Brilliant Classics

Heinrich Schütz lived a long and successful life, and studied with some of the greatest masters of the time,including Monteverdi and Giovanni Gabrieli. He is generally considered to be the greatest Germancomposer of the early Baroque. Travelling between positions in Copenhagen, Kassel and Dresden, his life was hit by personal tragedies -- he...

Mariana Izman was born in Moldavia in 1979. Taking up the piano at the age of just 6, she graduated withhonours in 2002 from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. A year prior to her graduation, she won the third prize at the 2001 YPF National Piano Competition. She performs regularly both in the Netherlands andinternationally. Mariana Izman's recital...

Hanna Shybayava was born in Belarus in 1979. A student of Naum Grubert, she won the 2001 YPF National Piano Competition and has attended masterclasses with Murray Perahia and Emanuel Ax. Her recital on this Brilliant Classics disc is of two of Schubert's greatest sonatas. The A minor Sonata D784 dates from 1823. The period from 1821 to 1825 saw...

Kompozytor: Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)Wykonawcy:Evelyn Lear, Ruth Welting (Sopraan) Frederica Von Stade (Mezzosopraan) Jules Bastin (bas)Rotterdam Philharmonic OrchestraEdo de Waart...

Here are dynamic modern performances of some of the most popular of all sacred vocal works written in thesecond half of the last century, expertly done by chamber choirs soaked in the tradition which the worksthemselves draw upon. The Gloria is perhaps the best-known of the extended compositions by John Rutter, composer of such choral evergreens as...

Rossini's opera overtures have always enjoyed a life away from the opera house and in the concert hall. Forsheer sparkle and excitement they have few rivals, and for many people who have not heard the operas they were intended for, they nonetheless have become firm favourites. Who does not know the famous tune in the William Tell overture?...