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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Solo Piano Music Costantino Mastroprimiano (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2014 ] CharlesāValentin Alkan was one of the most important pianists and piano composers of the 19th century, although he lived the largest part of his life in obscurity and seclusion. He was a close friend of Chopin (they were neighbours in Paris) and he... |
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LOUIS AUBERT
Piano Works (including Deux pieces en forme de Mazurka Op.12) Cristina Ariagno (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Louis Aubert was born in Brittany in 1877 and soon showed promise as a singer, but his real skill was as a pianist. He studied with Fauré, and Maurice Ravel was another fellow student with whom he would develop a lasting friendship. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 / Piano Quintet Daniel Quartet & Klara Wurtz (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] This new recording presents two of Schumann's best and most famous chamber music works. |
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ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Complete Violin Sonatas Daniela Cammarano (violin) & Alessandro Deljavan (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Rubinstein's works are essentially romantic, based on the aesthetics of Schumann and Chopin. His violin sonatas span a period of over 20 years, and offer an abundance of warm, sweeping melodies and instrumental brilliance. |
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HEINRICH & CARL BAERMANN
Heinrich & Carl Baermann: Music for Clarinet and Piano Dario Zingales (clarinet) & Florian Podgoreanu (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] Heinrich Baermann and his son Carl count among the most accomplished clarinettists of the Romantic age. Many composers wrote for Heinrich, most notably Carl Maria von Weber, who composed his two concertos and chamber works with Heinrich in mind,... |
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CZERNY / VIOTTI
Piano Concertos David Boldrini (piano), Elena Pinciaroli (piano), Rami Musicali Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 6/May/2016 ] This 2 CD set contains some seldom heard early 19th century concertos in which the piano plays the leading role. Carl Czerny, a famous pianist and teacher, student of Beethoven, wrote an immense oeuvre for the piano, in which his prodigious... |
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CLEMENTI / PAISIELLO / PERGOLESI / KOZELUCH / BOCCHERINI / etc
Concerti Galante David Boldrini (piano), Viktor Csányi (violin), Elena Pinciaroli (piano) Rami Musicali Orchestra, Filippo Conti [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] "As a collection of off-the-beaten-track Mozart era piano concertos, you could hardly go wrong with this" MusicWeb April 2020 |
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HEIDEN / DESSAU / SCHULHOFF / HINDEMITH / etc
Entartete Musik David Brutti (alto saxophone) & Filippo Farinelli (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Entartete Musik ('degenerate music') was the term applied to music in Germany after 1933 (when Hitler became Chancellor) that did not fulfil the expectations of culture according to Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi party. The most 'Entartete' instrument... |
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WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: 3 Violin Sonatas Davide Alogna (violin), Costantino Catena (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Little-known but spellbinding late-Romantic sonatas receiving only their second complete recording: essential listening for collectors of Romantic-era rarities. With well-received albums of his piano trios, piano music and music for chamber... |
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FERRUCCIO & FERDINANDO BUSONI
Complete Music For Clarinet Davide Bandieri (clarinet) & Alessandra Gentile (piano) / Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato" [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This release presents the complete music for clarinet and piano by Ferruccio Busoni. The works span Busoni's whole creative life, from the classical forms of his youth to the highly chromatic and expressionist language of his mature age. Ferruccio... |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Complete Chamber Music for Clarinet Davide Bandieri (clarinet) / Quartetto Savinio, with Matteo Fossi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Carl Maria von Weber had a special fondness for the clarinet, finding it the ideal instrument for expressing the profound Romanticism he had made his own. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 1, 21 & 25 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] |
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W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21 'Elvira Madigan', 23 & 24 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra under Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] In addition to Brilliant's best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by Mozart they celebrate with this double CD of four major piano concertos. |
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W.A. MOZART
The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 2 (Incls KV271 Jeunehomme KV449 KV456 KV537 Coronation Concerto) Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra under Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Of course we can not ignore Mozart’s anniversary. So in addition to Brilliant's best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by this composer they celebrate his 250th birthday with a special series. This consists of 14 3CD-sets with selected... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Best Of Tchaikovsky (Includes the complete Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor) Derek Han (piano) Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Batiz and others [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Tchaikovsky is one the pillars of classical music who cannot be ignored. Some of his works have become all time favourites. On this double CD we have compiled all his popular works. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Collection: Six CD set (Incls Piano Concertos, Symphonies 4-6 & Ballet Suites) Derek Han (piano) Vladimir Spivakov (violin) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Enrique Batiz [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Russian Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky's romantic character may be heard in all his music: the symphonies no.'s 4,5 and 6, the 1st and 2nd piano concertos, the violin concerto, Serenade for Strings and music for his three large ballets: The Nutcracker,... |
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BRAHMS
Lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) Wolfgang Sawallisch(piano), Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Johannes Brahms wrote some 200 songs, many of them for a single voice and piano accompaniment. The piano parts are played several outstanding accompanists: Gerald Moore, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter. |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Complete Etudes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] In celebration of the Scriabin Centenary in 2015 this new recording presents the complete piano Etudes by the Russian Mystic. The three sets of Études clearly mark the development of Scriabin's musical language: the Opus 8 is strongly influenced... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Piano Music Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] "He emphasizes the music's lyrical beauty without sacrificing energy or forward mobility…few recordings are so intrinsically beautiful as Alexeev's." Jed Distler on Classicstoday.com. |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Preludes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The Complete Preludes constitutes another captivating milestone in Dmitri Alexeev's ongoing project to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, a cycle that already includes the complete Piano Sonatas (2-CD 94388) and... |