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JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY / MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN HENRY d"ANGLEBERT / etc
Splendeurs de Versailles [10 CD set] Cafe Zimmermann, Le poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre, Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frederic Desenclos, etc [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Versailles: its court, its atmosphere and its music . . . So many splendours emblematic of a monument with an incomparably rich history. The works associated with the palace have travelled down the centuries and today represent a precious part of our... |
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DIEGO ORTIZ
Ad Vesperas: Napoli 1565 Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni [ Alpha Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Cantar Lontano, Marco Mencoboni |
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Cappella Mediterranea/Alarcón
De Vez En Cuando La Vida (Lp) [ Alpha / 2 LP - released 20/Sep/2018 ] "'The memories of my childhood in Argentina always bring me back to the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, synonymous with shared family moments . . . Serrat's poetry and music around a barbecue in Argentina; "De vez en cuando la vida" made me cry... |
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DRAGHI / ALARCON
Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo Cappella Mediterranea; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] The original score of El Prometeo (Prometheus) is held in the Leopoldine Library in Vienna. It dates from 1669 and was written by Antonio Draghi, a composer who was also a singer, notably in the operas of Cavalli. For the first time in history, an... |
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MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Cappella Mediterranea; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is naturally an iconic work for Leonardo García Alarcón. The Argentinian conductor has performed and matured his interpretation of Monteverdi's masterpiece throughout his life. Together with his group of soloists, the Namur... |
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SERRAT / VALLS DE RIBAYZ
De vez en cuando la vida Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] The memories of my childhood in Argentina always bring me back to the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, synonymous with shared family moments . . . Serrat's poetry and music around a barbecue in Argentina; "De vez en cuando la vida" made me cry... |
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JAMES MACMILLAN
Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan, with Madeleine Mitchell (violin) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] After its 'undeniably beautiful' (The Financial Times) Linn debut and its 'excellently performed' (Fanfare) follow up, Cappella Nova releases a third volume of choral works by the leading contemporary composer, James MacMillan. Of the eight works... |
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MANUEL DE FALLA
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, Nights in the Gardens of Spain Carlos Miguel Prieto, The Orchestra of the Americas, Jorge Federico Osorio, Alejandra Gómez Ordaz [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Following its acclaimed Linn debut recording, Copland & Chávez: Pan-American Reflections, The Orchestra of the Americas releases its sophomore album with its Music Director, Carlos Miguel Prieto. Prieto is joined by fellow Mexican and celebrated... |
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JEAN-HENRY d'ANGLEBERT
Pieces de Clavecin & airs d'apres M. de Lully Celine Frisch (clavecin francais) / Cafe Zimmermann / Paul Valetti [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2007 ] The originality of this recording lies in the fact that it enables music lovers to compare D'Anglebert's transcriptions with the music of Lully in its original version. |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: Lagrime e Sospiri Chantal Santon Jeffery, Benjamin Chenier, Galilei Consort [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2017 ] The life of Stradella, murdered on a Genoese piazza at the age of forty-two on the orders of a jealous rival in love, has achieved mythical status and inspired several novels and operas featuring Stradella the adventurer, the rebel and above all... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach before Bach Chouchane Siranossian; Leonardo García Alarcón; Balázs Máté [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] In the Europe of the first half of the seventeenth century, instrumental music became a source of sonic and expressive experimentation. Influenced by vocal rhetoric, composers sought to replace words with a new musical language. The virtuosity of the... |
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FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI / PIETRO LOCATELLI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Duello d'archi a Venezia Chouchane Siranossian (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] "For this recording we have created an imaginary 'battle of the bows' between Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini and Locatelli, the 'four musketeers' of the violin in Venice during the first half of the 18th century", said Chouchane Siranossian and Andrea... |
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SIGMUND ROMBERG
Romberg: Violin Concertos Chouchane Siranossian (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Born in Lower Saxony just three years before Beethoven, the violinist Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) was, like him, a virtuoso instrumentalist of precocious gifts. His career too was radically affected by the Napoleonic Wars and a formative encounter... |
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GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Tartini: Violin Concertos Chouchane Siranossian (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Baroque Instrumental |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN / JORG WIDMANN
Schumann/Widmann: Das heiße Herz Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Andreas Frese (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Bass-baritone Christian Immler, accompanied by the pianist Andreas Frese, juxtaposes the contemporary composer Jörg Widmann with the Romantic Schumann in three cycles of lieder written between 1849 and 2013. 'For us, Jörg Widmanns song cycle Das... |
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WILHELM GROSZ / ROBERT GUND
Be Still My Heart Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Be Still My Heart presents works by two little-known Viennese composers. Robert Gund (1865-1927), born in Switzerland, a pianist, teacher and composer who was highly regarded in Vienna but whose works have since been forgotten, and his younger... |
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ERIC MONTALBETTI
Montalbetti: Chamber Music Harmonieuses Dissonances Christian Tetzlaff / Alexander Vorontsov / Delphine Haidan / Pierre Génisson / Les Dissonances / Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Harmonieuses Dissonances: that is the title of the string quartet that closes this second album of music by Eric Montalbetti, but above all it is a statement of the very subject of the works assembled here: they start out from heterogeneous elements,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Tarantella Christina Pluhar, L' Arpeggiata, Marco Beasley, Lucilla Galeazzi [ Alpha / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] Traditional music from the Kingdom of Naples. In 1630 a strange disease called "Tarantism" struck Italy. It was attributed to a spider's bite with alternating symptoms of exaltation and prostration. Tarantella are enchanting songs and dances meant... |
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JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Dies Irae, De Profundis, Te Deum Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón, Millenium Orchestra [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] 'Although Lully never held any post in the Chapelle du Roi, his influence on the development of the grand motet, so emblematic of the Grand Siècle, was of decisive importance. He wrote imposing motets celebrating the glory of God and the King for the... |
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CL
Alpha (Colour Version CD) [ Very Cherry Inc / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] ALPHA is the highly anticipated debut solo album from South Korean rapper/singer/songwriter, CL. Exploding onto the K-pop scene at the age of 17, she was the leader of one of the best-selling and highest charting groups in Billboard Top 200's... |