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SCHUMANN
Complete Piano Music (Includes Sonatas, Kreisleriana, Studies & piano Concerto) [13 CDs plus CD Rom] Klara Würtz, Peter Frankl, Ronald Brautigam, Luba Edlina, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy & Marianna Izman (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "Klara Wurtz offers fluent and commanding performances from the last decade of, among other works, Kreisleriana, and the three piano sonatas. Wurtz is a distinguished player and a prominent deather in Brilliant's sizable cap." (Gramophone April 2010) |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Works (Vol. 1) [Incls 'Kreisleriana'] Klara Wurtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2008 ] |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor / Rachmaninov: Trio Élégiaque; Klara Wurtz (piano), Dmitri Makhtin (violin) & Alexander Kniazev (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] A classic pairing: two masterpieces of Russian chamber music in a new recording by three distinguished interpreters of Romantic-era repertoire. It was writing for this combination of instruments in the unlikely context of the slow movement of his... |
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RACHMANINOV
The best of Rachmaninov (2 CD set) Klara Wurtz (piano) Helene Grimaud (piano) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2007 ] This is a selection from the repertoire of one of the most romantic composers ever. His second pianoconcerto is probably his best-known work. Being a pianist himself Rachmaninoff knew very well how to write virtuoso music for this instrument. |
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BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Fur Elize - Piano Music For Children Klara Wurz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2008 ] |
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: Bandoneon Concerto 'Aconcagua', Tres Tangos, Oblivion Klaudiusz Baran (conductor), Czestochowa Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Adam Klocek (bandoneon) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was an Argentine composer and bandoneon virtuoso who revolutionised the traditional tango by infusing it with elements of jazz, classical music and modern harmonies. His work transformed tango from a dance genre rooted in... |
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SCHUBERT
Complete Schubert Edition Klara Wartz, Frank van de Laar, Endres Quartet, Staatskapelle Dresden, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Schreier, Hermann Prey, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 69 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The most comprehensive Schubert Edition ever! A celebration of the Viennese genius, from the grand structures of the jubilant 9th symphony ("of heavenly length") to the morbid skeletal melodies of Winterreise, from the genial bonhomie of the Trout... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Music [Incls 'Kinderszenen, Op. 15'] Klára Würtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 9/Feb/2014 ] Robert Schumann was the master of the miniature, the small form, the sketch characterising a person, a landscape, a mood or an idea. Hungarianâborn pianist Klára Würtz is the ideal guide in this Schumannesque fancy world |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Mozart [10 CD set] Klara Wurtz (piano) Harmen de Boer (clarinet) Marc Grauwels, Peter-Lukas Graf (flutes) Brandis Quartet / English Chamber Orchestra / Philharmonia Orc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2011 ] OVER 600 MINUTES OF HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS. His last two symphonies (40 and 41) have to be there, just like the Clarinet Concerto and the Requiem. Also included are some piano concertos (9 and 23), flute concertos serenades, piano sonatas and more. |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / MOZART / BARTOK / etc
Piano Music for Children Klára Würtz (piano) / Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This CD is a reissue of one of the most successful Brilliant Classics recordings, Piano Music for Children, a simple and powerful concept aimed at a wide audience of music lovers, teachers, parents, grandparents and (of course..)... |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Mozart (Incls 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik', Piano Concertos 20, 21 & 23, Symphonies 38, 40 & 41, Clarinet Concerto & Horn Quintet) Klara Wartz (piano) the Philharmonia Orchestra / the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] The Essential masterworks in a handsome 10-CD wallet package, substantial but manageable. The great, complete masterworks together in superb performances by renowned artists. |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali Libri V & VI Krijn Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] The last and closing instalment of the Monteverdi Complete Madrigals recordings by Le Nuove Musiche. Claudio Monteverdi published his eight books with Madrigals between 1585 and 1635. In these books we can follow the transformation in music... |
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata Kristóf Baráti (violin) / Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Otto Tausk [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a child prodigy (his musical talent was compared to that of the young Mozart). His early works are written in the tradition of Mahler and Richard Strauss, later he emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's most... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas / Cello Sonatas Kristóf Baráti (violin) Timora Rosler (cello) Klára Würtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Here are superb musicians from Hungary to add their own approach: on 'traditional' rather than 'period' instruments but interpretatively untrammelled by one or another performing dogma. |
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HUMMEL
Mathilde von Guise (complete opera recorded in 2008) Kristine Gailite, Philippe Do, Pierre Yves Pruvot / Solamente Naturali / Didier Talpain [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "At Brilliant's budget price, highly recommendable for anyone interested in what was happening to German opera in the period between Beethoven and Wagner." (MusicWeb Nov 2010) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Amati Chamber Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 5/Apr/2024 ] A divertimento is defined as music intended for light entertainment, 'to please the ear' rather than arouse the emotions in the phrase of one early-19th-century theorist. The word was used interchangeably at the time with serenade and cassation, and... |
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Instrumental Music Kurt Sandau (corno da caccia) Hans-Peter Steger (bassoon) Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia) Wolfgang Klier, Andreas Lorenz (oboe) / Virtuosi Saxoniae [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Johann Friedrich Fasch was highly esteemed by his contemporaries and the generations of musicians who followed him. |
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COLOMBANO
Colombano: Psalms for Six Voices La Cappella Musicale Della Cattedrale di Vercelli, Denis Silano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The conventual franciscan Orazio Colombano (c.1554-after 1595) hailed from Verona and came to the ancient city of Vercelli, in Piedmont, east of Turin, in 1579 to take up his first professional appointment as Moderator for Music at the Cathedral, a... |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Cantata for Christmas Eve and Sinfonias La Magnifica Communita [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Oct/2008 ] A contemporary of Buxtehude and Lully Antonio Stradella (1644-1682) remained in Italy his entire life. He benefited from important patrons in Rome, including Christina of Sweden. Here in the mid-seventeenth century, with the theatres being closed for... |
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BOCCHERINI
Boccherini Edition (37 CDs of Symphonies, Chamber Music and the Stabat Mater) La Magnifica Communita / Ensemble Claviere / Petersen Quartet / New Berlin Chamber Orchestra and others [ Brilliant Classics / 37 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2012 ] One of the most distinguished figures of the Classical period, the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743--1805) was revered by 18th-century listeners and musicians for the charm, elegance and lyrical beauty of his music. Although his legacy has... |