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... |
ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Piano Trios Trio Mezzena-Patria-Ballario [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 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. He became famous as an opera composer, his chamber music remained largely neglected. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Clarinet Trios Trio Origo [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] At the heart of Trio Origo's repertoire are the earliest trios composed for clarinet, cello and piano. The origins of the repertoire lie in the 'Gassenhauer' Trio composed by Beethoven in 1797 for a clarinettist, probably Joseph Bähr, who also... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / REBECCA CLARKE
Schumann, (C.) / Clarke: Piano Trios Trio Rigamonti [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] This pair of piano trios has become recognised in recent years as among the finest works by their composers, and they make a complementary pairing despite their contrasting idioms. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque No.2 Op.9 Trio RoVerde [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] As a young man, fresh from his first real success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to visit his mentor Tchaikovsky when he saw a crowd gathered outside. The news of Tchaikovsky's death sent him into a tail-spin, and he... |
DORA PEJACEVIC
Pejacevic: Chamber Music Trio RoVerde [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] 'You owe it to yourself to make the acquaintance of Dora Pejačević if you haven't done so already.' (Fanfare, May 2022) |
LUTOSLAWSKI / VERESS / SCHULHOFF / JUON
Music for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon by Lutoslawski, Veress, Juon & Schulhoff; Trio Trilli Trio Trilli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] This strong concept CD present original works written for oboe, clarinet and bassoon by four 20th century composers: Lutoslawski, Schulhoff, Veress and Juon. |
SIMONE MOLINARO
Molinaro: Danze E Fantasie Da Intavolatura Di Liuto Libro I Ugo Nastrucci (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Lute music by a true Renaissance man: publisher, teacher and performer, Genovese man of letters and musician to his fingertips. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Jazz Suites / Overtures The Ukrainian Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar [ Brilliant Classics SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine achieves an authentic sound--lithe rather than lush--for this music and plays with excellent ensemble. There are numerous solo turns for principal players, all taken with appropriate character. Brilliant... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / KHACHATURIAN
Russian Ballets Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2016 ] Towards the end of the 19th century, ballet was declining in popularity in Western Europe but acquired an increased significance in Russia. This was thanks in part to the music for dancing which had been part of native operas ever since Glinka... |
SALOMONE ROSSI
Vocal Works: Madrigals and Canti di Salomone Ut Musica Poesis Ensemble, Stefano Bozolo / L'Aura Soave, Diego Cantalupi / Ensemble Hypothesis [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The works recorded here all have great intimacy. The madrigals, a typically Renaissance vocal genre, were composed before the turn of the 17th century. A set of six of these are remarkable because they were written for a single voice with the other... |
RESPIGHI
Complete Orchestral Music Vol 3 [Incls 'Concerto gregoriano'] Vadim Brodsky (violin) Chiara Bertoglio (piano) Andrea Noferini (cello) / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] "[La Vecchia] conducts with energy and conviction throughout. The Rome orchestra responds enthusiastically, and the orchestral sound has plenty of colour and presence, with nice grip from the brass at the tuttis. A must for Respighi fans" MusicWeb |
TIKHON KHRENNIKOV
Violin Concertos & Piano Concertos Vadim Repin (violin) Evgeny Kissin (piano) Maxim Vengerov (violin) / Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Tikhon Khrennikov was certainly an equivocal figure in the history of 20thcentury Russian music. A composer with a tendency towards popular theatrical genres and lyricism, the naively optimistic nature of his music was soon noticed by the Soviet... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Mélodies Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Poulenc once declared that 'the musical transposition of a poem must be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.' |
W.A. MOZART
The Great Mass in C minor KV427 Valentina Farcas, Annemarie Kremer, Daniel Sans / Chamber Choir of Europe / Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] The Chamber Choir of Europe under Nicol Matt has become recognised as one of the finest choirs in the world. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Cherevichki [The Slippers] (recorded in 2000) Valerij Popov, Ludmila Semciuk / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] A "10/10" for this production from ClassicsToday.com! |
CARLO TESSARINI
Tessarini: 6 Violin Sonatas Op.14, 6 Trio Sonatas Op.9 Valerio Losito (baroque violin), Paolo Perrone (baroque violin), Carlo Calegari (violone), Diego Leveric (archlute), Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] Another chapter in the rediscovery of an 18th-century master by Brilliant Classics. While the music of this Rimini-born violinist, composer and publisher has been excerpted and recorded on several albums, Brilliant Classics is assembling a uniquely... |