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JEAN LANGLAIS
Langlais: Organ Music Volume 2 Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali, Alessandro Perin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Jean Langlais was born on February 15, 1907, in La Fontenelle, Brittany, France. He became blind from the age of two. Sent to the Paris National Institute for the Blind Youth in 1918, he studied piano, violin, harmony and organ with great blind... |
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KUHLAU
Violin Sonatas Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin), Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Friedrich Kuhlau (1786‐1832) was born in Hannover, but as a student he went to Denmark, where he stayed the rest of his life, becoming an important national composer. Kuhlau was a near contemporary of Beethoven, and his style shares elements of... |
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MIRTO / MANCA / SIGNORILE / ALBINI / etc
Nocturnes Giorgio Mirto guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Jul/2013 ] "His touch is soft yet strong, and his manner of sound-producing is truly singing. The guitar's voice is sonorous, without the wooden dryness." MusicWeb International, April 2013 |
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MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
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ALBINONI
12 Trattenimenti armonici per camera Op. 6 Giorgio Tosi (baroque violin), Marlise Goidanich (baroque cello) & Carlo Centemeri (organ) Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Tomaso Albinoni is one of the greatest composers of the Italian Baroque...Italian Baroque specialist Carlo Centemeri...now leads the Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra in this new recording of Albinoni, playing on period instruments. |
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VARIIOUS COMPOSERS
The Organ of the Badia Fiorentina Giovanna Riboli (organ of the Badia Fiorentina) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The organ of the Badia Fiorentina is a famous historical instrument, one of the finest surviving examples of an Italian renaissance organ. It was completed in 1558 by the celebrated organ builder Onofrio Zeffirini from Cortona, Tuscany. In 1978 the... |
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MILHAUD / SAINT-SAENS / ALKAN / POULENC / LALO / PIERNE / etc
French Piano Concertos Giovanni Bellucci, Martin Galling, Florian Uhlig, Rosario Marciano, François-Joël Thiollier, Marylène Dosse, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2019 ] A worthy collection of some of the greatest French piano concertos issued at a special price on 12 CDs. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2 Giovanni Bellucci (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Volume 2 of the Complete Piano Sonatas played by Giovanni Bellucci, contains the Sonatas Op. 22 till Op. 57, roughly named the Middle Period Beethoven (1770-1827). Giovanni Bellucci is one of the most interesting and extraordinary pianists of... |
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LEO BROUWER
Works for solo guitar Giovanni Caruso (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Leo Brouwer was born in Havana in 1939, and we can trace his lineage as a guitarist back to Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909). |
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TRANSCRIPTIONS
Earl Wild - Complete Piano Music Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Earl Wild (1915-2010) was without doubt one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His immense repertoire, his staggering virtuosity, his warmth and his charm deserve him the epithet legendary. Wild was a great improviser as well, and he... |
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BONONCINI
Bononcini: Divertimenti da Camera, Transcription for Harpsichord; Giovanni Paganelli (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Like many of his compatriots Giovanni Battista Bononcini left his native country Italy to spread his wings across Europe, serving at important posts in Vienna and Berlin, to finally settle in London, where he became a fashionable composer and... |
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HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera) Gisela Litz, Rita Streich, Res Fischer / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Munchner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "The casting of a mezzo-soprano, as Humperdinck intended, rather than a soprano in the part of Hansel, means that there is more differentiation of voice here than in the Columbia (Karajan) disc…Rita Streich is very well cast as Gretel….That admirable... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tromboncino & Cara: Dialogo d'Amore Giulia Valentini (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Marcos Gutiérrez García (baritone) / Amorosa Caccia, L', Fabio Antonio Falcone [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The Frottola (literally a lie, a childish deceit) was a popular secular song in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th century, enjoying an immense popularity. For 3 or 4 voices, the uppermost containing the melody. The rhyme schemes of the texts have... |
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BACH / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / SIBELIUS / etc
Violin Concertos [special priced boxed set] Giuliano Carmignola, Ilya Grubert, Leonid Kogan, David Oistrakh, Dimitry Sitkovetsky (violins) [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] A delightful collection of Violin concertos, featuring some rarer works amongst the well known. |
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MENDELSSOHN
Complete Organ Music Giulio Piovani (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] This 3CD set contains the complete music written for organ by Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach (it was he who revived the Matthäus Passion and performed it for the first time since the master's death in... |
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FRANCISCO TARREGA
Tarrega: Guitar Edition (solo works & transcriptions) Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2015 ] Francisco Tárrega may have written little, but the works that he did compose have been a cornerstone of every guitar player's oeuvre since the composer's death in 1909. Particularly famous is his Recuerdos de la Alhambra, one of the most beautiful... |
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LUIGI MOZZANI / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Mozzani / Respighi: Complete Music for Guitar Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] The wirily coiffured man in his middle years who glares from the cover of this new Brilliant Classics release is Luigi Mozzani. Perhaps he has misgivings about his picture being taken; if so, it does not apparently unsettle his playing. |
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LUYS MILAN / LUYS DE NARVAEZ
Milán (Luys) & de Narvaez (luys): Fantasias Giuseppe Chiaramonte (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] The vihuela experienced its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the first book of music written for this instrument appeared in Valencia in 1536. This was El Maestro by Luys Milán, followed by Luys de Narváez's Los seys libros del Delphín... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Foolish Heart: Madrigals for Three Sopranos Gálan, Alison Hill (soprano), Katy Hill (soprano), Lucy Page (soprano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Sensuous madrigals, sacred anthems, dazzling toccatas and a rare cantata from the golden age of the Italian renaissance. This release marks the debut on record of Galàn, a spirited, UK-based young ensemble committed to rediscovering the exciting... |
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SCALERO
Scalero: Complete Music for Violin and Piano Gran Duo Italiano / Mauro Tortorelli (violin) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] World-premiere recordings bringing back to life the individual voice of an Italian émigré composer who taught many of the great names of American musical life in the middle of the last century. Rosario Scalero began his career as a violinist, in... |