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... |
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. |
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 |
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvorak: 2 Serenades Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Pardubice, Stanislav Vavřínek & Vahan Mardirossian [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] New Czech recordings of perennially popular serenades from the pen of Dvořák at a turning point in his career, full of freshness, Bohemian charm and flowing melodies. The Serenades for Strings and Winds never get old, and never lose their appeal,... |
VERDI
Messa da Requiem Daniela Nedialkova (sop) Ivanka Ninova (mezzo) Roumen Doikov (ten) Emil Ponorsk (bass) / Choir & Orchestra of the Sofia Opera, Ivan Marinov [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'I have paid a lot of money to hear this work over the years, often with 'name' conductors and soloists. Not many have given me as much pleasure as this performance.' Musicweb International review |
TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK / ROTA / GADE / ELGAR / BARTOK / etc
Romantic Serenades For Strings Daniele Orlando (violin) / Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva, Capella Istropolitana, Orchestra da Camera 'Ferruccio Busoni', Arhus Chamber Orchestra, [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] This 5‐CD set contains one of the most extensive selections of Serenades for String Orchestra, a warm bath of lush, vibrant and soothing music, utterly romantic, atmospheric and beguiling, like the buzzing of a summer afternoon. Included are the... |
CZERNY / VIOTTI
Piano Concertos David Boldrini (piano), Elena Pinciaroli (piano), Rami Musicali Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 6/May/2016 ] This 2 CD set contains some seldom heard early 19th century concertos in which the piano plays the leading role. Carl Czerny, a famous pianist and teacher, student of Beethoven, wrote an immense oeuvre for the piano, in which his prodigious... |
CLEMENTI / PAISIELLO / PERGOLESI / KOZELUCH / BOCCHERINI / etc
Concerti Galante David Boldrini (piano), Viktor Csányi (violin), Elena Pinciaroli (piano) Rami Musicali Orchestra, Filippo Conti [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] "As a collection of off-the-beaten-track Mozart era piano concertos, you could hardly go wrong with this" MusicWeb April 2020 |
SHOSTAKOVICH / KABALEVSKY / TANEYEV / ROKOFIEV / TCHAIKOVSKY
David Oistrakh: Russian Violin Concertos [3 CD set] David Oistrakh (violin) / State Symphony Orchestra of USSR / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "..to compare and to contrast multiple recordings by this artist is an unmissable one, and rendered even more so by the budget price range. What are you waiting for?" (MusicWeb) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 1, 21 & 25 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Complete Piano Concertos (Rec 1993 & 2001) Derek Han, piano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman, with Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord, and Zoltan Kocsis, Dezsa Ranki and Andras Schiff (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics SACD / 11 SACD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] On 11 discs we present every single known work by Mozart for piano and orchestra. In addition to the more and less regularly performed 25 concertos with a single soloist we include some Rondos and both concertos for 2 and 3 pianos and orchestra. |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21 'Elvira Madigan', 23 & 24 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra under Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] In addition to Brilliant's best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by Mozart they celebrate with this double CD of four major piano concertos. |
W.A. MOZART
The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 2 (Incls KV271 Jeunehomme KV449 KV456 KV537 Coronation Concerto) Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra under Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Of course we can not ignore Mozart’s anniversary. So in addition to Brilliant's best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by this composer they celebrate his 250th birthday with a special series. This consists of 14 3CD-sets with selected... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Best Of Tchaikovsky (Includes the complete Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor) Derek Han (piano) Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Batiz and others [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Tchaikovsky is one the pillars of classical music who cannot be ignored. Some of his works have become all time favourites. On this double CD we have compiled all his popular works. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Collection: Six CD set (Incls Piano Concertos, Symphonies 4-6 & Ballet Suites) Derek Han (piano) Vladimir Spivakov (violin) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Enrique Batiz [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Russian Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky's romantic character may be heard in all his music: the symphonies no.'s 4,5 and 6, the 1st and 2nd piano concertos, the violin concerto, Serenade for Strings and music for his three large ballets: The Nutcracker,... |
BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Lyric Symphony Op.18 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'This is, in short, a very fine performance and recording of a work that is looking more and more like a crucial document of what one might term 'pre-modernism'. Gramophone, June 1987 |
BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 / Overtures, Haydn Variations Dresdner Philharmonie, Heinz Bongartz / London Symphony Orchestra, Rafaël Frühbeck de Burgos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] "I was in a perfectly blissful mood. I have seldom written music with such delight." Thus Brahms, notorious curmudgeon, to his friend Joseph Joachim, while engaged in his standard practice of arranging larger works - in this case the Second Serenade... |
SCHUBERT
Die Freunde von Salamanka, D326 Edith Mathis, Thomas Moser, Hermann Prey / Austrian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Theodor Guschlbauer [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] 'Beautiful singing by Mathis … Hermann Prey in excellent form … lovers of Schubert should not let slip the opportunity of hearing this … it is affectionately directed by Guschlbauer.' Gramophone |