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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs Damien Guillon; Le Banquet Céleste [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II's birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for... |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: San Giovanni Battista Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "newcomers should try this present version under the excellent direction of Damien Guillon. The important thing is to get to know this ravishing piece." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2020 |
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Daniel Avery
Song For Alpha [ Phantasy / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Five years after his critically acclaimed debut Drone Logic, London-based producer Daniel Avery releases his highly anticipated second album. In the years since his debut, Avery has helmed a DJ-Kicks mix CD, resided over a monthly radio show for... |
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Daniel Avery
Song For Alpha (LP) [ Phantasy / 2 LP - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Five years after his critically acclaimed debut Drone Logic, London-based producer Daniel Avery releases his highly anticipated second album. In the years since his debut, Avery has helmed a DJ-Kicks mix CD, resided over a monthly radio show for... |
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Danielson Famile
Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha) [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] |
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JOHANN PAUL von WESTHOFF
Westhoff: Sonates pour violon et basse continue David Plantier; Les plaisirs du Parnasse [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Published in 1694, these sonatas by Johann Paul von Westhoff are among the most fascinating pieces in the repertory. The inspiration and stylistic audacity displayed by their composer are perfectly reflected in this recording by David Plantier and... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Agitata Delphine Galou (alto), Ottavio Dantone [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "The playing Accademia Bizantina…is keen as mustard and filled with typically telling detail by director Ottavio Dantone. A lovely disc of discoveries" Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Recital |
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MACHAUT
Messe de Nostre Dame Diabolus in Musica / Antoine Guerber [ ALPHA / CD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] "..the singing is again superb. Guerber takes a more relaxed view of the general pacing and argument, and to the local shaping of phrases, that Parrott's more driven approach." Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Paris expers Paris: Ecole de Notre-Dame, 1170-1240 Diabolus in Musica / Antoine Guerber (director) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Nov/2006 ] For the first time in musical history, towards the end of the twelfth century one centre took the leadership in music: the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. It was to serve as a model for the whole of the Christian world. The music composed by the... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Aïrés Édouard Ferlet, Stéphane Kerecki, Airelle Besson [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Édouard Ferlet has already explored intriguing byways for the Alpha label: in 2015 he and Violaine Cochard recorded 'Plucked Unplucked', an album associating piano and harpsichord - a successful venture that will soon see a follow-up. The bassist... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonardo da Vinci, La Musique Secrète Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre [ Alpha Classics CD + Book / CD/Book - released 10/May/2019 ] 2019 saw the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter - an musician. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Du Bellay: Heureux qui, comme Ulysse Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre, Kwal [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) stormed onto the Parisian literary scene with the resounding avant-garde manifesto Défense et illustration de la langue française. Ronsard and Du Bellay are the great French poets of the sixteenth century, but while the... |
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ANTOINE de FEVIN
Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne Doulce Mémoire; Denis Raisin Dadre; Yann-Fañch Kemener [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The attachment of King Louis XII and a whole people to Queen Anne of Brittany can be heard on this disc, where Denis Raisin Dadre and his ensemble Doulce Mémoire juxtapose Antoine de Févin's Missa pro defunctis with Breton folk songs for solo voice... |
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BAPTISTE TROTIGNON / FRANCIS POULENC / DAVE BRUBECK
Les Boys Duo Jatekok [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The piano duo formed by Arthur Gold (1917-90) and Robert Fizdale (1920-95) enjoyed immense fame in the post-war years. Poulenc wrote a piece for them, as did Darius Milhaud, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio and John Cage. They recorded with Leonard... |
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LISZT / DE FALLA / DUKAS / MOUSSORGSKI
Sorcellerie Duo Jatekok [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: Nairi Badal and Adelaide Panaget are transformed into sorceresses on four hands and two pianos - enchanting guides who lead us through a... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANCIS POULENC
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux [The Carnival of the Animals] / Poulenc: Double Concerto Alex Vizorek (voice) Duo Jatekok (pianos) / Orchestre National de Lille; Lucie Leguay; [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. The French composer never imagined that his bestiary would become one of the most famous works in musical history, a staple repertory piece on a par with Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. |
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EDOUARD FERLET
Plucked 'N Dance Edouard Ferlet, Violaine Cochard [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] A journey through countries, periods and styles on the theme of dance. The themes and melodies are borrowed from Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Italian, English, Hungarian and French composers, inspired by folk music and dances. Édouard Ferlet has... |
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J.S. BACH
Inventions & Sinfonies Elisabeth Joye (clavecin) [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Elisabeth Joyé (harpsichord) |
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JACQUES DUPHLY
Pieces de clavecin Elisabeth Joye (historic harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
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KORNGOLD / ZEMLINSKY / MAHLER / BERG / SCHONBERG
Vienne 1900 Emmanuel Pahud / Paul Meyer / Daishin Kashimoto / Zvi Plesser / Eric Le Sage [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2020 ] Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese... |