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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Flauto d'Amore Ginevra Petrucci (flauto d'amore), Paola Pisa (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] The Flauto d'Amore first appeared in the Baroque, when woodwind instruments were frequently included in chamber ensembles, and it was soon considered the most prominent of the flute family, right after the ordinary flute. It was built in B flat, in A... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
6 Duo Concertantes for two flutes Ginevra Petrucci (flute) & Gian‐Luca Petrucci (flute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] During Haydn's successful stays in London he recognised the need for high quality chamber music for a variety of instruments, among which the flute, which rapidly gained popularity in bourgeois circles. For this purpose he cleverly arranged his own... |
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ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
Muczynski: Chamber Music Ginevra Petrucci (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Dorotea Racz (cello), Dmitry Samogray (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Robert Muczynski (1929‐2010) was born in Chicago, son of a Polish and Slovak immigrant. At the age of 5 he started his piano lessons, and later studied at the DePaul University composition with Walter Knupfer and Alexander Tcherepnin. |
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DUPUY / BUCHNER
Romantic Flute Concertos Ginevra Petrucci (flute) / Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Maurizio Ciampi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The scandalously colourful Dupuy's work is rooted in classicism, while Büchner's displays a Verdian mix of seriousness and easy lyricism. Ginevra Petrucci plays attractively, and she is well supported by the Milan-based orchestra." Sunday Times |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Chamber Music with Flute Ginevra Petrucci (flute), Giovanni Auletta (piano), Gian-Luca Petrucci (flute), Francesco Bossone (bassoon), Mirei Yamada (violin), Luca Sanzò (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Showpiece variations, folksongs, little-known trios and an early masterpiece: an unrivalled survey of Beethoven's flute writing in new recordings by experienced Italian chamber musicians. Beethoven's attitude to composition is exemplified by an... |
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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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TOMMASO GIORDANI
Giordani: 6 Flute Concertos Giovanni Miszczyszyn (tranverse flute), Instrumental Ensemble of Accademia del Santo Spirito [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] World-premiere recordings of six attractive concertos by a Neapolitan flautist-composer celebrated in 18th-century Dublin and London. Tommaso Giordani (1730-1806) arrived on the northern shore of the English Channel in 1753, as one of the youngest... |
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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. |