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ANDREA CAPORALE
Caporale: Cello Sonatas / Handel: Arias Romabarocca Ensemble, Lorenzo Tozzi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Very little is known about the life of Andrea Caporale. He was very probably born and raised in Napoli, and he went, like many of his contemporaries, to London to find his luck as a performing artist. He became a cellist in the opera orchestra of... |
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TRADITIONAL
Voces de Sefarad: Four Centuries of Spanish and Sephardic Songs Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano) Vittoria Giacobazzi (soprano) Alberto Mesirca (guitar) / Turkish Ensemble, Fahrettin Yarkin [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] The poignant melodies and poetic lyrics of this selection of Sephardic and Spanish songs have been re-interpreted in an exciting new release by Romina Basso and Alberto Mesirca, and the timing could not be better - serendipitously it coincides with... |
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FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Vol. 1 Romina Casucci (soprano) Maura Menghini (soprano) Mark Milhofer (tenor) Denver Martin‐Smith (baritone) Marco Scolastra (piano), Roberto Rupo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2016 ] The start of a new exciting series: the complete songs by Paolo Tosti! Paolo Tosti (1846‐1916) worked in poverty as a music teacher till he met the influential composer Giovanni Sgambati, who became his mentor. He introduced Tosti to Princess... |
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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
San Filippo Neri Rosita Frisani, Manuela Custer, Marco Lazzara, Mario Nuvoli / Alessandro Stradella Consort / Estevan Velardi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] |
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GIOVANNI FILIPPO DREYER
Dreyer: Sacred Music Rossana Bertini (soprano), Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano), Le Tems Revient"|"Baroque Lumina, Giacomo Bededetti (conductor), Giacomo Granchi [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] World premiere recordings of psalms and hymns by a forgotten luminary of the Florentine Baroque. Giovanni Filippo Dreyer (1703-1772) was born in Florence, Italy. As a castrato soprano he sang in several productions in Rome in 1723, including... |
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ROSSINI
Sonatas For Winds 1 Rotterdam Philharmonic Wind Soloists [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2008 ] Rossini wrote these six sonatas for strings - two violins, cello and double-bass - at the precocious age of twelve. He was scathing about them in later life, even after transcribing them for string quartet - a form in which they have retained... |
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FRANZ KROMMER
Octet and partitas for Winds Rotterdam Philharmonic Wind Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] A Czech contemporary of Mozart, Krommer can always be relied upon to surprise - with structural inventiveness, and melodies that pay homage to good classical manners before twisting in unexpected directions. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies 94, 96, 97 (with Bruckner - Symphony No 7) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Eduard van Beinum [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/2008 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 "Pastoral" Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe, with [ Brilliant Classics / 5 Hybrid SACD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Philippe Herreweghe's performance of Beethoven's (1770-1827) complete symphonies is nothing short of a musical revelation. Herreweghe, renowned for his mastery of historically informed performance practices, brings a fresh and invigorating... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Top 100 Favourite Classical Melodies [5 CD set] Royal Philharmonic, London Baroque Ensemble, Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Consort of London and others [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2010 ] This set is newly compiled, choosing the 100 very best tracks in the best available performances, including London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Carl Davis, London Baroque Ensemble, Choir of St. John's College Cambridge,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Orchestral Favourites Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Choral Society, Owain Arwel Hughes, Philip Ellis, Nick Davies, with soloists [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Classical hits from one of the world's great orchestras: a fabulous introduction to the world of music at a super-budget price. |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Complete Ballets [Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu, Barry Wordsworth & David Maninov [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2021 ] All three ballets by Tchaikovsky in one release! Tchaikovsky's ballets, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, are by far the most popular ballet music ever written, and count among the master's most famous works. |
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes, Philip Ellis, John Rigby, Barry Wordsworth, Robin Stapleton
Classics for the People, Vol. 2 [ Brilliant Classics SACD / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] The second volume of this well‐received series again features some of the world's most popular masterpieces of classical music performed by the ever‐reliable Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and some of the most experienced British conductors of our day. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Complete Ballets [Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu , Barry Wordsworth & David Maninov [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The magnificent Royal Philharmonic Orchestra does justice to each musical world, under the baton of three different and seasoned conductors, each of whom very much makes his mark on these multi‐interpretable works of genius. |
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ARAM & KAREN KHACHATURIAN
Aram & Karen Khachaturian: Music for Violin and Piano Ruben Kosemyan (violin) & Natalya Mnatsakanyan (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] A unique coupling on record of vibrant and impassioned chamber music by the uncleand-nephew Armenian composers. This delightful disc reminds us of the vital role played by the folk tradition in Armenian classical music, as well as the unrivalled... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets Rubio Quartet [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "The Rubio performances are refreshing, emotionally satisfying within the parameters of their smooth-edged approach, and highly accomplished." Fanfare |
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J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Matthäus Passion (Deluxe Edition) Rufus Müller, Richard Jackson, Nancy Argenta, Jonathan Peter Kenny, Jamie MacDougall, Stephen Varcoe / Paul Goodwin (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The audio version of Jonathan Miller's ground-breaking production for TV of Bach's great sacred drama. |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Complete Concertos Rudolf Firkušný (piano) Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Zara Nelsova (cello) / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2015 ] "The Violin and Cello Concertos, superbly played, have long been audience favourites, but the rarely-heard Piano Concerto in G minor - eloquently played by its foremost champion - is the USP." (BBC Music) |
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JOHANN KASPAR KERLL / JOHANN KASPAR FERDINAND FISCHER
Fischer & Kerll: Arp-Schnitger Organ of the Monastery of Moreira de Maia Rui Fernando Soares (Organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Fischer was likely Bohemian, specifically from Schönfeld, Carlsbad (now Krásno, Karlovy Vary in the far west of historical Bohemia), and was a very influential musician and composer in his day. Little is known of his career until the 1690s, when he... |
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BRAHMS
Ein Deutsches Requiem Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 21/May/2012 ] One of the great choral works of the Western tradition, Brahms probably conceived his Ein deutsches Requiem - completed in 1868 - as a response to the passing of his mother as well as the tragic death of his close friend and mentor, Robert Schumann.... |