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ERNEST BLOCH
Music for Violin and Piano Maristella Patuzzi (violin) & Mario Patuzzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Ernest Bloch (1880‐1959) was trained as a violinist, taking lessons from the great Eugene Ysaye in Brussels. Under the threat of the Nazi regime he took refuge to the USA, where he stayed the rest of his life. Here he became famous , one of the first... |
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OTHMAR SCHOECK
Music for Violin and Piano Maristella Patuzzi (violin) & Mario Patuzzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Here are Swiss radio recordings of native performers, a father-daughter duo, of lyrical, high-flown chamber music by one of the country's foremost composers, now less known than his contemporary Arthur Honegger but hardly less gifted. Schoeck's... |
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C. P. E. BACH
Lieder Mariví Blasco (soprano), Yago Mahúgo (fortepiano) Ímpetus Madrid Baroque Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] This CD contains a selection of Geistliche Oden und Lieder (sacred songs) by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the most talented son of the great Johann Sebastian. By the end of the 18th century the Lied took its now familiar form: a strophic setting of... |
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SIMAKU / VORPSI / LARA / IBRAHIMI / HARAPI / ZADEJA
Albanian Piano music Marsida Koni (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Marsida Koni appears to be the ideal exponent for this music, equally at home in the nostalgic and romantic numbers, never reducing anything to mere sentimental schmaltz, and with a technique able to despatch those passages of Lisztian virtuosity" |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Virtuoso Trumpet (Incls concertos by Haydn, Hummel & Telemann) Martin Haselback, Andra Bernard, Guy Touvron (trumpets) / Wiener Akademie / Slovak Chamber Orchestra / Bohdan Warchal, Gyargy Geiger, eva Maros [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2007 ] Licensed from Hungaroton, Hungary, AVC, Switzerland & Opus, a product of Music deLux |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
La Susanna Martin Oro (narrator), Gemma Bertagnolli, Sergio Foresti, Mirko Guadagnini & Isabel Alvarez / Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "Astronio's capable performance will reward anyone interested in the development of Italian oratorio between Carissimi and Handel." (Gramophone) |
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DVORAK
Complete Choruses & Duets (Incls Moravian Duets) Martina Kritznerova (soprano) Å arka Mistrova (mezzo) Daniela Demuthova (alto) Michal KruÅek (bass) / Prague Singers under Stanislav Mistr [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] New recordings of excellent performances by the multiple prize winning Prague singers under Stanislav Mistr. |
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DEBUSSY
Complete Music for Piano Duo [3 CD set] Massimiliano Damerini, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] The only really complete edition of Debussy's output for piano duo! Recorded in 2012, Carrara, Italy. |
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DEVIENNE / DONIZETTI / BEETHOVEN
Bassoon Trios Massimo Data (bassoon), Mario Carbotta (flute) & Piero Barbareschi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] A delightful programme featuring the bassoon in duo and trio formation chamber music, centred around the substantial and neglected Bassoon Trio WoO37 by Beethoven. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vocalise - Music for bassoon and piano Massimo Data (bassoon) & Piero Barbarsechi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] The Bassoon, the bass member of the woodwind family, is a surprisingly versatile, agile, and expressive instrument. Its expression ranges from the joyful and even comic, sonorous, melancholic to the mournful. Regretfully classical composers wrote... |
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IGNAZIO CIRRI
12 Sonatas for Organ, Op. 1 Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] This is the lesser-known Cirri, Ignazio of that ilk, elder brother of the Giovanni Battista who after taking holy orders pursued a diverse career as a cellist and composer, and who in 1764, perhaps aided by Ignazio's contacts, settled in London,... |
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AUGUST GOTTFRIED RITTER
Complete Organ Music Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2015 ] "Persuasive performances and well-framed recorded sound." (Choir & Organ) |
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REINECKE / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / WIENIAWSKI / SIBELIUS / BRIDGE
Music for Viola & Piano Massimo Piva viola (viola) Inessa Filistovich (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] On this unique and originally programmed journey, the violist Massimo Piva takes the kind of fantasy journey (Fantasiereise) that forms one of the cornerstones of German Romanticism. It is in the context of highly wrought, fantastic tales that... |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI / LUIGI CHERUBINI
Viotti: Violin Concerto No.22 / Cherubini: Symphony in D Massimo Quarta (violin) / Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni, Massimo Belli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Giovanni Battista Viotti was a man of humble origins who studied with Gaetano Pugnani in the tradition of the Corelli school. By the age of 20 he was already an esteemed violinist, performing concerts in Geneva, Bern, Berlin and Saint Petersburg, and... |
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HANDEL
Romantic Organ Transcriptions Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] The art of transcription has been a part of the history of keyboard instruments since the Renaissance period, a time that saw the first publishing of sacred as well as secular vocal works. In the 19th century, however, the trend entered its golden... |
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SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphonies, Five Pieces Op.16 Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] This new recording presents arrangements for piano 4‐hands or two pianos by orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg (the two Chamber Symphonies and the Five Pieces Op. 16), arranged by Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Schoenberg himself. The... |
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BARTOK
Complete Music for Two Pianos Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] This 2CD set presents a complete survey of Bartók's music for two pianos. The works and arrangements here all stem from Bartók's special artistic collaboration with his wife, the pianist Dittá Pásztory. |
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DOMENICO LABOCCETTA
Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist Matteo Malagoli (cello) Lisa De Polo (piano) Cristina Centa (harp) Yukiko Shimizu (soprano) Raffaele Giordani (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta. Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Clavier Ubung 111 Matteo Messori (historical organs) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] 'Third part of the Clavierubung consisting of various preludes on the catechism and other hymns for organ: For lovers and especially for connoisseurs of suchlike works, to refresh their spirits, provided by Johann Sebastian Bach,Royal Polish Court... |
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LUZZASCO LUZZASCH
Complete Keyboard Music Matteo Messori (harpsichords, organ & spinet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The Ferrara‐born Luzzasco Luzzaschi might not exactly be a household name, but his contribution to the development of the madrigal places him within that elite category of composers who helped shape the course of music history. The favourite musician... |