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SCHUBERT
Elly Ameling sings Schubert Elly Ameling (soprano) & Rudolf Jansen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Dutch soprano Elly Ameling is one of the most celebrated singers of her generation. In her career spanning more than 40 years she sang in the most important opera houses of the world and collaborated with the greatest conductors. She won prestigious... |
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TUNDER
Complete Organ Music Emanuele Cardi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Franz Tunder (1614‐1667) was born in the German city of Lübeck, where he stayed his whole life as organist and treasurer of the St. Marienkirche. Tunder is one of the cornerstones of the North German organ school. His style is the "Stylus... |
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C.P.E. BACH / J.S. BACH / KITTEL / KREBS / VOGLER / WALTHER
The Bach Circle: Organ Music Emanuele Cardi (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Johann Sebastian Bach was not only composer, organist and Kapellmeister, he was also a renowned teacher. No composer after this towering musical giant could deny his influence. This recording brings together some of Bach's most important pupils:... |
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ZEMLINSKY
A Ray of Light - Complete Piano Music Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] Alexander Zemlinsky gains more and more attention as one of the key figures of that fascinating period of transition from Late Classical to Expressionism, from Mahler to Schoenberg. His works are highly individual and emotional, an expression of the... |
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ALBERT ROUSSELL
Roussel: Promenade Sentimentale (complete piano music) Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "Roussel absorbed the wide-ranging styles that he heard around him, blending and modifying them to establish his own distinctive voice - a voice that can be perceived clearly in his music for solo piano." |
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CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
The Vale of Dreams, Piano Music Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Emanuele Torquati has won critical acclaim for his Brilliant Classics albums. According to the reviewer for Fanfare magazine, 'Torquati's playing is consistent, and consistently good. I would highly recommend this set to any student of Roussel.' In... |
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BEETHOVEN
Emil Gilels: Beethoven Piano Concertos[3 CD set] Emil Gilels (piano) / State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Emil Gilels belongs to a select group of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa in 1916, he began his studies at the age of 5, and gave his first public recital at the age of 13. |
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EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H.A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets Emma Abbate (piano) & Julian Perkins (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Both Beach and MacDowell were formidably accomplished pianists who wrote concertos in barnstorming virtuoso style, for themselves and their contemporaries to play |
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WEBER / MOZART / CRUSELL / SPOHR / KROMMER / KOZELUCH
The Romantic Clarinet (Concertos) Emma Johnson, Harmen de Boer (clarinets) / Various orchestras and conductors [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] Emma Johnson began to study the clarinet at the age of nine. In 1984 she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition televised throughout Europe and in 1991 was a winner of the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York. |
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J.S. BACH
St Matthew Passion (complete oratorio) [with bonus DVD of performance of Messiah] Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance / King's College Choir / Directed by Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics CD/DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] 'The choir of King's College are on top form throughout…so, too, are the excellent obbligato performances from the Brandenburg Consort.' Gramophone 2003 |
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J. S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion / St. John Passion / Mass in B minor / Easter & Christmas Oratorios Emma Kirkby, Catherine Bott, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Martyn Hill, John Mark Ainsley / various conductors [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2012 ] "This boxed set is perfect for those people wishing to get to know Bach's Passions. Cleobury's performances of the St. Matthew and the St. John are good steady musical performances. Many people will be attracted to this disc by the name of King's... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Songs and Cantatas Emma Kirkby (soprano) Marcia Hadjimarkos (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] A new recording featuring one of the most famous and best-loved of all early-music sopranos, Emma Kirkby. |
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W.A. MOZART
The Complete Violin Concertos Emmy Verhey (violin), Gil Sharon (violin), Yuri Gundelsmann (violin) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Of course we can not ignore Mozart’s anniversary. So in addition to our best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by this composer we celebrate his 250th birthday with a special series. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Complete String Quartets Endellion String Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Tchaikovsky wrote relatively little chamber music. Three string quartets, the Piano Trio and the Sextet form the bulk of his chamber music |
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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Appunti, Preludes and Studies, Op. 210 Enea Leone (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco fled anti‐semitism before the 2nd World War and settled in Hollywood, where he successfully composed film scores for more than 200 movies. Castelnuovo‐Tedesco, a prolific composer, is best known for his numerous works for... |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Morricone: Arrangements for Guitar Enea Leone (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The maestro of Spaghetti Western music in unfamiliar guise: new arrangements of hit themes from Morricone's greatest film-scores. Born in 1928, Morricone trained at the Santa Cecilia conservatoire in Rome, and soon began to make a name for himself... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music From Argentina for Guitar and Bandoneon Enea Leone (guitar), Roberto Bongianino (bandoneon) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This new recording features original music from Argentina, spanning the entire 20th Century, music of great vitality, colour and passion, the natural fusion of high and low culture, from the concert hall and the brothel, vibrant as life... |
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FRANCESCO DOMENICO ARAJA / FERDINANDO PELLEGRINI
Araja: Capricci / Pellegrini: Sonatas Enrico Bissolo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] This recording provides a comparison of the keyboard music of two composers born in Naples whose careers took them beyond national borders. |
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BOCCHERINI
Cello Concertos (Complete) (Rec 2005) Enrico Bronzi (Cello and Conductor) Accademia I Filarmonici di Verona [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 16/Sep/2005 ] Boccherini had a great affinity with the cello. Each of the 12 concertos is a musical gem, well-suited for the instrument, delightfully light-hearted. The Italian performers provide a sunny listening experience. |
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TARQUINIO MERULA
Complete Organ Music Enrico Viccardi (organ of the Mezzana Casati church of San Pietro Apostolo) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] Recorded earlier this year, here's a small but distinguished volume in the growing Brilliant Classics organ library. The songs and chamber music of Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) now place him in estimation as one of the most vital and original figures... |