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 |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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'. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
DEBUSSY / POULENC / STRAVINSKY / SAINT-SAENS / MARTINU / ARNOLD / etc
The Classical Clarinet: Sonatas and works (Rec 2001) Henk de Graaf (clarinet); Daniel Wayenberg (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Maybe this seems a somewhat quirky selection but the repertoire does actually make a deal of sense. Inexpensive and neatly packaged with some pertinent notes it also enjoys convincing playing." (MusicWeb March 2004) |
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... |
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) |
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) |
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 |
LISZT
Angelus, Sacred Piano Music Irene Russo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] A beautiful concept: the "Religious Liszt", or piano music with a sacred inspiration. Franz Liszt, one of the most famous artists of the 19th century, with the status of a modern pop star, was a deeply religious man, in his later years he was... |