BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Devienne: Oboe Sonatas, Composer Fran?ois Devienne, Artist Brukhard Glaetzner oboe, Christine Schornsheim fortepiano, Siegfried Pank cello, Format 1 CD, Born in 1759 in Joinville, France, Francois...

This set of divertimento-like sonatas belongs to Devienne's period in service to Cardinal de Rohan during the first half of the 1780s, though the manuscript is dedicated to another French nobleman...

The starting-point for this unique recital is a true Mozart rarity, the Sonata for bassoon and cello K292 which Mozart wrote in 1775, pairing the bass members of string and wind families not to comic...

From the moment of it's founding in 1937 by the Dutch pianist and conductor Felix de Nobel, the Netherlands Chamber Choir showed itself to be an ensemble of exceptional quality. Poulenc and Frank...

Now best known for his 'symphonic songs' such as the Hymne an die Nacht, Alphons Diepenbrock won the admiration of his contemporaries Mahler and Strauss for the confident, post-Wagnerian handling of...

Dieupart is best known today for his Six suittes de clavessin, partly because J.S. Bach copied them out, and was supposedly influenced by them in his English Suites. The suites were probably composed...

Born in Granada, Antonio Ruiz-Pip? (1934-1997) learnt the guitar in his youth but trained as a pianist. He began his studies in Barcelona at the Escolan?a de Nuestra Se?ora de la Merced. In 1948 he...

The mythical figure of Pan is evoked by several composers on this album - explicitly so by Debussy, in his invocation to the Greek god which opens his set of six Epigraphes antiques and is here...

Hugo Distler was one of the most important composers of choral music in the first half of the 20th century. His music reaches back to the great German polyphonists like Schutz, imbuing it with...

All three composers gathered together on this unique compilation were active in Vienna in the last half of the 18th century, and all had mastered the craft of writing music for pleasure - as much in...

I could not have written it better myself!, remarked an astonished Brahms on hearing the 18-year-old Erno Dohnnyi's Opus One (the First Piano Quintet) in the summer of 1895. Often hypercritical and...

The six keyboard sonatas played here by Jenny Soonjin Kim are the only known instrumental works by the German composer Johann Friedrich Doles, Jr., as well as the only compositions of his ever to be...