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JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK
Sweelinck: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music Daniele Boccaccio [harpsichord / organ] [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2020 ] Daniele Boccaccio is one of Italy's foremost keyboard players. A scholar as well, he did extensive research into historic sources. He plays 3 different historic organs and a copy of a Flemish harpsichord. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK / ROTA / GADE / ELGAR / BARTOK / etc
Romantic Serenades For Strings Daniele Orlando (violin) / Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva, Capella Istropolitana, Orchestra da Camera 'Ferruccio Busoni', Arhus Chamber Orchestra, [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] This 5‐CD set contains one of the most extensive selections of Serenades for String Orchestra, a warm bath of lush, vibrant and soothing music, utterly romantic, atmospheric and beguiling, like the buzzing of a summer afternoon. Included are the... |
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Daniele Ruggieri (flute), Alberto Mesirca (guitar)
MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND GUITAR, Rochberg, Riley, Ribot, Goljiov, Wuorinen, Crawford Seeger, Delpriora; Daniele Ruggeri, Alberto Mesirca [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] A brief history of 20th-century American music and a valuable, offbeat addition to the comprehensive Brilliant Classics library of guitar music. Among the most extensive works here is the cycle of Cantos Desiertos (1996) composed for flute and... |
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CAPLET / DONJON / DOPPLER / HARTMANN / LINCETTO / etc
Music for Flute and Organ Daniele Ruggieri (flute & alto flute) & Andrea Toschi (organ & harmonium) [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2015 ] An enterprising and original programme of works originally written for flute and organ by a wide variety of composers, spanning more than 150 years (not the usual compilation of Baroque lollipops like the Albinoni/Adagio or the... |
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MAURO GUILIANI
Guiliani: Complete Music for Flute and Guitar Daniele Ruggieri (flute), Alberto Mesirca (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The combination of flute and guitar was a popular and appealing one for many amateur musicians of the early 19th century, and the Italian guitarist-composer Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) realised its full potential. |
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JOHN STANLEY
Stanley: Complete Flute Sonatas Daorsa Dervishi (Baroque flute), Alessia Travaglini (viola da gamba & cello), Nicola Bisotti (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] A first on record: two sets of sonatas by an English contemporary of Handel and Johann Christian Bach, painting a lively portrait of chamber music in London during the middle of the 18th century. John Stanley (1712-1786) was a Londoner, active... |
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HEINRICH & CARL BAERMANN
Heinrich & Carl Baermann: Music for Clarinet and Piano Dario Zingales (clarinet) & Florian Podgoreanu (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] Heinrich Baermann and his son Carl count among the most accomplished clarinettists of the Romantic age. Many composers wrote for Heinrich, most notably Carl Maria von Weber, who composed his two concertos and chamber works with Heinrich in mind,... |
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Complete 88 Keyboard Sonatas David Boldrini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] Domenico Cimarosa (1749‐1801) was one of the best known composers of the Neapolitan School. He held several important musical posts throughout Europe (St. Petersburg, the Emperor Leopold in Vienna) as a highly successful composer of operas. His best... |
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CZERNY / VIOTTI
Piano Concertos David Boldrini (piano), Elena Pinciaroli (piano), Rami Musicali Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 6/May/2016 ] This 2 CD set contains some seldom heard early 19th century concertos in which the piano plays the leading role. Carl Czerny, a famous pianist and teacher, student of Beethoven, wrote an immense oeuvre for the piano, in which his prodigious... |
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CLEMENTI / PAISIELLO / PERGOLESI / KOZELUCH / BOCCHERINI / etc
Concerti Galante David Boldrini (piano), Viktor Csányi (violin), Elena Pinciaroli (piano) Rami Musicali Orchestra, Filippo Conti [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] "As a collection of off-the-beaten-track Mozart era piano concertos, you could hardly go wrong with this" MusicWeb April 2020 |
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HEIDEN / DESSAU / SCHULHOFF / HINDEMITH / etc
Entartete Musik David Brutti (alto saxophone) & Filippo Farinelli (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Entartete Musik ('degenerate music') was the term applied to music in Germany after 1933 (when Hitler became Chancellor) that did not fulfil the expectations of culture according to Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi party. The most 'Entartete' instrument... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Solo Cantatas for Bass BWV56, 82 & 158 David Greco (bass) / Luthers Bach Ensemble, Tymen Jan Bronda [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2019 ] A trio of Bach's devotional masterpieces from a vibrant young Dutch early-music ensemble and an exciting Australian baritone. |
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SHOSTAKOVICH / KABALEVSKY / TANEYEV / ROKOFIEV / TCHAIKOVSKY
David Oistrakh: Russian Violin Concertos [3 CD set] David Oistrakh (violin) / State Symphony Orchestra of USSR / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "..to compare and to contrast multiple recordings by this artist is an unmissable one, and rendered even more so by the budget price range. What are you waiting for?" (MusicWeb) |
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WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: 3 Violin Sonatas Davide Alogna (violin), Costantino Catena (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Little-known but spellbinding late-Romantic sonatas receiving only their second complete recording: essential listening for collectors of Romantic-era rarities. With well-received albums of his piano trios, piano music and music for chamber... |
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MAX BRUCH / MANUEL PONCE / W. A. MOZART
Mozart / Bruch / Pleyel: Music for Violin and Viola Davide Alogna (violin), José Adolfo Alejo (viola), Camerata de Coahuila (ensemble), Ramón Shade (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] This rare and exciting recording brings together two instruments seldom heard together, despite the substantial repertoire that exists for the duo. Multi-award-winning violinist Davide Alogna pairs up with prominent violist José Alejo, combining... |
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FERRUCCIO & FERDINANDO BUSONI
Complete Music For Clarinet Davide Bandieri (clarinet) & Alessandra Gentile (piano) / Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato" [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This release presents the complete music for clarinet and piano by Ferruccio Busoni. The works span Busoni's whole creative life, from the classical forms of his youth to the highly chromatic and expressionist language of his mature age. Ferruccio... |
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FRÜHLING & ZEMLINSKY
Clarinet Trios Davide Bandieri, Joel Marosi, Marja-Liisa Marosi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] Alexander Zemlinsky lived from 1871 till 1942, born and bred in Vienna, and his whole life very much a child of his city. Vienna at the turn of the century was the scene of far-reaching cultural changes, the Romantic Era of Brahms, Wagner and Mahler... |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Complete Chamber Music for Clarinet Davide Bandieri (clarinet) / Quartetto Savinio, with Matteo Fossi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Carl Maria von Weber had a special fondness for the clarinet, finding it the ideal instrument for expressing the profound Romanticism he had made his own. |
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DUKAS
Ariane et Barbe-bleue (complete opera recorded in 2005) Deborah Polaski / Jane Henschel / Kwangchul Youn / Ruxandra Donose / Stella Grigorian / Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2011 ] 'Bertrand de Billy is a strong advocate for the work in this live recording from a concert performance in the Vienna Konzerthaus. The sound is vivid enough and chorus and orchestra are splendid' MusicWeb. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera) [Recorded in 2000] Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Anne Sofie von Otter (sopranos) Ben Heppner (tenor) / Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 'Any opera house in the world would think themselves fortunate to assemble this cast … A landmark in the history of the gramophone … this really does triumph over them all.' Gramophone |