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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. |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Ann Archibald (soprano), John Graham-Hall (tenor) Peter Sidhom (baritone) / London, Royal Choral Society & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Cooke [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Carl Orff was born into a distinguished Bavarian military family, and after composing songs in his childhood took up studies at the Munich Academy of Music. His early music shows the influence of Debussy, but this was soon cast off in favour of... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 / Herminie - Scène lyrique (cantata) Aurelia Legay (soprano) / Les Musiciens du Louvre & Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Marc Minkowski [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique of 1830 was his direct response to hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the first time. |
GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites / Lyric Pieces Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Ermler / Håkon Austbø (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] The composer Edvard Grieg was at the forefront of a flourishing of creativity that took place in Scandinavian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside his contemporaries, Nielsen and Sibelius. His imagination was particularly... |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: L'Impresario in Angustie (complete opera recorded in 2017) Camilla Antonini, Lavinia Bini, Paola Cigna, Alejandro Escobar, Luca Gallo, Marco Filippo Romano / Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forli, Aldo Salvagno [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The Neapolitan Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was certainly a prolific composer of operas, having more than 80 titles to his name. Though many have only recently enjoyed a revival, they were widely admired in his day. |
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... |
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 |
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 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 1, 21 & 25 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] |
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 |
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 |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI / ALDO TARABELLA
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona / Tarabella: Il Servo Padrone Erika Liuzzi (soprano), Paolo Pecchioli (bass), Donato Di Gioia (bass) / Vincenzo Galilei Orchestra, Flavio Emilio Scogna [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi owes much of his fame to La Serva Padrona, a comic intermezzo designed to be performed between the acts of an opera seria. In it, a maid and a servant conspire to convince their master to marry the maid. When Aldo... |
Eva Katrine Dalsgaard (viola), Giovanni Punzi (clarinet), Tanja Zapolski (piano) Copenhagen Phil, Vincenzo Milletari
BRUCH: Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra Op.88, 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op.83; Giovanni Punzi, Eva Katrine Dalsgaard [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Ripe and romantic chamber and orchestral music from the Indian summer of Bruch's career. The spring of Bruch's invention was running dry in the first decade of the last century when it was refreshed once more by the sound of the clarinet. Just as... |
PAOLO UGOLETTI
Ugoletti: Three Concertos Gianni Alberti (sax), Jozsef Ormeny (pno) Marko Komonko (violin) Serhiy Katsaval (tromb) / Strings of the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ferdinando Nazz [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Prominent Italian composer Paolo Ugoletti (born in 1956) describes his music as follows: "It consists of a theatre of sound, narration, fables and slashes of the imagination. It has something in common with the folly of the Baroque universe, the... |
DUPUY / BUCHNER
Romantic Flute Concertos Ginevra Petrucci (flute) / Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Maurizio Ciampi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The scandalously colourful Dupuy's work is rooted in classicism, while Büchner's displays a Verdian mix of seriousness and easy lyricism. Ginevra Petrucci plays attractively, and she is well supported by the Milan-based orchestra." Sunday Times |
KUHLAU
Violin Sonatas Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin), Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Friedrich Kuhlau (1786‐1832) was born in Hannover, but as a student he went to Denmark, where he stayed the rest of his life, becoming an important national composer. Kuhlau was a near contemporary of Beethoven, and his style shares elements of... |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer In France Hjördis Thébault (soprano), Pierre‐Yves Pruvot (baritone), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Renowned in his lifetime, Giacomo Meyerbeer - born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer - was one of the first opera composers to truly establish himself as master of the genre. His fame was at a height in the mid 19th century, as he managed to produce hit... |
KHACHATURIAN
Spartacus (highlights) / Gayaneh (highlights) Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Aram Khachaturian, 20th century Armenian composer, kept the Soviet authorities happy: his music is accessible, melodious, dramatic, folkloristic and glorifies the victory over evil forces. The ballet suites Spartacus and Gayane enjoy huge popularity,... |
C. P. E. BACH
Flute Concertos Machiko Takahashi (flute) Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Roland Kieft [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] These delightful concertos, pleasing in themselves, always fresh and full of invention, also provide a fascinating aural link between the Barock and Classical eras. |
