BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Boccherini / Bononcini / Caldara / Haydn / Brewer Stabat Mater CD

Boccherini / Lubotsky Trio String Trios 6 CD1. I. Allegro Molto 2. II. Lento Con Espressione 3. III. Tempo Di Minuetto 4. I. Allegro Maestoso 5. II. Andante Grazioso 6. III. Allegro Molto 7. I...

The average music lover knows only one piece by Boccherini: The famous Menuet. And indeed it is quintessential Boccherini, elegant, charming, sweetly melodic, warm, and graceful. However, there is...

Boccherini / Pastrana / Mazzoli Arie Accademiche For Soprano & Orchestra CD

The start of a major new series on Brilliant Classics - historically informed accounts of the violin sonatas by a Classical-era master of Rococo charm and invention. Boccherini, still in his mid-20s,...

The 24-year-old Boccherini's departure from his native Lucca in 1767 proved to be the making of him. By 1770 he had become court composer and cellist to the royal chamber of Prince Luis Antonio de...

That Boccherini is not the composer of "pretty and harmless tunes" is shown by his Stabat Mater, a dramatic and eloquent musical setting of the lament of Mary at the Cross. The Stabat Mater is sung...

Christmas has always been a source of inspiration for musicians, and this harp album contains many Christmas pieces and famous melodies. Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa (1789-1856) wrote much harp...

This program showcases the many colors and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. The music ranges from the early Baroque sonata of Boddecker (1651), to Saint-Saens's witty, elegant...

While no organist's music bench would be respectable without dog-eared copies of the Suite gothique (especially it's concluding, Toccata, no mere knock-off of Widor's showier counterpart) and C minor...

The Italian guitarist Angelo Marchese introduced the music of the Serbian-US composer Duan Bogdanovic to the Brilliant Classics catalogue in 2015 with an album of sonatas, bagatelles, studies and...

With sonatas, bagatelles, studies and dances, this disc forms a comprehensive introduction to the classically oriented section of the diverse oeuvre of the guitarist/composer Dusan Bogdanovic...