ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: La Giuditta; Alessandro Stradelle Consort, Estévan Velardi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] "Alessandro Scarlatti is a great man but his compositions are very difficult, in a theatre audience of a thousand people only 20 will understand them", thus said Count Francesco Zambeccari, an influential contemporary, and it is a testimony of the... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
El Otro Astor - Music for guitar & strings Alessio Nebiolo (guitar) / Quartett Orfeo, with Nadio Marenco (accordion) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] Most albums of music by the undisputed master of Argentine tango, Astor Piazzolla are still issued at full price but following the success of 'Café 1930' (94896) with guitarist Andrea Dieci and violinist Piercarlo Sacco, Brilliant Classics presents... |
MAURIZIO CAZZATI
Cazzati: Amor Profano, Amor Sacro, Secular and Sacred Vocal Music; Alessio Tosi, Maria Chiara Gallo, Gabriele Palomba, Lorenzo Feder, Rebeca Ferri, Efix Puleo, Daniela Godio [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Maurizio Cazzati (1616‐1678) is one of the most underrated composers of the 17th century and yet one of the most prolific and successful in his time. He composed 15 operas and oratorios, masses, cantatas and motets, chamber music and solo... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Kashchey the Immortal (complete opera) Alexander Arkhipov, Irina Zhurina, Nina Terentieva, Vladislav Verestnikov / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra & Yurlov Academic Choir, Andrey Chistiakov [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] By 1901 Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov had already been a professor at the St Petersburg Conservatory for thirty years and had achieved considerable renown as a composer. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Complete Music for Cello & Piano Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Andrew Zolinsky (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] This set contains the complete music for cello solo, cello and piano and offers a world premiere, the cello sonata in A major, a charming piece in Schubertian style, written by the 13‐year old Benjamin. Britten's friendship with the great Russian... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninoff & Prokofiev: Cello Sonatas Alexander Russakovsky (cello) & Amber Shay Nicholson (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This new recording (recorded in 2012) brings together two great, but altogether different 20th century Cello Sonatas from Russia: the gorgeous and deeply romantic cello sonata by Rachmaninoff, of near‐symphonic proportions, and the cello sonata by... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) [with Tchaikovsky - The Seasons] Alexander Warenberg (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition Alexander Warenberg (piano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Igor Markevitch [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Ravel's orchestration of Pictures, performed with freshness and vision by Markevitch and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 [recorded 1962-64] Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'The playing is very deeply committed, very intense, but never ponderously philosophical' Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano variations and Bagatelles Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Dec/2006 ] A truly historic document: some 40 years ago Alfred Brendel recorded Beethoven's Bagatellen and Piano variations. Here the eminent pianist already showed his idiosyncratic self. Some people consider his playing dull; others find it refreshingly... |
W. A. MOZART
Gran Partita for String Octet Amati & Talich Quartets [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Mozart's Serenade for wind ensemble K361, nicknamed 'Gran partita', is justly the most famous piece written for this combination of instruments. What is more, Mozart is a supreme master of the art of instrumentation. |
MORALES / BRUDIEU / CEBALLOS / NAVARRO / FLECHA / ORTIZ
Ecos del Parnaso: Spanish Madrigals Amystis, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] The madrigal tradition in 16th-century Spain: a rich treasure-trove mined by a native consort group specialising in music of the period, full of little-known names and exciting discoveries. |
ALFONSO XUARES
Xuáres: Sacred Music Amystis, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Alonso Xuárez (1640-1696) was a prominent Spanish composer of the Baroque era. Born in Toledo, Xuárez's musical genius blossomed early, and soon he held important musical posts at the Cuenca Cathedral and as Chapel Master of the Sevilla... |
BERNARDINO de RIBERA / JUAN NAVARRO / SEBASTIEN de VIVANCO / TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
De Ribera & Navarro: Masters of Spanish Renaissance Amystis Ensemble / Ministriles de la Reyna, José Duce Chenoll [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The Amystis ensemble of singers and instrumentalists have won a following for their exploration of lesser-known sacred and secular masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age of the 16th century. |
CARL HEINRICH REINECKE
Reinecke: Complete Cello Sonatas Ana Turkalj (cello), Aleck Carratta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The fundamentally Romantic idiom of Carl Reinecke coexists with the twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. He was a precocious and prolific composer, who wrote music from an early age after his birth in the North German town... |
ANTONIO BAZZINI
Bazzini: Complete Opera Transcriptions Anca Vasile Caraman (violin) & Alessandro Trebeschi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "The playing of Anca Vasile Caraman and Alessandro Trebeschi is very good. There is a real sense of enjoyment in their performance, especially in the way that they bring out the differing characters of the operas, their composers and that of Bazzini" |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart on Tour Part 1 - London and Mantua Andre Previn / Vladimir Ashkenazy / Heidrum Holtmann [ Brilliant Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] G :- Recordings of piano concertos K37, 41 & 414 |
TELEMANN
36 fantasias for harpsichord Andrea Coen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2012 ] While Telemann is, today, considered among the very greatest of Baroque composers, he was one of the last of the period to be reappraised by later generations, and his music had to be 'rediscovered', just as that of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi was. |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Die Kleine Kammermusik / 6 Partiten / Concerto in B Minor Andrea Coen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Kleine KammerMusik, consisting of VI Partias, intended for the violin / transverse flute as well as for the keyboard but in particular for the oboe, which for [their] simplicity and being singable can be used for beginners' exercise. |
C. P. E. BACH
Complete Keyboard Variations Andrea Coen (pianoforte) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2016 ] Among the foremost contributions to the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel, most gifted musical son of J.S Bach, was the compendious, 30CD Brilliant Classics edition (BC94640) which spanned his diverse output of... |