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FRANCIS CUTTING
Cutting: Lute Music Domenico Cerasan (Lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] The only available album dedicated to a notable musician of Elizabethan England. |
DON COSSACK CHOIR
Don Cossack Choir - a film dedicated to Otto Hofner Don Cossack Choir / Serge Jaroff [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] G - The famous male choir with the magnificent low voices is almost nearing its centenary - it started in 1921. The DVD shows images from 1963 to 1969 of the choir and its founder and then conductor Serge Jaroff. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Matthäus [St Matthew] Passion / Johannes [St John] Passion Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Siegfried Vogel, Adele Stolte / Dresdner Kreuzchor, Gewandhausorchester, Rudolf Mauersberger, Erhard Mauersberger [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "… the excellence of soloists, choir and obbligato instrumentalists (a superb gamba and oboe da caccia) and, above all, the profound understanding shown by the conductor, make this a most moving interpretation." Gramophone |
BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 / Overtures, Haydn Variations Dresdner Philharmonie, Heinz Bongartz / London Symphony Orchestra, Rafaël Frühbeck de Burgos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] "I was in a perfectly blissful mood. I have seldom written music with such delight." Thus Brahms, notorious curmudgeon, to his friend Joseph Joachim, while engaged in his standard practice of arranging larger works - in this case the Second Serenade... |
VAET
Sacred Music Dufay Ensemble, Eckehard Kiem [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] A 4CD with sacred vocal music by a master of the Flemish School of Polyphonists, Jakobus Vaet (1529‐1567). Little is known about Vaet's early years. We find him as Kapellmeister of the Hapsburg emperor Maximilian II in Vienna, where he was in... |
CLAUDE BOLLING
Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio, Sonate pour Guitare Duilio Meucci (guitar), Claude Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Claude Bolling was born in 1930 in Cannes, where he became one of the most popular figures of the French jazz scene. He composed music for over 100 films, and he worked together with Duke Ellington, Juliette Greco, Liza Minelli and... |
EGIDIO ROMUALDO DUNI
Duni: Trio Sonatas Op. 1 DuniEnsemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Colourfully scored premiere recordings of eighteenth-century chamber music by a little-known contemporary of Handel. Born near Naples, Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775) enjoyed success with operas presented in Rome and Milan in the 1730s before... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Complete Flute Sonatas Duo Astra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Landmark works of Baroque chamber music given a 21st-century twist. The extent to which George Frideric Handel's flute sonatas 'belong' on the flute is an open question. Some sonatas were composed with the violin in mind, and then arranged by... |
DEBUSSY
Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis-Music for Two Harps and Voice Duo Bilitis [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] To celebrate the Debussy-year 2018 (100 years after his death) the Duo Bilitis presents a highly original and attractive program: arrangements for two harps and voice of some very intimate and atmospheric works by the French master: the Danse sacrée... |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: 3 Sonatas for Clarinet & Harpsichord, 6 Sonatinas for Harpsichord Duo Chirò, Rodolfo la Banca (historical clarinet), Chiara Tiboni (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Johann Baptist Vanhal or Jan Křtitel Vaňhal was born in Nove Nechanice, a small town currently part of the Czech Republic, on May 12, 1739. Thanks to his musical talent, the eighteen-year-old Jan obtained his first position of some importance as an... |
HEINRICH von HERZOGENBERG
Von Herzogenberg: Complete Music for Piano Duet Duo Nadàn [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] Including several first recordings, the only complete set of attractive and entertaining piano works by a notable if little-known figure in 19th-century German music. |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Complete Music for Two Guitars Duo Pace Poli Cappelli (guitars) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] Florentine composer Castelnuovo‐Tedesco contributed a vast array of music to the guitar literature, and this engaging release celebrates his output for two guitars, drawing focus to what is perhaps the repertoire's most awe‐inspiring collection: the... |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Rubinstein: Music for Piano Four Hands Vol 1 Duo Pianistico di Firenze [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] "Given that the CD is extremely competitively priced, the Steinway piano superbly recorded and the playing is of the very highest order, this disc of attractive and unfamiliar piano music for four hands is well worth acquiring." (MusicWeb Nov 2014) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 DuoKeira [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This new recording presents the transcription for piano duet that Felix Mendelssohn made of his immensely popular music for Shakespeare's Ein Sommernachtstraum ( a Midsummer Night's Dream). Mendelssohn, one of the greatest piano virtuosos of his... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Complete Piano Quartets & Quintets Earl Wild (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 19/May/2014 ] Fauré's Piano Quintets are both mature masterpieces and showcase how his musical language had evolved and become more experimental. Op.89 won great admiration from Eugène Ysaÿe, who called it "absolute music in the purest sense of the word." |
SCHUBERT
Die Freunde von Salamanka, D326 Edith Mathis, Thomas Moser, Hermann Prey / Austrian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Theodor Guschlbauer [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] 'Beautiful singing by Mathis … Hermann Prey in excellent form … lovers of Schubert should not let slip the opportunity of hearing this … it is affectionately directed by Guschlbauer.' Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Chamber Music (Includes Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 & Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40) (Rec 1990-1992) Edward Auer (piano) Paul Rosenthal (violin) Godfried Hoogeveen (cello) Isabelle van Keulen (violin and viola) Timora Rosler (cello) Klara Wartz (piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] This set of 3 CD's contains seven of the best works for small ensembles and solo instrument by Shostakovich. |
ANTONIO VERACINI
Violin Sonatas Opp. 1-3 El Arte Mvsico, Angel Sampedro (violin), Teresa Casanova (violin), Isabel Goméz-Serranillos (cello), Diego Fernández (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] The Veracini who wrote these playful and virtuosic trio sonatas is not Francesco Maria but his uncle, Antonio. The nephew's work is relatively well-known, including an Op.1 set of twelve sonatas which has already received a recording on Brilliant... |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Vocal Chamber Duets Elena Bertuzzi (soprano) / Alessio Tosi (tenor) / Francesco Baroni (harpsichord) / Rebeca Ferri (cello) / Michele Pasotti (theorbo) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 16/Feb/2015 ] The music of Agostino Steffani was torn from oblivion by the successful album "Mission" by Cecilia Bartoli. Subsequent issues of his music showed a highly original and prolific composer of instrumental music, sacred music and operas. |
DALLA GOSTENA
Gostena: 25 Lute Fantasies Elliot Simpson (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (1540-1593) was born in Genoa, Italy. He was a pupil of the renowned Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. He held the prestigious post of Maestro di Cappella at the San Lorenzo Cathedral in his native Genoa. He composed... |
