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TRADITIONAL
Carols From King's Choir of King's College, Cambridge [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "This re-issue is a great document of King's College in the early 1990s and the selection can hardly be faulted. Certainly worth its modest cost; it gave me great enjoyment...A splendid selection from the world famous choir, which will give much pleasure. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ave Verum: Sacred Choral Favourites Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / Christopher Robinson [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] A collection of everyone's favourite sacred choral music, including Mozart's Ave verum corpus, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and Franck's Panis angelicus. |
BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / FRANCK / LEKEU
Violin Sonatas Christian Ferras (violin) Pierre Barbizet (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'Ferras is a player who habitually turns the simplest of melodic lines to poetical song … Lovers of the César Franck who happen not to know the Lekeu could well find a real extension of their pleasure in this very good record.' Gramophone |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise D911 Christian Hilz (baritone) / Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] Winterreise, or Winter's Journey, was composed in 1827, just a year before Schubert's premature death. The song cycle contains some of his greatest music - by turn highly emotional, desolate and spare, and with a sense of alienation and loss. |
DANDRIEU / CORRETTE / BALBASTRE / CHAUVEYT GUILMANT / FRANCK / DUBOIS / BOELY
Organ Music for Christmas Christian Lambour [ Brilliant Classics SACD / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] The French word 'noël' is closely associated with the organ, and this new recording from the Breton organist Christian Lambour introduces the listener to works from the 17th to the 20th century. |
HUGO WOLF
Italienisches Liederbuch, Mörike‐Lieder Christiane Oelze soprano, Hans Peter Blochwitz tenor Siegfried Lorenz baritone, Norman Shetler piano Rudolf Jansen piano [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Austrian composer Hugo Wolf is primarily known as an innovator of the Lied genre. Harmonically influenced by Wagner he created a highly individual style, in which the content of the poems he set to music were expressed in a concentrated way, the... |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / HENZE / CHOPIN
The Early Recordings [6 CD set] Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2010 ] Of appeal to connoisseurs of the piano and to new-music enthusiasts Will receive coverage in the serious musical press. |
Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren
FRENCH MUSIC FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, Koechlin, Lekeu, Honneger, Castérède, Saint-Saëns; Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The first modern recording of a gripping 20th-century masterpiece for strings. The name of Jacques Castérède (1926-2014) may not be well known outside his native France, but the taut and compelling Symphony for strings which he wrote at the age of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
American Pioneers: Music for String Orchestra; Ciconia Consort, Dick Van Gasteren, direction [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Dick van Gasteren is the founder-conductor of the Ciconia Consort, a chamber orchestra based in The Hague since 2012. To mark 400 years since the Pilgrim Fathers left the Netherlands for America, he devised this programme of music from the first half... |
CARL RHEINECKE / FRIEDRICH SILCHER / MAX BRUCH / RICHARD WAGNER
Rheingold: Music by Reinecke, Wagner, Bruch & Silcher Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Under their founder-director Dick van Gasteren, the Dutch string orchestra turn to the rich history of Rhineland music from the high-point of its immortalisation in operatic culture as the bedrock of Wagner's Ring cycle. |
Cinzia Milani
DE ROGATIS: A Tribute to [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2019 ] • Italian guitarist Cinzia Milano continues her series of Tributes to female guitarists with a beautiful program of guitar works by Teresa de Rogatis. • Teresa de Rogatis (1893-1979) was born in Naples. A child prodigy, she gave her first recital... |
KOZELUCH / DUSSEK / ROSLER / VORISEK / etc
Bohemian Songs (Rec 1996) Claron McFadden (soprano) Bart van Oort (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Bohemia at the end of the 18th century and the early 19th was teeming with highly skilled composers and musicians, centred around the city of Prague. Charles Burney described it as 'the conservatory of Europe'. He also found that rural areas were... |
W. F. BACH
Bach, (W.F.): Complete Harpsichord Music Claudio Astronio (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was the least famous son of the great Johann Sebastian in his time. Yet reportedly he was his father's favourite, and he was regarded as the most original and innovative of his offspring. Wilhelm Friedemann left relatively... |
MAX REGER
Reger - Complete music for clarinet & piano Claudio Conti (clarinet) & Roberta Bambace (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jun/2016 ] "Claudio Conti plays with [great] conviction and passion. He takes the A flat Sonata's Larghetto at a flowing pace…[and] plays with a sense of engagement and flair. His rich, dark sound suits the muscular Allegro dolente that opens the F sharp minor |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 2 Stefano Molardi (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Jul/2014 ] With the second volume of this complete survey of the greatest organ music ever written, we reach the summit of Bach's output for his own instrument, the Clavierübung, a set of intricate chorale preludes structured as an 'organ mass' |
MAURO GIULIANI
Complete works for Guitar and Orchestra Claudio Maccari, Paolo Pugliese (guitars) / Orchestra 'Ensemble Ottocento' [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2008 ] Giuliani (1781-1829) was one of many Italian guitar virtuosos. Today he is considered Italy's most important guitarist. His oeuvre consists of over 200 works mainly for the guitar. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dionysus & Apollo: Music for Flute and Harp Claudio Ortensi (flute), Anna Pasetti (harp) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This beautiful and lovingly compiled program called "Dionysus and Apollo" brings us back to the time of the Greek myths, and in particular the world of the wood nymphs, the god Pan, the fauns and naiades, having adventures in a sensuous and... |
CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 2: The Earliest Sonatas Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] This is a sequel to the 3-CD album with the Viennese sonatas by Clementi released last year. Fortepianist Costantino Mastroprimiano now continues with the composer's earliest sonatas. They range from really early ones - Clementi may have been only 11... |
JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ
Quantz: Concertos & Trio Sonatas with Recorder Collegium Pro Musica, Stefano Bagliano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Johann Joachim Quantz (1697‐1773) was a composer, theorist, flutist and flute maker of great name and fame. Despite being of humble origin he quickly rose to great eminence, becoming a personal friend and court composer of Frederick The Great, living... |
LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Coro Cologne Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Luciano Berio [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'A highly personal, yet urgently communicative statement, persuasively performed.' Gramophone reviewing the original release in 1980 |
