Chamber Music & Recitals

The 'living Baroque' idiom of Federico Maria Sardelli has been extensively documented on Brilliant Classics, with albums of concertos (BC94749), cantatas (BC95068) and harpsichord music (BC95488) that have advanced the reputation of this modern composer...

The lives of the three Eastern European composers on this disc spanned almost 150 years, a period of dramatic historical change, political turmoil and radical developments in Western music. Leo Jancek, Witold Lutoslawski and Karol Szymanowski.1. 1. the...

The Little Match Girl is among the most famous as well as saddest fairy tales from the pen of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). Over the course of more than one and a half centuries this fable has inspired the imagination of many...

The Liszt Experience two and a half hours of magical music from the ultimate virtuoso in a 2 CD set.1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, S. 124 (LW H4): 1. Allegro Maestoso 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, S. 124 (LW H4): 2. Quasi Adagio - 3...

The Lights Are Always On is pianist/composer Lynne Arriale's 16th album as leader, and her third recording on Challenge Records International. Lynne's original music is a suite of compositions that reflect the world-wide, life-changing events of the past...

The light and airy chamber-scaled divertimenti on this recording were composed in London in the early 1720s. They must have been among the first works with which Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747) sought to make an impression on the discerning audiences and...

The life story of the American composer and pianist George Antheil is the tale of a multiple taming. Almost a hundred years ago the young Antheil set out to conquer Europe with his "ultramodern" piano compositions and soon came to regard himself as the...

The life of the guitar has always been linked with Spain. In the Renaissance, the Spanish abandoned the lute centuries before the rest of Europe in favor of the predecessors of the modern guitar. Spanish guitar composers, such as Gaspar Sanz, made...

The life of Mieczyslaw Wajnberg, full of plenty of difficulties and adversities, reflects the history of an entire generation of Polish Jews, who had to face a cruel history fueled by the forces of totalitarianism. This fate left it's mark on the...

The life of Augusta Holmes is that of a woman with such an indomitable personality and who was completely out of the norm. Her masters were Richard Wagner and C?sar Franck, and she possessed the rare gift of the popular accent, few musicians have had...

The Life Guard's Dragoon Music Corps (Livgardets dragonmusikkar, LDK) along with the Association of the Beridna Hogvakten present this release, "Musik till hast" or "Music to Horse." One of the three professional military bands in the Swedish Armed...

The life and work of Joseph Wolfram (1789-1839) was characterized, as so often during that time in history, by a dichotomy between earning a living and the pursuit of his passions. Wolfram showed extraordinary musical talent from an early age. Following...