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C. P. E. BACH
CPE Bach: Complete Organ Music Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] From the outset the sonatas met with widespread favour, with their galant style, full of good humour and energy...The chorale preludes are naturally more clean-cut and sombre but they still take the opportunity for colourful musical illustration. |
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LIGETI / MATTER / PERETTI / ESSL / FITKIN etc
Le Nuove Musiche Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] This new recording presents an anthology of organ compositions written in Europe during the last 70 years. From a stylistic point of view the new organ installed at the Parish Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Pinerolo is suitable for a variety of... |
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BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Galuppi: Organ Sonatas Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Baldassare Galuppi (1706‐1785) was born in Venice, where he spent much of his life, although he travelled Europe extensively, holding important musical posts at the courts of London and St. Petersburg. He was a famous keyboard player as well as an... |
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PELLEGRINI & PADOVANO
Pellegrini & Padovano: Complete Organ Music Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] This collection of Toccatas, Ricercars and Canzones by Annibale Padovanoand Vincenzo Pellegrini comprises examples of all the main forms o fItalian organ music of the Renaissance, the Golden Age in which keyboardmusic flourished and huge leaps of... |
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HINDEMITH
Sonatas for Viola and Piano Luca Sonzò (viola) & Maurizio Paciariello (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] It was Paul Hindemith - himself an excellent violist - who was largely responsible for rescuing the instrument from relative oblivion. Detailing a selection of his sonatas for viola...this release charts the development of the composer's style |
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BELLINI
Il Pirata Lucia Aliberti, Stuart Neill, Hermine May, Roberto Frontali / Deutsche Oper Berlin, Marcello Viotti [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 9/Feb/2014 ] Il pirata is one of the most successful operas by Vincenzo Bellini. It was written in 1827 and was one of the first romantic operas written in Italy. Starring the great Lucia Aliberti and Stuart Neill, conducted by opera specialist Marcello Viotti. |
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ALFREDO PIATTI
Piatti: 12 Capricci for Cello Solo Luciano Tarantino (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Alfredo Carlo Piatti began a precocious and distinguished career as a cellist in his native Bergamo, as well as in Turin and Milan. He left Italy at 21 to seek his fortune and on his travels met Franz Liszt, who gave him an Amati cello. |
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PIAZZOLLA / BROUWER / ARCAS / TARREGA / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
Latin Latitudes: Latin-American Guitar Music Luciano Tortorelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "Latin Latitudes" is a musical journey between two latitudes, connected by latin musical roots. The composers originate from Spain and Italy, Latin and South America. |
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ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Complete Music For Cello & Piano Lucio Labella Danzi (cello), Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Ernö Dohnányi (or Ernst von Dohnányi as he called himself internationally) lived from 1877 till 1960, he was one of the most important and influential Hungarian composers and pianists of the 20th century. As a piano virtuoso he maintained an active... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Guitar Music (LP) Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] A newly recorded collection of highlights from Bach's great corpus of instrumental writing, in transcriptions by Luigi Attademo himself. |
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PAGANINI
Complete Guitar Music Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Jul/2013 ] Nicolò Paganini's works for guitar were only published in their entirety in 1989. The Genoese musician was a sensation during his lifetime and is still counted among the greatest violinists of all time, yet he was also an excellent guitarist. |
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GIULINI / LEGNANI / SOR / COSTE / etc
19th Century Guitar Music Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] In the beginning of the 19th century the guitar gained a widespread popularity. The technical developments of the instrument led composers to take it seriously and compositions began to appear regularly. |
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PAGANINI
Music for Guitar and Viola Luigi Attademo (guitar) & Simone Gramaglia (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Although Paganini is mainly regarded as a super virtuoso on the violin (achieving a pop star status in his time) and composer for his instrument of concertos of the highest difficulties, he composed a substantial oeuvre of chamber music for a... |
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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO GIULIANI
Giuliani: Nocturnes (12) for Clarinet and Harp Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet) & Elena Gorna (harp) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Giovanni Francesco Giuliani (not to be confused with Mauro Giuliani, the famous guitar composer) lived from 1760 till 1818, active as violinist, composer and teacher in Florence, which went through a huge boom of theatrical and musical creativity due... |
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CHRISTIAN RUMMEL
Rummel: Chamber Music for Clarinet & Piano Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet) Claudia Bracco (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/May/2022 ] Christian Rummel (1787-1849) was born in Gollachostheim, Bavaria. He received his musical instruction in Mannheim under the kapellmeister Karl Jakob Wagner when the latter was living at Wuerzburg and the violinist Heinrich Ritter. |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini: String Quintets - Volume 10 Virtuosi della Rotonda, with Luigi Puxeddu (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "There is much here to enjoy, both in the music and the performances, which are first rate. The music-making is captured in a sympathetic and pleasing acoustic.I look forward to future releases in this series from this excellent ensemble." MusicWeb |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Portuguese Music for Piano Duo Luís Duarte, Lígia Madeira (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] A fascinating program of original works for piano duet by 5 Portuguese composers: Viana da Mota (1868-1948), Lopes-Graça (1906-1994), De Almeida (b.1957), Lapa (b.1950) and Azevedo (b.1968). |
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DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75 Luthers Bach Ensemble, Tymen Jan Bronda [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] An exciting young Dutch early-music collective takes on a 17th-century masterpiece Lenten devotion. |
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HANDEL
Messiah (complete recorded in 1994) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'John Mark Ainsley sings with remarkable spiritedness throughout, exhibiting an accomplishment and beauty of his articulation in his early numbers which afford constant repetition.' Gramophone |
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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2008 ] Originally Handel was Händel. But the German composer was welcomed in England with open arms. Thus he could leave out the Umlaut from his name. The great oratorio Messiah is Handel's best known work. This is a selection of highlights, of course the... |