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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Études Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Pianist Aaron Pilsan had two dreams in life: to record both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin's Études. These dreams have come true, as the Bach recordings have been released (Alpha 669 & 1034), and he now presents his recording of the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Je chante la nuit Agathe Peyrat, Pierre Cussac [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] The soprano (and ukulele player) Agathe Peyrat and the accordionist (and singer) Pierre Cussac form a unique duo, free-spirited and open to blending genres. In this programme, they embrace a classical repertoire, while putting their own spin on... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BELA BARTOK
Strauss & Bartók: Violin Concertos Alena Baeva; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 9/Oct/2026 ] "The only violin concerto written by Richard Strauss, at just 18 years old, is a beautiful, energetic, brilliantly structured work with so many clues and features of his later style.", says Alena Baeva. With her long-standing collaborator Paavo Järvi... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets Anna Besson (flute), A nocte temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] It was during his stay in Mannheim between October 1777 and March 1778 that Mozart received commissions for two string quartets with flute (K285 and K285a), an instrument that was in vogue at the time, likely because Prince-Elector Karl Theodor of... |
ANDRE PREVIN / SEBASTIAN CURRIER
American Tunes #1 Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Knut Johannessen, Roman Patkoló, Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Lambert Orkis (piano), Mutter's Virtuosi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 21/Aug/2026 ] In this second volume of the ASM Forte Forward series, Anne-Sophie Mutter performs works by two composers close to her heart. First, André Previn (1929-2019), to whom the violinist was married for several years, and with whom she remained close... |
ANDRE PREVIN / SEBASTIAN CURRIER
American Tunes #1 (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Knut Johannessen, Roman Patkoló, Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Lambert Orkis (piano), Mutter's Virtuosi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 21/Aug/2026 ] In this second volume of the ASM Forte Forward series, Anne-Sophie Mutter performs works by two composers close to her heart. First, André Previn (1929-2019), to whom the violinist was married for several years, and with whom she remained close... |
EDWARD ELGAR / MAX BRUCH / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Sir! Astrig Siranossian, Nathanäel Gouin, London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 21/Aug/2026 ] This album is titled "Sir!" because it is dedicated to the famous Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar. But also because Astrig Siranossian plays Sir John Barbirolli's cello, a magnificent instrument by Gennaro... |
ANTONIO CALDERA
48° North. Caldara, from Venice to Vienna The BanXhies, Emmanuel Arakelian [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] In Celtic mythology, the 'Banshee' is a messenger between worlds. The four musicians of The BanXhies have come together around this figure, seeking to use music as a conduit from the outer world to the inner world. For their very first album, Roxana... |
MATEO ROMERO / JOSEPH DE SAN JUAN / FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ Y LLANA
¡A la fiesta! Cantoría; Jorge Losana [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] This recording celebrates the Christmas season and its music, but above all it offers an opportunity to discover a little-known Catalan composer, José de San Juan, one of the most famous of his time in Spain, born in Olot (Girona) in 1687 and who... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / HENRY PURCELL / GIOVANNI BATTISTA FERRANDINI
Historiæ sacræ Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Camille Delaforge [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Il Caravaggio is an ensemble founded and conducted by Camille Delaforge, bringing together a new generation of musicians playing period instruments; the ensemble will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2027. They are joining Alpha Classics for... |
FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Nui Esmé Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esmé Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life,... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Schostakovich: Symphony No. 8 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2) Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Alain Altinoglu [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 9/Oct/2026 ] 'Basically, I only have two symphonies: the Fourth and the Eighth.' Shostakovich is said to have remarked. Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom Symphony No. 8 is dedicated, wrote in his diary: 'I spent the whole evening reflecting on and sketching out the form... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin Georg Nigl (baritone / reader), Alexander Gergelyfi (square piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi present Die schöne Müllerin in a version that is quite different from what we usually hear. Thanks to the use of a Tafelklavier (square piano) built around 1810 by Carl Withum, the baritone says he has "renewed his... |
ORAZIO BENEVOLO
Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and 'large forms'. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the... |
ANDERS HILLBORG
Hillborg: Lost Landscapes Ida Falk Winland; Pekka Kuusisto; Brad Lubman; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Anders Hillborg is Sweden's leading composer: born in 1959, he has devoted himself entirely to composition since 1982, and his music is performed by the world's leading orchestras and conductors. This release on Alpha is part of the partnership... |
FRANZ LISZT / RICHARD WAGNER / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / WA;TER BRAUNFELS / ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD / HUGO WOLF
Tristan Generation Juliette Journaux (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] Following Wanderer Without Words (Alpha 984), which demonstrated her talents as a transcriber and pianist - "we applaud both the skill of the composition and the performance, which alternates between subtle gestures and flashes of passion", wrote... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / EUSEBIUS MANDYCZEWSKI
Melancolie: Brahms, Mandyczewski Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] "Having different backgrounds is an asset. Growing up in a multilingual environment fosters cognitive flexibility... I was fortunate enough to live between Romania and Germany," says Konstantin Krimmel. Together with his longtime musical partner... |
MICHEL‑RICHARD DE LALANDE
Lalande: Suites pour les soupers du Roy Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel are paying tribute to Michel-Richard de Lalande, who died 300 years ago: "Louis XIV's master of music, renowned for his sacred music and numerous divertissements, was also a remarkable composer of symphonies,"... |
CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON
Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - II Les Lucioles [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Twenty years have passed since the release of The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I (ALPHA1289, also reissued) by the violist Sophie Watillon, who died prematurely a year after the album's release. Lucile Boulanger and the... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (On Period Instruments) Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Following the critical and public success of Mahler's Symphony no.9, Philipp von Steinaecker and the Mahler Academy Orchestra continue their recording of Mahler's symphonies on period instruments with the Fifth Symphony. For this recording, the new... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (LP) Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zürcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 30/Oct/2026 ] For this fourth volume of their complete recording of Mahler's symphonies, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present a monumental work: Symphony No. 2, with its five movements and colossal orchestra, complemented by a choir and soloists:... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 KV 466 & 22 KV 482 Marie-Ange Nguci (piano), Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The sixteenth volume of the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series - the penultimate instalment in this collection dedicated to the younger generation of performers, produced in collaboration with the Orpheum Foundation - is fast becoming... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] Martin Helmchen continues his complete recording of Schubert's piano sonatas, comprising four double albums to be released between now and 2028, the bicentenary of the composer's death. This volume includes Sonatas D. 568 (1817), D. 845 (1825) and... |
OLLI MUSTONEN / ZOLTAN KODALY
Heavenly Lights Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] For this fifth volume in the Lockenhaus Festival series, under the artistic direction of Nicolas Altstaedt, the cellist presents two works by the Finnish composer Olli Mustonen (born 1967, a student of Rautavaara), including Heavenly Lights... |
NICOLAS WORMS
Worms: L'Enquête Nicolas Worms (keyboards) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] The music of composer and pianist Nicolas Worms (born in 1993 in Paris) is a space where contradictory times and places converge. He develops the concept of 'music-fiction', as in the series FLOT, released by Alpha Classics in 2024. This new album... |
NICOLAS WORMS
Worms: L'Enquête (LP) Nicolas Worms (keyboards) [ Alpha Classics / LP - due 2/Oct/2026 ] The music of composer and pianist Nicolas Worms (born in 1993 in Paris) is a space where contradictory times and places converge. He develops the concept of 'music-fiction', as in the series FLOT, released by Alpha Classics in 2024. This new album... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / EDVARD GRIEG
Mendelssohn & Grieg: String Quartets Opus13 [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] The Opus13 Quartet was formed in 2014 and takes its name from the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, by Felix Mendelssohn, a passionate early work and the first piece they ever played together. Comprising two Norwegians (violinists Sonoko Miriam... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an... |
ERNEST GUIRAUD / AUGUSTA HOLMÈS / FLORENT SCHMITT / MARIE JAËLL / CHARLES GOUNOD / GASTON CARRAUD / GUY ROPARTZ / CHARLES SILVER
Phantoms. French Symphonic Poems Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] "A genre of high fantasy, complete with its host of ghosts, demons, spirits and witches, usurped the place of the magical elements of Baroque opera in France during the 19th century," writes Alexandre Dratwicki in the introduction to this programme,... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / FAZIL SAY / PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA
Patkop & Say Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Fazil Say [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 16/Oct/2026 ] For this second album on Alpha Classics (following ALPHA885), Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say are not only an extraordinary performing duo, but also composers. They have recorded Szymanowski's magnificent Myths and Prokofiev's sonata, written... |
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG
Schönberg: Piano Works Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 2/Oct/2026 ] The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a leading figure in contemporary classical music and an insightful interpreter of the core piano repertoire, has joined Alpha Classics and launches the partnership with an album that has long been close to... |
ANONYMOUS / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / JAMES OSWALD / TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / THOMAS MOORE / ARCHIE FISHER / JER
Songs from the North Country (LP) Rosemary Standley, François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - due 2/Oct/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed to the iconic singer of the legendary rock band Moriarty - who has already... |
ANONYMOUS / ARCHIE FISHER / JERRY HOLLAND / JAMES OSWALD / NIEL GOW / THOMAS D'URFEY / WILLIAM THOMSON / FRANCESCO GEMINIANI / THOMAS RAVENCROFT etc
Songs from the North Country Rosemary Standley, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and François Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed collaborating on a programme of English ballads with the iconic singer from the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / HUGO WOLF / RICHARD STRAUSS / ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY / MEL BONIS / LOUISE DIDIER / FRANCIS POULENC etc
Contes Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 18/Sep/2026 ] Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch are reuniting for a project that the French soprano conceived as the second part of a diptych begun with Voyage intime (Alpha 911). This time we enter the world of childhood, but even though this album is called... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BÉLA BARTÓK / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Komm! Wrocław Baroque Ensemble, Andrzej Kosendiak, NFM Boys' Choir [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 9/Oct/2026 ] As the founder of the Wrocław Baroque Ensemble, which performs on period instruments, the Polish conductor Andrzej Kosendiak is a champion of Baroque music and has specialised in oratorios and cantatas from various periods. Giovanni Antonini has a... |
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... |
AFTAB DARVISHI / UNSUK CHIN / JORG WIDMANN / THOMAS ADES
East Meets West Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] An inspiration to entire generations of musicians and an indefatigable icon of classical music, Anne-Sophie Mutter remains an artist in motion: curious, bold, and open to what music can be today and tomorrow. For decades, she has been commissioning... |
