BRILLIANT CLASSICS

All Rossini's qualities as a musical giant are to be found in concentrated form in the famous overtures. The sheer vitality of the music is astounding, and the wealth of thematic material ensures...

The work is performed here with Rossini's original instrumentation and also includes the hymn for soprano and piano 'O salutaris hostia', which is often omitted. As a world first, a bonus track 'O...

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was the most significant Italian composer of the first half of the nineteenth century. Born to working musicians - his father was a horn player, his mother an opera...

2009 10 X CD box set collection. Historical Russian Archive live recordings from 1964-1988 conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Includes orchestral works by Haydn, Dvork, Fleischmann, Shostakovich,...

Conductor, virtuoso pianist, founder of the St Petersburg Conservatory and composer of solo works, symphonies and operas, Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) is a key figure in Russian musical culture and...

Rubinstein / Duo Pianistico Di Forenze Music For Pno Four Hands 1 CD1. Moderato Con Moto - Allegro Non Troppo - Tempo I - Allegro Assai 2. Scherzo. Allegro Molto Vivace - Moderato Con Moto 3. Finale...

Russian guitarist and composer Sergei Ivanovich Rudnev was born in 1955 in Tula. In 1975 he graduated in the accordion and balalaika class of Tula's "Dargomyzhsky" Conservatory, and while attending...

Ruge / Ensemble Flatus / Casularo Concerto Sinfonia Arias & Chamber Music CD

With a repertoire spanning almost 150 years, from 1844 right up to 1992, this release brings together a wide range of works for flute and organ by composers from a variety of countries and musical...

The German-born Christian Friedrich Ruppe (1753-1826) made his career in the Dutch city of Leiden, where he had originally arrived in 1773 as a student of mathematics and literature. In 1784 he...

Russian Guitar Music Of The 20Th & 21St / Var Russian Guitar Music Of The 20Th & 21St / Var CD

During the past century Russian Orthodox vocal music has experienced two periods of rebirth. The first, which began in the last years of the 19th century, consisted of a return to the popular sources...