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Bosgraaf, Erik - Bach: Concertos For Recorder - CD |
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Artist: Erik Bosgraaf
Title: Bach: Concertos For Recorder
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Details: Although Bach clearly felt at home composing for the recorder, featuring it in major works including the Brandenburg Concertos and several cantatas, he never composed a concerto for solo recorder – in fact, he only wrote original solo concertos for harpsichord and violin. However, an examination of Bach’s compositional practices reveals that it was customary during his era to adapt or reuse musical material in new compositions. Taking this into conside... view item page for full details >>>
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Attademo, Luigi - Bach: Suites For Guitar - 2CD |
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Artist: Luigi Attademo
Title: Bach: Suites For Guitar
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Info: Recording made in 2009–2010 - Details: J.S. Bach composed no original works for guitar, and although several compositions for lute have been attributed to him, his interest in this expressive instrument appears to have been rather limited, possibly because his mastery and knowledge of it was less extensive than of other instruments, such as the violin and keyboard. However, the 20th century still witnessed an increasing interest in the possibility of perf... view item page for full details >>>
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Brussing, Michael and Andras Bo - Lidl: Divertimenti For Baryton Trio - CD |
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Artist: Michael Brussing and Andras Bo
Title: Lidl: Divertimenti For Baryton Trio
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Details: Andreas Lidl was one of the greatest virtuosos on his instrument the Baryton, a string instrument no longer in use, resembling a crossing between a cello and a viola d’amore. Lidl played in the court orchestra of Count Esterhazy (the patron of Joseph Haydn) and composed many works for the Baryton. A collection of his trios is heard on this disc. Michael Brüssing, a modern Baryton virtuoso, draws lovely sounds from his instrument. He and his trio won gr... view item page for full details >>>
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Ensemble Conserto Musico - Galuppi: Complete Harpsichord Concertos - 2CD |
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Artist: Ensemble Conserto Musico
Title: Galuppi: Complete Harpsichord Concertos
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Details: Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) was a highly successful composer of operas (he wrote 109 operas.) and instrumental music, working and composing at the courts of London and St Petersburg, before settling in his hometown Venice. His aesthetic credo was: “beauty, clearness and good modulation”. His music is easy to follow, graceful and pleasing to the ear and heart. This set offers the complete harpsichord concertos, small-scale works, full of brilliant vi... view item page for full details >>>
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Damas, Carlos and Jian Hong - Fragoso: Complete Chamber Music For Viol - CD |
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Artist: Carlos Damas and Jian Hong
Title: Fragoso: Complete Chamber Music For Viol
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Details: The death of António Fragoso (1897–1918) at the age of 21 robbed the Iberian Peninsula of a composer of great potential, the second within a century, following the Spaniard Juan Arriaga who died at the age of 20 in 1826, having displayed extraordinary promise. Fragoso, from Portugal, is less well known than Arriaga, but the music on this CD reveals a young composer thoroughly aware of the major musical figures of the time; the influence of Debussy and ... view item page for full details >>>
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Russian State Orchestra - Various: Russian Adagios - CD |
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Artist: Russian State Orchestra
Title: Various: Russian Adagios
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 14 November 2011 - Details: A collection of famous Russian Adagios, some well-known (Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian), some true discoveries (Miaskovsky, Khrennikov). Nobody captures the Slavic warmth, passion and bittersweet melancholy better than the great, legendary Russian conductor Evgeny Svetlanov and his wonderful Russian Sate Orchestra. The apparently innate Russian genius for composing soulful melodies, combined with the influence of 200 years of Russian ballet, has resulted i... view item page for full details >>>
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St Petersburg SO / V.Lande - Schubert: Symphony No.8 and 9 - CD |
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Artist: St Petersburg SO / V.Lande
Title: Schubert: Symphony No.8 and 9
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 22 August 2011 - Details: After completing his 6th symphony in 1818, Schubert struggled to complete another symphony. Nos. 1-6 display a deep knowledge of the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart and his hero Beethoven – especially his 2nd symphony. The influence of Rossini can also be detected in the early symphonies. The creative crisis concerned Schubert’s attempts to find a symphonic voice that was his own. The years 1818-25 saw him commence 5 symphonies, and abandon 4 of them. Imm... view item page for full details >>>
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Spada, Pietro - Paisello: Complete Piano Concertos - 2CD |
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Artist: Pietro Spada
Title: Paisello: Complete Piano Concertos
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 22 August 2011 - Details: Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) was a very successful and popular opera composer in his time. Mozart had great respect for him and took Paisiello’s Opera buffa as a model for his own operas (notably Le Nozze di Figaro). Although Paisiello’s works are mostly forgotten now his piano concertos still enjoy popularity: they are delightful, charming and brilliant works, perfect examples of the Neapolitan style, much in vogue in 18-th century Europe. Excellent p... view item page for full details >>>
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Zigante, Frederic - Villa-Lobos: Complete Guitar Music - 2CD |
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Artist: Frederic Zigante
Title: Villa-Lobos: Complete Guitar Music
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 22 August 2011 - Details: Heitor Villa-Lobos is widely recognised as Brazil’s most important composer, whose style reflects his country and his era: rooted in 20-th century European modernism, he developed his own unique style, blending all colours, smells and sounds of his homeland into his rich, exuberant and vibrant music. Villa-Lobos wrote an immense oeuvre. An important place hold his guitar works perfect instrument to present his own style, fusing Latin-American folk-inspir... view item page for full details >>>
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Various Artists - Handel: Complete Cantatas Vol.3 - CD |
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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Handel: Complete Cantatas Vol.3
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 22 August 2011 - Details: This dramatic cantata is one of the earliest works composed for Handel’s Italian patron Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli. It is thought that the first performance took place in 1707, around the same time as his La Resurrezione. Handel met Corelli, and had heard the music of Alessandro Scarlatti, and his compositional skills had broadened considerably as a result. In addition, his ability at realising in his music the emotion behind the words, and of creat... view item page for full details >>>
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Ivo Bartoli, Sandro - Fantasia Contrappuntistica,Seven Elegies - CD |
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Artist: Sandro Ivo Bartoli
Title: Fantasia Contrappuntistica,Seven Elegies
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 25 July 2011 - Details: The Italian virtuoso pianist, composer and intellectual, Ferruccio Busoni, is mainly remembered for his magnificent works for piano, which are some of the most ferociously demanding in the repertoire. Devoted to the music of Liszt and later in life to Bach, Busoni wrote much that is beautiful, complex and ground-breaking. The Seven Elegies put into practice the ideas contained in his controversial pamphlet Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music, which highligh... view item page for full details >>>
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Hanover Band / Sandor Vegh - Schubert: Complete Symphonies - CD |
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Artist: Hanover Band / Sandor Vegh
Title: Schubert: Complete Symphonies
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 25 July 2011 - Details: All seven of Schubert’s completed symphonies - plus the B minor fragment known as the ‘Unfinished’ - enjoy a popularity now which they haven‘t always had. Only the twentieth century gave these pieces the recognition they deserved and an appreciation of their true emotional depth. All display his gift for pure and lovely melody, but there are great differences between the restraint of the earlier six symphonies and the last two, where he fully employed Roma... view item page for full details >>>
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Campanella, Michele - Liszt: Late Masterpieces - CD |
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Artist: Michele Campanella
Title: Liszt: Late Masterpieces
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 25 July 2011 - Details: Franz Liszt’s own Bechstein piano was donated to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena as a result of a warm friendship that struck up in 1938 between the owner of the piano, Roberto Almagia, and the founder of the Accademia, Count Guido Chigi Saracini. Almagia had bought it for his wife, but she had since died, and he was so impressed with the Count, he felt instinctively that the Accademia was the right place for the piano. In addition, Almagia knew t... view item page for full details >>>
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Bedrossian, Franck - Manifesto - CD |
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Artist: Franck Bedrossian
Title: Manifesto
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Aeon
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Description: Released On: 25 July 2011 - Details: Franck Bedrossian is one of France's most brilliant young composers. He is an explorer of sound, keeping an ear out to its possibilities. Silence, beginnings, resonances, explosion. The musical universe of Franck Bedrossian redraws possible geographies with his double culture: Pop/Rock and contemporary music. A fervent defender of speculative writing, he intends to break the silence of pure research and make his voice heard. He sets complex sounds like the... view item page for full details >>>
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Gulke, Peter / WDR SOandC Koln - Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music - 2CD |
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Artist: Peter Gulke / WDR SOandC Koln
Title: Schreker: Orchestral and Choral Music
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 13 June 2011 - Details: The music of late-romantic Viennese composer Franz Schreker was largely forgotten by the end of World War Two, but there has recently been a revival in interest in his work. Fundamentally a theatre composer, he is most famous for his operas, but he composed in other genres and this 2-CD set shows his fine capabilities in orchestral and vocal music. His only symphony (Symphony in A minor) was written when he was a student at the Vienna Conservatory, and hin... view item page for full details >>>
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Moscow Academy / Victor Popo - Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses - CD |
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Artist: Moscow Academy / Victor Popo
Title: Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 13 June 2011 - Details: In the field of choral music Tchaikovsky is known as the first Russian composer to have composed cycles of the Liturgy and the Vespers, but his considerable output of secular choral music is less well-known, and a delightful surprise. These secular choruses are little jewels, written for various types of choir, with all the familiar qualities of melody and rich harmony that we associate with Tchaikovsky. Some, including Autumn, Child’s Song and A Legend (f... view item page for full details >>>
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Mccarthy-hite Project - J.s Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge - CD |
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Artist: Matteo Messori
Title: J.s Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 13 June 2011 - Details: J.S. Bach’s great masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, was incomplete when the composer died in 1750, and he left no indications whatsoever for its instrumentation. Since then there has been much debate on the subject, but we now know that it was written as a practical work intended for keyboard performance exploring the contrapuntal possibilities within one subject. Bach also adopted the same compositional notational method for the beautiful and profound organ ... view item page for full details >>>
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Various artists - Richard Strauss: Complete Chamber Music - CD |
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Artist: Various artists
Title: Richard Strauss: Complete Chamber Music
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 13 June 2011 - Details: Richard Strauss was supremely a composer for the orchestra, and of opera and songs, but in his earlier years he wrote a large amount of chamber music. The young Strauss was heavily influenced by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, and it was only later that he fell under the spell of Wagner and composed the operas and programme music for which he is best known. This splendid 9-CD set of Richard Strauss’ complete chamber music encompasses a huge ra... view item page for full details >>>
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Marilley, Sophie - Jolivet: Complete Songs - 2CD |
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Artist: Sophie Marilley
Title: Jolivet: Complete Songs
Music: Classical Orchestral
Format: CD
Label: Brilliant Classics
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Description: Released On: 13 June 2011 - Details: 20th Century French composer André Jolivet was known for his devotion to French culture and this can be clearly seen in his fine mélodies, or French art songs, which combine all the qualities of rich melody and sensitivity to text that are essential requirements for this form. This is the first complete recording of Jolivet’s edited Mélodies for solo voice and piano. Jolivet’s Mélodies were composed over almost a quarter of a century (1928-1951) and they c... view item page for full details >>>
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