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GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Piano Trios and Piano Quintet Quartetto Noferini [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] After years of comparative neglect Giuseppe Martucci is taking his rightful place as one of the most important late romantic Italian composers. His style is a happy and individual mix of Wagner and Verdi, dramatic chromatism softened by lyrical, bel... |
GIOVANNI SGAMBALI
Piano Quintets / String Quartets Quartetto Noferini, with Roberto Plano (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Giovanni Sgambati (1841‐1914) was an important composer of 19th century Italy. A pupil and disciple of Franz Liszt he was one of the most brilliant pianists of his day. However, he was a composer, a conductor, a teacher and a patron as well,... |
SILVIA COLASANTI
Colasanti: String Quartets Quartetto Noûs [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Silvia Colasanti (b. 1975) is one of the foremost female composers of today's Italy. Born in Rome she studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. Later on she advanced her art with Wolfgang Rihm and Pascal Dusapin. She obtained the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol. 1 Quartetto Noûs [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] A Brilliant Classics debut for one of today's most accomplished Italian string quartets, in 20th-century masterpieces which make a compelling introduction to the troubled private world of Shostakovich's chamber music. |
WILHELM KEMPFF
Kempff: Chamber Music Quartetto Raro [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] The pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) belonged to that tradition of German musicians - notably including conductors such as Furtwängler, Klemperer and Walter - for whom composition was hardly less essential a component of their musical personalities... |
ANGELO GILARDINO
Gilardino: Music for Guitar Quartet Quartetto Santórsola [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2019 ] Premiere recordings of original music and transcriptions, all imbued with the Mediterranean colour and flamboyance of the guitar quartet genre and played with polish by a renowned Italian ensemble. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Complete Piano Trios and String Quartets; Phantasiest Quartetto Savinio, Matteo Fossi [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Jun/2016 ] Robert Schumann came relatively late to composing chamber music, having composed his first 23 opus numbers exclusively for the piano. In his piano works he could give his boundless fantasy free reign, chamber music however demands a stricter and more |
GIACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Overtures arranged for Mandolin Quintet Quintette de mandolines "Giuseppe Aneda" [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] New recordings presenting a fun and unique perspective on the riotous, effervescent, surreal world of Rossini. All Rossini's qualities as a musical giant are to be found in concentrated form in the famous overtures. The sheer vitality of the music is... |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: Overtures - arranged for Mandolin Ensemble Quintetto a Plettro "Giuseppe Anedda" [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] New, fun-filled arrangements, with historical authenticity on their side, of bright and breezy curtain-raisers by a once-celebrated contemporary of Mozart. |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Complete Flute Quintets Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres (flute) / Francisco de Goya String Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Spanish 'period' instrumentalists in new recordings of under-rated chamber music from the golden age of Classicism, full of musical sunshine and summer breezes. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Serenata Napoletana: Music for mandolin and piano Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin) & Giacomo Ferrari (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This release invites to you an evening in Naples, one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world, and listen to an enchanting collection of Neapolitan songs, played by the mandolin, the instrument most closely related to that city of... |
MARIN MARAIS
Pièces de viole ‐ Book V (1725) Suite Nos. 1‐7 Rainer Zipperling, Ghislaine Wauters, Pieter‐Jan Belder & Wout Oosterkamp [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] These captivating suites are brought to life in vivid performances by acclaimed chamber musicians and early music specialists Rainer Zipperling, Ghislaine Wauters and Pieter‐Jan Belder. |
JOSE ARRIOLA
Arriola: Orchestral Music Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Maximino Zumalave, with Joaquín Soriano (piano) & David Alonso (horn) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] These are the first-ever recordings of music composed by José (Pepito) Arriola, whose works are virtually unknown. Born in Betanzos in the northern Spanish region of Galicia in 1895, Arriola was a celebrated child prodigy known at the time as a... |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI / GABRIEL FAURE / CESAR FRANCK
Alter Ego: Music for Flute and Piano by Respighi, Fauré & Franck Rebecca Taio (flute), Emanuel Silver (flute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Rebecca Taio's choice to programme these well-known pieces from the great repertoire for violin and piano has to do with the technical challenges they pose, both instrumentally and interpretatively. In the flautist's words: 'It's an incredibly... |
HANDEL
Handel: Cantatas & Sonatas Recondita Armonia Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] During Handel's stay in Italy he was greatly influenced by the great vocal tradition of that country. He wrote a substantial quantity of Italian Cantatas, mini operas for one or more solo voices and instrumental ensemble. They are on secular... |
ALEXANDER GUILMANT
Complete Organ Sonatas Adriano Falcioni (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 18/May/2015 ] Inspired by the great organ works of Cesar Franck the sonatas are impressive and substantial concert pieces, written in classical sonata style, but symphonic in scope and expression |
CARL ORFF
Orff: Trionfi Regina Werner (soprano) & Eberhard Buchner (tenor) / Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzich, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/May/2015 ] Orff's musical language is as raw, raucous and "vulgar" (in the literal sense of "of the people") as his texts: theatrical, blown-up and extravagant these works foreshadow the 20-th century pop culture, they certainly achieved the same popularity |
WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 1975} René Kollo, Ulrik Cold, Gisela Schröter, Theo Adam, Reid Bunger / Rundfunk‐Sinfonie‐Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2015 ] This reissue of the 1975 live recording of Wagner's Parsifal features a stellar cast: the great René Kollo in the title role, further Theo Adam, Gisela Schröter and Ulrik Cold, and the splendid Rundfunk‐Sinfonie‐ Orchester Leipzig, conducted by... |
MENDELSSOHN
Incidental Music for Antigone, Athalia & Oedipus René Pape (bass) / Radio Symphonie-Orchester / Christoph Spering / Stefan Soltesz [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "Just think: some two hours and fifteen minutes of new and vintage Mendelssohn! The chamber music has enjoyed a great renaissance over the last decade or so. Now the theatrical Mendelssohn beckons. On this evidence these scores include much music of... |
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VARIOUS
Happy Christmas from Milan Renato Bruson / Montserrat Caballe / Montserrat Marti / Rossana Potenza [ Brilliant Classics / DVD ] |
