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. |
Oistrakh Trio
Plays Russian Piano Trios [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / 3 CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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... |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos - Complete Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord and clavichord) Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Fascinating, charming works they could not be better played or recorded than here, especially as accompanied by excellent clavichord performances of the original sonatas. This disk is a must-have for any serious Mozart collector" (MusicWeb June 2004) |
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) |
Pietro Bonfilio
Kabalevsky: Piano Sonata No 3/24 Preludes [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Once considered in the same breath as Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Kabalevsky's star has waned somewhat (the same fate has befallen both Myaskovsky and Khachaturian), both in his native Russia and farther West, where he is primarily remembered for his... |
GUIDO ALBERTO FANO
Piano Sonata in E / Quattro Fantasie Pietro De Maria (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] Guido Alberto Fano was born in Padua in 1875. After his studies with Martucci he went to Germany and Austria to develop as a pianist and composer, and received support from Richard Strauss, who thought highly of him. During his long lifetime (he died... |
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Complete Piano Concertos Pietro Spada (piano) / Orchestra da Camera di Santa Cecilia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "…as Spada's lyrical cantilena in the slow movements of the D major, B flat major and A major Concertos testify, Paisiello touched a vein of genuine pathos in the slow movements. Most impressive, though, is the C major Concerto (No. 8), whose bold... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartets Quartetto Avos [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Camille Saint‐Saëns was a highly prolific and eclectic composer, two adjectives which may bear a negative undertone, but not in the case of Saint‐Saëns, a genius who absorbed all current musical styles and forged them in his own inimitable, unique la |
ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Piano Quintet, Cello Sonata, Duo Quartetto Guadagnini, Costantino Catena (piano), Amedeo Cicchese (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) is a composer difficult to classify. A child of his time he kept aloof from the innovations of the modernists and dodecaphony. As son of a German father and a noble-born Venetian mother he was born in Venice and went... |