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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV114, BWV57 & BWV155 Ruth Holton, Knut Schoch, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV146, BWV28 & BWV48 Ruth Holton, Marjon Strijk, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar, etc / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV92, BWV54 & BWV44 Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar, Knut Schoch / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Pieter Jan Leusink, artistic director of the Cantatas project, managed somehow, against all odds, to create a true best-seller out of what is arguably some of the finest music in the western world." MusicWeb |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV98, BWV188 & BWV23 Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Nico van der Meel, Kmut Schoch / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Canto Ostinato XXL Sandra & Jeroen van Veen (piano duo), Elizabeth & Marcel Bergmann (piano duo) & Aart Bergwerff (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] Canto Ostinato by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt is becoming one of the most important, iconic, and most frequently performed piece of Minimal Music of our time. This particular performance is the longest ever, lasting more than 4 hours. It uses... |
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KARG-ELERT
Complete Music for Flute Sara Ligas (flute) Elisa Marroni (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Sigfried Karg-Elert (1877-1933) is best remembered for his organ works, and more specifically, for the harmonium. His dense, chromatic and complex counterpoint and rich late romantic harmonies put him next to his compatriot Max Reger. This set... |
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ANONYMOUS / BARTOLOTTI / LE MOINE / VISEE
L'Art du théorbiste [Music for Theorbo] Simon Linné Simon Linne (theorbo) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] Inspired by his travels across Europe in the sole company of his faithful theorbo, Simon Linné has taken the composer Angelo Michele Bartolotti - an equally well-travelled composer and performer of the early Baroque period - as his starting point for... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Complete Symphonies & Rosamunde Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt, Willi Boskovsky [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "The playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden is quite excellent, with fine work from the strings and commendable clarity of wind textures. This may be "big-band" Schubert, but never once did I sense a heaviness to the ensemble." (MusicWeb) |
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TOMASO ALBINONI
Albinoni: Complete violin and oboe concertos Stefan Schilli (oboe) / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "There is an abundance of enticing music, well performed by all the soloists. The orchestral sound is beautifully blended and well recorded." (MusicWeb) |
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BRUNO WALTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Walter: Lieder - Complete Recording Susanne Winter (soprano) Christian Hilz (baritone) & Katia Bouscarrut (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / BR Klassik / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] A first recording, and a most valuable one. Bruno Walter is far better known as a conductor, one of the most persuasive of the last century, whose personal knowledge of Mahler made him an instinctive interpreter of the composer's music. |
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HANDEL
Apollo e Dafne / The Alchymist Tom Sol, Nicola Wemyss / Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] Apollo e Dafne is an early work of Handel's, completed at the latest by 1710 when he was 25 years old in Hanover, whence Handel departed in 1710 after Agrippina had made such an impact in Venice. |
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VIVALDI / ABEL / C.P.E. BACH / SCARLATTI / DANZI / BENDA / MERCADANTE / etc
Flute Concertos Various performers including Nordic Affect, Machiko Takahashi, Ginevra Petrucci, Patrick Gallois, Johannes Walter, Janos Szebenyi, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2017 ] This release is a wonderful selection of concertos and other works featuring the flute from the 18th & 19th centuries, this box showcases 14 composers who championed the flute, each in their own way, with refined & idiomatic music for the instrument |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Variations Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Being a talented pianist Brahms often improvised on the instrument. From the extensive body of works written for the piano by Brahms, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy has chosen all five sets of variations. This music shows the composer in all his different... |
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SEBASTIAN de ALBERO
Albero: Six Recercatas, Fugas and Sonatas Yago Mahúgo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] Sebastian de Albero (1722‐1756) was a highly talented Spanish composer, who eventually attained a prestigious position at the Royal Court of Ferdinand VI in Madrid, alongside with Domenico Scarlatti and Carlos Seixas. With his early death at age 34 a... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Music Zlata Chochieva, Lukas Geniušas, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Nikolai Lugansky, Alexander Ghindin, Elisa Tomellini [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/2021 ] This 8-CD set contains the works for piano solo by Sergei Rachmaninoff, 20-th century romantic, one of the greatest pianists of all time himself. |
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My Brilliant Friend: Series Four - The Story Of The Lost Child
[ ViaVision / 4 DVD - released 13/Feb/2025 ] |
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David Bowie
Brilliant Adventure EP (RSD 2022 CD) [ Parlophone UK / 12in - released 23/Apr/2022 ] The Brilliant Adventure EP contains four unheard songs from the Outside era, and two tracks performed by Bowie and pianist Mike Garson at a fundraiser for the New York Public Theater at the Shakespeare Festival in New York on 18th September, 1995. |
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ALOYS SCHMITT
Schmitt: Piano Concertos / Rondeau brilliant Howard Shelley (piano) / Ulster Orchestra / Howard Shelley [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 84 / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Great Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 84. Composer and conductor, pianist and pedagogue: Aloys Schmitt (1788-1866) was respected by his peers and largely forgotten by posterity. As so often in this series, the three works recorded here will have... |
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Lobo
Very Best Of [ Brilliant / CD ] |
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Brilliant Lies / Hotel Sorrento
[ Umbrella Films / 2 DVD - released 24/Oct/2018 ] Brilliant LiesThe gloves are off and the claws are out! It's her word against his and it's going to take some BRILLIANT LIES to win this battle of the sexes. David Williamson, the acclaimed writer behind some of Australia's most celebrated dramas:... |