Brilliant Classics

Orchestral Works Chamber MusicCD1-2 Brandenburg ConcertosCD3-4 Orchestral SuitesCD5 Violin ConcertosCD6-7 Harpsichord ConcertosCD8 Concertos for 2 & 3 harpsichordsCD9 Double ConcertosCD10-11 Solo Violin Sonatas and PartitasCD12-13 Cello SuitesCD14-15 Flute Sonatas BWV 1030-1035CD16-17 Lute Works BWV 995-1000CD18 Viola da Gamba SonatasCD19 Ein...

Dmitri Shostakovich was the chronicler, the poet in music, of Soviet Russia: from its bright and optimistic inception as enshrined in his First Symphony, through the gradual alienation experienced by genuinely creative figures within Stalin's regime, to which the suppressed Fourth Symphony and opera Lady Macbeth bear powerful witness, to the...

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)Complete Harpsichord MusicSimone Stella - harpsichord...

Great Liszt interpreters play Liszt:Lazar BermanSviatoslav RichterEmil GilelsEarl WildAlfred BrendelGyorgy CziffraVladimir OvchinikovArtur PizarroKlara Wurtz...

Franz Liszt was the greatest piano virtuoso of his time, and his enormous solo piano output includes some of the most taxing music for the instrument ever written. He was influenced by a vast range of composers, but none more so than Paganini. Liszt was inspired by Paganini's incredible virtuosity on the violin, and wanted to translate it into...

One of the most influential and revolutionary works of the 19th century, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner's music drama of 1865, more than any other work shaped the course of music right up to the early years of the 20th century. The famous 'Tristan chord' that begins the work was claimed by some to be a new harmonic language.Wagner was ever the musical...