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GIULINI / LEGNANI / SOR / COSTE / etc
19th Century Guitar Music Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] In the beginning of the 19th century the guitar gained a widespread popularity. The technical developments of the instrument led composers to take it seriously and compositions began to appear regularly. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
American Music for Guitar & Piano Stefano Cardi (guitar), Enrico Pieranunzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] When they began playing together in 2017, Stefano Cardi and Enrico Pieranunzi went in search of repertoire which would harmonise with their disparate musical backgrounds, that of a classical guitarist with a passion for jazz and blues, and a jazz... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Appunti, Preludes and Studies, Op. 210 Enea Leone (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco fled anti‐semitism before the 2nd World War and settled in Hollywood, where he successfully composed film scores for more than 200 movies. Castelnuovo‐Tedesco, a prolific composer, is best known for his numerous works for... |
JULIAN ARCAS
Arcas: Complete Guitar Music Gabriele Zanetti (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Julian Arcas (1832-1882) was born in Almeria, Spain in a musical family: his father was guitarist and passed his passion soon over to his son. The family moved to Malaga where Julian took lessons with the famous José Asencio. From his 16th on Julian... |
ROSSINI
Ariettes Italiannes For Voice And Guitar Silvia Vajente (soprano) & Adriano Sebastiani (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] The Ariettes Italiennes are 8 pieces taken from the Soirées Musicales, a collection of songs and arias written by the "pensioned" Rossini after his retirement as a highly successful opera composer. They are pure delight, each one written on a certain... |
AGUSTIN BARRIOS MANGORE
Barrios: Complete Guitar Music Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 24/Jan/2011 ] Brilliant Classics is proud to bring to the market this unique 6-CD Set dedicated to the original music for solo guitar of the Paraguayan composer Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885 - 1944). Barrios is still revered in Paraguay, where he is seen as one of... |
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:... |
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... |
ABEL CARLEVARO
Carlevaro: Guitar Music Cristiano Poli Cappelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] A Uruguayan pupil of Segovia: a man dedicated to the guitar, as a performer, teacher and even maker; a composer who wove together strands of melody and modernism. |
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,... |
MARIO CASTELNNOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnnova-Tedesco: Complete Music For Soprano And Guitar Joanna Klisowska (soprano), Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote his song cycle "The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra" in the last years of his life, a work of reflection on the human condition. Moses Ibn Ezra (1055-1138) was a Jewish poet who took refuge in Spain after the... |
FRANCO CAVALLONE
Cavallone: Music For Guitar Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2021 ] Franco Cavallone (1957) is one of today's most prolific and successful composers for the guitar. He himself studied the guitar with Bruno Mattioli, a pupil of Alirio Diaz, Leo Brouwer and Angelo Gilardino. He won several international competitions,... |
NICCOLO PAGANINI
Paganini: Chamber Music for Strings Roberto Noferini (violin), Anna Noferini (violin), Andrea Noferini (cello), Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] This new recording features some rarely recorded chamber music by Niccolo Paganini, the violinist "possessed by the devil", great innovator of his instrument and composer of delightful, brilliantly written music of great melodic... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Complete Guitar Music Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "This is an excellent and inexpensive collection very nicely recorded without the feeling of being too close to the performer or too distant. Even if you are not an aficionado of the guitar there is much here to enjoy" (MusicWeb) |
MANUEL PONCE
Complete Guitar Music Gérard Abiton (guitar) & Beatrice Martin (harpsichord) Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo, Jean Thorel [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's best and most popular composers. His compositions are imbued with the native music and folklore of his beloved Mexico, irresistably lively, sensual and passionate. |
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... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Complete Guitar Quintets Eros Roselli (guitar) / La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "If you're looking for a set of Luigi Boccherini's complete guitar quintets on original instruments, you need look no further than this splendid two-disc set" (AllMusic.com) |
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. |
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
Complete music for solo guitar Cristiano Poli Cappelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Polish born and educated, Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) was essentially a French composer, whose move to Paris in 1920 was the making of him. He won the admiration and friendship of both Ravel and Stravinsky, and took a central place in the... |
GIULIO REGONDI
Complete Solo Guitar Music Alberto Mesirca (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Jun/2014 ] An important figure in the history of Romantic guitar music, Giulio Regondi was... unfairly neglected and forgotten for decades after his death. Most of the poetic, captivating works recorded here were rediscovered in the late 20th century |
