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The Richard Strauss Edition [35 CDs + CD-Rom]

36 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-02-28

Works: Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24; Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28; Don Juan, Op. 20; Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40; Metamorph...
Performers: Becker, Herbert; Beranova, Katerina; Bierbach, Franz; Blankenburg, Heinz; Boese, Ursula; Botha, Johan; Cassilly, Richard; Clement, Manfred; Damm, Peter; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Dunn, Mignon; E...
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf; Plasson, Michel; Karajan, Herbert von; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Böhm, Karl; Keilberth, Joseph; De Waart, Edo

This truly unique set comprises a superb collection of some of the greatest performances of Richard Strauss's orchestral, operatic, chamber and vocal works, brought together...continue...

Mozart; Requiem; Masses, Vespers, Sacred Choral works / Chamber Choir of Europe

11 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626; Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 243; Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacra...
Performers: Bittner, Anja; Bittner, Manfred; Farcas, Valentina; Fischesser, Christof [Bass Vocals]; Fischesser, Marietta; Haller, Benoit; Heuvelmans, Pamela; Kremer, Annemarie; Labitzke, Petra; Matt, Nicol; Morv...
Conductors: Matt, Nicol

Mozart may have written masses of masses as a professional obligation, but that doesn't mean they are merely workaday music. These works tend towards a...continue...

Carlo Sturla: Passio di Venerdi Santo

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-05-31

Works: Carlo Sturla: Passio di Venerdì Santo, Passione secondo Giovanni, for chorus & ensemble
Performers: Bagnoli, Lucia; Barbieri, Jonatha; Barbieri, Nicola; Bozzo, Patrizia; Cuneo, Luisa; Dalfino, Laura; Esposito, Emanuele; Figueroa, Eduardo; Gattino, Alessandra; Goidanich, Marlise; Gubri, Marianne; Me...
Conductors: Ferrari, Franco
Ensemble: Il Concento Ecclesiastico

Recording information: Chiesa del Convento de Santa Caterina, Genova (09/03/2006-09/05/2006)....continue...

Schumann: Das Paradies und Die Peri

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-04-20

Works: Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri), for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op. 50; Overture, Scherzo & Finale for orchestra in E minor / E major, Op. 52
Performers: Faulkner, Julie; Hale, Robert; Lewis, Keith; Quivar, Florence [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Swensen, Robert; Wilke, Elisabeth
Conductors: Sinopoli, Giuseppe

Robert Schumann wrote his oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri on Persian fairy tales, a rather unusual subject in a period when oratorios were mainly...continue...
Recording information: Semperoper, Dresden (03/25/1994-03/28/1994)....continue...

Brahms: Complete Songs & Duets / Volle, Elsner

14 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-02-09

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 46; Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 72; Songs (9) for voice & piano, Op. 63; Über die Heide, song for voice & piano, Op. 86/4; Der Tod, das ist...
Performers: Adolfsen, Hans; Baianu, Adrian; Bognar, Ferenc; Bourve, Antonia; Danz, Ingeborg; Deutsch, Helmut; Elsner, Christian [Vocals]; Glassl, Roland; Hartlieb, Tobias; Huber, Gerold; Irányi, Stefanie;...

The songs of Brahms span his entire, 60-year creative life, and contain many of his most personal utterances, as well as many of his most...continue...

Handel: La Resurrezione / Vitale, Gether, True, Beekman, Sandler, et al

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2009-06-02

Works: George Frederick Handel: La resurrezione, HWV 47
Performers: Beekman, Marcel; Gether, Kristine; Sandler, Mitchell; True, Stefanie
Conductors: Vitale, Marco
Ensemble: Contrasto Armonico Baroque Orchestra

With this recording, Contrasto Armonico continues its recording project of Handel's Italian vocal works. The first release in the series, of the serenata Aci, Galatea...continue...

Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Cleobury, Dawson, Summers, Ainsley, Miles, / King's College Choir Cambridge

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2009-05-05

Works: George Frederick Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Dawson, Lynne; Miles, Alastair; Summers, Hilary
Conductors: ; Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort; King's College Choir, Cambridge

Mozart: Requiem / Matt, Heuvelmans, Werner, Morvaj, Pfeiffer, et al

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2009-05-05

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626
Performers: Heuvelmans, Pamela; Morvaj, Robert; Pfeiffer, Thomas; Werner, Barbara
Conductors: Matt, Nicol;
Ensemble: Chamber Choir of Europe; Pforzheim Southwest German Chamber Orchestra

Stradella: Cantata for Christmas Eve / Casazza, Miatello, Calvi, Abbondanza, La Magnifica Comunità

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2008-10-14

Works: Alessandro Stradella: Sinfonia no 2; Si apra al riso ogni labro; Sinfonia in A major; Sinfonia in F major
Performers: Abbondanza, Roberto; Calvi, Caterina; Casazza, Enrico; Ferrarini, Francesco; Longo, Isabella; Loreggian, Roberto; Miatello, Cristina
Conductors: Casazza, Enrico
Ensemble: Accademia della Magnifica Comunità

A contemporary of Buxtehude and Lully, Antonio Stradella remained in Italy his entire life. In Rome, in the mid-seventeenth century, with the theatres being closed...continue...

Euro-Ottomania - Adelburg, Pisani, etc / Araci, et al

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2008-04-01

Works: Luigi Arditi: Inno Turco; Callisto Guatelli: Fatma Sultan; Münire Sultan; Sarki; August Adelburg: Symphonie-Fantaisie, Op. 9; Bartolomeo Pisani: Funeral March in F minor; Angelo Mariani: Inno na...
Performers: Cerny, Pavel; Hurník, Jirí; Jahoda, Milos; Klima, Petr; Pychova, Stepanka; Vacha, Miroslav; Williams, Dagmar
Conductors: Araci, Emre
Ensemble: Prague Chamber Orchestra; Prague Philharmonic Chorus; Prague Symphony Orchestra

This disc provides a new insight into 19th-century relations between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. By this time Turkish music permeated European classical music. Compositions...continue...

Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus / Matt, Morvai, et al

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2007-02-27

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K 38
Performers: Bourvé, Antonia; Haase, Anna; Harari, Alon; Lager, Daniel; Morvai, Robert; Prey, Florian
Conductors: Matt, Nicol
Ensemble: European Chamber Soloists

This is a very recent recording of one of Mozart's early operas. For this work 11 year-old Mozart used a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The...continue...

Bach: Secular Cantatas (complete) / Berliner Solisten, et al

8 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2006-09-05

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 36c, "Schwingt freudig euch empor" BWV 36c; Cantata no 209, "Non sa che sia dolore" BWV 209; Cantata no 203, "Amore traditore" BWV 203; Cantata no 201, "Der Streit z...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Augér, Arleen; Hamari, Julia; Lorenz, Siegfried; Mathis, Edith; Popp, Lucia; Schreier, Peter; Watkinson, Carolyn
Conductors: Schreier, Peter
Ensemble: Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Berlin Soloists

In his secular cantatas J.S. Bach tackled some of the lighter issues of life. Like coffee and marriage...Somehow these are not heard that often in...continue...

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Wentz, Wermyss, Zook, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Brilliant Classics / 2006-06-06

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
Performers: Baker, Matthew [Tenor]; Clarke, Penni; Kim, Yong-Hee; Poorthuis, Maaike; Rasker, Helene; Simpson, Rowena; Van der Heijden, Francine; Wemyss, Nicola; Zook, Richard
Conductors: Wentz, Jed
Ensemble: Musica ad Rhenum; Musica ad Rhenum Choir

250 Years - Mozart: The Great Masses / Matt, et al

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2001-01-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Great"; Kyrie in D minor, K 341 (368a); Missa solemnis in C major, K 337; Mass in C major, K 317 "Coronation"; Requiem in D minor, K 626
Performers: Bittner, Manfred; Farcas, Valentina; Fischesser, Christof; Fischesser, Marietta; Haller, Benoit; Heuvelmans, Pamela; Kremer, Annemarie; Morvai, Robert; Pfeiffer, Thomas; Sans, Daniel; Werner, Barbara...
Conductors: Matt, Nicol
Ensemble: Chamber Choir of Europe; Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra; Pforzheim Southwest German Chamber Orchestra; South German Chamber Philharmonia; Würzburg Camerata