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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Canto Otinato, for four pianos Piano Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Apr/2012 ] 'My compositions take shape without any predetermined plan and are, as it were, the reflection of a quest for an unknown goal.' Simeon ten Holt. |
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VIVALDI
Concertos (12) pour hautbois [oboe] ou violin, Op. 7 Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe) / L'Arte dell'Arco, Federico Guglielmo (violin/conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This new instalment of the complete recording of Vivaldi's Op.1-12 contains the 12 Violin Concertos Op.7, published in Amsterdam in 1720. Prompted by the popular success of the previously published La Stravaganza and L'Estro Armonico Vivaldi wrote... |
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WAGNER
Complete Piano Music [2 CDs] Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Today Richard Wagner is best known for his extraordinary operas; any success in other domains was dwarfed by these compositional feats in the world of musical theatre. But Wagner's piano works can be seen to be just as important in understanding the... |
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BEETHOVER / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complete variations on a waltz by Diabelli Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/May/2015 ] In 1819 composer and publisher Anton Diabelli got the idea to invite composers from the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire to compose variations on a waltz by his own hand. This original concept contains all variations by the 51 composers |
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Francesco Cilea
Complete Piano Music Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano), Marco Gaggini (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Francesco Cilea may now be best remembered as a composer of durable, blood-and-thunder staples of the verismo operatic school such as Adriana Lecouvreur and L'Arlesiana, but he addressed himself to chamber and instrumental music at both the beginning... |
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla - Café 1930 Piercarlo Sacco (violin), Andrea Dieci (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] It had previously been said that in Argentina 'everything can change except the Tango'. And then there was Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionised this genre in the mid-20th century. Creating a new genre that would become known as the Nuevo Tango,... |
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: La Calle 92 Piercarlo Sacco (violin & viola), Andrea Dieci (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Astor Piazzolla, Argentina's most famous composer, was the grandson of Italian immigrants, and the melancholy for an abandoned and lost country lends a sweetly poignant note to his music. He was unique in the way he was able to weave the "sweet... |
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J. S. BACH
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] Hans von Bulow called Bach's Well Tempered Clavier 'The Old Testament' of music - Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas being the so called 'New Testament. Bach's set of 48 preludes and matching fugues is the ultimate in keyboard instruction. Intended for his... |
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PADRE ANTONIO SOLER
Keyboard Sonatas Vol 4 Pieter Jan Belder (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] Antonio Soler was born in 1729, and received his early musical instruction from his father, a military musician in the Spanish Army. At the age of 6 he entered the Abbey of Montserrat and became a choirboy in the famous escolania. He also learned how... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Toccatas Pieter Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] A Toccata (from Italian Toccare, to touch) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard instrument, featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages with or without imitative or fugal interludes. |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Volume 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord, organ & virginal) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Second volume of a unique project: the first complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book! The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the largest surviving collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, comprising more than 300 works, written by... |
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JEAN-FRANCOIS DANDRIEU
Dandrieu: Premier livre de Pièces d'Orgue Pieter-Jan Belder (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Dandrieu's Premier Livre de Pièces d'Orgue was printed a year after the composer died in 1738. It contains six suites of pieces in differing church tones, each followed by six versets suitable for performance under the canticle Magnificat. While... |
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PHILIPS / SWEELINCK
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume 3 Pieter‐Jan Belder [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] The historical importance of the book is enormous, not least for the range and variety of its pieces. They are also a joy for any modern listener eager to be transported back to one of the most exciting periods of English history |
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SCARLATTI
Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas Vol. VI: K230-K269 Pieter-Jan Belder, harpischord [ Brilliant Clasics / 3 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] Again Pieter-Jan Belder shows his uncanny skills on the keyboard, brilliant in the virtuoso pieces, and tasteful in the more contemplative pieces. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2020 ] This landmark set gathers all seven volumes of Pieter-Jan Belder's exhaustive exploration of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book in recordings spanning the current decade. |
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JACQUES DUPHLY
Complete Pieces de Clavecin Pieter‐Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 8/Dec/2014 ] Jacques Duphly was one of the most famous keyboard virtuosos and composers of mid‐18th century France. This 4‐CD set presents his entire output for the keyboard, consisting of 4 books, Livres de Pièces de Clavecin. |
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SOLER
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard Vol. 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] Eighteen sonatas by one of the most enigmatic but important keyboard composers of the 18th Century. |
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SOLER
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard Vol. 3 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "I love the keyboard music of Antonio Soler. It is clear that Pieter-Jan Belder does too, although I suspect for different reasons." (MusicWeb Oct 2010) |
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GILES FARNABY / WILLIAM BYRD / ANONYMOUS
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume 7 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] Now into its seventh volume, Pieter-Jan Belder's series continues to uncover more works from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. In this volume he turns his attention to the works of father and son Giles and Richard Farnaby, William Byrd, and selected ano |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Goldberg Variations Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Bach's Goldberg Variations are the touching stone of a musician's stature, and no wonder that award‐winning Dutch harpsichordist Pieter‐Jan Belder considers it a necessary and rewarding task to record it again (having recorded it already 15 years... |