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ROSSINI
Semiramide (Highlights From the Opera Arranged for Solo Guitar by Mauro Giuliani) Izhar Elias (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] Izhar Elias was born in Amsterdam in 1977, and has been praised for his 'fantastic musicality, highly developed sense of style, elegance and allure' jury of the International Tromp Music Competition, The Netherlands. |
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FRANCESCO CORBETTA
Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle Izhar Elias (baroque guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Francesco Corbetta: the JS Bach of the guitar? A bold claim, but one made with passion by the guitarist Izhar Elias in his own booklet essay for this ground-breaking new album. |
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VIVALDI
Cello Sonatas (complete) Jaap ter Linden (cello) lars Ulrik mortensen (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] A major new release by one of the leading cellists in the field of "Early Music", Jaap ter Linden, seconded by a no lesser celebrity in this scene, Lars Ulrik Mortensen. |
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SCHUBERT
Complete works for Violin and Piano (Rec 1989) Jaime Laredo (violin) Stephanie Brown (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "I do think Laredo and Brown more than worth a listen. It's good to see their set reissued in this inexpensive and musicianly box." (MusicWeb May 2004) |
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JOAQUIN TURINA
Complete Guitar Music Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This release presents the complete music for clarinet and piano by Ferruccio Busoni. The works Joaquin Turina is one of Spain's foremost romantic composers, receiving his rightful stature next to the giants Albeniz and Granados. Turina left a... |
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J.S BACH
J. S. Bach: Klavierbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This new recording contains the transcriptions for guitar that guitarist Jan Depreter made of the second Notenbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach (1725). Depreter about this project: "While this selection of little musical gemstones is probably best... |
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W.A. MOZART
Serenades & Divertimenti for Wind Instruments (Rec 2001) Jan Jansen (clarinet &basset horn) Johan Steinmann (bassoon) Henk de Graaf (clarinet) Remco de Vries (oboe) Jos Buurman (horn) and others [ Brilliant Classics Mozart Edition Vol 3 / 7 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "This is another set which, for its price, is truly a bargain. While not all of the works are truly interesting, the performances are excellent. Those buying the complete set will not be disappointed, but others who are not really aficionados of this... |
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RESPIGHI
Trittico Botticelliano / Aretusa / Lauda per la Nativita del Signore / etc Janet Baker (mezzo) / City of London Sinfonia / Rchard Hickox [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Respighi studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov, another master of the orchestra, and his use of the orchestral palate was a huge influence on the young Italian. |
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SCHUBERT
Vocal Duets, Trios & Quartets [2 CD set] Janet Baker (mezzo) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Elly Ameling (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Horst Laubenthal (tenor) Gerald Moore (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "They are expert duettists [Baker and Fischer-Dieskau], having sung together on other occasions and in other media; the result, with the ever-faithful, ever-skilful Gerald Moore, is all that one might expect" (Gramophone) |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Lieder Jasmine Law (soprano), Nancy Loo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] Landmark songs composed at a turning point of the Austro-German Lieder tradition, rarely recorded but suffused with passion and beauty. |
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FRANCK
Complete Organ Works Jean Guillou (organ of St. Eustache in Paris) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Jean Guillou (organ of St. Eustache in Paris) |
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RAVEL / DEBUSSY / MASSENET / CHOPIN / DURUFLE / etc
Once Upon a Time… At the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Jean-Baptiste Robin Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] At its official opening in October 2003, Walt Disney Concert Hall (a generous gift from the widow of Walt Disney) was hailed as an acoustical triumph. A year later the organ was inaugurated, built by Manuel Rosales. |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN
Fantaisie Mecanique Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ), Orchestre Regional de Normandie, Jean Deroyer (conductor), Francois Chaplin (piano), Romain Leleu (trumpet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Jean‐Baptiste Robin (b. 1976) has made two previous recordings for Brilliant Classics: the complete organ works of his fellowcountryman Jehan Alain (BC94233) and an imaginative recreation of 'The American Symphonic Organ' (BC94726) which includes... |
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ALBENIZ / BARBER / BARTOK / DEBUSSY / BIZET / etc
The American Symphonic Organ Jean‐Baptiste Robin (organ of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Ohio) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Here's a new organ spectacular worthy of the tradition, recorded in 2011 on the mighty EM Skinner organ of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal (Ohio, USA). The organ is maintained to a superb standard by its curator, Harley V. Piltingsrud, and... |
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JEAN-DANIEL BRAUN
Braun: Sonatas for Flute & Bass Continuo Jed Wentz (flute) / Musica ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Very little is known about Jean-Daniel Braun (ca 1703-before 1740). He seems to have been a flutist of some renown, and he worked for the Duke d'Épernon. He published several books of Sonatas for the traverse flute and basso continuo, which are... |
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QUANTZ / GALUPPI / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / GIORDANI / etc
18-th Century Flute Concertos Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (traverso) / Musica ad Rhenum (with Lex Vos, Paul van der Linden, oboes) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The six Italian concerti recorded here were all written within 60 years. They show remarkable variety. Of these the Galuppi and the Ferrandini are the most extreme with sometimes weird harmonies. |
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BOISMORTIER
Sonatas Opp. 44 & 91, Suites Op.35; Jed Wentz, Musica Ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] |
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GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue / An American In Paris / Concerto in F Major / etc Jeffrey Siegel (piano) / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] "The standard of orchestral playing is of the highest order and Slatkin and his musicians are in inspired and spectacular form. There's polish, panache, style and drive from beginning to end. If there's a better set of Gershwin's orchestral music on |
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VILLA-LOBOS
Violin Sonatas Jenny Abel (violin) Roberto Szidon (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] These three sonatas were written between 1912 and 1920 and are full of entirely characteristic, colourful melodic vocabulary, structured as extended rhapsodies. |
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LEOPOLD ANTON KOZELUCH
Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol.1 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] The start of an exciting series on Brilliant Classics: the Complete Keyboard Sonatas by Kozeluch! Leopold Kozeluch was in his time a highly regarded, even famous composer, on a par with C.P.E. Bach and even Mozart. His keyboard sonatas, although... |