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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... |
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LEOPOLD ANTON KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol.2 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 10in - released 23/Sep/2016 ] The second instalment of the Complete Keyboard Sonatas contains the sonatas Op. 8, 10, 13 and 15. |
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LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 4 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This fourth and last installment of the Complete Keyboard Sonatas by Kozeluch contains the last batch: Sonatas nos. 34 till 50. Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) was in his time a highly regarded, even famous composer, on a par with C.P.E. Bach and... |
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JAN ANTON KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Sonatas Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 23/Oct/2020 ] 'Kim's playing is crystalline and lyrical...This set will interest pianists who would like to augment their repertoire with unknown gems from the period.' (Early Music America). |
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LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Kozeluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 3 Jenny Soonjin Kim (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) was in his time a highly regarded, even famous composer, on a par with C.P.E. Bach and even Mozart. |
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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Solo Piano Music Volumes Jeroen Van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Mar/2013 ] "positive and life-enhancing. This is thanks to Simeon ten Holt's musical vision, but is also due in no small part to Jeroen van Veen's remarkable and sensitive interpretations. This whole experience can all be yours for just little more than the pri |
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Philip Glass
Mad Rush LP Jeroen van Veen [ Brilliant Classics / 2 LP - released 1/Jul/2015 ] This double-LP issue presents a generous selection of the piano works by Philip Glass, probably the most iconic figure of Minimal Music. Despite its title, this album is anything but a 'mad rush'; indeed, any listener looking to relax and better... |
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JEROEN VAN VEEN
Van Veen: 24 Minimal Preludes Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] In these 24 preludes, spread over two books of equal length, Jeroen van Veen has been inspired by the key‐order of Chopin, the piano‐techniques of Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff, the polyrhythmic textural layering of Philip Glass, the sound of... |
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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato XL Jeroen Van Veen (piano) and friends [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] Anyone having experienced the power of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt will come under the spell of the hallucinatory effect of this iconic work, the most famous Dutch work for piano of the 20th century, one of the "classics" of minimal music. |