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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Chamber Music with Flute Ginevra Petrucci (flute), Giovanni Auletta (piano), Gian-Luca Petrucci (flute), Francesco Bossone (bassoon), Mirei Yamada (violin), Luca Sanzò (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Showpiece variations, folksongs, little-known trios and an early masterpiece: an unrivalled survey of Beethoven's flute writing in new recordings by experienced Italian chamber musicians. Beethoven's attitude to composition is exemplified by an... |
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MILHAUD / SAINT-SAENS / ALKAN / POULENC / LALO / PIERNE / etc
French Piano Concertos Giovanni Bellucci, Martin Galling, Florian Uhlig, Rosario Marciano, François-Joël Thiollier, Marylène Dosse, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2019 ] A worthy collection of some of the greatest French piano concertos issued at a special price on 12 CDs. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2 Giovanni Bellucci (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Volume 2 of the Complete Piano Sonatas played by Giovanni Bellucci, contains the Sonatas Op. 22 till Op. 57, roughly named the Middle Period Beethoven (1770-1827). Giovanni Bellucci is one of the most interesting and extraordinary pianists of... |
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TRANSCRIPTIONS
Earl Wild - Complete Piano Music Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Earl Wild (1915-2010) was without doubt one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His immense repertoire, his staggering virtuosity, his warmth and his charm deserve him the epithet legendary. Wild was a great improviser as well, and he... |
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SCALERO
Scalero: Complete Music for Violin and Piano Gran Duo Italiano / Mauro Tortorelli (violin) & Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] World-premiere recordings bringing back to life the individual voice of an Italian émigré composer who taught many of the great names of American musical life in the middle of the last century. Rosario Scalero began his career as a violinist, in... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Complete) Gyorgy Pauk (violin) & Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] By the time Brahms published his first violin sonata during the remarkably fertile period of the Second Symphony and the violin concerto, he had probably written and abandoned as many as four earlier violin sonatas. |
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ERIK SATIE
Satie: Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes & Sarabandes Austbo Hakon (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] The unconventional French composer Erik Satie almost wrote anti-music. In slow motion (and without bars) his well-known Gymnopédies glide past. In other pieces one can hear more than faint echoes form the vaudeville theatre. Played by Håkon Austbø. |
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BRAHMS
Late Piano Works Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] In 1971 Hakon Austbo won the prestigious Olivier Messiaen prize. His recording of Scriabin sonatas was praised by the Gramophone as 'Scriabin playing that can stand comparison with the finest on record'. |
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ERIK SATIE
Satie: Piano Music (Incls 3 Gymnopadies, Gnossiennes & Sports et divertissements) Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2009 ] This is an excellent disc, especially when offered at such a low price." MusicWeb |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyrische Stucke [Lyric Suites] Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] "Anyone who has heard the Norwegian pianist's Naxos recordings of Scriabin and Messiaen (will) be taken aback by his mastery of atmosphere and colour‚ evident as early as his breathtaking restatements in the Arietta from Op 12‚ the first piece in... |
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MEDTNER
Piano Sonatas / Piano works (complete on 7 CDs) Hamish Milne (piano) with Boris Berezovsky & Geoffrey Tozer [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was a Russian composer who slowly invaded the recording industry. Especially his piano concertos, mainly no.'s 2 and 3, are receiving attention. But Medtner did write just music just involving the piano. Of his solo works... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert - Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 & 15 Hanna Shybayeva (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] New recording: one of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation's National Piano Competition. Shybayeva 'impresses with a solid sense of form... |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas / Bagatelles (rec 1970-81) Harris Goldsmith (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - January 2007 |
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RAVEL
The Best Of Ravel (Incls Bolero, Gaspard de la Nuit & Piano Concerto in G) Helene Grimaud, Paul Crossley (piano)/ Orchestre National de France under Eliahu Inbal / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2007 ] Ravel’s Boléro has become an evergreen. These 2 CD’s provide material for those who would like to hear more by this typically French composer. |
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ARVO PART
Spiegel Im Spiegel Benjamin Hudson (violin/viola), Sebastian Klinger (cello) & Jürgen Kruse (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2010 ] These days Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is mainly associated with his later works. Born in 1935 he wrote 'avant-garde' works at first. In the nineteen seventies he increasingly found his inspiration in medieval religious music, both western and... |
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MESSIAEN
Songs (Complete) Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] All Messiaen's songs? Well, everything he wrote for soprano and piano. Olivier Messiaen is considered one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. He is probably best-known for his Turangalîla symphony and for making... |
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DVORAK
Complete Works For Piano Duet (Incls Slavonic Dances) (Rec 1989-90) Ingryd Thorson and Julian Thurber (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "the fact remains that this ridiculously cheap Brilliant box gives us consistently generous performances, idiomatically played, of music that moves irresistibly through the bloodstream infusing the body with its infectious brio." (MusicWeb Oct 2004) |
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RAVEL
Complete works for piano duet Ingryd Thorson, Julian Thurber (pianos) with David Gardiner (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "These performances from Denmark are all affectionate and notably intelligent and they are powerfully yet pleasingly recorded. The culmination of this set is a fine account of that terrifying masterpiece La valse. Recommended." (Gramophone) |
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DVORAK
Complete Piano Works Inna Poroshina (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Piano Library / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - March 2011 |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Complete Piano Music Inna Poroshina (piano) [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Gramophone Magazine Re-issue of the Month - March 2011 |