'Galant pleasures' seems an apt description for this release, which presents a charming selection of works written for the mandolin in 18th-century Paris. Indeed, it was around this time that a num...więcej »
In this centenary year full of celebrations of Britten's contribution to British life and music, as composer, performer, impresario and public representative of serious music that could yet reach a...więcej »
Here's a new organ spectacular worthy of the tradition, recorded in 2011 on the mighty EM Skinner organ of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal (Ohio, USA). The organ is maintained to a super...więcej »
Giovanni Benedetto Platti is no household name, but in his day he was lauded as an exceptionally fine singer, oboist and composer, leaving his native country Italy in 1722 to take up a position at ...więcej »
Although Wolf was not at all happy about being branded a composer of the late Romantic German lied, he did in fact devote most of his career to the genre, and the labelling seems an especially fair...więcej »
As with many of the works composed during the same period, Schubert's Lazarus -- essentially a sacred stage work rather than an oratorio -- remains unfinished, with Act 2's burial never completed a...więcej »
The Bach family of musicians comprises a dynasty that effectively spanned more than 200 years of composition. Johann Sebastian stands at the top of the hierarchy, but what do we know about the fami...więcej »
Self-taught composer Georg Telemann was a friend and contemporary of J.S. Bach -- and more admired than the great organist during their lifetimes. Telemann, who continued to write music well into h...więcej »
Following on from their highly acclaimed recording of Pietro Locatelli's Violin Sonatas (described by Robert Maxham in Fanfare magazine as a '...most enjoyable, most entertaining and, at times, mos...więcej »
he piano trio existed, in other guises, long before Ludwig van Beethoven got his hands on it. But he was the composer who would expand the genre beyond all recognition, using his relentless creativ...więcej »
The latest in the invaluable series of single-composer editions and collections from Brilliant Classics is a tribute to an oft-acknowledged but little understood genius of the early 20th century, w...więcej »
Celebrating the Tricentenary of his birth, this new release presents Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's complete sonatas for flute solo and harpsichord.Passion and music went hand in hand in t...więcej »
No more than a handful of pieces represent the entire musical heritage for baroque lute by Johann Sebastian Bach -- not a lot when we consider the enormity of the composer's total output. Although ...więcej »
For César Franck, the concept of poetic sense went beyond the text of the verse, to the wider themes and subject of the poem. This allowed him to write works of dramatic consequence despite ...więcej »
Leszek Możdżer, pianista, który komponuje muzykę filmową, baletową oraz teatralną. Jest również producentem muzycznym. Regularnie koncertuje na wszystkich najważniejszych europejskich...więcej »
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 repertoi...więcej »
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)Die Sieben Letzte Worte / The Seven Last WordsWykonawcy:Petra LabitzkeE sopranoGabriele Wunderer altoDaniel Sans tenor Christ...więcej »
Mozart: ‘Great’ Mass in C Minor K. 427Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Conductor: Nicol MattTenor: Daniel SansBass: Christof FischesserOr...więcej »