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GIUSEPPE TARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tartini: Trio Sonatas / Violin Sonatas Op 2 and Op 6 La Magnifica Communita with Enrico Casazza (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2008 ] Giuseppe Tartini's best-known work must be his sonata for violin 'Devil's trill'. Now meet the virtually unknown Tartini on these three CD's. |
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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 |
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BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
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VIVALDI
Violin Sonatas Op 2 Federico Guglielmo (violin) / L'Arte Dell'Arco [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Vivaldi published this Opus in 1709 in Venice, and in 1712 again in Amsterdam with Roger, who was to become his main publisher. Vivaldi was a notable violin virtuoso himself, no wonder these sonatas demand a high technical level of the performer.... |
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J. S. BACH
Mass in B Minor Hillevi Martinpelto, Bernarda Fink, Axel Kohler, Christoph Pregardien, Matthias Goerne, Franz-Josef Selig / RIAS-Kammerchor, Rene Jacobs [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] The Reissue of one of the finest recordings of Bach's "Hohe Messe'! This "compelling performance..spacious and intimate" (Gramophone) boasts of a line-up of famous soloists: Christoph Prégardien, Matthias Goerne, Bernarda Fink and Hillevi... |
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VIVALDI
Cello Sonatas (complete) Jaap ter Linden (cello) lars Ulrik mortensen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] A major new release by one of the leading cellists in the field of "Early Music", Jaap ter Linden, seconded by a no lesser celebrity in this scene, Lars Ulrik Mortensen. |
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FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trios Complete Hrvoje Jugovic (piano); Maria Bader-Kubizek (violin); Silvia Schweinberger (viola); Dorothea Schonwiese (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] " If you're interested in Mendelssohn on period instruments, it doesn't get much better than this. If you just want the complete trios, the same advice applies." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month July 2013) |
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata Kristóf Baráti (violin) / Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Otto Tausk [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a child prodigy (his musical talent was compared to that of the young Mozart). His early works are written in the tradition of Mahler and Richard Strauss, later he emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's most... |
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BOCCHERINI
String Quintets - Volume 9 La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] This is brilliantly written music by a masterful composer at the peak of his creative talent. |
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PAGANINI
Complete Guitar Music Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Jul/2013 ] Nicolò Paganini's works for guitar were only published in their entirety in 1989. The Genoese musician was a sensation during his lifetime and is still counted among the greatest violinists of all time, yet he was also an excellent guitarist. |
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J. C. BACH
Sonatas (6), Op. 16 Marco Ruggeri (harpsichord) & Lina Uinskyte (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Johann Christian, youngest son of the great Johann Sebastian, is often called "The London Bach", as he spent most of his active life in the British capital, a teacher of the Royal family, friend of the young Mozart, and very successful composer of... |
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ANONYMOUS / SPEUY / van NOORDT / SWEELINCK / HAVINGHA
Dutch Delight: Organ Music from the golden age Matthias Havinga (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This beautiful programme, recorded in 2014, brings us back to the Golden Age of the Netherlands, the 16th and 17th century, in which cultural life blossomed thanks to the economical prosperity brought by the overseas trade. Wealthy merchants... |
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GERMAIN PINEL / ROBERT de VISEE
Les Rois de Versailles - Lute music by Pinel and de Visée Miguel Yisrael (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] This release brings us to the magnificent court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, whose palace was a hotspot of the greatest artists of the time. Both composers De Visée and Pinel worked at the court, playing and composing for the lute, the fashionable... |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Complete Songs Natalia Gerasimova (soprano), Marina Choutova (mezzosoprano), Alexei Martinov (tenor), Mikhail Lanskoi (baritone), Sergei Baikov (bass) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Some rarely heard repertoire by this much-loved composer who exerted a powerful influence over Stravinsky, and with whom Respighi studied orchestration. |
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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Canto Otinato, for four pianos Piano Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Apr/2012 ] 'My compositions take shape without any predetermined plan and are, as it were, the reflection of a quest for an unknown goal.' Simeon ten Holt. |
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J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor Roberta Invernizzi, Lynne Dawson (sops) Gloria Banditelli (mezzo) Christoph Prégardien (ten) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] This famous recording, licensed from the Swiss label Arts, is based on the Historically Informed Performance Practice, and presents the best voices in this field: Roberta Invernizzi, Lynn Dawson, Gloria Banditelli and Christoph Prégardien. |
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TOMASO ALBINONI
Albinoni: Complete violin and oboe concertos Stefan Schilli (oboe) / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "There is an abundance of enticing music, well performed by all the soloists. The orchestral sound is beautifully blended and well recorded." (MusicWeb) |
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FERNANDO SOR
Sor: Complete Fantasias For Guitar Stefano Palamidessi (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 21/Mar/2011 ] For the first time complete on CD: the Fantasias for guitar of Fernando Sor. The works of Sor form the basis of the classical guitar style, developing the technique to a highly professional level. The works are charming, galant and well-crafted,... |
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ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Symphonies Nos 1 - 3 Symphony Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Mark Ermler [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] It seems strange that such a celebrated composer as Alexander Borodin actually spent much of his life as a distinguished research chemist. |
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TELEMANN
Paris Quartets Jed Wentz (transverse flule) / Musica ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Telemann's sunny character and humorous disposition shine through in his music. During his life time he was very successful, artistically and commercially. One of the highlights of his later years had been his Tafelmusik, which combines styles from... |
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TORELLI
Trumpet Concertos (Complete) Thomas Hammes (trumpet); Peter Leiner (trumpet 2); European Chamber Soloists. Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "A highly recommendable way of exploring some worthwhile late 17th century music. It deserves the attention of anyone interested in the development of the trumpet." (MusicWeb April 2004) |
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J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion [complete oratorio] Rogers Covey-Crump, Michael George, Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Martyn Hill & David Thomas /Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Brandenburg Consort [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 31/Aug/2009 ] 'The choir of King's College are on top form throughout…so, too, are the excellent obbligato performances from the Brandenburg Consort.' Gramophone 2003 |
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TELEMANN
Ino Cantata Dramatic Barbara Schlick (soprano) / Music Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 31/Aug/2009 ] Of all the composers who witnessed the widespread blossoming of the arts in the middle of the 18th century, it was Georg Philipp Telemann who responded the most enthusiastically to each new phase of musical development. In his last works in... |
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BERLIOZ
Beatrice et Benedict (Complete opera) [Recorded in 1981] Yvonne Minton, Placido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 'Minton's beautiful voice and her warm understanding of Berlioz's style are again evident … Daniel Barenboim conducts with enthusiasm.' Gramophone |