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C.P.E. BACH / BENDA / MOZART / DANZI / TELEMANN / VIVALDI / etc
Flute Concertos [10 CD set special price] Various flautists including Andras Adorjan, Erik Bosgraaf, Ingrid Dingfelder, Peter-Lukas Graf, Marc Grauwels, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] A brilliant collect of the famous and not so famous flute concertos from the world's most accomplished musicians - all at a super special price. |
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ANTEGNATI / PELLEGRINI / BONELLI / CIMAROSA / GALUPPI / MENDELSSOHN / MESSIAEN / etc
500 Years of Organ Music Vol. 2 [50 CD set] Various organists from the Brilliant Classics catalogue [ Brilliant Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Following up on the great success of the first volume of "500 Years of Organ Music" (Brilliant Classics 95310) Brilliant Classics is happy and proud to launch this second volume of 50 CDs, presenting an unprecedented number of organ composers. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Complete Edition (85 CDs) Various performers, conductors & orchestras [ Brilliant Classics / CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2017 ] The ONLY Complete Beethoven Edition available! With the addition of some brand new recordings (Piano Variations) and featuring the iconic Alfred Brendel in the Piano Concertos. |
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C. P. E. BACH
The best of C.P.E. Bach Various performers from the vast Brilliant Classics catalogue [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This set brings together the best of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a composer who achieved considerable renown in his own lifetime. The two discs reveal that C.P.E. composed in practically every genre except opera. |
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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti Collection Various performers from the vast Brilliant Classics catalogue [ Brilliant Classics / 30 CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] The first serious Edition of one of the most important but still neglected Italian Baroque composers: Alessandro Scarlatti, founder of the Neapolitan School, and a great influence on composers after him. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
TOP50 Classical Chillout Tunes Various soloists and instrumentalists [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2013 ] A classical TOP 50, aiming at a public not specifically acquainted with classical music: young urban people with an open mind, who will enjoy the classics in a relaxed and "cool" atmosphere, where music is part of their lifestyle. |
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MARIN / Del VADO / PARADES / DURON
Vea Yo Los Ojos Bellos: Music From The Time Of Cervantes Victor Sordo Vicente (tenor), Luz y Norte [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] This fascinating programme is a homage to the literary genius from Madrid, Miguel Cervantes, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tretiakov Edition: various violin concertos, chamber music and solo pieces Viktor Tretiakov (violin) with various orchestras and accompanists [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD - released 28/Nov/2006 ] Viktor Tretiakov is a prominent Russian violinist who won the Tchaikovsky International Competition at 20 in 1966. Somehow his fame in the Western world has not equalled that of some of his fellow countrymen playing the violin. |
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BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto Nos 1 & 2 Vincenzo Maltempo, Mitteleuropa Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Crowning the very summit of the piano concerto literature are the two examples by Brahms, posing as stern a test of technique, temperament and poetic feeling to the interpreter now as they did when they were composed over a century and a half ago.... |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
Viotti: Flute Quartets Op.22 Viotti Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) was one of the leading Italian violin virtuosos in the period between Tartini and Paganini. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Orchestral Suites Viruosi Saxoniae, Ludwig Guttler [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Can one ever tire of the dancing inspiration that animates these four portmanteau collections which have delighted both serious and casual listeners ever since Bach compiled them for use in social occasions as the 30-something Kapellmeister at the... |
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Clarinet Trio & Sonatas Vlad Weverbergh (clarinet), Jadranka Gasparovic (cello), Vasily Ilisavsky (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Ferdinand Ries may still be known almost exclusively to the musical world as Beethoven's friend, pupil, secretary and first biographer, but Brilliant Classics have done much to broaden our understanding of this significant figure in the Vienna of the... |
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FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music WDR Sinfonieorchester und Chor Köln / Peter Gulke [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "this two-disc set fills in his fascinating background as a vocal and orchestral composer around the beginning of the 20th century...The bombastic Symphony No 1 is a student work redolent of Bruckner and Brahms, and like the later Tanzspiel (a... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies / Jazz Suites / Chamber music [3 CD] WDR Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai / National Symphony of Urkraine, Theore Kuchar / Edwar Auer, piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "No. 9: Magnificent; Shostakovich's subversive, Haydnesque wit and underlying anxiety is made perfectly plain; wonderful brass playing. No. 10: A lithe, lean, and dramatic reading, with powerful climaxes" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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W.A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (Complete opera recorded in 1998) Werner Van Mechelen / Christiane Oelze / Huub Claessens / Patrizia Biccire / Le Petite Bande Orchestra & Chorus / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Recorded live in 1998 and originally released on Accent |
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WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
Harpsichord Concertos (Complete) Claudio Astronio (harpsichord & conductor) / Harmonices Mundi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84) who perhaps came closest to his father as a composer. His compositions display the same structural density, and in particular the concerto in E flat for 2 harpsichords where many of his father's influences can be... |
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MESSIAEN
Organ Works (Complete) Willem Tanke (organ) at the St Bavo Basilica, Haarlem [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] A rare release: recordings of the complete works for organ by Messiaen (1908-1992). These 8 CD’s guide the listener through most of the composer’s life, starting with his first published work of 1926 and ending with the 2-CD long Book of the blessed... |
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J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Toccatas BWV 910-916 Wolfgang Rübsam (lute, harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Composed between about 1707 and 1713, the Toccatas contain stylus phantasticus elements of the North German organ baroque and are a delightful mixture of virtuoso, recitative, arioso, concertante, imitative and fugal sections. |
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LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Complete Organ Music Wolfgang Rübsam (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Organ works account for only 17 of Vierne's 62 opus numbers, and yet no one would now question his status as the organ's greatest symphonist after Franck and Widor. |
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J.S BACH
J.S. Bach: French Suites BWV812-817 Wolfgang Rübsam (clavichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] A new recording from a Bach luminary of our time: the French Suites, returned to their original context as private music for entertainment and instruction. The title of French Suites does not originate from Bach's hand: they were called "Suites pour... |