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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... |
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) |
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of Scheherazade, with Rimsky-Korsakov's musical masterpiece transcribed for the forces of Ensemble K and a previously unpublished text, freely adapted from the Thousand and One Nights and ancient love...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 |
J. S. BACH / NICOLAS BERNIER
Routes du café Ensemble Masques / Olivier Fortin [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] The history of coffee is fascinating! From the opening of the first establishments in Constantinople in the middle of the sixteenth century to the appearance and diffusion of the drink in Europe in the following century, coffee and coffee houses were... |
GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin; Raffaele Giordani; Cristina Fanelli; Hana Blažíková; William Shelton; Manuel Nunez-Camelino; Romain Bockler [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] A highly prolific composer, Giovanni Legrenzi practised his art in oratorios and other works for the church, as well as in opera and chamber music. In fact he explored all the musical genres of his period, taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli... |
J. S. BACH / GEORG PHILLIPP TELEMANN / TOMASO ALBINONI
Bach/Telemann/Albinoni: Concerti Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin; Sophie Gent; Kathleen Kajioka [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 4/Jul/2025 ] "We have wanted to record Bach's violin concertos with Sophie Gent ever since she joined Ensemble Masques in 2003", says Olivier Fortin, harpsichordist and founder of the ensemble that explores Baroque music with such passion. "Sophie is an... |
MAURICE RAVEL / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / SAMUEL BARBER
Constellations Ensemble Ouranos [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] Founded ten years ago, Ensemble Ouranos is now one of the best French wind quintets in the world. For this new recording, their first for Alpha Classics, Mathilde, Amaury, Philibert, Rafael and Nicolas have brought together composers and works that... |
Monteverdi, Bassani, De Macque, Trabaci, Gesualdo
Este libro es de Don Luis Rossi Ensemble Poïésis, Marion Fourquier [ 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... |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Dardanus Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Alpha / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] |
JULIEN JOUBERT
Joubert: Ariettes Oubliées Ensemble Romances sans paroles; Marie-Noëlle Maerten [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] 'You have understood nothing of my simplicity', wrote Paul Verlaine in Child Wife. And that is precisely what Julien Joubert's music seems to whisper to us with each note.The composer and pianist works regularly with the Maîtrise de Radio France,... |
MARAIS
Marais: Folies D'espagne Ensemble Spirale, Marianne Muller [ 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,... |
Johann Sebastian Bach; François Couperin; Jean-Baptiste Lully; Johann Fischer; Johann Philipp Krieger
Tranquilles Cœurs Ensemble Théodora [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] In 2018, four friends studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London decided to form an ensemble they called Théodora. Mariamielle Lamagat (soprano), Louise Ayrton (baroque violin), Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) and Alice Trocellier (viola da gamba)... |
SCHUMANN
An Clara: piano works (incls Papillons) Eric le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "Eric Le Sage is an extremely cultivated disciple of the great French tradition of Schumann piano." Financial Times |
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SCHUMANN
Gesange der Frube [2 CD set] Eric le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
SCHUMANN
Humoreske Op. 20 / Piano Sonatas Eric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "These are altogether exceptionally sympathetic and rewarding performances." BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** |
