BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Born in the context of the popular devotion of the peoples of the Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages, the spiritual lauda became well established in the central part of Italy, where a strong...

Blind from the age of two, a prodigiously gifted student, Jean Langlais (1907-91) produced an immense quantity of music. His organ works alone exceed in number those of of JS Bach. Many have hardly...

Born in Venezuela to Italian parents, Antonio Lauro (1917-1986) was very young when he began taking music lessons from his father. At the age of 9, Lauro, against his family's wishes, began lessons...

An 'illuminating' series (Fanfare) reaches Volume 9, presenting the complete piano sonatas on instruments of the period. The French grand si?cle is most often viewed through the gilt-framed mirrors...

The stylish idiom and sensitivity of this period string ensemble's previous recordings for Brilliant Classics has won wide critical praise. Concerning their 5-album set of Locatelli's Sonatas Opp. 8...

The Venetian composer Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) wrote a total of eight cantatas and canzonettas for bass voice with a continuo accompaniment, all but one presented here in new, historically...

Legend has it that in 1889, the 19-year-old Guillaume Lekeu fainted upon hearing Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Bayreuth. Just five years later he was dead, having contracted typhoid from a...

Manuel Tomadin follows up his first album for Brilliant Classics of Weimar-composed chorales by Bach (BC 94456), with some little-known musical treasures from Hamburg c.1700 complemented by a...

Among the most significant composers of guitar duos in the early 19th century, Antoine de Lhoyer was born in September 1768 in Clermont-Ferrand. His musical talents manifested themselves from early...

Liszt / Dillon / Torquati Complete Works For Cello & Piano CD1. Elegie No. 1, S130/R471B 2. Elegie No. 2, S131/R472 (Version for Cello and Piano) 3. Romance Oubliee, S132/R467C 4. Die Trauergondel...

Liszt the piano virtuoso, the inventor of the orchestral symphonic poem, the apostle of 'the music of the future', is a familiar figure. Liszt the organ enthusiast is not so well known. His fondness...

Liszt / Freire Classica Cubana CD1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, S. 124 (LW H4): Allegro 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, S. 124 (LW H4): Quasi Adagio 3. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E...