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FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Pièces pour clavecin Blandine Rannou [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
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J. S. BACH
Sonates pour violon obligé et clavecin, BWV 1014-1019 Blandine Rannou, Florence Malgoire [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
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Bénos-Djian, Paul-Antoine/Café Zimmermann/Valetti, Pablo
Vivaldi: Masques [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] This album celebrates Antonio Vivaldi's compositions for a particular vocal register, the alto, and for soloists from three different instrumental families: strings, woodwinds (the transverse flute) and brass (the horn). |
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BALBASTRE / COUPERIN / DANDRIEU / MARCHAND / etc
Deux Siècles d'Orgue: Two centuries of organ music at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles François Espinasse (organ) Frédéric Desenclos (organ) Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] The recently restored organ of the chapel bears witness to the glorious past of this historic site and the magnificence of the royal liturgy. This project, entrusted to the four resident organists of the instrument, presents a rich panorama of the... |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini Vol.2 Sonate Per Il Violoncello Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Reunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] 'Shortly after Luigi Boccherini's death on 28 May 1805, two journalists in Leipzig and Paris agreed that he had been (for the former) "an excellent cellist capable of bewitching audiences with the incomparable sound and expressive melody of his... |
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GEMINIANI / TURLOUGH / O'CAROLAN / OSWALD
Give Me Your Hand: Geminiani & The Celtic Earth Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Reunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Some of the Italian musicians who came to London to 'make their fortunes' found themselves influenced by the Celtic lands and their rich tradition of folk music. They were in their turn admired and sometimes even copied by their counterparts in the... |
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FRESCOBALDI
Frescobaldi: Canzoni Bruno Cocset; Les Basses Réunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] With his Canzoni, Frescobaldi affirmed the genre, rather than renewing it, but brought it to its peak. For this recording, Les Basses Réunies reconstructed a consort of low-pitched members of the violin family, which are joined by the smooth sound of... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Cello, Vol. 1 Bruno Cocset (cello), Maude Gratton (fortepiano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Bruno Cocset, an eminent ambassador of the Baroque cello, here makes a teenage dream come true: to record the Beethoven sonatas. 'When we rediscover it from the inside, this music overwhelms us: its art of the mise en abyme, its ability to deviate... |
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Bruno Helstroffer
Calling The Muse: Old & New Pieces For Theorbo [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometres travelled with that theorbo of mine, the cities and the countryside, the railways, the skies, the scents, the lights; but... |
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Bruno Helstroffer, Chantal Santon Jeffery
L'âme-son [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] It was in the second half of the sixteenth century that the guitar became fashionable in France: it was the instrument of the people, whereas the lute was associated with the intellectuals and the nobility. Henry Grenerin became a page (choirboy) in... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Trio Opus 100, Sonatensatz & Notturno Busch Trio [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] After its recording of Dvořák's complete chamber music with piano, the Busch Trio now tackles three works by Franz Schubert, including his famous Piano Trio no.2. While the dying composer dedicated this masterpiece 'to nobody, save those who find... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Complete Chamber Music for piano & strings Busch Trio, Maria Milstein, Miguel Da Silva [ Alpha Classics / 4 CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Named after the legendary violinist Adolf Busch (1891-1952), this young trio has already established itself on the international scene as one of the most talented of the new generation. Under the aegis of Alpha Classics and the Queen Elisabeth Music... |
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DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Quartets Op.23 & 87 Busch Trio, Miguel Da Silva [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2017 ] releaseseptember2017buschtrio, miguel Dasilva- alpha 288 -Following a first recording devoted to Dvořák's Dumky Trio and Trio no.3, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their former teachers at the Queen Elisabeth... |
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J. S. BACH
The Imaginary Music Book of J.S Bach Café Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] "One of the best of Café Zimmermann's very fine recordings, with Pablo Valetti and Céline Frisch the binary stars around which the other luminaries revolve in the harmony of the spheres." MusicWeb recommended Oct 2021 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamento Café Zimmermann, Damien Guillion (countertenor) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] "This is a release you will want to listen to over and over again for its beauty, but perhaps also for its power to heal." Editor's Choice Gramophone Awards Issue 2020 |
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J. S. BACH
Concerts avec plusiers instruments Vol. 5 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2011 ] "the bracing effect of hearing this over-familiar music pared down to its essentials to a degree not even the most radical of Cafe Zimmermann's predecessors have managed is refreshing indeed." International Record Review, July/August 2011 |
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J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol. 4 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] The French Ensemble Café Zimmermann, conducted by violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichord player Céline Frisch, is renowned throughout the world for the clarity and precision of its interpretations and its extraordinary collective virtuosity. This is... |
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J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.1 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |
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J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.2 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |
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J.S. BACH
Concerts pour plusiers instruments Vol.3 Cafe Zimmermann [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] Grouped around the Brandenburg Concertos these 3 volumes of "concertos for various instruments" collect some of J.S.Bach's most famous concertos. |