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Gabor Tokodi (mandora)
Music For Mandora [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] Elegant Baroque suites for a rarely heard predecessor to the modern guitar. It is an unfortunate accident of history that the mandora, if heard at all, is now encountered in company with the 'Jew's harp' thanks to a pair of undistinguished... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Complete Piano Concertos Gabriel Tacchino (piano) / Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by Louis de Froment. [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. Saint Saëns' piano concertos are... |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings Gabriele Pieranunzi (solo violin), with Salvatore Lombardo, Loana Stratulat (violins), Luca Improta (viola) & chamber ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Paganini was the first great 'star' of instrumental music, the precursor of the rock stars of today, able to induce collective hysteria as well as to dictate fashion and to influence the behaviour of entire generations. He did this by transforming... |
JULIAN ARCAS
Arcas: Complete Guitar Music Gabriele Zanetti (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Julian Arcas (1832-1882) was born in Almeria, Spain in a musical family: his father was guitarist and passed his passion soon over to his son. The family moved to Malaga where Julian took lessons with the famous José Asencio. From his 16th on Julian... |
IACOMO CARISSIMI
Jephthah / The Judgment of Solomon / Jonah Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The effect is madrigalian rather than Handelian and the text is more sensitively conveyed. The rich continuo resources of the ensemble-chamber organ and double harp, chitarrone, archlute and bass violin-well captured on this recording, effectively... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Alto Cantatas Gabriella Martellacci (alto) / Gruppo Instrumentale di Roma, Giorgio Sasso [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The author of around 800 cantatas, Alessandro Scarlatti was the most prolific composer of this particular chamber genre during the Baroque period. In this engaging release we are introduced to two examples, both 'with instruments' and written for... |
SCHOENBERG / BACH / ZEMLINSKY / BRAHMS / BERG
Towards Verklärte Nacht Gabriella Sborgi (mezzo‐soprano), Sextet of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Alessandro Maria Carnelli (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Aug/2016 ] This CD presents a fascinating musical illustration of the paths which led to the composition of Verklärte Nacht, Arnold Schoenberg's masterpiece for string sextet. |
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
Cello Sonatas Op 5 Jaap ter Linden (cello) Lars Ulrik mortensen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] When thinking of important cello repertoire from the Baroque period of course J.S. Bach's suites spring to mind immediately. But there is so much more out there to be discovered from this period. And not just from Germany. Italian composer and... |
YANN TIERSEN
Tiersen: La Plage, Arrangements for Guitar George Tossikian (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Played by Jeroen van Veen, the solo- piano collection (95129) of themes from Yann Tiersen's film scores is a Brilliant Classics best seller. Now also available, some of Tiersen's best- known melodies arranged for guitar by George Tossikian. |
BRUCKNER
Symphonies 1-9 (complete) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk‐Sinfonie-Orchester, Václav Neumann (No. 1), Franz Konwitschny (No. 2), Kurt Sanderling (No. 3), Heinz Rogner (No [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] These recordings of Bruckner's mature symphonies, never before collected in a single set, are marked by their comparative swiftness and clarity of texture at a time, in the postwar era, when Bruckner was a byword for expansive, hymn‐like solidity |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
The Art of Geza Anda (recorded 1943 - 1966) Geza Anda (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The great Hungarian pianist Géza Anda was born in Budapest in 1921, and studied with Dohnanyi, who provides a direct link to Brahms, and the great virtuoso composer pianist Eugen D'Albert. |
GIUSEPPE ROSETTA
Rosetta: Music for Guitar Gian Luca Barbero (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Giuseppe Rosetta (1901-1985) studied in Rome under Respighi but soon returned to his Piedmontese birthplace of Vercelli. There he remained, leading and enriching the local musical culture as an organist, choir conductor and music teacher. He spurned... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Complete Published Trios for Two Harpsichords Gian Luca Rovelli, Marco Gaggini (harpsichords) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] In the foreword to his "L'Apothéose de Lully" the great French Baroque composer François Couperin wrote: "This Trio, just like the L ́Apothéose de Corelli, and in fact all my trios, may be executed on two harpsichords, as well as on any other... |
MONTEVERDI
L' incoronazionedi Poppea (complete opera) Gian Paolo Fagotto / Patrizia Biccire / Liliana Rugiero / William Matteuzzi / Musical Chapel of S. Petronio / Sergio Vartolo (conductor / cembalo) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] A brand new recording made in Italy by Renaissance and Baroque specialist Sergio Vartolo. This harpsichordist conducts the Musical Chapel of S. Petronio and a group of specialized singers such as tenor Gian Paolo Fagotto. |
REINHOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Piano Music Gianluca Imperato (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] "I doubt very much if there are any listeners who will not be won over by the effortless charm of this music." MusicWeb Sept 2017 |
GIUSEPPE SAVERIO MERCADANTE
Mercadante: Chamber Music for Flute Gian-Luca Petrucci (flute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] A unique compilation of chamber music in new recordings to celebrate the diverse legacy of a noted Italian impresario, a century and a half after his death. At the time of his death in 1870, Saverio Mercadante was known as a director and... |
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Frederick The Great: Nine Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord Gian-Luca Petrucci (flute) Paola Pisa (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Though Frederick II of Prussia, better known as "the Great" (1712-1786), was one of the greatest strategists of history, he found a way of reconciling his army life, his battles and his political determination with his passion for the flute. |
PAOLO UGOLETTI
Ugoletti: Three Concertos Gianni Alberti (sax), Jozsef Ormeny (pno) Marko Komonko (violin) Serhiy Katsaval (tromb) / Strings of the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ferdinando Nazz [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Prominent Italian composer Paolo Ugoletti (born in 1956) describes his music as follows: "It consists of a theatre of sound, narration, fables and slashes of the imagination. It has something in common with the folly of the Baroque universe, the... |
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PROKOFIEV / KUPKOVIC / KARAYEV / SALMANOV / LOURIE / etc
Gidon Kremer plays 20th Century Composers [3 CD set] Gidon Kremer (violin) / with Oleg Maisenberg (piano) & Tatiana Gridenko (violin) / USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] One of the world's most compelling musicians, and a tireless exponent of the challenging and the unexpected, Gidon Kremer was born in Riga, Latvia in 1947. |
ROMANTIC VIOLIN
Romantic Violin (violin pieces by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, etc) Gil Sharon, Bohuslav Matousek, Emmy Verhey, Ilya Grubert (violins) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Gil Sharon lives in the Netherlands, where he is concertmaster of the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. In 1971 he won first prize in the "Internatyional Emily Anderson Violin Competition" in London. As a result of this he was invited for solistic... |
