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Francesco Galligioni|Alberto Galligioni|Paolo Zuccheri|Lorenzo Feder|Roberto Loreggian|L’Arte dell’Arco
Caldara: Complete Cello Sonatas [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] A new and complete survey of the attractive body of cello sonatas which, in his day, helped to make Antonio Caldara a Viennese rival to the fame of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice. Born in Venice as the son of a violinist, Caldara grew up as a chorister... |
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FRESCOBALDI / GESUALDO
Music for Accordion Francesco Gesualdi (Accordion) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] Two masters of the Italian Renaissance, played on…the accordion! The accordion is slowly emancipating, shedding its "light entertainment" image and claiming its right as a serious and valuable musical instrument. Its possibilities are enormous,... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concertos Francesco Guggiola, Ensemble dell'Orchestra Farnesiana [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Jan/2026 ] Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), one of the most influential composers of the Baroque era. A Venetian priest and violinist, Vivaldi composed hundreds of concertos that pushed the boundaries of instrumental technique and showcased his inventive use of... |
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MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Chamber Music For Violin, Cello & Piano Francesco Manara (violin), Luca Signorini (cello) & Dario Candela (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Mario Pilati (1903-1938) was an important figure in Italian musical life in the 20-ties and 30-ties of the 20th century. After winning the prestigious Coolidge Prize his works were also performed in the USA, a.o. by the Boston Symphony Orchestra... |
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FRANCESCO MANCINI
12 Recorder Sonatas Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorders), Caroline Boersma (cello) & Sergio Ciomei (harpsichord) / Ensemble Tripla Concordia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) was born in Naples, and worked initially as an organist at the Cappella Reale, an institution he would direct some years later until he was replaced by Alessandro Scarlatti in 1708. |
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LEO ORNSTEIN
Ornstein: Complete Music for Violin and Piano and for Flute and Piano Francesco Parrino (violin), Stefano Parrino (flute), Maud Renier (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Leo Ornstein was born in 1895 in the Ukraine, and emigrated with his family in 1906 to the USA, where he became a famous pianist and leading figure in the American AvantāGarde, writing highly experimental music in which tonal clusters played an... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Complete Piano Music Francesco Pasqualotto (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] A must for Brucknerians: a new album of almost unknown music by the Austrian symphonic genius, and a collection currently unrivalled on record. You might expect that such music as Bruckner wrote for the piano was composed early in his career, which... |
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MERULO
Merulo: Organ Music Il Primo Libro de Ricercari da Cantare A Quattro Voci Francesco Tasini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) was an important composer, organist and publisher in Late-Renaissance Italy. He obtained the prestigious post of organist of the famous San Marco in Venice. His keyboard style is highly innovative, and was the basis of... |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas BWV1001-1006 Francesco Teopini (classical guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Why transcribe and perform the sonatas and partitas for solo violin on the guitar? It is surely the works themselves that provide the justification; their indestructible melodic poetry and their rich implied counterpoint at which the original violin... |
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ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18 Camilla Patria (cello) Elena Ballario (piano) Franco Mezzena (violin) Sergio Patria (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris's Schola Cantorum. |
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MENDELSSOHN
Complete Piano Works Frank van der Laar, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Pieter-Jelle de Boer [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Felix Mendelssohn was a virtuoso pianist, and it is worth remembering that he was born in 1809, with his friend Schumann being born a year later in 1810, as was Chopin, and Liszt following in 1811. These composers were among the greatest pianists of... |
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CESAR FRANCK
César Franck Edition François-Joël Thiollier (piano) Martijn van den Hoek (piano), Muza Rubackyte (piano) Mariana Sîrbu (violin) Ruxandra Colan (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] This remarkable set reveals the full breadth and genius of a creative career known to most merely by the tip of the iceberg: a small number of seminal works written in the composer's final decade of life. César Franck (1822-1890), although considered... |
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CZERNY / DEBUSSY / HELLER / GLASS / CAGE / BORTKIEWICZ / RACHMANINOV / etc
Virtuoso Piano Etudes Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2019 ] This monumental set dedicated to the Virtuoso Piano Étude offers a rewarding opportunity to witness two centuries in the evolution of masterpieces for the study of the piano. |
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LEO BROUWER
Brouwer: Hika / Tres Apuntes / Danza caracteristica / etc Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] This recording presents some of the most significant early pieces by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (b.1939); it also includes other works, such as Hika from 1994 and the third and fourth series of his Estudios sencillos (1981), which show clear... |
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HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Complete Guitar Music Frederic Zigante (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "This is an excellent and inexpensive collection very nicely recorded without the feeling of being too close to the performer or too distant. Even if you are not an aficionado of the guitar there is much here to enjoy" (MusicWeb) |
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GLASS / NYMAN / REICH / TORKE
A Minimal Sax: Glass, Nyman, Reich, Torke Freem Saxophone Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2019 ] 'A Minimal Sax' takes a journey through the last 30 years of minimalist music, one of the most influential artistic movements of the last century. An accomplished young Italian ensemble takes us from the purism of New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Edition: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, dances, operas, songs, instriumental & incidental music] Alfred Brendel, Staatskapelle Dresden, Elly Ameling, Suske Quartett, Janet Baker, Yefim Bronfman, Walter Klien, Academy St Martins-in-the-Fields, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 86 CD Box Set ] t would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through his mastery of rhythm, melody and harmonic... |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas (complete) (Rec 1967) Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Brilliant classics / 9 CD - released 17/Nov/2005 ] A complete set by the legendary and somewhat rebellious Austrian virtuoso pianist and philosopher, who was also a composer and a performer of jazz music. |
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FRITZ BRUN
Brun: Complete Orchestral Works Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2019 ] "...if you have yet to explore the music of this Swiss master, this release affords a very reasonably priced way of immersing yourself into the gorgeous musical world of Fritz Brun." Fanfare |
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CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin and Piano Fulvio Luciani (violin), Massimiliano Motterle (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one of the most successful and remarkable composers of the first half of the 20th century in Italy. His style is influenced by Neo-Classicism, vivid, brilliant, with the occasional odd dissonance, strongly rhythmical and... |