PERGOLESI
Madrigals: First book of madrigals for four voices Concero Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "What is particularly noticeable in this recording is the close cohesions between words and music. This is achieved to a large extent through variations of volume, variations one might describe as precise, colourful and dramatic." Gramophone... |
RUDOLF ESCHER
Escher: Orchestral, Chamber and Choral Music Concertgebouw, Riccardo Chailly / Netherlands Chamber Choir [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2020 ] The most extensive survey on record of a major Dutch 20th-century composer, featuring some of the country's most distinguished musicians. |
JOHANN WILHELM WILMS
Symphony No 6 in D minor / Symphony No 7 in C minor Concerto Koln, Werner Ehrhardt [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] 'The influence of Beethoven and Haydn is clear, but this unknown writes splendidly … the playing of Concerto Köln is first-class, and their advocacy should do wonders for the reputation of this unknown composer … [a] striking and highly enjoyable... |
NORBERT BURGMULLE
Lieder & Piano Sonata Eleonora Contucci (soprano), Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Norbert Burgmüller's early death in 1836 at the age of 26 was greatly lamented by his famous contemporaries Mendelssohn and Schumann, the latter comparing the tragedy of his death with that of Schubert. He was considered a major talent, and he left a... |
ALFREDO FRANCO / CRISTANO PORQUEDDU / FRANCO CAVALLONE / FRANCESCO MORITTU / ROBERTO PIANA
Tales from Sardinia: Music for Flute and Guitar Cordas et Bentu Duo [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] For the Cordas et Bentu Duo, Sardinia has always been a source of inspiration; the ensemble's name, Sardinian for "strings and wind", is an homage to the island's culture. Apeddu and Luciani's mission to find original compositions connected to their... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
12 Sinfonie di Concerto Grosso [2CD] Corina Marti (recorder) / Capella Tiberina / Paolo Perrone (concertmaster) / Alexandra Nigito (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Capella Tiberina was founded by Alexandra Nigito in order to blend a passion for early music with a rigorous approach to musicological research. Such research is displayed on this disc, which was recorded in different dispositions relying on the... |
FRANCESCO MANCINI
12 Recorder Concertos Corina Marti (recorder) / Cappella Tiberina, Paolo Perrone, Alexandra Nigito [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Here's a second release from Brilliant Classics of the Neapolitan musician Francesco Mancini (1672-1737), a leading light in his city's culture of composition and education as director of the Conservatorio di S Maria di Loreto, maestro of the Royal... |
JUAN BAUTISTA COMES
O Pretiosum, Music for the Blessed Sacrament Coro Amystis [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] Juan Bautista Comes (1582‐1643) is one of the most significant composers of the early Spanish baroque, linking elements of Renaissance style with the emerging techniques and tastes of the Baroque. He was a famous musician of his time, and he held... |
GIOVANNI ALBINI
Musica Sacra Coro della Facoltà di Musicologia, Cremona Ingrid Pustijanac / 15.19 ensemble / Il Giardino delle Muse [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Italian composer Giovanni Albini takes a highly modern approach to Western musical traditions by organising his beautifully structured music through precise mathematical patterns |
Coro Victoria, Ana Fernández-Vega
LOBO: Sacred Vocal Music [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2019 ] Motets and Mass movements by a master from the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony. On this new recording, Coro Victoria offers a portrait of Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) through a cross-section of his sacred output (his works in Spanish are all lost). The... |
WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Piano Music Costantino Catena [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] Sumptuous, late-Romantic but little-known piano music including several world premiere recordings. The name of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876- 1948) is now emerging from the shadow cast by his wartime collaboration with Italy's Fascist regime. Operas... |
CLEMENTI
Complete Sonatas Vol. 1 Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] They are hardly ever performed, let alone recorded. Even these days Italian composer Muzio Clementi is known to almost any amateur pianist because of his relatively simple piano sonatas (some 60) and sonatines. But although easy on the pianist and... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Complete Piano Sonatas Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2018 ] The first complete recording of the Hummel piano sonatas on fortepiano! The name of Hummel usually is related to two other musical giants of his period: Mozart and Beethoven. Hummel was a pupil of the former and a rival of the later, both being... |
CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 3: The London Sonatas Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 30/Jan/2010 ] Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) is one of the most colourful and influential musical figures of the past 200 years. Born in Rome, he grew up in Dorset, with the family of Peter Beckford, who in effect bought the boy from his father. The agreement was to... |
CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 4: The London Sonatas II Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "In Volume 4 Mastroprimiano uses a Kirckman fortepiano of 1798. This instrument is capable of much tonal variety and expression as exemplified in the second movement, Adagio, of Sonata Op. 23 No.2, which is beautifully played with appropriate... |
CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 5: The London Sonatas III Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Marco Testori (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Beethoven wrote sympathetically for the cello throughout his career, from the ardent, lyrical voice of the Op.1 piano trios onwards, and he rarely subjugated the instrument to its basso continuo role still prevalent in the works of Mozart and Haydn.... |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan Edition [Piano, Organ & Chamber Music] Costantino Mastroprimiano, Mark Viner, Laurent Martin, Alan Weiss, Alessandro Deljavan, Costantino Mastroprimiano (pianos) / Trio Alkan, Kevin Bowyer [ Brilliant Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2018 ] "Two major pluses are the excellent contextual essay and the budget price. It's a steal." BBC Music |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Solo Piano Music Costantino Mastroprimiano (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2014 ] Charles‐Valentin Alkan was one of the most important pianists and piano composers of the 19th century, although he lived the largest part of his life in obscurity and seclusion. He was a close friend of Chopin (they were neighbours in Paris) and he... |
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... |