V 6: SCOTTISH SONGS

V 6: COMPLETE SONATAS: K230-K2

Classical Music

V 4: COMPLETE SONATAS: K140-18

V 3: STRING QUARTETS

V 3: PIANO WORKS

Pieter-Jan Belder's zeal for the rediscovery of 17th-century keyboard music continues apace with this, the third volume in the first-ever projected complete set of the harpsichord sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, contemporary and rival of Domenico Scarlatti. Like Scarlatti's examples, these sonatas are intensely colorful, alternately exuberant and poetic, and always distinctive. Soler (1729-83) was born in Olot, Catalunia, and became a monk at Escurial where he was organist and composer. A keyboard soloist of prodigious skills, he composed many sonatas for harpsichord (although not one has survived in his hand), organ works a Requiem, piano quintets and concertos for 2 keyboards, and incidental music to plays by Calderon and other 17th century Spanish playwrights. Much research has been carried out to establish accurate performing editions of Soler's music. The editions used in these recordings are by Professor Frederick Marvin who researched the extensive library and archives of Montserrat Monastery, El Escorial and Bibloteca de Catalunia in Barcelona in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and the edition by Padre Samuel Rubio.

Joaquin Rodrigo's songs span the whole of his long creative life, and like much of his output is inspired by Spanish traditional music and ranges over intimate settings for piano (or guitar), chamber ensembles and full orchestral accompaniments. This set is a huge treasure trove of delightful, picturesque responses to Spanish poetry: all marked by Rodrigo's ready gift for melody and ear for instrumental colour.

Combining communicative performances with engaging programming, this release is dedicated to Schumann's music for cello and piano - works that were written after a period devoted almost exclusively to the piano, and whose aim it was to extend musical knowledge and practice. Teaming up once again to deliver consummate readings of these works are the seasoned Duo Dillon-Torquati, both of whom enjoy busy international careers. The release is a worthy follow-up to their previous two for Brilliant Classics (Gr�tzmacher's transcriptions of Schumann's piano and vocal music, 94060; Liszt's complete works for cello and piano, 94150) and provides a fascinating insight into the esteem with which composers and performers have responded to each other's music. Recorded 23-24 July 2012, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'arte, Banna, Italy. An original program featuring works for cello and piano by Schumann, arrangements of works written originally for other instruments. Schumann himself left the choice of instrument open for some of his works: the clarinet, oboe and cello often changed roles. The Romanzen Op. 94 were originally for oboe and piano, but work very well played on the cello, as arranged by the famous 19th century cellist Gr�tzmacher. Also the violin sonata Op. 105 fares excellently through the golden, melancholy sonorities of the cello. Schumann lived his whole life under the spell of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, and as a tribute to Bach's genius Schumann added a piano part to the famous Cello Suites. This is the second issue of Schumann transcriptions for cello by the duo Francesco Dillon/Emanuele Torquati.

V 2: FRESCOBALDI EDITION - CAN

V 13: COMPLETE SONATAS, K 520-

V 11: COMPLETE SONATAS, K 476-

This is the last installment of the Complete Frescobaldi Edition, one of the gems of the Brilliant Classics Integrales Series. Roberto Loreggian, the originator and key performer of the project, in his role as soloist, playing the Canzoni Francese and the Fantasias. It includes excellent liner notes by a Frescobaldi scholar.

V 10: COMPLETE SONATAS, K 428-

2009 10 X CD box set collection. Historical Russian Archive live recordings from 1964-1988 conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Includes orchestral works by Haydn, Dvor�k, Fleischmann, Shostakovich, Shebalin, Shaporin, Rakov, Agadzhikov, Volkonsky, Belimov, Polovinkin, Mosolov & more.