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GIOVANNI MORANDI
Morandi: Organ Music Marco Ruggeri [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] First and foremost this set should offer a great deal of fun to organists and connoisseurs of organ music who are familiar with the rousing sorties of other 19th‐century composers such as Lemare and Lefébure‐Wély, but who are curious about a... |
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PADRE DAVIDE DA BERGAMO
Organ Music Marco Ruggeri (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] This recording features a selection of his works, all of which demonstrate Da Bergamo's predilection for the colourful timbre and lyricism of the organ. |
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J. C. BACH
Sonatas (6), Op. 16 Marco Ruggeri (harpsichord) & Lina Uinskyte (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Johann Christian, youngest son of the great Johann Sebastian, is often called "The London Bach", as he spent most of his active life in the British capital, a teacher of the Royal family, friend of the young Mozart, and very successful composer of... |
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POLIBIO FUMAGALLI
Polibio Fumagalli: Organ Music Marco Ruggeri (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] Polibio Fumagalli (1830‐1900) was one of the most important exponents of 19th century Italian organ music. He held important posts in Milan, as organ teacher at the Conservatory and organist of the S. Celso he was in close contact and collaboration... |
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FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Volume 3 Marco Severin (baritone) Delphine da Pontello (soprano) Giulia De Blasis (soprano) Alessandro Luciano (tenor) / Marco Moresco, Isabella Crisante (pian [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2019 ] Based on 33 years of scholarship and promotion by the Istituto Nazionale Tostiano and a lifetime of studies on the part of Francesco Sanvitale, this volume lives up to its predecessors in bringing to wider attention the work of a born songsmith, at... |
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FELDMAN
Patterns in a Chromatic Field Marco Simonacci (cello), Giancarlo Simonacci (piano), Fabio Frapparelli (horn), Paola Ronchetti & Ilaria Severo (sopranos) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2013 ] Morton Feldman is without doubt one of the most remarkable and influential composers of the second half of 20th century America. |
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HUMMEL / MOSCHELES / RIES
Cello Sonatas Marco Testori, Costantino Mastroprimiano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] A delightful programme of Early‐Romantic cello sonatas by Ries, Moscheles and Hummel. Ferdinand Ries, Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel were contemporaries, active in a period of transition from Classical to Romantic style, all three... |
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GEORGE FREDERIK PINTO
Pinto: Sonatas for Piano and Violin Marek Toporowski (fortepiano), Robert Bachara (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] The only available recording on fortepiano of violin and piano sonatas by an 'English Mozart'. |
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: 3 Violin Sonatas Marek Toporowski (fortepiano), Robert Bachara (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Ferdinand Ries was without doubt one of the most prolific composers and most significant figures in the musical life of the early to mid-19th century. In our time, he is known above all as one of Beethoven's few students, and though we cannot be sure... |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Mandolin Sonatas Mari Fé Pavón (baroque mandolin) with Manuel Muñoz (guitar) Jean-Christophe Leclère (harpsichord) / Artemandoline [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] In Domenico Scarlatti's vast output of 555 keyboard sonatas, there are a small number of works that are especially interesting to musicologists because of characteristics such as figured bass, three- or four-movement structure, and distinctive... |
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FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The song of a life, Complete Vocal Chamber Music, Vol 4; Maria Bagalà (soprano), Glenn Morton (piano), John Viscardi (baritone), Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi (soprano), Isabella Crisante (piano), etc [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/Feb/2020 ] "this is a great tribute to the legacy of the greatest composer of Italian songs...it is an invaluable treat to have them collected - I doubt there will ever be a similar project again - and at Brilliant Classics's give-away price." MusicWeb |
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DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete opera) [Recorded 1953] Maria Callas / Giuseppe Di Stefano / Tito Gobbi / Raffaele Arie / Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Tullio Serafin [ EMI Classics / Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'Here is certainly some of the finest singing of our time, and there is one moment in the repeat of Spargi d'amaro when the voice is recorded with all the actuality of 3-dimensional sound. It is startling.' Gramophone 1954 |
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VIVALDI
Ottone in Villa (complete opera) Maria Laura Martorana, Tuva Semmingsen, Florin Cezar Ouatu / L’Arte dell’Arco (on period instruments), Frederico Guglielmo [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "This edition of Vivaldi's Ottone in Villa, by the - in this particular case - adroitly named Brilliant label, is truly excellent. It's one of those rare CDs where everything is in the right place." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Feb 2011) |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Mélodies Mariam Sarkissian (mezzo-soprano), Fanny Crouet (soprano), Daniel Propper (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Jacques Offenbach (1819‐1880) goes into history as the supreme French entertainer, having written more than 100 operas and operettas brimming with satire, wit, charm and elegance, his (in)famous Can‐Can is one of the most catchy and best‐known... |
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ALBERTO GINASTERA
Complete Piano Music Mariangela Vacatello (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] This CD contains the complete piano music by Alberto Ginastera, one of the most important composers of 20th century Argentina. His piano works brim with Latin-American passion: brutal, sensual, evocative, sentimental, always filled with the... |
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EUGENE BOZZA
Bozza: Complete Works for Solo Flute Marieke Schneemann (flute) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] First recording: the complete works for flute solo by Bozza! • Eugène Bozza lived from 1905-1991. Born in Nice, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and did brilliantly in violin, conducting and composition. Bozza lived through most of the 20th... |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: The Medium / The Telephone (complete operas) Marily Santoro, Julija Samsonova, Elizabeth Hertzberg (sops), Chiara Isotton (soprano), Lorenzo Grante (bass-baritone) / Orchestra Filarmonica Italian [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] A major new, native recording of a sparkling operatic double-bill. After Amelia goes to the ball was staged in 1937 at the Metropolitan Opera with acclaim, Gian Carlo Menotti became hot property. Two further radio operas were comparative failures but... |
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PAULINE VLARDOT
Mélodies: Chopin Mazurkas and other Songs Marina Comparato (mezzo soprano) & Elisa Triulzi (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] "This is a most welcome release." (MusicWeb Oct 2014) |
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J. S. BACH
Complete Music for Lute Mario D'Agosto (13‐course baroque lute by Ivo Magherini) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] No more than a handful of pieces represent the entire musical heritage for baroque lute by Johann Sebastian Bach - not a lot when we consider the enormity of the composer's total output. Although it is not known whether Bach himself played the... |
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VIVALDI
Flute Concertos Op 10 Mario Folena (flute) & Federico Guglielmo (violin and concert master) / L'Arte dell'Arco [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Vivaldi's six Concertos for flute Op.10 nearly attain the same popularity as the Four Seasons. Published in Amsterdam in 1728, they contain some of Vivaldi's most famous concertos: Il Gardellino, La Notte and the Tempesta di Mare. Music of wonderful... |