Search Results: brilliant classics new
Displaying items 1201 to 1220 of 1224
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Clarinet Trio & Sonatas Vlad Weverbergh (clarinet), Jadranka Gasparovic (cello), Vasily Ilisavsky (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Ferdinand Ries may still be known almost exclusively to the musical world as Beethoven's friend, pupil, secretary and first biographer, but Brilliant Classics have done much to broaden our understanding of this significant figure in the Vienna of the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies (Complete) (Rec 1995-2000) WDR Radio Chorus. Alla Simoni (soprano) Sergei Aleksashkin (bass) / WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Rudolf Barshai [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "you would be unlikely to hear the works better played or better recorded except occasionally. As a way to experience one of the greatest symphonic cycles of the 20th century this has to be an essential purchase at this price." (MusicWeb June 2002) |
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music WDR Sinfonieorchester und Chor Köln / Peter Gulke [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "this two-disc set fills in his fascinating background as a vocal and orchestral composer around the beginning of the 20th century...The bombastic Symphony No 1 is a student work redolent of Bruckner and Brahms, and like the later Tanzspiel (a... |
![Symphonies / Jazz Suites / Chamber music [3 CD] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10169/10169248.jpg)
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies / Jazz Suites / Chamber music [3 CD] WDR Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai / National Symphony of Urkraine, Theore Kuchar / Edwar Auer, piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "No. 9: Magnificent; Shostakovich's subversive, Haydnesque wit and underlying anxiety is made perfectly plain; wonderful brass playing. No. 10: A lithe, lean, and dramatic reading, with powerful climaxes" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
![Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (Complete opera recorded in 1998) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10160/10160509.jpg)
W.A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (Complete opera recorded in 1998) Werner Van Mechelen / Christiane Oelze / Huub Claessens / Patrizia Biccire / Le Petite Bande Orchestra & Chorus / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Recorded live in 1998 and originally released on Accent |
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
Harpsichord Concertos (Complete) Claudio Astronio (harpsichord & conductor) / Harmonices Mundi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84) who perhaps came closest to his father as a composer. His compositions display the same structural density, and in particular the concerto in E flat for 2 harpsichords where many of his father's influences can be... |
MESSIAEN
Organ Works (Complete) Willem Tanke (organ) at the St Bavo Basilica, Haarlem [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] A rare release: recordings of the complete works for organ by Messiaen (1908-1992). These 8 CD’s guide the listener through most of the composer’s life, starting with his first published work of 1926 and ending with the 2-CD long Book of the blessed... |
WAGNER
Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Complete operas) Wolfgang Neumann, Edward Cook (tenors), Carla Pohl (soprano), John Wegner (bass-baritone), Badische Staatskapelle, Ganter Neuhold (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] "for those who are as yet uninitiated into this miraculous music, it is an inexpensive introduction without having to make do with just excerpts." (MusicWeb May 2002) |
J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Toccatas BWV 910-916 Wolfgang Rübsam (lute, harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Composed between about 1707 and 1713, the Toccatas contain stylus phantasticus elements of the North German organ baroque and are a delightful mixture of virtuoso, recitative, arioso, concertante, imitative and fugal sections. |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Complete Organ Music Wolfgang Rübsam (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Organ works account for only 17 of Vierne's 62 opus numbers, and yet no one would now question his status as the organ's greatest symphonist after Franck and Widor. |
J.S BACH
J.S. Bach: French Suites BWV812-817 Wolfgang Rübsam (clavichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] A new recording from a Bach luminary of our time: the French Suites, returned to their original context as private music for entertainment and instruction. The title of French Suites does not originate from Bach's hand: they were called "Suites pour... |
MAX REGER
Chorale Fantasias for organ (complete) (Rec 1989, 1990) Wouter van den Broek (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] "Many of my musical acquaintances over the years, especially the organists, have warmly recommended that I get to know the music of Max Reger. I'm still learning, but to my ears there's no escaping a certain dour quality, a relentlessness, a feeling... |
CLERAMBAULT / MARCHAND
Complete Harpsichord Music Yago Mahúgo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] The complete harpsichord works by Clerambault and Marchand on one CD! Louis‐Nicholas Clérambault and Louis Marchand are typical representatives of the French harpsichord style, flourishing in the first half of the 18‐th century. Their Suites... |
JOSEPH ROYER
Royer: Complete Music For Harpsichord Yago Mahugo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2013 ] One of the lesser‐known composers of the mid 18th‐century, Turin‐born Joseph‐ Nicolas‐Pancrace Royer relocated to Paris, where he earned a reputation as a formidable harpsichordist. He was in the service of Louis XV for many years, and wrote many... |
HANS NEUSIDLER
Neusidler: Lute Music Yavor Genov (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Hans Neusidler (1508-1563) was born in Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia) and first enters the historical record in 1530, when he settled in Nuremberg, Germany. He taught lute there in the 1530s, publishing eight books of lute music between 1536... |
JOHNSON & HOLBORN
Orpheus Anglorum: Lute Music Yavor Genov (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] The appearance of the first prints with instructions for playing the lute in England during the 1560's coincides with the youth and education of some of the first professional native lutenists. John Johnson and Anthony Holborne share lots in common... |
GIOVANNI ZAMBONI
Lute Music Yavor Genov (14‐course archlute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Italian composer Giovanni Zamboni is somewhat of a mystery to the modern listener. Very little is known of his life; he was born in Rome in the latter part of the 17th century, became a virtuoso on the theorbo, lute, harpsichord, guitar, mandore and... |
J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Yuan Sheng (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] With almost 70 separate pieces across the 130 minutes of this generous collection, Yuan Sheng surveys a sometimes overlooked aspect of Bach's industry and genius, as both teacher and family man. |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Seasons Yuan Sheng (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] Yuan Sheng has a deep understanding and command of harpsichord and early pianos that has resulted in many well-received historically informed performances and recordings. In reviewing his all-Beethoven recital on an 1805 Kathönig piano, the Boston... |
STRAVINSKY
Ballet music: Le Sacre / Petrushka / The Firebird / Pulcinella / Suites no. 1 and no. 2 Yvonne Kenny / Robert Tear / Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "Marriner's Pulcinella is a joy from first bar to last; how the players enjoy the quirkiness of Stravinsky's scoring" (Gramophone on Pulcinella) |
