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CRAMER / DUSSEK / HUMMEL / LIMMER / ONSLOW / RIES / SCHUBERT
Romantic Piano Quintets Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "This four-disc set provides listeners with a fantastic introduction to the Romantic piano quintet, showcasing lesser-known gems of the genre, alongside a few more recognisable offerings." |
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BRAHMS
The Collection: Six CD set (Incls Piano Concerto no 2, Symphonies & Ein Deutsches Requiem) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Berliner Symphoniker / London Symphony Orchestra / Karl Leister (clarinet) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 8/May/2008 ] Enjoy Johannes Brahms' symphonies 3 and 4, the 2nd piano concerto, the violin and double concertos, Hungarian dances (version for orchestra), the 'German' Requiem and the Clarinet quintet. |
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RACHMANINOV
Etudes-Tableaux / Preludes Nikolai Lugansky, Marietta Petkova (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Apr/2008 ] All the best Rachmaninov piano music on one specially priced triple CD set. |
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RACHMANINOV
The Collection: Six CD set (Incls Piano Concertos, Vespers & Etudes-Tableaux) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) John Lill (piano) / National Choir of Ukraine Dumka / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Sergey Rachmaninoff was the ultimate romantic composer. Being a pianist himself he had a special affinity with the piano. Listen to his 4 piano concertos, the Paganini Rhapsody and two Études tableaux. Also on these CD's the Vespers, The Isle of the... |
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RACHMANINOV
Complete Piano Works [9 CD set] Nils Franke, David Gardiner, Alexander Ghindin, Robert Groslot, Nikolai Lugansky, Garrick Ohlsson, Marietta Petkova (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 9 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Sergei Rachmaninoff's name will always be associated with the piano. As one of the greatest composer pianists of the 20th century, he stands alongside his younger contemporaries Prokoviev and Mednter as the last in a long line of great composer... |
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MUSSORGSKY
Piano Works (Incls 'Pictures at an Exhibition) Nino Gvetadze (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] The Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze was born in 1981 and studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Since winning the YPF National Piano Competition in 2004, she has appeared with many leading orchestras and performed at the Concertgebouw in... |
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ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Concertos Noriko Ogawa (piano) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Alexander Tcherepnin was the central figure in a significant Russian musical dynasty. |
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Oistrakh Trio
Plays Russian Piano Trios [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / 3 CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
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CRISTIAN CARRARA
Magnificat / Ondanomala / Suite per bicicletta e orchestra Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy Flavio, Emilio Scogna [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] No, there are no bicycles in Suite per bicicletta and orchestra, which arose from a commission for the Orchestra Regionale Toscana and the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. The work was originally conceived as a show comprising music, text and... |
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LODOVICO GIUSTINI
Giustini: 12 Sonatas Op.1 Paolo Zentilin (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] The very first-ever set of 'piano sonatas' in a new and highly imaginative recording. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, R: Orchestral works (includes Don Juan, Violin Concerto in D minor, An Alpine Symphony & Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) Peter Damm (horn) / Manfred Weise (clarinet) / Peter Rose (piano) / Paul Tortelier (cello ) / Staatskapelle Dresden / Rudolf Kempe [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] An opportunity to also get acquainted with the lesser known works by Strauss. |
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JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10 Petra Somlai (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] The latest volume in a critically acclaimed series, presenting modern recordings of Dussek's exhilaratingly diverse cycle of piano sonatas on instruments of his own time. |
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SCRIABIN
Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems Philadelphia orchestra / Riccardo Muti (with Stefania Toczyska, mezzo, & Dmitri Alexeev, piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] "This Muti box is very strong indeed and at less than Naxos price its virtues are irresistible….Brilliant Classics have issued a splendid set with sumptuous sound and a propulsive pulse." (MusicWeb) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Lieder for Piano 4-hands Piano Duo Nadan [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] With his Liebeslieder-Waltzes Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) presented a beautiful tribute to the musical tradition of Vienna, the Habsburg capital, a tradition that, starting with the ländler, had taken shape in the waltzes of Schubert and later of the... |
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CAMILLE SAINT SAENS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / MAURICE RAVEL
Famous Works for Piano Duo Piano Duo Van Veen: Jeroen van Veen (piano), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a... |
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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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WAGNER
Complete Piano Music [2 CDs] Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Today Richard Wagner is best known for his extraordinary operas; any success in other domains was dwarfed by these compositional feats in the world of musical theatre. But Wagner's piano works can be seen to be just as important in understanding the... |
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BEETHOVER / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complete variations on a waltz by Diabelli Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/May/2015 ] In 1819 composer and publisher Anton Diabelli got the idea to invite composers from the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire to compose variations on a waltz by his own hand. This original concept contains all variations by the 51 composers |
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Francesco Cilea
Complete Piano Music Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano), Marco Gaggini (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Francesco Cilea may now be best remembered as a composer of durable, blood-and-thunder staples of the verismo operatic school such as Adriana Lecouvreur and L'Arlesiana, but he addressed himself to chamber and instrumental music at both the beginning... |
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D. SCARLATTI
Sonatas Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) Michelangelo Carbonara (piano) Godelieve Schrama (harp) Luigi Attademo (guitar) Mie Miki (accordion) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2013 ] "This set offers a unique and spell-binding adventure into the sonatas of Scarlatti. " (MusicWeb Aug 2013) |