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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 'Spring', 9 'Kreutzer' & 3 Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko are starting their recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Alena is recognised as a versatile violinist with a magnetic presence and now performs with the greatest orchestras and conductors,... |
Doulce Mémoire; Denis Raisin Dadre
Lasso & Agostini: Lagrime di San Pietro [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] This recording, made at Noirlac Abbey in January 2025, is dedicated to Denis Raisin Dadre, who passed away suddenly on September 29 of the same year. With Doulce Mémoire, the ensemble he founded in 1989 and with which he brought Renaissance music to... |
UNSUK CHIN
Unsuk Chin Ensemble Intercontemporain; Pierre Bleuse; Samuel Favre; Dimitri Vassilakis [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] The Ensemble Intercontemporain and its musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here.... |
Johann Sebastian Bach; François Couperin; Jean-Baptiste Lully; Johann Fischer; Johann Philipp Krieger
Tranquilles Cœurs Ensemble Théodora [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] In 2018, four friends studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London decided to form an ensemble they called Théodora. Mariamielle Lamagat (soprano), Louise Ayrton (baroque violin), Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) and Alice Trocellier (viola da gamba)... |
Ksenija Sidorova; Paavo Järvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra
Prophecy [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] With these works for accordion and orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova and Paavo Järvi pay tribute to the music of the Baltic countries: the Latvian and the Estonian, who have been collaborating for over 10 years, recorded in Pärnu with the festival... |
Le Banquet Céleste
Bach: Mein Geist [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] Following the departure (of his own accord) of its founder Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste has reinvented itself as a collective of musicians and singers, all committed to continuing to explore the Baroque repertoire with the stylistic rigour that... |
Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino
Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18 [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 13/Feb/2026 ] Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present a third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following two volumes (Alpha 726 and 942) that were very well received by the press and the public: 'The most exhilarating "authentic" Mozart I have ever heard,'... |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; Igor Stravinsky; Darius Milhaud; Charlotte Sohy
Symphonies in 3 Movements Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Bar Avni [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] Winner of the 2024 La Maestra competition in Paris and recipient of five additional prizes, conductor Bar Avni is pursuing a very promising career. Born in Israel, she first studied percussion before turning to conducting. She counts Yoav Talmi,... |
François Couperin; Antonio Vivaldi
Or (Light): Couperin & Vivaldi Sonia Wieder-Atherton [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 27/Feb/2026 ] For her new recording, entitled 'Or' (light), cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, 'a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time': first, Couperin's Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet... |
Adèle Charvet; Florian Caroubi
Belle Epoque! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] For her second recital with piano, mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet reunites with Florian Caroubi, who has been her regular duo partner since 2015. Together they celebrate the belle époque of the great French melodists (Massenet, Debussy, Fauré) and their... |
Alpha Wolf
Half Living Things [ Cooking Vinyl Australia / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In the ever-evolving sonic landscape of Alpha Wolf, their music transforms like a shapeshifting beast, defying expectations and breaking through boundaries with the weight of wrecking-ball dynamics and captivating off-kilter hooks. The Australian... |
Alpha Wolf
Half Living Things (LP) [ Cooking Vinyl Australia / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In the ever-evolving sonic landscape of Alpha Wolf, their music transforms like a shapeshifting beast, defying expectations and breaking through boundaries with the weight of wrecking-ball dynamics and captivating off-kilter hooks. The Australian... |
Alpha Wolf
A Quiet Place To Die [ Greyscale Records / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "A wolf that hides in sheep's clothing will never be the Alpha." An iron will is only ever hardened within the forge, and Australia's fastest rising metal core act Alpha Wolf have proven they are made of sterner stuff. The five piece bared their... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ALEXEY SHOR
Prokofiev & Shor: Piano Concertos Behzod Abduraimov, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] "Behzod Abduraimov's expansive phrasing and potent left hand lend the opening Andantino a Brahmsian patina...abetted by the Royal Philharmonic's shapely pizzicato strings and individualistic first-desk solo turns under Vasily Petrenko's leadership." |
GABRIEL FAURE / CHARLES GOUNOD
Fauré: Requiem - Gounod: Messe de Clovis Emőke Baráth (soprano), Philippe Estèphe, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2024 ] While Faure's Requiem is a monument of French sacred music, Gounod's Messe de Clovis is much less well known. It was composed from 1891 onwards as a tribute to Clovis who, like Joan of Arc, had become an iconic figure after the defeat of France in... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Haydn 2032, Vol. 16: The Surprise Il Giardino Armonico, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] "With consistently alert, finely nuanced playing from the period forces (including superb wind principals), this latest addition to Antonini's Haydn odyssey is self-recommending" Gramophone |
MASSE / MEYERBEER / HALVEY / THOMAS / ADAM / etc
Jodie Devos - Bijoux Perdus Jodie Devos (soprano) / Brussels Philharmonic; Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] "Devos is again wonderful. Her warm voice comes flying out of the grooves, and one can sit back and just revel in it. The orchestra is idiomatically led by Pierre Bleuse. Alpha provides a warm and balanced acoustic." Fanfare |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Colorature Jodie Devos (soprano) / Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Laurent Campellone [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Recital |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture Andreas Staier, Le Concert de La Loge, Julien Chauvin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, 'one... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol.17: Per il Luigi Kammerorchester Basel; Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Per il Luigi is the 17th volume of the complete Haydn 2032 collection and presents a number of Haydn's earliest symphonies; these had been composed to display the talent of the musicians who had joined the Esterházy court orchestra during the same... |
