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    Longo: Chamber Music for violin/viola & piano
    Brilliant Classics

    Longo: Chamber Music for violin/viola & piano

    CD · 1 disc

    $14.99
    Composer
    Alessandro Longo
    Artist
    Gran Duo Italiano, Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso
    Released
    Jul 24, 2026
    Alessandro Longo (1864-1945) was an influential Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist whose legacy is often linked to his scholarly editions of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard works. Yet his own compositions reveal a refined musical voice shaped by late-Romantic lyricism, classical balance, and Italian melodic elegance. Central to Longo's style is a clear, singing melodic line, often entrusted to the violin while the piano provides a harmonically rich and supportive texture. His works frequently employ a warm tonal language, with occasional excursions into modal or chromatic inflections that reflect the broader European trends of his time. Rather than pursuing virtuosic display for it's own sake, Longo typically emphasizes expressive nuance and poised interaction between the two instruments. Among his most representative compositions for this ensemble are his character pieces and salon-style works, which combine lyrical charm with formal clarity. These include graceful miniatures such as the Romanza, shaped by a cantabile violin line and elegantly crafted accompaniment. In these pieces, Longo demonstrates his gift for shaping compact musical forms that evoke atmosphere and emotional depth without excess. His more expansive works-such as the larger-scale multi-movement suites-display a broader architectural sense, often organizing thematic materials through subtle variation and motivic development. Played by the Gran Duo Italiano, Mauro Tortorelli (violin) and Angela Meluso (piano), whose previous recordings for Brilliant Classics (Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scalero, Santoliquido, Caetani, Fano) were highly praised in the international press. "Tortorelli is equally impressive on viola and on violin... On both instruments he spins a flawless, silky line with perfect intonation." (Fanfare, May 2017 - Milhaud). "This release is not just for violinists and lovers of violin music; it's for everyone. Urgently recommended." (Fanfare, July 2021 - Scalero), "Sympathetic performance... employing many idiomatic (at least to the period) expressive devices." (Fanfare, May 2015 - Saint-Saëns)
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  • Longo: Chamber Music for violin/viola & piano

    Longo: Chamber Music for violin/viola & piano

    Brilliant Classics Jul 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.99
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    • Unia, Rossaro, & Longo: Piano Sonatas
    Tactus

    Unia, Rossaro, & Longo: Piano Sonatas

    CD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    Alessandro Longo, Carlo Rossaro, Giuseppe Unia
    Artist
    Massimiliano Genot
    Released
    May 15, 2026
    The recording, entrusted to award-winning pianist Massimiliano Génot (who previously spearheaded the rediscovery of composers Federico Bufaletti [tc 860290] and Giuseppe Unia [tc 812101]), focuses on the romantic piano sonata in nineteenth-century Italy. The theme is particularly interesting because 19th-century Italian piano compositions remain largely unknown today, partly due to the overwhelming preponderance of opera and theatre music of the time, which already overshadowed any other musical genre. Massimiliano Génot's passionate interpretation does justice to these important compositions, which deserve careful consideration within the European piano landscape of the time. The compositions of Giuseppe Unia, Carlo Rossaro, and Alessandro Longo represent a wide-ranging synthesis of Italian tradition and influences from beyond the Alps, in which solid compositional technique and typically Italian expressiveness blend in a manner that is both natural and masterful.
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  • Unia, Rossaro, & Longo: Piano Sonatas

    Unia, Rossaro, & Longo: Piano Sonatas

    Tactus May 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
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    • Cilea-Longo: Chamber Music
    Tactus

    Cilea-Longo: Chamber Music

    CD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    Francesco Cilea, Alessandro Longo
    Artist
    Gianfrancesco Federico, Giuseppe Currao, Ugo Federico
    Released
    Apr 03, 2026
    The publication of the pieces included in this album aims to promote and disseminate a lesser-known chamber music repertoire among national and international concertgoers, a repertoire that undoubtedly deserves cultural and musical appreciation in every era for it's intrinsic originality. The two composers featured in this edition certainly need no introduction: Francesco Cilea, tied to the operatic tradition and bel canto, author of famous operas such as L'Arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur, and Alessandro Longo, the first to revise all 555 of Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas, as well as the author of the well-known 12-volume Tecnica Pianistica. Longo was also the founder of the renowned Neapolitan musical journal L'Arte Pianistica. Gianfrancesco Federico on violin, Giuseppe Currao on clarinet, and Ugo Federico on piano guide us through these compositions, which are of great interest for understanding the Italian musical landscape of the early 20th century.
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  • Cilea-Longo: Chamber Music

    Cilea-Longo: Chamber Music

    Tactus Apr 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
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    • Bufaletti: Piano Works; Dedicated pieces; Sound documents
    Tactus

    Bufaletti: Piano Works; Dedicated pieces; Sound documents

    CD · 2 discs

    $29.99
    Composer
    Federico Bufaletti, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Pietro Floridia, Gaetano F. Foschini, Franz Lis
    Artist
    Massimiliano Genot, Federico Bufaletti, Davide Ficco
    Released
    Aug 30, 2024
    This very interesting monographic recording is dedicated to the figure of Federico Bufaletti, a forgotten artist and main exponent of that Neapolitan piano school that at the end of the nineteenth century moved to Turin. The album is based on an in-depth investigation into the dual role of the Bufaletti composer and pianist: in addition to presenting his complete piano works, we have the recovery of rare recordings of the early twentieth century with the artist performing pieces by Scarlatti, Debussy, Mozart, Liszt, and others. The album also includes works dedicated to Bufaletti by exponents of the Italian piano school such as Alessandro Longo, Costantino Palumbo, Gaetano Foschini, and Pietro Floridia. The interpreter of Bufaletti's music is pianist Massimiliano Genot, already appreciated for having brought to light the piano works by Giuseppe Unia (on TC812101).
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  • Bufaletti: Piano Works; Dedicated pieces; Sound documents

    Bufaletti: Piano Works; Dedicated pieces; Sound documents

    Tactus Aug 2024
    2 discs
    CD
    $29.99
    1. Margola - Respighi: Cello Works / Francini, Sollima, Deljavan
    2. Margola - Respighi: Cello Works / Francini, Sollima, Deljavan
    Tactus

    Margola - Respighi: Cello Works / Francini, Sollima, Deljavan

    Blu-Ray + DVD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    MARGOLA RESPIGHI
    Artist
    Francini, Longo, Deljavan, Sollima
    Released
    Mar 12, 2021

    After the opera omnia for piano (tc.901380) and the concert and chamber production (tc.901390), the record production dedicated to Franco Margola continues with this cd including works for cello. A particularly interesting figure in the panorama of the musical history of the twentieth century, Margola is a direct descendant of that neoclassical movement to which the "generation of the Eighties" belonged, in which he was able to express his talent more fully and to which he remained faithful even after a period of dodecaphonic experimentations. The protagonists of this recording are Jacopo Francini on solo cello, accompanied by Alessandro Deljavan on piano and by the Orchestra of the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, directed by Paolo Longo, with the participation of Giovanni Sollima in the duets for two cellos. At the end of the cd, the famous adagio with variations by Ottorino Respighi, one of the most loved and performed pages of the cello repertoire, thanks to its great lyrical inspiration.

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  • Margola - Respighi: Cello Works / Francini, Sollima, Deljavan

    Margola - Respighi: Cello Works / Francini, Sollima, Deljavan

    Tactus Mar 2021
    1 disc
    Blu-Ray + DVD
    $21.99
    • L'inganno felice
    CPO

    L'inganno felice

    CD · 2 discs

    $36.99
    Composer
    Gioachino Rossini
    Artist
    Antonio Gares, Miriam Albano, Giuseppe Toia, Luigi De Donato, Matteo Loi, THERESIA
    Released
    Oct 31, 2025
    The wife of a duke resists the advances of a powerful lecher and is "punished" by being cast adrift at sea. A well-meaning overseer of a mining operation rescues the shipwrecked woman and, under a different name, shelters her as his niece for ten years. At last, the duke-widowed for a second time-arrives at the place of her exile. They are reunited, and the villain meets his well-earned fate... Nothing new, one might think. Yet L'inganno felice ("The Fortunate Deception"), this one-act opera first performed in Venice in early 1812, is so brimming with Rossini's most fiery spirit that we forget the familiar plot entirely over the course of it's roughly 90-minute runtime: it ignites and sparkles, glitters and whirls with the most beautiful melodies, the most tingling rhythms, and the most furious orchestral surges the master of The Barber of Seville was capable of. The festival was far from the only one to be enthralled!
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  • L'inganno felice

    L'inganno felice

    CPO Oct 2025
    2 discs
    CD
    $36.99