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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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
MANUEL PONCE
Complete Guitar Music Gérard Abiton (guitar) & Beatrice Martin (harpsichord) Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo, Jean Thorel [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's best and most popular composers. His compositions are imbued with the native music and folklore of his beloved Mexico, irresistably lively, sensual and passionate. |
CASPAR JOSEPH MERTZ
Dances, Nocturnes and Etudes for Six‐String Guitar Graziano Salvoni (six-string 'Stauffer' guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] Here's another recording dedicated to the music of Caspar Joseph Mertz, the court guitarist of Empress Carolina Augusta whose performances became famous throughout Austria, Hungary and Germany during the 1800s, making him one of the most sought-after... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (Complete opera recorded in 1972) Gwyneth Jones / Dietrich Fischer Dieskau / Hamburg State Opera / Karl Bohm [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] This supposedly is the first commercial "live" recording of Salome but actually it is taken from rehearsals as well as the live performance November 4, 1970. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Complete) Gyorgy Pauk (violin) & Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] By the time Brahms published his first violin sonata during the remarkably fertile period of the Second Symphony and the violin concerto, he had probably written and abandoned as many as four earlier violin sonatas. |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes & Sarabandes Austbo Hakon (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] The unconventional French composer Erik Satie almost wrote anti-music. In slow motion (and without bars) his well-known Gymnopédies glide past. In other pieces one can hear more than faint echoes form the vaudeville theatre. Played by Håkon Austbø. |
BRAHMS
Late Piano Works Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] In 1971 Hakon Austbo won the prestigious Olivier Messiaen prize. His recording of Scriabin sonatas was praised by the Gramophone as 'Scriabin playing that can stand comparison with the finest on record'. |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Piano Music (Incls 3 Gymnopadies, Gnossiennes & Sports et divertissements) Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2009 ] This is an excellent disc, especially when offered at such a low price." MusicWeb |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyrische Stucke [Lyric Suites] Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] "Anyone who has heard the Norwegian pianist's Naxos recordings of Scriabin and Messiaen (will) be taken aback by his mastery of atmosphere and colour‚ evident as early as his breathtaking restatements in the Arietta from Op 12‚ the first piece in... |
MEDTNER
Piano Sonatas / Piano works (complete on 7 CDs) Hamish Milne (piano) with Boris Berezovsky & Geoffrey Tozer [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was a Russian composer who slowly invaded the recording industry. Especially his piano concertos, mainly no.'s 2 and 3, are receiving attention. But Medtner did write just music just involving the piano. Of his solo works... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert - Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 & 15 Hanna Shybayeva (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] New recording: one of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation's National Piano Competition. Shybayeva 'impresses with a solid sense of form... |
BOTTESINI / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV
The Romantic Double Bass (Concertos, sonatas and other works) Hans Roelofsen (double-bass) Rudolf Senn (double-bass) with George Pieterson (clarinet) and Marien van Staalen (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Say double bass and people will probably think of jazz music. In spite of pioneering composers like Bottesini and active present-day players like Dutch Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn the double-bass does not have a serious image in classical music.... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Music for Flute Hanspeter Oggier (pan flute), Ensemble Fratres [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Telemann wrote so much and so well for the flute with the understanding of one who knew the instrument from the inside. 'How my heart beats,' he wrote, 'when I see the walls and corners of the room covered with musical instruments… Excellent... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for Pan Flute & Organ 'With More Than A Hundred Pipes' Hanspeter Oggier (pan flute), Sarah Brunner (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The combination of the Pan Flute and the Organ makes perfect sense, given that the organ is in fact a giant pan flute in the production of the tone. How well the two instruments fit together and how beautifully they can grow to form one large... |
BRUHNS
Complete Cantatas Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] Nicolaus Bruhns (1665‐1697) was born in Denmark, where he caught the attention of Buxtehude, becoming his most talented and favourite pupil. He became composer at the Danish Royal Court when his untimely death at age 31 ended a splendid career.... |
