JOHANN LADISLAUS DUSSEK
Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 1 Op.10 & Op.31/2 Bart van Oort (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] The start of an exciting new project: the recording of the complete piano sonatas by Dussek! Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760‐1812) was born in rural Bohemia. He led a restless life, travelling Europe as a keyboard virtuoso and settling in several... |
CHOPIN / FIELD / CLARA SCHUMANN / WEBER / LISZT
Chopin his contemporaries and his instruments Bart van Oort (Broadwood 1823, Erard 1837) Costantino Mastroprimiano (Graf, 1826) Cor de Groot (Playel, 1847) Jan Vermeulen (Trondlin, 1828) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
W.A. MOZART
Complete Keyboard Works [14 CDs plus CD Rom] Bart van Oort (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 12/Dec/2011 ] Brilliant Classics proudly present this major production. It remarkably includes no less than 8 first recordings. Performing fortepianist Bart van Oort, also being a musicologist unearthed for instance Mozart's own arrangement for keyboard of his... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Piano Sonatas (Rec 2000) Bart van Oort (fortepiano) Ursula Datschler (fortepiano) Stanley Hoogland (fortepiano) Yoshiko Kojima (fortepiano) Riko Fukuda (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "this exceptional box set of the complete Haydn Piano Sonatas would be highly desirable at a premium price. Instead, we can have the set for no more than the cost of low-quality discs that don't even give the names of the performers or orchestras on... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Keyboard Sonatas [10 CD set] Bart Van Oort / Ursula Dutschler / Stanley Hoogland / Riko Fukuda (keyboard) [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2011 ] It is only comparatively recently that Haydn's piano sonatas started to feature in recitals, and some of the major pianists of our time have added some of them to their repertoire - Alfred Brendel being perhaps the most illustrious champion of this... |
JOHANN LADISLAUS DUSSEK
Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Bart van Oort, Viviana Sofronitski, Petra Somlai, Wolfgang Brunner, Alexei Lubimov, Tuija Hakkila, Zvi Meniker, Ursula Dütschler, Piet Kuijken (period [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812) was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the foremost keyboard performers and composers of his age. |
FERENC ERKEL
Hunyadi László Beatrix Fodor, Dániel Pataky, Attila Fekete / Honvéd Male Choir, Budapest Studio Choir & Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Domonkos Héja [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Ferenc Erkel was one of the foremost romantic composers of Hungary, one might be tempted to call him the Hungarian Verdi. His operas were based on the rich, long and troublesome history of his home country and are the first to be written in Hungarian |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Edition [17 CD set] Alessandro Deljavan, Ewa Kupiec, Vittorio Ceccanti, Lucius Ruhl, Earl Wild, Frank van de Laar, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 17 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2015 ] This 17CD set is the third Chopin Edition by Brilliant Classics, an all-time favourite of one of the most popular and universally loved composers of all times. |
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Volume 2 Benedetta Torre, Eugene Villaneuva, Luisa Prayer, Desirée Rancatore, Marco Scolastra, Jurgita Adamonyté, Piotr Lempa, Marco Moreco [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] This is the second instalment of a huge enterprise, a world premiere: the recording of the complete songs by Tosti! Paolo Tosti (1846‐1916) worked in poverty as a music teacher till he met the influential composer Giovanni Sgambati, who became his... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Romantic Flute Berdien Stenberg (flute) with various accompaniments [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] Excellent CD set for the beginner flutist. |
JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH
Janitsch: Trio Sonatas Berlin Friday Academy [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] New recordings of elegantly crafted chamber music by one of the leading musical lights of Berlin during the mid-18th century. A contemporary biographical sketch of Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-ca 1763) presented him as 'cheerful and... |
SIBELIUS / NIELSEN / GRIEG / SVENDSEN / STENHAMMAR / ALFVEN
Nordic Symphonies Berliner Sinfonie‐Orchester, Kurt Sanderling / Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engset / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2024 ] This generous 10 CD set presents a comprehensive collection of symphonies written by Nordic composers. Their Symphonies hold a unique place in music history, blending lush melodies with the evocative power of nature. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies / Symphonic Poems Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Kurt Sanderling / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "Sanderling glories in detail..brings out details that others gloss over or elide. He is not afraid to allow these Northern flowers and trees to bloom at a natural pace. He is no stranger to drama but will not force it unnaturally." MusicWeb |
PIETRO MASCAGNI
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Berliner Symphoniker / Filippo Arlia (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] One would be hard pressed to find an opera more proudly Southern Italian than Cavalleria rusticana, set in Vizzini, a small mountain village in the Sicilian hinterland that was the birthplace of the story's playwright, Giovanni Verga. Its enduring... |
ERNEST GOTTLIEB BARON
Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder Bernhard hofstoetter, Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696 -1760) was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music. Baron was born in Breslau into the family of Michael Baron, a maker of gold lace. He showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made it his... |
MUFFAT / GAULTIER / BITTNER / BARTOLOTTI / LAUFFENSTEINER / etc
The Baroque Lute in Vienna Bernhard Hofstötter (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This disc brings together a rich selection of lute works by composers who were all in some way connected to Vienna, the capital of the vast Habsburg monarchy. It shows that also before the Viennese school of Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven Vienna was a... |
TELEMANN
Cantatas & chamber music with recorder Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano) & Stefano Bagliano (recorder and concert master) / Collegium Pro Musica [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly versatile entrepreneur as well as a throughouly... |
DONIZETTI
Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 1972) Beverly Sills / Eileen Farrell / Stuart Burrows / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Aldo Ceccato [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Beverly Sills, as Mary Stuart, is in a class of her own. It is her technical prowess as a singer which stays in the mind rather than her characterisation of the unhappy queen.' Gramophone |
DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena (Complete opera) [Recorded in 1973] Beverly Sills, Paul Plishka, Shirley Verrett, Robert Lloyd, Stuart Burrows, Patricia Kern, Robert Tear / Symphony Orchestra / Julius Rudel [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "(Sill's) voice is crystal clear and has considerable warmth...Her incisiveness with words comes as no surprise, her technical accomplishment likewise. There is often a disarming simplicity and youthfulness in her singing." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
BORODIN
Edition [10 CD set includes Symphonies, Chamber Works & Prince Igor] Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Moscow Trio / Nikolai Okhotnikov (baritone) / Marco Rapetti (piano) / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2012 ] "This set remains uniquely valuable for letting us hear so much of the composer's music that is otherwise scarce or simply unobtainable. For that reason, and at Brilliant's price, these recordings are an essential acquisition" |