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PIETRO MASCAGNI
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Berliner Symphoniker / Filippo Arlia (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] One would be hard pressed to find an opera more proudly Southern Italian than Cavalleria rusticana, set in Vizzini, a small mountain village in the Sicilian hinterland that was the birthplace of the story's playwright, Giovanni Verga. Its enduring... |
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ERNEST GOTTLIEB BARON
Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder Bernhard hofstoetter, Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696 -1760) was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music. Baron was born in Breslau into the family of Michael Baron, a maker of gold lace. He showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made it his... |
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MUFFAT / GAULTIER / BITTNER / BARTOLOTTI / LAUFFENSTEINER / etc
The Baroque Lute in Vienna Bernhard Hofstötter (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] This disc brings together a rich selection of lute works by composers who were all in some way connected to Vienna, the capital of the vast Habsburg monarchy. It shows that also before the Viennese school of Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven Vienna was a... |
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TELEMANN
Cantatas & chamber music with recorder Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano) & Stefano Bagliano (recorder and concert master) / Collegium Pro Musica [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly versatile entrepreneur as well as a throughouly... |
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DONIZETTI
Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 1972) Beverly Sills / Eileen Farrell / Stuart Burrows / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Aldo Ceccato [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Beverly Sills, as Mary Stuart, is in a class of her own. It is her technical prowess as a singer which stays in the mind rather than her characterisation of the unhappy queen.' Gramophone |
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DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena (Complete opera) [Recorded in 1973] Beverly Sills, Paul Plishka, Shirley Verrett, Robert Lloyd, Stuart Burrows, Patricia Kern, Robert Tear / Symphony Orchestra / Julius Rudel [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "(Sill's) voice is crystal clear and has considerable warmth...Her incisiveness with words comes as no surprise, her technical accomplishment likewise. There is often a disarming simplicity and youthfulness in her singing." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
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MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov (Complete Opera - 1952 recording) Boris Christoff, Eugenia Zareska, Ludmilla Lebedeva / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Issay Dobrowen [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] '..the digital transfers bring out the excellence of the original engineering. So this version really is essential listening for admirers of the work.' Gramophone |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Edition (Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber, Instrumental & Vocal works) Daniel Barenboim, Cecile Ousset, Karl Leister, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Derek Han, Isabelle Faust, Nash Ensemble, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 58 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2014 ] Brilliant Classics is proud present their Brahms Edition. Now the amazingly varied output by Brahms is there to be enjoyed to its full extent. In excellent recordings on 58 CD's and at an unreasonably low price. |
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DUPUY / OLTHUIS / VIVALDI / VILLA-LOBOS
The Art of the Bassoon Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) / Sinfonia Rotterdam, Conrad van Alphen [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) |
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ROSSINI / BODDECKER / GUBAIDULINA / PIAZZOLLA / HAGEN / etc
Bassoon Kaleidoscope Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) with accompliment [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] The programme on this new recording spans nearly 400 years, and brilliantly showcases the many colours and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. |
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SCHUBERT
The Last Years - The Great String Quartets / Piano Trios / String Quintet / Octet Brandis Quartet / Klaviertrio Amsterdam / Berlin Philharmonic Octet [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "I really admire these heartfelt accounts for their warm expressiveness and sumptuous textures. I certainly fully intend to revisit this set in the future." (MusicWeb Feb 2005 on the String Quartets) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Works 1540; Bruno Forst (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] In 1992 a (misfiled) manuscript was discovered in the Madrid Palacio Real Library: the Arte Novamente Inventada pera aprender a tager (Newly devised method for learning to play), which proved to be the first book of keyboard music to be printed in... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Complete Music for Violin and Piano Bruno Monteiro (violin), Joao Paulo Santos (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] For all the Eastern-tinted opulence of his sole opera, King Roger, and assorted, lush vocal cycles, it is in the works scored for violin that we may hear most characteristically the voice of Karol Szymanowski. The reasons are personal as much as... |
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ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Complete Music for Violin and Piano Bruno Monteiro (violin), Joao Paulo Santos (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Nov/2016 ] Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was a Czech composer of GermanJewish descent. He received his musical education in Cologne, Leipzig and Vienna. Under the Nazis he was captured for his Jewish identity and his music, which the Germans considered Entartet,... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Complete String Quartet (23 CD set ) Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Haydn's string quartets span his creative life - from the 1750s and the Opp. 1&2 sets through to his last unfinished quartet in D minor Op.103 of 1803. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 9 Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio's for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 1 [Op 9 Nos 1-6] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 2 [Op 33 and 42] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Vol 4 [Op 71 and 74] Buchberger Quartet [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Joseph Haydn is considered to be more or less the inventor of the genre string quartet. Although he also wrote quite a number of trio’s for various instruments, his quartets excel in equilibrium in every possible way. He wrote two violins, a viola... |
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RAVEL
Complete Melodies Monica Piccinini, Christian Immler, etc., Filippo Farinelli (piano), Claudia Giottoli (flute), Giacomo Menna (cello) / ECU Ensemble, Marco Momi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] Exquisite, refined, exotic, full of colouristic effects and unheard-of timbres, Ravel's songs are a cornerstone of the 20th century song repertoire. This new recording contains the complete songs, accompanied by piano or by instrumental ensemble. |