ANTON EBERL
Eberl: Piano Sonatas & Variations Sayuri Nagoya (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] New recordings of keyboard music by a now-unfamiliar Viennese friend of Mozart, once admired by the likes of Haydn and Gluck, and whose pieces were previously attributed to Mozart himself. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: 9 Suites Scipione Sangiovanni (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] "Handel's masterful suites shine in this well-articulated, controlled performance. I could have done with a little more crispness, and a greater distance between piano and mic" BBC Music Jan 2019 |
LUDWIG van BEEHOVEN
Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 'Emperor' Shoko Sugitani (piano) / Berliner Symphoniker, Gerard Oskamp [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2008 ] |
HELENE DE MONTGEROULT
De Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas Simone El Oufir Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Madame Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) lived in a time when significant historical events were shaping France and Europe. Montgeroult's musical oeuvre is distinguished by its interpretive versatility. The collection of nine sonatas presented... |
GERALDINE MUCHA
Mucha: Chamber Music Stamic Quartet, Prague Wind Quintet, Patricia Goodson (piano), Vliém Veverka (oboe), Jan Machat (flute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] World premiere recordings, reviving the individual voice and fine craftsmanship of a forgotten English-Czech composer writing in the middle of the last century. |
ALKAN
Piano Works Stanley Hoogland & Alan Weiss (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Adventurous piano Music of the composer in whose presence even Franz Liszt was afraid to play. Piano music ranging from the miniaturist to the gigantic. |
SERGEI BORTKIEWICZ
Bortkiewicz: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 Stefan Doniga (piano) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, David Porcelijn [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/May/2018 ] "Stefan Doniga drives the music onward fearlessly and make the best possible case for both works" (Gramophone). |
FRIEDRICH GERNSHEIM
Gernsheim: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4 Stefan Kirpal (violin) & Andreas Kirpal (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "Spanning his entire musical career, the 2-disc set traverses youthful promise, energetic virtuosity, yearning beauty, and mature, masterful control of artistic means" |
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... |
PHILIPPE GAUBERT
Complete Works for Flute Susan Milan (flute) / Ian Brown (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
LISZT / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY
A Portrait of Tamas Vasary [4 CD set] Tamas Vasary (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2012 ] In 1962 Stephen Plaistow wrote of the Liszt E flat Polonaise on this set that 'the playing of the E major Polonaise is outstanding: it has bravura, exquisite timing and poise, colour, delicacy, plenty of rhythmic character and an air of ebullient... |
LUDWIG SCHUNCKE
Piano Music Tatiana Larionova (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Ludwig Schuncke (1810‐1834) died tragically young of tuberculosis at age 24. He was hailed in the Leipzig musical circles as a young genius, Robert Schumann (who became a close friend) exclaimed: "this is the one we were waiting for!" Schuncke wrote... |
W.A. MOZART
Teresa Berganza: The Spanish Soul (music by De Falla Granados Turina Guridi Villa-Lobos Braga etc) (Recorded 1983-86) Teresa Berganza, soprano, with Juan Antonio Alvarez Parejo, Piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Aug/2005 ] The Essential Teresa Berganza is the embodiment of the Spanish Soul: passionate and tender, irresistibly radiating Spanish humour and wit.. |
BRAHMS
Piano Works (including 3 Intermezzi Op.117 and 2 Rhapsodies Op.79) Thomas Beijer (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] New recording: one of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation's National Piano Competition. |
GRANADOS
Piano Works (complete) - Includes 12 Spanish Dances & Goyescas Thomas Rajna (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the first so-called "national" composers of Spain. Together with his compatriot Isaac Albeniz, he created a new style of pianism in which elements of the Spanish folklore and folksong are embedded. |
CHOPIN / FALLA / DEBUSSY / BRITTEN / BARTOK / etc
Cello Rhapsody (sonatas and rhapsodies) Timora Rosler (Cello) Klera Wertz (Piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Timora Rosler has a capturing talent, intimate expressiveness, virtuosity and a natural feeling for the composition … Her interpretation is exceptionally fascinating". |
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI
Bossi: Piano Trios Trio Archè [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Marco Enrico Bossi was born in Salò in 1861 and died crossing the Atlantic on his way back from a highly successful concert tour in the United States. He was a composer of great personality whose thoroughly international outlook distinguished him... |
ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: The Two Piano Trios Trio Archè [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) is a composer difficult to classify. A child of his time he kept aloof from the innovations of the modernists and dodecaphony. As son of a German father and a noble-born Venetian mother he was born in Venice and went... |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Piano Trios Trio Carducci [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Two masterpieces of Russian romantic-era chamber music performed by a talented young Italian trio. The chamber music of Anton Arensky (1861-1906) embodies a happy and inspired synthesis of two contrasting sound-worlds: the peculiarly Russian... |
LUDWIG PHILIPP SCHARWENKA
Scharwenka: Piano Trios Trio Gustav [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) was born in eastern Prussia (now part of Poland) in the town of Samter to a family with ancient Bohemian roots, but determinedly German in its culture. He and his brother Xaver (1850-1924) received their first... |