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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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
J.S. BACH
Inventions & Sinfonies Elisabeth Joye (clavecin) [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Elisabeth Joyé (harpsichord) |
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... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Queen's Delight: English Songs & Country Dances of the 17th & 18th Century Fiona McGown (mezzo), Enea Sorini (baritone), Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This programme reflects the full flavour and richness of English music and the instrumental and vocal repertory it inspired in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rhythmic impulse of this repertory - sometimes making use of... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Concertone Ensemble 415; Chiara Banchini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] This programme, performed by Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415, gives a glimpse of Mozart's early compositions, written in Salzburg, most of which were intended for performance at social events or in the open air. |
Various Composers
Dazzling Light Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] On Dazzling Light Christopher Lowrey and his vocal ensemble Altera explore light in all its forms. There is a remarkable body of choral music that evokes light's many facets: the light of morning and evening, sacred light, light as a symbol of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Feminine Voices at Christmas Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Feminine Voices celebrates the female voice and the Christmas season, with a kaleidoscopic selection made up of the Magnificat, Ave Maria and carols, each of which is more wonderful than the last. Eight female composers feature in the programme that... |
ANONYMOUS
Au Sainct Nau Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] "The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Early Music) |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / HENRY PURCELL / GIOVANNI BATTISTA FERRANDINI
Historiæ sacræ Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Camille Delaforge [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 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... |
JOHN CAGE / ELLIOT CARTER / MORTON FELDMAN / etc
New York Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher [ ALPHA / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Here is the third release in the collaboration between the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Alpha. This time the musicians of the ensemble and their conductor Matthias Pintscher focus on American music: Intégrales by Edgar Varèse (1924), Music for... |
UNSUK CHIN
Unsuk Chin Samuel Favre, Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The Ensemble Intercontemporain and its musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here.... |
XENAKIS
Nomos Alpha / Thallein / Phlegra / Komboi / etc Benny Sluchin, Pierre Strauch, Elisabeth Chojnacka / Ensemble Intercontemporain [ Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] ""A splendid introduction to Xenakis: exciting, rhythmic and frequently violent. All the performers dig in with relish, but special praise to Chojnacka, who manages the composer's virtual re-invention of the harpsichord with amazing virtuosity." BBC... |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale Ensemble K; Simone Menezes; Golshifteh Farahani; Kristin Winters [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] This album offers a new approach to the character of Scheherazade, with Rimsky-Korsakov's musical masterpiece transcribed for the forces of Ensemble K and a previously unpublished text, freely adapted from the Thousand and One Nights and ancient love... |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Chez la Pompadour, Le retour d'Astrée, Les Sybarites Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] The famous Marquise de Pompadour, favourite of King Louis XV for nearly twenty years, reigned over the arts at court. Rameau, whom she particularly admired, was omnipresent. He received a specific commission for the Théâtre des Petits Appartements,... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Ouvertures [Suites] Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] "Excellent performances and initiative." MusicWeb |
