BRILLIANT CLASSICS

The first volume of 500 Years of Organ Music (95310) plunged us into the world of a majestic instrument which has been a formidable presence in churches and cathedrals for thousands of years. In this...

A highly regarded representative of the new generation of cellists, Benedict Kloeckner has been championed by such maestros as Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle. With a discography including an...

Just off the main road between Rome and Naples, the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino can date it's foundation back to AD529, though it gained a more tragic renown during the Second World War as the...

This recording, from friends and collaborators Federico Bracalente and Daniele di Bonaventura, stems from an idea they had almost 10 years ago: to merge the sounds of their respective instruments,...

The prolific Domenico Alberti squeezed a surprising number of works out of a short and eventful life, achieving fame across Western Europe, particularly for the so-called 'Alberti bass', an...

Born in 1982, the Italian composer, mathematician and guitarist Giovanni Albini began writing for string quartet in 2003. By then he had graduated from the conservatoire in Milan before pursuing...

During Albinoni's lifetime (1671-1751) four separate collections of sonatas with violin were published under his name, though only the Trattenimenti armonici Op.6 were prepared by their composer. The...

Albinoni / Schilli / Deangeli / Sgc / Matt Complete Oboe Concertos CD1. Concerto ? Cinque, for Oboe, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello ; Continuo No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9/2, (T. 9/2): Allegro Non Presto 2...

Alkan / Bowyer / Maltempo Alkan Edition CD

Neapolitan Organ Music, Composer Domenico Scarlatti, Francesco Durante, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Gian Francesco de Majo, Niccolo Porpora, Niccol? Antonio Zingarelli, Paolo Altieri, Artist...

When they began playing together in 2017, Stefano Cardi and Enrico Pieranunzi went in search of repertoire which would harmonize with their disparate musical backgrounds, that of a classical...

Idiom, which offers an ethereal synthesis of Franckian chromaticism with an individual interpretation of classical forms and church modes. Though he trained as an organist, his writing for other solo...