BRILLIANT CLASSICS

The piano dominated Rachmaninoff's creative thinking from the start. Even his four early piano pieces of 1887 reveal the extraordinary sense of kinship he felt with the instrument. However, these...

Ravel is considered one of the great masters of orchestration, his compositions noted as much for their sensitive and colorful scoring as for their musicality. This release brings together many of...

Apart from the well known works, this 2Cd set contains some little known pieces - Entre cloches of 1897 was only published in 1975, and was originally appended to the Haberna, now better known as the...

Maurice Ravel is one of the 20th centuries towering musical figures, famed for his transcription of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. The Orlando Quintet are five preeminent Dutch artists,...

While Segovia's famous Paris recital of 7 April 1924 was no doubt a major turning point in 20th-century guitar music, inspiring composers like Albert Roussel, Georges Migot, Alexandre Tansman and...

Max Reger (1873-1916) was an astonishingly prolific composer, amassing a total of well over a thousand works in a short career. His earliest compositions were lieder and chamber works, and it was the...

Reger / Falcioni Reger: Organ Sonatas CD

This release features a new recording of the seldom-performed work Quatuor Scientifique by Czech composer Anton Reicha. Reicha was born in 1770 and he is best known for his writings on music theory...

Each piece on this album, titled Undine, takes inspiration from fairy tales, myths and poems. These works perfectly represent the hidden symbolism and fervent romanticism of this period, and the aura...

The Renaissance era encompasses some of the most magnificent choral music ever written, at a time when composers were attached to royal chapels and cathedrals, and dedicated their art to the service...

This release is dedicated to arrangements of Frescobaldi's music, with each composition bearing the hallmarks of it's transcriber's distinct style. In addition to offerings by Respighi, Bauer and...

Respighi / Orch Sinfonica Di Roma / Palcich Complete Orchestral Music 1 CD