BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Louis-Fran?ois Dauprat was a French horn player, horn teacher and composer. He was born in Paris in 1781 and died there in 1868. As a child he was a chorister at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. From...

Despite only his book of 'Magnificats' and these 18 compositions for organ having come down to us today, Sebastia?n Aguilera de Heredia (1561-1627) is noted in the history of Spanish music as one of...

De Machaut / Vellard / Ensemble Gilles Binchois Sacred & Secular Music CD

A selection from de Visee's Pieces de Theorbe et de Lute mises en partition, dessus et basse is presented on this new recording. This is an excellent performance by the Early Music ensemble around...

This compilation provides a showcase of the many aspects of the cello and the range of emotions and characters that the instrument is able to convey. Opening the collection is Debussy's technically...

After setting three of his friend Pierre Louás's 1894 prose poems in Les Chansons de Bilitis, Debussy was asked by him to provide incidental music for a mimed recitation of another 12 poems. A single...

Stefania Scapin's performance on YouTube of Debussy's Clair de lune eloquently demonstrates how sympathetically the impressionist writing of French composers translates to the harp in the right hands...

This is an original coupling on disc - Debussy's sole quartet is nearly always paired with Ravel's - but also a natural and pleasing one, serving to illuminate two lesser-known string quartets with...

Harpists Eva Tebbe and Ekaterina Levental remark that Debussy makes the invisible visible and turns the unspeakable into a musical world full of mysticism, layers of ambiguity and evocative meanings...

Debussy wrote songs throughout his career, beginning at the age of 18 with Nuit d'?toiles, with which this collection also begins. Most of his vocal output was inspired by the singers he encountered...

DeBussy: Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio / Trio Stradivari / Composer: Claude DeBussy / Performer: Federico Guglielmo violin, Jolanda Violante piano, Luigi Puxeddu cello / Orchestra/Ensemble:...

For their 'commitment, technical versatility, unanimity of ensemble and near-immaculate tuning' (Gramophone) the five musicians of Seldom Sene have won golden opinions in repertoire ranging from...