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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... |
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BERLIOZ / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / POULENC
Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc Claire Chevalier (piano), Claire Chevallier (piano) & Jos van Immerseel (piano), Katerina Chrobokova & Jos van Immerseel (harpsichord) Anima Eterna Br [ Alpha / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Happy Birthday, Mister Jos! Jos Van Immerseel is celebrating his 70th birthday with three important releases that will punctuate the end of the year at Alpha: a symphonic programme (Janacek, Dvorak), a chamber music programme (Schubert) and a set... |
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GERSHWIN / BEACH / BARBER
Made in USA: Gershwin, Beach & Barber Claire Huangci [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Presented as 'An Experiment in Modern Music' when it was premiered in 1924, Rhapsody in Blue made George Gershwin famous, and he soon set to work on a version for solo piano, recorded here by Claire Huangci. In her first solo disc for Alpha Classics,... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453) Claire Huangci (piano) / Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young... |
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DE LALANDE
Tenebrae Claire Lefilliatre, Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ ALPHA / 2 CD ] "The packaging of this CD is sumptuous, and the accompanying booklet has outstandingly good notes. The recording contains fine performances of some very beautiful music and can be strongly recommended." IRR |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Anima Erterna Claron McFadden, Bart van Caenegem, Amina Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] George Gershwin composed his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. In the same year, he launched his collaboration with his brother Ira, which produced countless songs. He never achieved his ambition of studying with Maurice Ravel, but was always enthralled by... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Trios For Clarinet, Cello & Piano Op. 11 & Op. 38 Claudio Bohórquez (cello) / Eric Le Sage (piano) / Paul Meyer (clarinet) [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] With this new series entitled 'Salon de musique', Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Partitas Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2025 ] The French harpsichordist Céline Frisch has an extensive discography, including many award-winning recordings devoted to Bach. Now she presents the Partitas, the famous and abundant collection of six suites that Bach composed from 1726 onwards - at... |
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FRANCOIS COUPERIN / FRANCOIS d'AGINCOURT / PIERRE DANDRIEU / LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN / etc
L'Aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] 'But what are we going to do with all these pleasures?' A question sung tête-à-tête by the Princess and the Prince in Jacques Demy's film Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin), and a more bothersome question for harpsichordists drawn to the age of Louis XV. |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier - Book II Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Two years after releasing her CD dedicated to Book I of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Céline Frisch now presents the second volume of this musical landmark. Bach compiled Book II in 1744, twenty-two years after Book I. It took until 1801 for... |
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JOHN BLOW
Venus and Adonis Céline Scheen & Marc Mauillon / Les Musiciens du Paradis & La Maîtrise de Caen, Bertrand Cuiller [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] After the successes of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Cadmus & Hermione, Alpha is continuing its audiovisual exploration of lyric repertoires offering, for the first time on DVD, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, accompanied by his Ode to Saint Cecilia.. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
No Time for Chamber Music Collectif9 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Collectif9 is a Montreal-based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large-scale works. Alpha is starting a collaboration with this innovative group... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / LUNA PEARL WOOLF
Vagues et ombres Collectif9 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] This recording developed out of our profound admiration of a great work - could we, as nine string players, perform Claude Debussy's La Mer and do it justice? |
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JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
Zelenka: I penitenti al sepolchro del redentore, ZWV 63 Collegium 1704; Collegium Vocale 1704; Václav Luks [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The Prague-based ensemble Collegium 1704 and its founder Vaclav Luks here perform an oratorio by the Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. This edifying work, typical of the oratorios produced during the Counter-Reformation, presents the faithful with... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Via Crucis Collegium Vocale Gent; Reinbert de Leeuw [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] Franz Liszt a 67 ans lorsqu'il compose le Via Crucis. Il faudra toutefois attendre 1929, soit 43 ans après le décès du compositeur, pour que le Via Crucis soit joué pour la première fois. Cette œuvre de la maturité est construite en 15 parties, qui... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
So Romantique! Cyrille Dubois (tenor) / Orchestre National de Lille; Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "The album is a treasury of rarely heard (and previously unheard) music...Dubois handles them all with intelligence, finesse and flair, singing with perfect native French diction." Opera |
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LASSUS
Lassus: Oracula Daedalus, Roberto Festa [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
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LASSUS
Oracula Daedalus / Roberto Festa [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] |
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J S BACH
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 Frédéric Desenclos (organ) [ Alpha / 4 CD Box Set - released 31/Mar/2014 ] A veritable manifesto of the art of the keyboard at the time of Bach, this founding work of the Cantor's writing and also of all keyboard literature, is recorded here on four exceptional organs. |
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JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Songs Damien Guillon, Eric Bellocq [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |