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POULENC / BRITTEN / DEBUSSY
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy: Concerto for 2 Pianos Mattia Ometto (piano) & Leonora Armellini (piano) / Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Luigi Piovano (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Three 20th-century masters, painting glittering rainbows of colours with two pianos. From Javanese gamelan to Mozart, from nursery rhymes to passionate outbursts, from primitive percussion to the café chantant, Francis Poulenc gathered up almost... |
ATTILIO ARIOSTI
Ariosti: 6 Lessons for Viola d'amore & continuo Mauro Righini (viola d'amore) Elena Bertuzzi (soprano) Ugo Nastrucci (theorbo) Danilo Costantini (organ & Harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The violinist, organist, composer and librettist Attilio Malachia Ariosti was born in Bologna in 1666. His career took him to Mantua and Venice, the most enlightened musical and artistic centers of northern Italy at the time. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Violin Sonatas Mauro Tortorelli (violin) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics SACD / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Although sometimes disregarded as a conservative composer, looking back at a time when other composers were looking to the future, Saint‐Saëns's output towards the end of his life actually remained highly original. |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music For Violin And Piano Gran Duo Italiano: Mauro Tortorelli (violin, viola) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2018 ] An unrivalled collection of chamber music charting the course of the 20th century through the eclectic voices and eventful musical journey of an Italian-American composer. |
MERULA
Merula: Musica Sacra; Melanie Remaud, Antonella Gianese, Martha Fumagalli, Paolo Borgonovo, Salvo Vitale, Il Demetri, Maurizio Schiavo [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] |
CHERUBINI
String Quartets Melos Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'For the Melos Quartett of Stuttgart's performances, both in care of preparation and in vigour and perception of execution, praise cannot be too high. This is an important issue, demonstrating a too little-known aspect of a composer whose work is... |
HANDEL
Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin Michael Borgdtede (harpischord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jun/2008 ] '..his playing is consistent in its textural clarity, crisp ornamentation and level-headed grasp of the music.' (Gramophone) |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Harpischord Works Michael Borgstede (harpischord) [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD - released 21/Jul/2006 ] "I find Michael Borgstede's rather full-on way with the complete harpsichord works here very exciting. And frankly, at the extremely cheap prices offered by Brilliant Classics, one can afford to take a chance." Editor's Choice Gramophone January 2007 |
THE COUPERIN FAMILY
Couperin Dynasty Michael Borgstede, Yago Mahúgo, Massimo Berghella (harpsichords) Simone Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 19 CD Box Set - released 5/Jan/2024 ] Admiration for the French composer, harpsichordist and organist, Louis Couperin continues to grow steadily today, but it was not so during his lifetime. The first important edition of his work in modern times catalogues 129 pieces as authentic. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Works for Baryton Michael Brussing (baryton) / Esterhazy Ensemble / Piccolo Concerto-Wien [ Brilliant Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2009 ] The baryton is a member of the gamba family and a relation to the modern-day cello dating from the early 17th century. It was quite a handful to play, having one manual with 6 or 7 bowed gut strings, and another with anything up to 20 further... |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 (Complete oratorio) Michael George (bass) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) David Thomas (bass) / The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The Choir of [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "This is a fine recording...For many people, though, the King's forces and Emma Kirkby, with Michael Chance doing all the alto solos, will prove a willing combination. And at super budget price, you cannot go far wrong. There is a complete libretto... |
TRADITIONAL
From Russia with Love: Songs of a Don Cossack Michael Minsky (bass) / Soloists of the Don Cossack Choir [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2009 ] Songs of a Don Cossack |
TRADITIONAL
Kalinka: Russian Folk Songs Michael Minsky (bass-baritone) / Schwarzmeer Kosakenchor [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] This set features the great Russian bass-baritone Michael Minsky, former soloist of the famous Don Cossack Choir of Sergey Yaroff. In these recordings he is accompanied by both the Schwarzmeer Kosakenchor and the Domra Balalaika Orchestra, best... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Piano Concertos Michael Ponti, Hans Kann, Martin Galling, Jerome Rose, Roland Keller and many more. [ Brilliant Classics / 40 CD Box Set - released 6/May/2016 ] This CD set contains a wealth of 19th century piano concertos written by composers who for some reason or other have been neglected by history, so called "minor masters" who may have lost the battle against the giants but wrote very attractive works. |
BRAHMS
Michael Volle Sings Brahms Michael Volle, Karl-Pater Kammerlander, Adrian Baianu, Stephanie Iranyi, Helmut Deutsch, Hartmut Volle [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] A new compilation of Lieder recordings by the distinguished German bass-baritone, now famed for his authoritative Wagner performances. 'I'm very happy,' remarks Michael Volle in a booklet interview accompanying this reissue, which gathers together... |
SCHUBERT
Complete Piano Works (Rec 1989-1995) Michel Dalberto (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 14 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "Michel Dalberto has looked deeper than many into the soul of Schubert, and at his best his playing the equal of all comers. This and the myriad other little discoveries to be made throughout this box make it well worth the asking price." (MusicWeb... |
JOSEPH RHEINBERGER
Rheinberger: Chamber Music with Organ Michela Bergamasco|Cristina Monticoli|Marco Dalsass|Manuel Tomadin [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] Arrangements and original chamber-music works by a pre-eminent Romantic-era master of the organ. The organ sonatas of Josef Rheinberger still feature large in the repertoire of church organists everywhere, thanks to their attractive melodies and... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Piano Works Michelangelo Carbonara (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2010 ] These 2CD contain his entire output for solo piano, from the early Serenade grotesque of 1892, through the masterpieces Gaspard de la Nuit, Valse nobles et sentimentales, and La Valse to his last piano work, Le tombeau de Couperin from 1917. |
CHRISTOPH NICHELMANN
Harpsichord Sonatas Michele Benuzzi (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] The first recording of the 12 sonatas Op. 1 and 2 by Nichelmann. Christoph Nichelmann, German composer mand keyboard virtuoso, is said to have studied with Johann Sebastian Bach. This is clearly audible in his keyboard sonatas, which follow the... |
Johann Wilhelm Hassler
Keyboard Sonatas Michele Benuzzi (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] As Michele Benuzzi himself explains in a booklet-essay, the idea for this comprehensive collection came about through the success of his smaller, 1CD survey of harpsichord music by Johann Wilhelm Hässler on Brilliant Classics (BC94293), released in... |
