SCHUBERT
Die Freunde von Salamanka, D326 Edith Mathis, Thomas Moser, Hermann Prey / Austrian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Theodor Guschlbauer [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] 'Beautiful singing by Mathis … Hermann Prey in excellent form … lovers of Schubert should not let slip the opportunity of hearing this … it is affectionately directed by Guschlbauer.' Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN
Emil Gilels: Beethoven Piano Concertos[3 CD set] Emil Gilels (piano) / State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Emil Gilels belongs to a select group of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa in 1916, he began his studies at the age of 5, and gave his first public recital at the age of 13. |
W.A. MOZART
The Complete Violin Concertos Emmy Verhey (violin), Gil Sharon (violin), Yuri Gundelsmann (violin) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Of course we can not ignore Mozart’s anniversary. So in addition to our best-selling 170 CD box with the complete works by this composer we celebrate his 250th birthday with a special series. |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI / ALDO TARABELLA
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona / Tarabella: Il Servo Padrone Erika Liuzzi (soprano), Paolo Pecchioli (bass), Donato Di Gioia (bass) / Vincenzo Galilei Orchestra, Flavio Emilio Scogna [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi owes much of his fame to La Serva Padrona, a comic intermezzo designed to be performed between the acts of an opera seria. In it, a maid and a servant conspire to convince their master to marry the maid. When Aldo... |
PAHISSA / CASSADO / SANJUAN / LAPARRA / ARREGUI / MOMPOU / etc
The Andres Segovia Archive Ermanno Brignolo (guitars) / Orchestra del Conservatorio di Alessandria, Paolo Ferrara [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2013 ] Andrés Segovia, born in 1893 in Linares, Spain, was one of the most important musicians of the 20th century; a virtuoso guitarist whose contribution to modern‐Romantic repertoire included both commissions and transcriptions of baroque/classical... |
Eva Katrine Dalsgaard (viola), Giovanni Punzi (clarinet), Tanja Zapolski (piano) Copenhagen Phil, Vincenzo Milletari
BRUCH: Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra Op.88, 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op.83; Giovanni Punzi, Eva Katrine Dalsgaard [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Ripe and romantic chamber and orchestral music from the Indian summer of Bruch's career. The spring of Bruch's invention was running dry in the first decade of the last century when it was refreshed once more by the sound of the clarinet. Just as... |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Rosemarie Lang, Manfred Jung, Wolf Appel, Ulrik Cold, Gert Westphal / Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post‐Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossible, and led surely if not inevitably to the... |
ARENSKY / BORTKIEWICZ / KABALEVSKY / RACHMANINOV / PROKOFIEV / etc
Russian Piano Concertos Evgeny Kissin, In-Ju Bang, Felicja Blumental, Ştefan Doniga, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony etc [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 23/Mar/2018 ] There is a special quality to Russian Piano Concertos: apart from their jawdropping virtuosity and orchestral brilliance they share that common Slavonicflavor, an undefinable mixture of melancholy and passion, whether smouldering or blazing. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power, heightening with a modern and cinematic style a... |
PROKOFIEV
Complete Music For Violin (Includes Violin sonatas & Cinq Malodies, Op. 35b) Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker under Lorin Maazel / Philharmonia Orchestra under Mariss Jansons [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] Prokofiev did not play the violin himself. Nevertheless he composed a substantial amount of varied works for this instrument: orchestral and chamber music. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & 5 Helen Donath (soprano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] "A highly recommendable issue for impecunious Mahler fans." (MusicWeb April 2003 Bargaibn of the Month) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Complete Piano Concertos Gabriel Tacchino (piano) / Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by Louis de Froment. [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. Saint Saëns' piano concertos are... |
SCHOENBERG / BACH / ZEMLINSKY / BRAHMS / BERG
Towards Verklärte Nacht Gabriella Sborgi (mezzo‐soprano), Sextet of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Alessandro Maria Carnelli (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/Aug/2016 ] This CD presents a fascinating musical illustration of the paths which led to the composition of Verklärte Nacht, Arnold Schoenberg's masterpiece for string sextet. |
PAOLO UGOLETTI
Ugoletti: Three Concertos Gianni Alberti (sax), Jozsef Ormeny (pno) Marko Komonko (violin) Serhiy Katsaval (tromb) / Strings of the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ferdinando Nazz [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Prominent Italian composer Paolo Ugoletti (born in 1956) describes his music as follows: "It consists of a theatre of sound, narration, fables and slashes of the imagination. It has something in common with the folly of the Baroque universe, the... |
PROKOFIEV / KUPKOVIC / KARAYEV / SALMANOV / LOURIE / etc
Gidon Kremer plays 20th Century Composers [3 CD set] Gidon Kremer (violin) / with Oleg Maisenberg (piano) & Tatiana Gridenko (violin) / USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] One of the world's most compelling musicians, and a tireless exponent of the challenging and the unexpected, Gidon Kremer was born in Riga, Latvia in 1947. |
DUPUY / BUCHNER
Romantic Flute Concertos Ginevra Petrucci (flute) / Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Maurizio Ciampi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The scandalously colourful Dupuy's work is rooted in classicism, while Büchner's displays a Verdian mix of seriousness and easy lyricism. Ginevra Petrucci plays attractively, and she is well supported by the Milan-based orchestra." Sunday Times |
KUHLAU
Violin Sonatas Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin), Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Friedrich Kuhlau (1786‐1832) was born in Hannover, but as a student he went to Denmark, where he stayed the rest of his life, becoming an important national composer. Kuhlau was a near contemporary of Beethoven, and his style shares elements of... |
ALBINONI
12 Trattenimenti armonici per camera Op. 6 Giorgio Tosi (baroque violin), Marlise Goidanich (baroque cello) & Carlo Centemeri (organ) Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Tomaso Albinoni is one of the greatest composers of the Italian Baroque...Italian Baroque specialist Carlo Centemeri...now leads the Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra in this new recording of Albinoni, playing on period instruments. |
MILHAUD / SAINT-SAENS / ALKAN / POULENC / LALO / PIERNE / etc
French Piano Concertos Giovanni Bellucci, Martin Galling, Florian Uhlig, Rosario Marciano, François-Joël Thiollier, Marylène Dosse, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2019 ] A worthy collection of some of the greatest French piano concertos issued at a special price on 12 CDs. |
RAVEL
The Best Of Ravel (Incls Bolero, Gaspard de la Nuit & Piano Concerto in G) Helene Grimaud, Paul Crossley (piano)/ Orchestre National de France under Eliahu Inbal / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2007 ] Ravel’s Boléro has become an evergreen. These 2 CD’s provide material for those who would like to hear more by this typically French composer. |