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FEDERICO MOMPOU
Mompou: Complete solo piano works (Rec 1974) Federico Mompou (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 17/Aug/2005 ] "These classic recordings, licensed from Ensayo, always will be treasured by those who enjoy Federico Mompou's haunting and hermetic style." (ClassicsToday 10/8 for performance and sound) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Golden Age of The Romantic Piano Concerto [20 CD + CD Rom] Felicja Blumental, Michael Ponti, Jerome Rose, Marylène Dosse, Eugene List (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2010 ] For many of the works in this collection, these recordings were the world premiers. In the 1960s and 70s the Vox Candide and Turnabout labels did much to enrich the collector's knowledge and appreciation of the bywaters of the repertoire. |
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ROSSINI
Petite Messe solennelle Filippo Farinelli, Sabina Belei (piano) & Riccardo Bonci (harmonium) / New Chamber Singers, Andrea Cappelleri [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] The Petite Messe Solennelle, the last of Rossini's compositions... is performed here with Rossini's original instrumentation and also includes the hymn for soprano and piano 'O salutaris hostia', which is often omitted. |
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CHOPIN
Complete Polonaises Folke Nauta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Folke Nauta has recorded several CDs including the piano concertos of Röntgen, Schubert's Sonata D958, and mixed recital programme. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Transcriptions, Violin Sonata No.1, Songs, Hungarian Dances Francesco Dillon (cello), Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Johannes Brahms was a keen transcriber, he wrote numerous arrangements of his own works and those of others. Moreover he was happy when others transcribed his works for other instruments, that is when it was done by musicians he trusted. He... |
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MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Chamber Music For Violin, Cello & Piano Francesco Manara (violin), Luca Signorini (cello) & Dario Candela (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Mario Pilati (1903-1938) was an important figure in Italian musical life in the 20-ties and 30-ties of the 20th century. After winning the prestigious Coolidge Prize his works were also performed in the USA, a.o. by the Boston Symphony Orchestra... |
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LEO ORNSTEIN
Ornstein: Complete Music for Violin and Piano and for Flute and Piano Francesco Parrino (violin), Stefano Parrino (flute), Maud Renier (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Leo Ornstein was born in 1895 in the Ukraine, and emigrated with his family in 1906 to the USA, where he became a famous pianist and leading figure in the American Avant‐Garde, writing highly experimental music in which tonal clusters played an... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Complete Piano Music Francesco Pasqualotto (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] A must for Brucknerians: a new album of almost unknown music by the Austrian symphonic genius, and a collection currently unrivalled on record. You might expect that such music as Bruckner wrote for the piano was composed early in his career, which... |
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ALBERIC MAGNARD
Magnard: Cello Sonata Op.20 / Piano Trio Op.18 Camilla Patria (cello) Elena Ballario (piano) Franco Mezzena (violin) Sergio Patria (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris's Schola Cantorum. |
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MENDELSSOHN
Complete Piano Works Frank van der Laar, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Pieter-Jelle de Boer [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Felix Mendelssohn was a virtuoso pianist, and it is worth remembering that he was born in 1809, with his friend Schumann being born a year later in 1810, as was Chopin, and Liszt following in 1811. These composers were among the greatest pianists of... |
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CESAR FRANCK
César Franck Edition François-Joël Thiollier (piano) Martijn van den Hoek (piano), Muza Rubackyte (piano) Mariana Sîrbu (violin) Ruxandra Colan (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] This remarkable set reveals the full breadth and genius of a creative career known to most merely by the tip of the iceberg: a small number of seminal works written in the composer's final decade of life. César Franck (1822-1890), although considered... |
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CZERNY / DEBUSSY / HELLER / GLASS / CAGE / BORTKIEWICZ / RACHMANINOV / etc
Virtuoso Piano Etudes Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2019 ] This monumental set dedicated to the Virtuoso Piano Étude offers a rewarding opportunity to witness two centuries in the evolution of masterpieces for the study of the piano. |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas (complete) (Rec 1967) Friedrich Gulda (piano) [ Brilliant classics / 9 CD - released 17/Nov/2005 ] A complete set by the legendary and somewhat rebellious Austrian virtuoso pianist and philosopher, who was also a composer and a performer of jazz music. |
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CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / BRAHMS / CHOPIN
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin and Piano Fulvio Luciani (violin), Massimiliano Motterle (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one of the most successful and remarkable composers of the first half of the 20th century in Italy. His style is influenced by Neo-Classicism, vivid, brilliant, with the occasional odd dissonance, strongly rhythmical and... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Complete Piano Concertos Gabriel Tacchino (piano) / Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by Louis de Froment. [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. Saint Saëns' piano concertos are... |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
The Art of Geza Anda (recorded 1943 - 1966) Geza Anda (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The great Hungarian pianist Géza Anda was born in Budapest in 1921, and studied with Dohnanyi, who provides a direct link to Brahms, and the great virtuoso composer pianist Eugen D'Albert. |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Piano Music Gianluca Imperato (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] "I doubt very much if there are any listeners who will not be won over by the effortless charm of this music." MusicWeb Sept 2017 |
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PROKOFIEV / KUPKOVIC / KARAYEV / SALMANOV / LOURIE / etc
Gidon Kremer plays 20th Century Composers [3 CD set] Gidon Kremer (violin) / with Oleg Maisenberg (piano) & Tatiana Gridenko (violin) / USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] One of the world's most compelling musicians, and a tireless exponent of the challenging and the unexpected, Gidon Kremer was born in Riga, Latvia in 1947. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Flauto d'Amore Ginevra Petrucci (flauto d'amore), Paola Pisa (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] The Flauto d'Amore first appeared in the Baroque, when woodwind instruments were frequently included in chamber ensembles, and it was soon considered the most prominent of the flute family, right after the ordinary flute. It was built in B flat, in A... |
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ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
Muczynski: Chamber Music Ginevra Petrucci (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Dorotea Racz (cello), Dmitry Samogray (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Robert Muczynski (1929‐2010) was born in Chicago, son of a Polish and Slovak immigrant. At the age of 5 he started his piano lessons, and later studied at the DePaul University composition with Walter Knupfer and Alexander Tcherepnin. |