra Clásica Gredos San Diego. For his first CD Cho chose 4 leading 20-th century guitar composers, differing in style and tradition:... |
DALLA GOSTENA
Gostena: 25 Lute Fantasies Elliot Simpson (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (1540-1593) was born in Genoa, Italy. He was a pupil of the renowned Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. He held the prestigious post of Maestro di Cappella at the San Lorenzo Cathedral in his native Genoa. He composed... |
ENNIO MORRICONE
Morricone: Arrangements for Guitar Enea Leone (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The maestro of Spaghetti Western music in unfamiliar guise: new arrangements of hit themes from Morricone's greatest film-scores. Born in 1928, Morricone trained at the Santa Cecilia conservatoire in Rome, and soon began to make a name for himself... |
SARDINHA / PERNAMBUCO / NAZARETH / BROUWER / etc
The Brazilian Guitar Flávio Apro (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Although Brazilian composers might not be as famous as the country's football players, they are certainly as colourful, creative and entertaining! This new recording presents a selection of original music for guitar by Brazilian composers:... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Nocturne - Romantic Guitar Miniatures Flávio Apro (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2014 ] This selection of guitar miniatures brings us to Mediterranean landscapes under moonlit night skies: works by De Falla, Mompou, Ponce, Castelnuovo‐Tedesco, Barrios, Llobet, Tarrega, Sor, Rodrigo and others, in which the colours, tastes, folkore and... |
LEO BROUWER
Brouwer: Hika / Tres Apuntes / Danza caracteristica / etc Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] This recording presents some of the most significant early pieces by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (b.1939); it also includes other works, such as Hika from 1994 and the third and fourth series of his Estudios sencillos (1981), which show clear... |
YANN TIERSEN
Tiersen: La Plage, Arrangements for Guitar George Tossikian (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Played by Jeroen van Veen, the solo- piano collection (95129) of themes from Yann Tiersen's film scores is a Brilliant Classics best seller. Now also available, some of Tiersen's best- known melodies arranged for guitar by George Tossikian. |
GIUSEPPE ROSETTA
Rosetta: Music for Guitar Gian Luca Barbero (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Giuseppe Rosetta (1901-1985) studied in Rome under Respighi but soon returned to his Piedmontese birthplace of Vercelli. There he remained, leading and enriching the local musical culture as an organist, choir conductor and music teacher. He spurned... |
MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
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). |
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. |
FRANCESCO CORBETTA
Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle Izhar Elias (baroque guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Francesco Corbetta: the JS Bach of the guitar? A bold claim, but one made with passion by the guitarist Izhar Elias in his own booklet essay for this ground-breaking new album. |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / TRADITIONAL
Songs of Love & Exile: A Sephardic Journey Izhar Elias (guitar), Channa Malkin (soprano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2019 ] The debut album of an exciting young Dutch soprano: an anthology of popular Sephardic songs completed with excerpts from a rare song collection by Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco. |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Complete Guitar Music Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This release presents the complete music for clarinet and piano by Ferruccio Busoni. The works Joaquin Turina is one of Spain's foremost romantic composers, receiving his rightful stature next to the giants Albeniz and Granados. Turina left a... |
J.S BACH
J. S. Bach: Klavierbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This new recording contains the transcriptions for guitar that guitarist Jan Depreter made of the second Notenbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach (1725). Depreter about this project: "While this selection of little musical gemstones is probably best... |