ANATOLY LYADOV
Liadov: Complete Piano Works Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2011 ] "There is simply no earthly reason why any number of these stylish, intimate gems should not appear on every recitalist's programme - many of them make ideal crowd-pleasing encore pieces." MusicWeb |
BORODIN
Piano Works (including Petite Suite & Paraphrases) Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] |
FELDMAN
Patterns in a Chromatic Field Marco Simonacci (cello), Giancarlo Simonacci (piano), Fabio Frapparelli (horn), Paola Ronchetti & Ilaria Severo (sopranos) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2013 ] Morton Feldman is without doubt one of the most remarkable and influential composers of the second half of 20th century America. |
GEORGE FREDERIK PINTO
Pinto: Sonatas for Piano and Violin Marek Toporowski (fortepiano), Robert Bachara (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] The only available recording on fortepiano of violin and piano sonatas by an 'English Mozart'. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: 3 Violin Sonatas Marek Toporowski (fortepiano), Robert Bachara (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Ferdinand Ries was without doubt one of the most prolific composers and most significant figures in the musical life of the early to mid-19th century. In our time, he is known above all as one of Beethoven's few students, and though we cannot be sure... |
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The song of a life, Complete Vocal Chamber Music, Vol 4; Maria Bagalà (soprano), Glenn Morton (piano), John Viscardi (baritone), Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi (soprano), Isabella Crisante (piano), etc [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Feb/2020 ] "this is a great tribute to the legacy of the greatest composer of Italian songs...it is an invaluable treat to have them collected - I doubt there will ever be a similar project again - and at Brilliant Classics's give-away price." MusicWeb |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Mélodies Mariam Sarkissian (mezzo-soprano), Fanny Crouet (soprano), Daniel Propper (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Jacques Offenbach (1819‐1880) goes into history as the supreme French entertainer, having written more than 100 operas and operettas brimming with satire, wit, charm and elegance, his (in)famous Can‐Can is one of the most catchy and best‐known... |
ERNEST BLOCH
Music for Violin and Piano Maristella Patuzzi (violin) & Mario Patuzzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Ernest Bloch (1880‐1959) was trained as a violinist, taking lessons from the great Eugene Ysaye in Brussels. Under the threat of the Nazi regime he took refuge to the USA, where he stayed the rest of his life. Here he became famous , one of the first... |
OTHMAR SCHOECK
Music for Violin and Piano Maristella Patuzzi (violin) & Mario Patuzzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Here are Swiss radio recordings of native performers, a father-daughter duo, of lyrical, high-flown chamber music by one of the country's foremost composers, now less known than his contemporary Arthur Honegger but hardly less gifted. Schoeck's... |
SIMAKU / VORPSI / LARA / IBRAHIMI / HARAPI / ZADEJA
Albanian Piano music Marsida Koni (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Marsida Koni appears to be the ideal exponent for this music, equally at home in the nostalgic and romantic numbers, never reducing anything to mere sentimental schmaltz, and with a technique able to despatch those passages of Lisztian virtuosity" |
DEBUSSY
Complete Music for Piano Duo [3 CD set] Massimiliano Damerini, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] The only really complete edition of Debussy's output for piano duo! Recorded in 2012, Carrara, Italy. |
DEVIENNE / DONIZETTI / BEETHOVEN
Bassoon Trios Massimo Data (bassoon), Mario Carbotta (flute) & Piero Barbareschi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] A delightful programme featuring the bassoon in duo and trio formation chamber music, centred around the substantial and neglected Bassoon Trio WoO37 by Beethoven. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vocalise - Music for bassoon and piano Massimo Data (bassoon) & Piero Barbarsechi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] The Bassoon, the bass member of the woodwind family, is a surprisingly versatile, agile, and expressive instrument. Its expression ranges from the joyful and even comic, sonorous, melancholic to the mournful. Regretfully classical composers wrote... |
REINECKE / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / WIENIAWSKI / SIBELIUS / BRIDGE
Music for Viola & Piano Massimo Piva viola (viola) Inessa Filistovich (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] On this unique and originally programmed journey, the violist Massimo Piva takes the kind of fantasy journey (Fantasiereise) that forms one of the cornerstones of German Romanticism. It is in the context of highly wrought, fantastic tales that... |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphonies, Five Pieces Op.16 Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] This new recording presents arrangements for piano 4‐hands or two pianos by orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg (the two Chamber Symphonies and the Five Pieces Op. 16), arranged by Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Schoenberg himself. The... |
BARTOK
Complete Music for Two Pianos Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] This 2CD set presents a complete survey of Bartók's music for two pianos. The works and arrangements here all stem from Bartók's special artistic collaboration with his wife, the pianist Dittá Pásztory. |
DOMENICO LABOCCETTA
Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist Matteo Malagoli (cello) Lisa De Polo (piano) Cristina Centa (harp) Yukiko Shimizu (soprano) Raffaele Giordani (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta. Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care... |
POULENC / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy: Concerto for 2 Pianos Mattia Ometto (piano) & Leonora Armellini (piano) / Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Luigi Piovano (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Three 20th-century masters, painting glittering rainbows of colours with two pianos. From Javanese gamelan to Mozart, from nursery rhymes to passionate outbursts, from primitive percussion to the café chantant, Francis Poulenc gathered up almost... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Violin Sonatas Mauro Tortorelli (violin) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics SACD / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Although sometimes disregarded as a conservative composer, looking back at a time when other composers were looking to the future, Saint‐Saëns's output towards the end of his life actually remained highly original. |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music For Violin And Piano Gran Duo Italiano: Mauro Tortorelli (violin, viola) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2018 ] An unrivalled collection of chamber music charting the course of the 20th century through the eclectic voices and eventful musical journey of an Italian-American composer. |