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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Overtures for Organ Four Hands Pietro Pasquini & Francesco Zuvadelli (organ‐4‐hands) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Although usually performed by large orchestras, this new release brings the overture - an introduction to an opera, ballet, suite or oratorio - to the organ, in innovative arrangements for four hands. |
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VALENTINI
Complete Mandolin Sonatas Pizzicar Galante: Anna Schivazappa (baroque mandolin), Fabio Antonio Falcone (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] This new recording presents the first printed edition of sonatas for the mandolin and basso continuo published in the first half of the 18th century, featuring Italian composers Roberto Valentini and Pietro Boni. Robert Valentini (1674‐1747) left... |
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LUTOSLAWSKI
Orchestra Works (Incls Symphonies 1 & 2 & Concerto for Orchestra) Polish Radio National Symphony orchestra / Witold Lutoslawski [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'It's my guess that posterity will judge Witold Lutowslaski among the supreme twentieth century musical colourists. All in all, this must surely count as the introduction to Lutoslawski's symphonic world.' Gramophone reviewing the original release |
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PALESTRINA
Choral Works (Incls Missa Papae Marcelli & Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet) Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown & Bruno Turner (directors) [ Brilliant Classics Choral Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "eloquence & power..whatever versions you have, this has special claims" (Penguin Guide 3*) |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Complete Chamber Music Rémy Baudet (violin), Sayuri Yamagata (violin), Elisabeth Ingenhousz (violin) Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Johannes Boer (viola da gamba), etc [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2008 ] A rare treat: no less than 7 CDs with instrumental chamber music by Henry Purcell. In spite of his past and present international fame too little attention has been paid to this part of his oeuvre. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Chamber music Pyramide Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] For many Mozart is more 'perfector' than 'innovator', a composer who drew on an already extant vocabulary to create some of the greatest works in European culture. In this recording, however, we are introduced to Mozart the 'trailblazer': the first... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartets Quartetto Avos [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Camille Saint‐Saëns was a highly prolific and eclectic composer, two adjectives which may bear a negative undertone, but not in the case of Saint‐Saëns, a genius who absorbed all current musical styles and forged them in his own inimitable, unique la |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vita de la Mia Vita Quartetto di Liuti da Milano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] A beautiful selection of Ricercares, Fantasias, Gagliardes and Madrigals from Renaissance Italy, played by a lute consort of 4 lutes. In Italian renaissance vocal and instrumental music were not strongly devided: the popular vocal madrigals of the... |
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GIUSEPPE MARIA CAMBINI
6 Flute Quartets, T145-150 Quartetto DuePiùDue [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] His flute quartets are delightful works - light, sprightly, charming, full of good tunes and interesting instrumental flourishes. A true composer of the Galant Style, in Parisian spirit. |
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PIETRO NADINI
Complete String Quartets Quartetto Eleusi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] Born into a humble family in 18th century Italy, Pietro Nardini¡¦s talent for violin playing led him to Livorno to study with the celebrated Giuseppe Tartini, where he reportedly became as good a violinist as his teacher. |
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ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Piano Quintet, Cello Sonata, Duo Quartetto Guadagnini, Costantino Catena (piano), Amedeo Cicchese (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) is a composer difficult to classify. A child of his time he kept aloof from the innovations of the modernists and dodecaphony. As son of a German father and a noble-born Venetian mother he was born in Venice and went... |
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SCHUMANN
Piano Quartets Quartetto Klimt [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This release couples two of Schumann's substantial chamber music works: the mature E flat Piano Quartet Op. 47 and the youthful C minor Piano Quartet. Schumann's E flat Piano Quartet is a masterwork in its genre, on a par with those by Mozart and... |
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GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
Martucci: Piano Trios and Piano Quintet Quartetto Noferini [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] After years of comparative neglect Giuseppe Martucci is taking his rightful place as one of the most important late romantic Italian composers. His style is a happy and individual mix of Wagner and Verdi, dramatic chromatism softened by lyrical, bel... |
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GIOVANNI SGAMBALI
Piano Quintets / String Quartets Quartetto Noferini, with Roberto Plano (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] Giovanni Sgambati (1841‐1914) was an important composer of 19th century Italy. A pupil and disciple of Franz Liszt he was one of the most brilliant pianists of his day. However, he was a composer, a conductor, a teacher and a patron as well,... |
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SILVIA COLASANTI
Colasanti: String Quartets Quartetto Noûs [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Silvia Colasanti (b. 1975) is one of the foremost female composers of today's Italy. Born in Rome she studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. Later on she advanced her art with Wolfgang Rihm and Pascal Dusapin. She obtained the... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol. 1 Quartetto Noûs [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] A Brilliant Classics debut for one of today's most accomplished Italian string quartets, in 20th-century masterpieces which make a compelling introduction to the troubled private world of Shostakovich's chamber music. |
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WILHELM KEMPFF
Kempff: Chamber Music Quartetto Raro [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] The pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) belonged to that tradition of German musicians - notably including conductors such as Furtwängler, Klemperer and Walter - for whom composition was hardly less essential a component of their musical personalities... |
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ANGELO GILARDINO
Gilardino: Music for Guitar Quartet Quartetto Santórsola [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/May/2019 ] Premiere recordings of original music and transcriptions, all imbued with the Mediterranean colour and flamboyance of the guitar quartet genre and played with polish by a renowned Italian ensemble. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Complete Piano Trios and String Quartets; Phantasiest Quartetto Savinio, Matteo Fossi [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Jun/2016 ] Robert Schumann came relatively late to composing chamber music, having composed his first 23 opus numbers exclusively for the piano. In his piano works he could give his boundless fantasy free reign, chamber music however demands a stricter and more |
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GIACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Overtures arranged for Mandolin Quintet Quintette de mandolines "Giuseppe Aneda" [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] New recordings presenting a fun and unique perspective on the riotous, effervescent, surreal world of Rossini. All Rossini's qualities as a musical giant are to be found in concentrated form in the famous overtures. The sheer vitality of the music is... |