GLASS / KANCHELI / TUUR
Music for Violin & Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) Marco Ventur (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - 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. |
GIYA KANCHELI
Miniatures for Violin and Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Any album of music by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli is eagerly awaited by a wide audience receptive to his particular, post-Soviet voice, which has touched the hearts and minds of many thousands of listeners through his music for both film and... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] These wonderful violin sonatas, written a few years before his death in an asylum, belie the dictum that "Schumann started as a genius, and ended as a talent". These are works by a passionate genius, highly original, full of feverish energy,... |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: L'Impresario in Angustie (complete opera recorded in 2017) Camilla Antonini, Lavinia Bini, Paola Cigna, Alejandro Escobar, Luca Gallo, Marco Filippo Romano / Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forli, Aldo Salvagno [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The Neapolitan Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was certainly a prolific composer of operas, having more than 80 titles to his name. Though many have only recently enjoyed a revival, they were widely admired in his day. |
Marco Ramelli (guitar)
GERHARD & MOMPOU: Complete Music for Solo Guitar; Marco Ramelli [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The contrasting voices of two Catalan composers, friends in life, now joined together in recording for the first time. Federico Mompou was the shy post-Romantic, Roberto Gerhard the gregarious Modernist. Quite unalike in personality, in artistic... |
BORODIN
Piano Works (including Petite Suite & Paraphrases) Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] |
J. C. BACH
Sonatas (6), Op. 16 Marco Ruggeri (harpsichord) & Lina Uinskyte (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Johann Christian, youngest son of the great Johann Sebastian, is often called "The London Bach", as he spent most of his active life in the British capital, a teacher of the Royal family, friend of the young Mozart, and very successful composer of... |
HUMMEL / MOSCHELES / RIES
Cello Sonatas Marco Testori, Costantino Mastroprimiano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] A delightful programme of Early‐Romantic cello sonatas by Ries, Moscheles and Hummel. Ferdinand Ries, Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel were contemporaries, active in a period of transition from Classical to Romantic style, all three... |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphonies, Five Pieces Op.16 Matteo Fossi (piano 1), Marco Gaggini (piano 2) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2017 ] This new recording presents arrangements for piano 4‐hands or two pianos by orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg (the two Chamber Symphonies and the Five Pieces Op. 16), arranged by Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Schoenberg himself. The... |
Carlo Galante, Lowell Liebermann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piccolo Concertos Nicola Mazzanti (keef piccolo) Alessandro Visintini nagahara mini Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento Marco Angius conductor [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] On this unique and diverse recording, three contemporary concertante works for piccolo and orchestra are coupled with an arrangement of Mozart's Oboe Quartet with the solo wind part exchanged for its treble cousin. Liebermann (b.1961) has... |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Complete Music For Cello & Piano Lucio Labella Danzi (cello), Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Ernö Dohnányi (or Ernst von Dohnányi as he called himself internationally) lived from 1877 till 1960, he was one of the most important and influential Hungarian composers and pianists of the 20th century. As a piano virtuoso he maintained an active... |
FEDERIGO FIORILLO
Fiorillo: 36 Caprices Op.3 for Violin, transcribed for viola by Marco Masciagni Marco Misciagna (viola) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Despite his name, Federigo Fiorillo (1755-1823) was German by birth, the third son of a violinist who had studied in Naples with Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo. Federigo followed in his father's footsteps as an instrumental virtuoso, both on... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos Aldo Ciccolini, Aldo Orvieto, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Ferruccio Busoni composed a significant number of works for two pianos throughout his life. |
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. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Marco Testori (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Beethoven wrote sympathetically for the cello throughout his career, from the ardent, lyrical voice of the Op.1 piano trios onwards, and he rarely subjugated the instrument to its basso continuo role still prevalent in the works of Mozart and Haydn.... |
GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali libro quarto, 1596 Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Gesualdo's Fourth Book of Madrigals contains some of the most inspired and anguished vocal works in the entire madrigal repertoire, written while the composer was tormented by remorse after the murder of his wife and her lover. |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: The Complete Madrigals Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2013 ] Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, became famous for two reasons: the bloody double murder of his first wife and her lover, and his passionate and erotic view of profane love. The Madrigals chart the changes in Gesualdo's style, and contain some of... |
GESUALDO
Madrigali Libro Primo (Madrigals Book 1) Delitiæ Musicæ / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The nuances of dynamics and phrasing--not to mention the exceptional breath control and intonation--show an ensemble, like the music's composer, working at the highest artistic level." (10/9 ClassicsToday June 2011) |
GESUALDO
Madrigali libro secondo, 1594 [Madrigals, Book 2] Delitiæ Musicæ / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] Gesualdo's Second Book of Madrigals, performed on this recording by male voices only, is an even more radical study of the themes explored in Volume 1 (8.570548), a continuation as it were of the same work. Like Book 1, it was published in 1594 in... |
GESUALDO
Madrigals, Book 3 Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] "the third book moves into much more dangerous emotional territory, in which the level of dissonance is much higher, and the setting of the texts is pushed to expressive extremes. The six singers of Delitiae Musicae clearly relish those musical... |