Brilliant Classics
The success of this venture led to international distribution in other European countries including the UK, where Brilliant Classics releases were sold in the Superdrug chain of stores, and Aldi and Rossmann supermarkets in Germany.Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Boccherini, Borodin, Brahms, Cabezón, Chopin, Corelli, Couperin, Dessau, Dvořák, Eisler, Fauré, Franck, Frescobaldi, Grieg, Handel, Hummel, Haydn, Liszt, Martinu, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rodrigo, Schubert, Schumann, Schütz, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Tallis, Tchaikovsky, Telemann and Vivaldi.[6] This included a complete set of the 199 extant sacred cantatas, recorded over the period of a year by the Holland Boys Choir and their conductor, Pieter Jan Leusink, with the Netherlands Bach Collegium."The spirit of the task," remarked Gramophone magazine, "is clearly designed to provide a large audience with the opportunity to experience all these masterworks on period instruments, at an affordable price.Other musicians working on the label within the Dutch early-music tradition have included Musica ad Rhenum with their director, the flautist Jed Wentz [de; it], and the cellist/conductor Jaap ter Linden, who recorded a complete cycle of Mozart symphonies.From 2009 onwards, the Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen has recorded several albums and collections of minimal piano music by composers including Philip Glass, Ludovico Einaudi and Simeon ten Holt."[12] Brilliant Classics has also specialised in forming fruitful partnerships with historically informed Italian ensembles and musicians, including the violinist Federico Guglielmo with L'Arte dell'Arco; Federico Maria Sardelli with Modo Antiquo; Enrico Casazza with La Magnifica Comunità; the harpsichordist and organist Simone Stella, who has recorded the complete keyboard music of the most important prebachian composers including Buxtehude, Böhm, Reincken, Walther, Froberger and Pachelbel; and the keyboard player and conductor Roberto Loreggian [it] has recorded albums of J.S.