BRILLIANT CLASSICS

It would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through...

This 2008 recording has been reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giulio Briccialdi. As a principal flautist in the major opera orchestras of Italy and across Europe, Briccialdi...

Britten / Adam,Theo / Roden,Anthony Benjamin Britten: War Requiem CD1. Requiem Aeternam 2. What Passing-Bells 3. Kyrie Eleison 4. Dies Irae, Dies Illa 5. Bugles Sang 6. Liber Scriptus Proferetur 7...

From Javanese gamelan to Mozart, from nursery rhymes to passionate outbursts, from primitive percussion to the caf? chantant, Francis Poulenc gathered up almost all the formative influences on his...

The "Songs from the Chinese", a cycle of six songs on poems translated from the original Chinese by Arthur Waley (1889-1966), were written in 1957 and premiered the following year by the duo of Pears...

It was probably Peter Pears, Britten's partner in music and life, who drew the composer's attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and it's attractions, as a way to introduce texture,...

A most beguiling release crowning the Britten centenary. Les Illuminations and the Serenade for tenor, horns and strings are two of Britten's most enduringly popular works. Tenor Peter Schrier, heard...

After the success of the First Barrios Guitar Competition CD (Elise Neumann, BC9287), this second issue by the 2012 winner Emanuele Buono establishes the extremely high level of this competition...

Previous Brilliant Classics albums by this Dutch string orchestra, based in The Hague, have focused on late-Romantic 'American Pioneers' (96086) and composers in early 20th-century Paris (95734)...

Bruhns: Complete Organ Music / Adriano Falcioni / Composer: Nicolaus Bruhns, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Heinrich Scheidemann, Samuel Scheidt, Performer: Adriano Falcioni / Number of Discs: 1. The...

In this release, the prominent conductor Adriano with help from the world renowned Bratislava and Moscow Symphony Orchestras, among others, draws together the first complete series of orchestral...

Proyecto Brunetti is a flexible ensemble formed with the aim of promoting the chamber music of Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798). It's founder-cellist is Pere Joan Carrascosa, who has also edited the...