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CLARA SCHUMANN / REBECCA CLARKE
Schumann, (C.) / Clarke: Piano Trios Trio Rigamonti [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] This pair of piano trios has become recognised in recent years as among the finest works by their composers, and they make a complementary pairing despite their contrasting idioms. |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque No.2 Op.9 Trio RoVerde [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] As a young man, fresh from his first real success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to visit his mentor Tchaikovsky when he saw a crowd gathered outside. The news of Tchaikovsky's death sent him into a tail-spin, and he... |
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DORA PEJACEVIC
Pejacevic: Chamber Music Trio RoVerde [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] 'You owe it to yourself to make the acquaintance of Dora Pejačević if you haven't done so already.' (Fanfare, May 2022) |
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LUTOSLAWSKI / VERESS / SCHULHOFF / JUON
Music for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon by Lutoslawski, Veress, Juon & Schulhoff; Trio Trilli Trio Trilli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] This strong concept CD present original works written for oboe, clarinet and bassoon by four 20th century composers: Lutoslawski, Schulhoff, Veress and Juon. |
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SIMONE MOLINARO
Molinaro: Danze E Fantasie Da Intavolatura Di Liuto Libro I Ugo Nastrucci (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Lute music by a true Renaissance man: publisher, teacher and performer, Genovese man of letters and musician to his fingertips. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / KHACHATURIAN
Russian Ballets Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2016 ] Towards the end of the 19th century, ballet was declining in popularity in Western Europe but acquired an increased significance in Russia. This was thanks in part to the music for dancing which had been part of native operas ever since Glinka... |
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SALOMONE ROSSI
Vocal Works: Madrigals and Canti di Salomone Ut Musica Poesis Ensemble, Stefano Bozolo / L'Aura Soave, Diego Cantalupi / Ensemble Hypothesis [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The works recorded here all have great intimacy. The madrigals, a typically Renaissance vocal genre, were composed before the turn of the 17th century. A set of six of these are remarkable because they were written for a single voice with the other... |
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RESPIGHI
Complete Orchestral Music Vol 3 [Incls 'Concerto gregoriano'] Vadim Brodsky (violin) Chiara Bertoglio (piano) Andrea Noferini (cello) / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] "[La Vecchia] conducts with energy and conviction throughout. The Rome orchestra responds enthusiastically, and the orchestral sound has plenty of colour and presence, with nice grip from the brass at the tuttis. A must for Respighi fans" MusicWeb |
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TIKHON KHRENNIKOV
Violin Concertos & Piano Concertos Vadim Repin (violin) Evgeny Kissin (piano) Maxim Vengerov (violin) / Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Vladimir Fedoseyev [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Tikhon Khrennikov was certainly an equivocal figure in the history of 20thcentury Russian music. A composer with a tendency towards popular theatrical genres and lyricism, the naively optimistic nature of his music was soon noticed by the Soviet... |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Mélodies Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Claudio Proietti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Poulenc once declared that 'the musical transposition of a poem must be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.' |
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W.A. MOZART
The Great Mass in C minor KV427 Valentina Farcas, Annemarie Kremer, Daniel Sans / Chamber Choir of Europe / Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Nicol Matt [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] The Chamber Choir of Europe under Nicol Matt has become recognised as one of the finest choirs in the world. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Cherevichki [The Slippers] (recorded in 2000) Valerij Popov, Ludmila Semciuk / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] A "10/10" for this production from ClassicsToday.com! |
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CARLO TESSARINI
Tessarini: 6 Violin Sonatas Op.14, 6 Trio Sonatas Op.9 Valerio Losito (baroque violin), Paolo Perrone (baroque violin), Carlo Calegari (violone), Diego Leveric (archlute), Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] Another chapter in the rediscovery of an 18th-century master by Brilliant Classics. While the music of this Rimini-born violinist, composer and publisher has been excerpted and recorded on several albums, Brilliant Classics is assembling a uniquely... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: 6 Violin Sonatas (Frankfurt 1715) Valerio Losito (violin), Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] Rare is the month at present when Brilliant Classics does not release a new recording which delves further into the protean output of that most prolific of composers, Georg Philipp Telemann. In the year that he is remembered with particular... |
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REGER / HINDEMITH
Clarinet Quintets and more Chamber Music Valerius Ensemble (with Andra Kerver, clarinet) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2006 ] A treat some anyone who loves chamber music and who might be looking for something new. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 3 Piano Quartets Van Swieten Society [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] New period-instrument recordings of breakthrough works by the teenage Beethoven. The piano quartet is an unassuming genre for a musical milestone, but it was with this trio of works that Beethoven, at the age of 15, first found the voice that would... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Trios (complete) Van Swieten Trio, with Bart van Oort, fortepiano [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] A prestigious project: brand new recordings of the complete piano trios by Joseph Haydn. For the first time recorded on period instruments. |
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BUSONI / CAETANI / CASELLA / EINAUDI / RESPIGHI etc
20th Century Italian Piano Music Various Artists [ Brilliant Classics / 20 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2016 ] The political and social turmoil of the early 20th century did nothing to slow the output of extraordinary piano music from Italy's great composers. From the lyricism of Italian opera to the bravura of the modernist movement, the piano works on these... |
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DVORAK / MAHLER / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / BEETHOVEN / etc
Adagios Various artists [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Excellent performances by Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists Klára Würtz and Misha Goldstein. |
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JOSQUIN / GOMBERT / OBRECHT / RUE / CHARPENTIER / GESUALDO / PERGOLESI / etc
Ave Maria: Marian Hymns CantArte Regensburg, Oxford Camerata, VivaVoce, Tudor Consort, Carla Huhtanen (soprano) Ruth Ziesak (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "This ten-disc collection is abundant in riches; it's an almost forensic foray into centuries (and centuries) of music devoted to the Virgin Mary...Digital recordings of ensembles make this a set to take note of." BBC Music |