Brancusi Classics Limited is a new classical music mini-label which will launch in 2009, and is currently in the process of recording and editing numerous CDs. Under exclusive contract to Brancusi is Italian pianist Stefano Greco, and Brancusi has acquired the rights to his earlier CD of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, in order to consolidate all of Stefano's recordings under a single label. Discussions are taking place with other artists.
Brancusi has so far completed the recording and editing of eight CDs. One of these, Bach's Art of the Fugue, will shortly be issued in a special pre-launch private limited edition, not for commercial sale, for circulation to those prominent in the classical music field. Future CDs by Stefano Greco will include Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and as well as the Complete Keyboard Suites of Handel in three CDs. The first of these CDs is ready for release, containing the first five Suites. These include two restored movements, of which we have made world premiere recordings. The second CD will be completed by the autumn of 2008. The complete Nocturnes and Preludes of Chopin, and many other works are planned for the future.
The recordings of Brancusi Classics are dedicated to exploring the original forms and natures of the music, and involve the revival of some forgotten techniques. A vast amount of research into manuscripts and theoretical treatises, and details of tuning and instrument construction, are involved in our decisions about the recordings. Many innovative transcriptions are being prepared for publication as scores, and numerous unpublished manuscripts of compositions are being studied, edited, and readied for publication also. Brancusi Classics does not pursue atonal music.
Brancusi sponsored a recital at the Wigmore Hall in November, 2005, by Stefano Greco, entitled 'The Later Art of the Fugue', which featured two world premieres, including one of a fugue composed by the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti which has been found in manuscript, and which feature in Brancusi's completed CD, 'The Later Art of the Fugue', of which the Wigmore recital was a foretaste. Eventually this recording of all late fugues will run to approximately eight CDs in length.
This web site is still under construction, and additional information will be added from time to time of a preliminary nature, although the site will not be completed until the official launch in 2009, when our list of completed and forthcoming recordings will be announced. During 2008, a list and full description of the prepared CDs will be posted. |