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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Complete Piano Sonatas Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2018 ] The first complete recording of the Hummel piano sonatas on fortepiano! The name of Hummel usually is related to two other musical giants of his period: Mozart and Beethoven. Hummel was a pupil of the former and a rival of the later, both being... |
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CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 3: The London Sonatas Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 30/Jan/2010 ] Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) is one of the most colourful and influential musical figures of the past 200 years. Born in Rome, he grew up in Dorset, with the family of Peter Beckford, who in effect bought the boy from his father. The agreement was to... |
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CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 4: The London Sonatas II Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "In Volume 4 Mastroprimiano uses a Kirckman fortepiano of 1798. This instrument is capable of much tonal variety and expression as exemplified in the second movement, Adagio, of Sonata Op. 23 No.2, which is beautifully played with appropriate... |
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CLEMENTI
Pianoforte Sonatas Vol 5: The London Sonatas III Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] |
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel Edition Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Madoka Inui (piano), Luigi Bianchi (violin), Aldo Orvieto (piano), Luigi Bianchi (viola), Claudio Maccari (gui [ Brilliant Classics / 20 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2018 ] Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was a pupil of Mozart, a protégé of Haydn, a friendly rival of Beethoven, and renowned throughout Europe as one of the greatest pianists of his day, a sought-after teacher who instructed some of the most... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Marco Testori (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Beethoven wrote sympathetically for the cello throughout his career, from the ardent, lyrical voice of the Op.1 piano trios onwards, and he rarely subjugated the instrument to its basso continuo role still prevalent in the works of Mozart and Haydn.... |
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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan Edition [Piano, Organ & Chamber Music] Costantino Mastroprimiano, Mark Viner, Laurent Martin, Alan Weiss, Alessandro Deljavan, Costantino Mastroprimiano (pianos) / Trio Alkan, Kevin Bowyer [ Brilliant Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2018 ] "Two major pluses are the excellent contextual essay and the budget price. It's a steal." BBC Music |
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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Solo Piano Music Costantino Mastroprimiano (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2014 ] Charles‐Valentin Alkan was one of the most important pianists and piano composers of the 19th century, although he lived the largest part of his life in obscurity and seclusion. He was a close friend of Chopin (they were neighbours in Paris) and he... |
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NAPOLEON COSTE
Coste: Guitar Music Flávio Apro (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Napoleon Coste (1805-1883) was one of the most important and influential protagonists of the guitar in the 19th century. He was a prodigy, touring Europe in his early years giving highly successful concerts, publishing his own music, inventing new... |
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ABEL CARLEVARO
Carlevaro: Guitar Music Cristiano Poli Cappelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] A Uruguayan pupil of Segovia: a man dedicated to the guitar, as a performer, teacher and even maker; a composer who wove together strands of melody and modernism. |
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ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
Complete music for solo guitar Cristiano Poli Cappelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Polish born and educated, Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) was essentially a French composer, whose move to Paris in 1920 was the making of him. He won the admiration and friendship of both Ravel and Stravinsky, and took a central place in the... |
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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / ANGELO GILARDINO / CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
Homage to Angelo Gilardino - A Life for Music Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] An 80th-birthday tribute featuring new recordings of key works by the Italian guitarist-composer from one of his most dedicated interpreters. |
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FRANCO CAVALLONE
Cavallone: Music For Guitar Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2021 ] Franco Cavallone (1957) is one of today's most prolific and successful composers for the guitar. He himself studied the guitar with Bruno Mattioli, a pupil of Alirio Diaz, Leo Brouwer and Angelo Gilardino. He won several international competitions,... |
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BELLOMO / FRANCO / REBAY / BIBERIAN / CHASSAIN / CAVALLONEone
Easy Studies for Guitar, Vol. 3 Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] This is the 3rd volume of "Easy Studies for Guitar", a successful concept compiled by master guitarist Cristiano Porqueddu. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Russian Guitar Music of the 20th and 21st centuries Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Although one would not automatically associate the guitar with Russia, the history of the Russian guitar goes far back, as early as 1790 the tradition starts with a 7‐string instrument, continuing to flourish in the 19th century as a salon... |
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LOUIS AUBERT
Piano Works (including Deux pieces en forme de Mazurka Op.12) Cristina Ariagno (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Louis Aubert was born in Brittany in 1877 and soon showed promise as a singer, but his real skill was as a pianist. He studied with Fauré, and Maurice Ravel was another fellow student with whom he would develop a lasting friendship. |
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JUAN FRANCES de IRIBARREN ECHEVARRIA
Iribarren: Sacred Music in Malaga Cathedral Cristina Bayon (soprano) Jorge Enrique Garcia Ortega (counter-tenor) / Ensemble Esitös [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] First recordings of sacred motets and villancicos by a forgotten figure of the Spanish Baroque. |
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ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvorak: 2 Serenades Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Pardubice, Stanislav Vavřínek & Vahan Mardirossian [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] New Czech recordings of perennially popular serenades from the pen of Dvořák at a turning point in his career, full of freshness, Bohemian charm and flowing melodies. The Serenades for Strings and Winds never get old, and never lose their appeal,... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Complete Original Organ Music Daniel Justin (Grand organ of the Leeds Cathedral) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This new recording contains Elgar's complete original works for organ, as well as several arrangements of his famous showpieces, the first Pomp & Circumstance March, the Imperial March and Nimrod from the Enigma Variations, an iconic piece of English... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak : Complete Sacred Choral Music Daniel Kirch, John Aler, Piotr Beczala, Javier Tomé, Christine Brewer, Christiane Libor etc [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] The complete Sacred Choral music by the most popular Czech composer, Antonin Dvořák, counting among the greatest Romantic Sacred music of the 19th century. Contains the Requiem, Stabat Mater, the Mass, Te Deum and the seldom heard oratorio Svata... |