More By Artist: Giorgio
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam (complete opera recorded in 2017) Festival Donizetti Opera / Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andrea Concetti, Irina Dubrovskaya / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] "The opera fizzes along under Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, the general frivolity offset by tender music for the lovers." Gramophone Magazine July 2018 DVD/Blu-ray of the Month |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ PIM DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power, heightening with a modern and cinematic style a... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Alto Cantatas Gabriella Martellacci (alto) / Gruppo Instrumentale di Roma, Giorgio Sasso [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The author of around 800 cantatas, Alessandro Scarlatti was the most prolific composer of this particular chamber genre during the Baroque period. In this engaging release we are introduced to two examples, both 'with instruments' and written for... |
JEAN LANGLAIS
Langlais: Organ Music Volume 2 Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali, Alessandro Perin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Jean Langlais was born on February 15, 1907, in La Fontenelle, Brittany, France. He became blind from the age of two. Sent to the Paris National Institute for the Blind Youth in 1918, he studied piano, violin, harmony and organ with great blind... |
GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Coro di morti / Quattro inni sacri / Partita / Noche oscura Giorgio Berrugi (tenor) & Vasily Ladyuk (baritone) / Orchestra and Chorus, Teatro Regio, Torino, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Musica Italiana / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This new Petrassi recording with Gianandrea Noseda and his Italian forces is part of our ongoing Italian music series. Last year's release of Salmo IX° and the Magnificat (CHAN10750) was widely praised, Gramophone stating: 'The performances by the... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 4 (Incls 7 Czech Dances) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] Although they number approximately eighty out of a total of over four hundred works, Martinů's compositions for solo piano have long been overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This fourth and final release in the Naxos complete Martinů... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 5 (Incls 6 Polkas, H. 101) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). Since the release of Volume 4 (Naxos 8.570215), which was originally intended to be the... |
TIBOR HARSANYI
Harsanyi: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 6/May/2020 ] The Hungarian-born composer Tibor Harsányi is now recognised as an important personality in 'L'École de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pièces de danse, and he also embraced jazz. |
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Music - Vol. 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "This disc has been as thoroughly rewarding as the first two and as before Giorgio Koukl establishes himself as the perfect vehicle through which this superb composer finds a voice that shows his brilliance to the greatest effect" (Recording of the Month |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 2 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A fascinating selection of Martinu early piano works, plus two late rifles" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2007 |
TIBOR HARSANYI
Harsányi: Piano Works 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 15/Jan/2021 ] Tibor Harsányi, a student of Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Conservatory, lived in France from 1923 where he became one of the leading expatriate composers to form the group known as LÉcole de Paris. As the 4 Morceaux show, his piano music is notable... |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 6 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 7 - A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks / From Anderson's Fairy-Tales Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Koukl, very well recorded here, remains a dependable interpreter capturing the widely varied accents of this collection with considerable precision in nearly all cases." BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** on the fourth volume in the Martinu... |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Piano Music (Complete), Volume 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2007 ] This third release in the Naxos complete Martinů solo piano music series represents the most mature style of his work. |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Piano Concertos Vol 2: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4 Giorgio Koukl (piano) / Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] The music of Bohuslav Martinů , whose complete solo piano works have also been recorded by Giorgio Koukl for Naxos, can ring like bells, shimmer like a mirage or pulse with sheer rhythmic vitality as is the case with these three piano concertos,... |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works Vol.3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) Virginia Rossetti (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Vittorio Rieti won esteem for his orchestral music which was conducted by titans such as Toscanini and Stokowski, but the piano remained his greatest musical love. Rieti's vivid freshness can be appreciated in the selections in this volume, which... |
KUHLAU
Violin Sonatas Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin), Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Friedrich Kuhlau (1786‐1832) was born in Hannover, but as a student he went to Denmark, where he stayed the rest of his life, becoming an important national composer. Kuhlau was a near contemporary of Beethoven, and his style shares elements of... |
MIRTO / MANCA / SIGNORILE / ALBINI / etc
Nocturnes Giorgio Mirto guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Jul/2013 ] "His touch is soft yet strong, and his manner of sound-producing is truly singing. The guitar's voice is sonorous, without the wooden dryness." MusicWeb International, April 2013 |
MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
