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ADRIAAN SMOUT
Thysius Lute Book Pacoloni Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] The world-premiere recording of an early 17th-century collection of music conceived for a richly varied ensemble of lutes. Adriaan Smout (1578-1646) was a philosopher, teacher and preacher who collected and transcribed the music that came his way... |
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LUIGI PICCHI
Picchi: Organ Music Paolo Bottini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Luigi Picchi learned the rudiments of music from his father Faustino, a self-taught organist, and later studied with the Pavia-based teachers Giovanni Baroni and Franco Vittadini in preparation for admission to the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in... |
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GAETANO VALERI
Valeri: Complete Organ Music Paolo Bottini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2017 ] The first recording of the complete organ works by Valeri. Gaetano Valeri (1760-1822) was born in Padua, Italy, bred and raised in the "Keyboard School of the Veneto region". A true "classical" composer he absorbed the style of Haydn and Mozart,... |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PESCETTI
Pescetti: Complete Keyboard Music Paolo Bottini (organ/harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] "I have thoroughly enjoyed these two discs, also thanks to Bottini's engaging performance and the splendid historical organs." MusicWeb April 2017 |
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BELLINI
Beatrice di Tenda (complete opera recorded in 1992) Paolo Gavanelli, Lucia Aliberti, Camille Capasso / Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutschen & Oper Berlin, Fabio Luisi [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] Packed with intrigue, jealousy and revenge, Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts that retells the final months of one of Renaissance history's most fascinating and ill-fated characters. |
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LUIGI GATTI
Six sonatas for violin & viola Paolo Ghidoni (violin) Alfredo Zamarra (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] These sonatas have been played and recorded on two of the most beautiful instruments from the Violins Collection of the Municipality of Cremona: a Stradivari 1727 violin (the so-called Vesuvius") and an Amati 1615 viola ("La Stauffer"). |
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LODOVICO GIUSTINI
Giustini: 12 Sonatas Op.1 Paolo Zentilin (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] The very first-ever set of 'piano sonatas' in a new and highly imaginative recording. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Golden Age of the Guitar in Europe Pascal Boëls (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] One of the world's foremost experts on the 10-string guitar, Pascal Boëls offers us a cross-section of the finest music for his instrument from around Europe in the Renaissance and the Baroque. He identifies this as the guitar's 'golden age' - rather... |
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J.S. BACH
Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Organ Patxi Montero, Daniele Boccaccio [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] In this new recording of the magnificent (and still undervalued) sonatas for viola da gamba by Bach the keyboard is an organ, a german school Rückpositiv. The use of the organ instead of the harpsichord has changed the interpretation of the... |
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SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder (with Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd) Paul Frey (tenor) Elizabeth Connell (soprano) / Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt / Chor des NDR Hamburg & Bayerischen Rundfunks / Eliahu Inbal [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The Gurrelieder are Schönberg at his most impressive. This recording was made in Germany in 1990 was an all-German team. The vocal soloists include Paul Frey, tenor and Jard van Nes, mezzo-soprano. The narrator is Hanz Franzen. |
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VINCENZO PETRALI
Petrali: Organ Music Paulo Bottini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Vincenzo Petrali (1830-1889) was an organist-composer active in the north of Italy. Acclaimed in his own time as a master improviser, the equal in this regard to French contemporaries such as Guilmant and Widor, he left a small, beautifully crafted... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, R: Orchestral works (includes Don Juan, Violin Concerto in D minor, An Alpine Symphony & Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) Peter Damm (horn) / Manfred Weise (clarinet) / Peter Rose (piano) / Paul Tortelier (cello ) / Staatskapelle Dresden / Rudolf Kempe [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] An opportunity to also get acquainted with the lesser known works by Strauss. |
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ALBERT LORTZING
Der Wildschütz Peter Schreier (tenor) & Edith Mathis (soprano) / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Bernhard Klee [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Reissue of one of the gems of the East Germany archive recordings of Berlin Classics: Der Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing...A star studded cast of the best German voices of the time. |
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PFITZNER
Palestrina Peter Schreier (tenor), Siegfried Lorentz (bass) & Rosemarie Lang / Chor der Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Pfitzner's opera on the great 16th‐century composer Palestrina became popular with those in German musical society who had become hostile to the direction which Schoenberg and Busoni had taken |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Cello Concerto / Silent Woods / Serenade Petr Nouzovský (cello) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice|Stanislav Vav?inek [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Antonin Dvořaìk (1841-1904) was a great synthesist, ingeniously combining arguably incongruent strains: folk music with refined classical forms, romantic extroversion with instrumental austerity and national Czech character with worldwide appeal. |
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JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Sonatas Op.35 & Op.69 No.3, Vol. 10 Petra Somlai (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] The latest volume in a critically acclaimed series, presenting modern recordings of Dussek's exhilaratingly diverse cycle of piano sonatas on instruments of his own time. |
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SCRIABIN
Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems Philadelphia orchestra / Riccardo Muti (with Stefania Toczyska, mezzo, & Dmitri Alexeev, piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] "This Muti box is very strong indeed and at less than Naxos price its virtues are irresistible….Brilliant Classics have issued a splendid set with sumptuous sound and a propulsive pulse." (MusicWeb) |
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GLASS
The Secret Agent (Film Scores Volume V) Philip Glass Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Lieder for Piano 4-hands Piano Duo Nadan [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] With his Liebeslieder-Waltzes Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) presented a beautiful tribute to the musical tradition of Vienna, the Habsburg capital, a tradition that, starting with the ländler, had taken shape in the waltzes of Schubert and later of the... |
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CAMILLE SAINT SAENS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / MAURICE RAVEL
Famous Works for Piano Duo Piano Duo Van Veen: Jeroen van Veen (piano), Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a... |