Brilliant Classics

  • Italian Cello Sonatas
    Italian Cello Sonatas

    $39.99

    By the time of the ‘Ottocento’ (19th century), opera was the dominant force in Italian musical culture, with bel canto composers such as Rossini and Donizetti creating a public appetite for opera that eclipsed achievements...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Tartini: Trio Sonatas / Il Demetrio
    Tartini: Trio Sonatas / Il Demetrio

    $13.99

    With 37 confirmed trio sonatas to his credit, Giuseppe Tartini is the most important Italian composer of his generation for this type of repertoire. It may seem odd therefore that these works have been so...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Da Crema: Lute Music / Cerasani
    Da Crema: Lute Music / Cerasani

    $13.99

    Giovanni Maria da Crema remains to this day a mysterious figure in the history of the lute, with very little information known about his life. However his oeuvre is crucial to understanding the lute's place...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Beauvarlet-Charpentier: 1er livre de Pièces de Clavecin / Luca
    Beauvarlet-Charpentier: 1er livre de Pièces de Clavecin / Luca

    $16.99

    Even in scholarly explorations of FrenchBaroque harpsichord repertoire, the name of Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (1734- 1794) is mentioned only in passing. Previous albums of his music have been dedicated to his organ output; this new album...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 2 / Quartetto Noûs
    Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 2 / Quartetto Noûs

    $16.99

    MusicWeb International made the first volume of this series a Recording of the Month when it was released in 2022. 'This recording by the Quartetto Nous is an exceptionally good one... The superb sound given...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Weiss & Bach: Suite SW47 / La Rocca, Lazari
    Weiss & Bach: Suite SW47 / La Rocca, Lazari

    $12.99

    This recording features a work with a strange coincidence in it's compositional process and an astonishing dual authorship. Remarkably, Silvius Leopold Weiss's Lute Suite SW47 (which he named Suonata) also comes with a violin part...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2024

  • Bach: Guitar Collection
    Bach: Guitar Collection

    $29.99

    This rich set of music by J.S. Bach (or connected to him by attribution or publication) and transcribed for the guitar provides a stunning example of the versatility of the composer's music, the unquestionable genius...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • Mozart: Lodron Night Music - Divertimenti / Mardirossian, CCPO Pardubice
    Mozart: Lodron Night Music - Divertimenti / Mardirossian, CCPO Pardubice

    $12.99

    Mozart wrote the Divertimento K247 in June 1776 for the name-day of Countess Maria Antonia Lodron, a family friend whose two daughters were pupils of the composer. He went on to write the Concerto for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet / Quartetto Santórsola
    Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet / Quartetto Santórsola

    $16.99

    John W. Duarte was not only one of the most prolific composers for the solo classic guitar in the 20th century; he was also concerned with the instrument in an ensemble context. He made a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2024

  • Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 2
    Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 2

    $26.99

    Blind from the age of two, a prodigiously gifted student, Jean Langlais (1907-91) produced an immense quantity of music. His organ works alone exceed in number those of JS Bach. Many have hardly ever been...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • Romanza - Music for Strings / Famà, Orfeo Orchestra
    Romanza - Music for Strings / Famà, Orfeo Orchestra

    $14.99

    This album features two compositions by Jean Sibelius from different moments in the Finnish musician's life. The Impromptu Op.5 for string ensemble is an early work from 1894, in which Sibelius uses some thematic materials...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2024

  • Le Bret: Pièces de Clavecin / Pierini
    Le Bret: Pièces de Clavecin / Pierini

    $12.99

    The surviving work of a mystery composer from the late French Baroque, in a new recording by a highly accomplished young early-music keyboardist. Nothing is known of Le Bret beyond the volume of keyboard pieces...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2024

  • Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades
    Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades

    $44.99

    A divertimento is defined as music intended for light entertainment, 'to please the ear' rather than arouse the emotions, in the phrase of one early-19th-century theorist. The word was used interchangeably at the time with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Anna Federova
    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Anna Federova

    $13.99

    Early recordings by one of today’s pre-eminent interpreters of Rachmaninoff. The Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova is renowned for her playing of Rachmaninoff, and in particular the four concertos which she has performed across the world....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Jadin: Sonatas for Piano with Violin
    Jadin: Sonatas for Piano with Violin

    $16.99

    According to Marek Toporowski, the French composer Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800) authored ‘the greatest masterpieces of the French literature for the fortepiano from the time of the Revolution.’ Despite dying in poverty from tuberculosis at the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024