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Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne cover
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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...
Les Boys cover
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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...
Sorcellerie cover
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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...
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux [The Carnival of the Animals] / Poulenc: Double Concerto cover
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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.
Plucked 'N Dance cover
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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...
Inventions & Sinfonies cover
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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 ]
Vienne 1900 cover
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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...
The Queen's Delight: English Songs & Country Dances of the 17th & 18th Century cover
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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...
Mozart: Concertone cover
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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.
Dazzling Light cover
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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...
Feminine Voices at Christmas cover
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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...
Au Sainct Nau cover
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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)
New York cover
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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...
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale cover
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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...
Rameau: Chez la Pompadour, Le retour d'Astrée, Les Sybarites cover
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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,...
Bach: Ouvertures [Suites] cover
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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
Routes du café cover
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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...
Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente cover
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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...
Bach/Telemann/Albinoni: Concerti cover
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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...