BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Villiancicos are the main focus of this recording - a popular style of song that Vazquez clearly overhauled by replacing endless repetition with melodic and rhythmic variety. Performing these highly...

Jeroen van Veen has won international success with albums of Satie, Part, Glass and Riley. These are only some of the most significant composers whose work he has recorded for Brilliant Classics in...

Jeroen Van Veen: Piano Music / Composer: Jeroen van Veen / Performer: Frank Steijns, Jeroen van Veen, Sandra van Veen / Number of Discs: 5 / Length: 6 Hours 28 Mins. Repetition of motifs within a...

Verdi begun composition on his Messa da requiem on the occasion of Gioachino Rossini's death and finished it following the death of nationally revered writer Alessandro Manzoni; It received a full...

Viardot: Melodies / Composer: Pauline Viardot / Performer: Elisa Triulzi, Marina Comparato / Number of Discs: 1 / Length: 1 Hours 19 Mins. Recorded: December 2012, Auditorium Matteo d'Acquasparta,...

Some years before graduating from the Paris Conservatoire with a coveted first prize in 1894, Louis Vierne was serving as an assistant to his teacher, Charles Widor, both at the Conservatoire itself...

Vierne / Rubackyte / Morel Spleens Et Detresses Op.38 & Piano Quintet Op.42 CD1. Dans L'interminable Ennui de la Plaine 2. Un Grand Sommeil Noir 3. Spleen 4. Promenade Sentimentale 5. ? Une Femme 6...

Organ works account for only 17 of Vierne's 62 opus numbers, and yet no one would now question his status as the organ's greatest symphonist after Franck and Widor. His six symphonies stand at the...

The Belgian violinist and composer Henry Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was one of the great 19th-century virtuosos in the tradition of Paganini, but his music does not belong in the showpiece category,...

Having recorded the only complete set of Viotti's violin concertos, Franco Mezzena may be counted the foremost modern exponent of an unjustly overlooked composer. Born the year before Mozart in 1755,...

On this new recording, the flautist Stefano Parrino is joined by his brother, the Viotti expert and violinist Francesco Parrino, as well as two of the other string players who, as the Viotti String...

Born in Bologna, Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) spent all his life between his birth city and Modena, where he moved in 1674. There is something noteworthy in this geography of the composer:...