BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Better known now as a hugely influential theorist and codifier of the principles and performance practice of Baroque music, Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) was not just a scholar but a highly...

Brothers Regino (1896-1981) and Eduardo (1903-1982) Sainz de la Maza were arguably the greatest exponents of the guitar in the 20th century. This exceptional recording highlights the great...

Mazzone / Ensemble Le Vaghe Ninfe Mazzone: Il Primo Libro Delle Canzoni A Quattro CD1. Come la Vaga Aurora 2. Cantando G?a la Vaga Pastorella 3. Donna, Sei Pur Crudele 4. Giva Cogliendo Fior Una...

Even in the extensive library of little-known composers whose music has found a niche on Brilliant Classics, the name of Bianca Maria Meda (1661-1732/33) counts as obscure. Little is known about Meda...

Anybody who has entered into the cosmos of Medtner's music, and especially of his songs, will be aware of it's introvert, secretive, sometimes even hermetic character. His mixture of Russian and...

Medtner's legacy for solo piano is now widely esteemed alongside Rachmaninoff and other giants of the Russian 'silver age': melodists to their core, romantics at heart, yet rigorous craftsmen to...

The first volume in this project, undertaken with missionary zeal by both singer and pianist, to rescue Medtner's song output from obscurity, was met with enthusiasm in the Dutch press. 'The...

The child Mendelssohn developed extraordinarily rapidly after progressing, apparently late in 1819, from imitative student exercises to composing his own music. Over the next two years he tackled...

Felix Mendelssohn's love for the cello was famed, and accordingly it was well-represented in his body of work. These works for cello and piano show the wide variation that resulted from a career-long...

After Amelia goes to the ball was staged in 1937 at the Metropolitan Opera with acclaim, Gian Carlo Menotti became hot property. Two further radio operas were comparative failures but it was with The...

The repertoire for harp and piano is modest indeed; only Carlos Salzedo's Sonata (1922) enjoys any currency on disc. However, the combination of plucked and keyed chromatic instruments is one that...

At the time of his death in 1870, Saverio Mercadante was known as a director and administrator first and foremost, who had steered opera houses and then conservatoires through choppy waters at an...