BRAHMS
Lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) Wolfgang Sawallisch(piano), Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2006 ] Johannes Brahms wrote some 200 songs, many of them for a single voice and piano accompaniment. The piano parts are played several outstanding accompanists: Gerald Moore, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Barenboim and Sviatoslav Richter. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Complete Etudes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2016 ] In celebration of the Scriabin Centenary in 2015 this new recording presents the complete piano Etudes by the Russian Mystic. The three sets of Études clearly mark the development of Scriabin's musical language: the Opus 8 is strongly influenced... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Piano Music Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] "He emphasizes the music's lyrical beauty without sacrificing energy or forward mobility…few recordings are so intrinsically beautiful as Alexeev's." Jed Distler on Classicstoday.com. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Complete Preludes Dmitri Alexeev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The Complete Preludes constitutes another captivating milestone in Dmitri Alexeev's ongoing project to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, a cycle that already includes the complete Piano Sonatas (2-CD 94388) and... |
CLAUDE BOLLING
Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio, Sonate pour Guitare Duilio Meucci (guitar), Claude Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Claude Bolling was born in 1930 in Cannes, where he became one of the most popular figures of the French jazz scene. He composed music for over 100 films, and he worked together with Duke Ellington, Juliette Greco, Liza Minelli and... |
HEINRICH von HERZOGENBERG
Von Herzogenberg: Complete Music for Piano Duet Duo Nadàn [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2020 ] Including several first recordings, the only complete set of attractive and entertaining piano works by a notable if little-known figure in 19th-century German music. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Chamber Music (Includes Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 & Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40) (Rec 1990-1992) Edward Auer (piano) Paul Rosenthal (violin) Godfried Hoogeveen (cello) Isabelle van Keulen (violin and viola) Timora Rosler (cello) Klara Wartz (piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] This set of 3 CD's contains seven of the best works for small ensembles and solo instrument by Shostakovich. |
TRADITIONAL
Kerst met Elly Ameling [Christmas with Elly Ameling] Elly Ameling (soprano) with Dalton Baldwin (piano) and Toyohiko Satoh (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] 19 seasonal titles sung in a mixture of English, Dutch and French. Originally recorded in 1977. |
SCHUBERT
Elly Ameling sings Schubert Elly Ameling (soprano) & Rudolf Jansen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Dutch soprano Elly Ameling is one of the most celebrated singers of her generation. In her career spanning more than 40 years she sang in the most important opera houses of the world and collaborated with the greatest conductors. She won prestigious... |
ZEMLINSKY
A Ray of Light - Complete Piano Music Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] Alexander Zemlinsky gains more and more attention as one of the key figures of that fascinating period of transition from Late Classical to Expressionism, from Mahler to Schoenberg. His works are highly individual and emotional, an expression of the... |
ALBERT ROUSSELL
Roussel: Promenade Sentimentale (complete piano music) Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "Roussel absorbed the wide-ranging styles that he heard around him, blending and modifying them to establish his own distinctive voice - a voice that can be perceived clearly in his music for solo piano." |
CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
The Vale of Dreams, Piano Music Emanuele Torquati (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Emanuele Torquati has won critical acclaim for his Brilliant Classics albums. According to the reviewer for Fanfare magazine, 'Torquati's playing is consistent, and consistently good. I would highly recommend this set to any student of Roussel.' In... |
BEETHOVEN
Emil Gilels: Beethoven Piano Concertos[3 CD set] Emil Gilels (piano) / State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Emil Gilels belongs to a select group of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa in 1916, he began his studies at the age of 5, and gave his first public recital at the age of 13. |
LISZT / SCHUMANN / RAVEL / BEETHOVEN / RACHMANINOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK / CHOPIN
The Great Piano Concertos: Liszt, Schumann, Ravel. Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, etc Emil Gilels, Rudolf Firku?ny, Klara Wartz, Halane Grimaud, Nelson Freire, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Lugansky (pianos). Various orchestras. Various conduc [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "A mixed bag, to say the least" (MusicWeb Dec 2004) |
EDWARD MacDOWELL / MRS. H.H.A. BEACH / GEORGE GERSHWIN / SAMUEL BARBER
Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets Emma Abbate (piano) & Julian Perkins (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Both Beach and MacDowell were formidably accomplished pianists who wrote concertos in barnstorming virtuoso style, for themselves and their contemporaries to play |
BOCCHERINI
Complete Piano Quintets Ensemble Claviere [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Although these light-hearted and melodious works are rather late they have the same delightful tone of the chamber music he had written thirty years earlier. The composer later arranged some of his piano quintets for guitar quintet. |
MARIO CASTELNNOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Chamber Music Ensemble Italiano / Mauro Tortorelli (violin), Massimo Macrì (cello), Pierluigi Bernard (clarinet), Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Chamber music of Mediterranean lyricism and Latin harmonies, including a world-premiere recording. Not least thanks to a growing catalogue of albums on Brilliant Classics, the multi-faceted work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1970) is... |
THEO LOEVENDIE
Loevendie: Nachklang, Reflex, Dance, Improvisations; Erik Bosgraaf, Theo Loevendie, Holland Baroque Erik Bosgraaf (recorders), Theo Loevendie (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] An appealing new recording of modern, tuneful works for recorder. This album celebrates the friendship between Theo Loevendie (b1930) and Erik Bosgraaf (b1980). Having written a part for the recorder virtuoso in his opera about the life and times... |
PAHISSA / CASSADO / SANJUAN / LAPARRA / ARREGUI / MOMPOU / etc
The Andres Segovia Archive Ermanno Brignolo (guitars) / Orchestra del Conservatorio di Alessandria, Paolo Ferrara [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2013 ] Andrés Segovia, born in 1893 in Linares, Spain, was one of the most important musicians of the 20th century; a virtuoso guitarist whose contribution to modernāRomantic repertoire included both commissions and transcriptions of baroque/classical... |
ALBENIZ
Iberia (complete); Suite Espagnole; Piano Sonata No. 5 in G-flat; other piano works (Rec 1968-1974) Esteban Sanchez (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 17/Aug/2005 ] "The small pieces are no less deliciously played. While the sonics are close-up and boxy, you still perceive Sánchez's extraordinary tonal genius and communicative immediacy. No Albéniz fan can afford to miss these amazing... |