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J.S. BACH
Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin Vol.1 Helene Schmitt (violin) [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] This recording is the first volume devoted to Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, performed by Hélène Schmitt |
J.S. BACH
Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin Vol.2 Helene Schmitt (violin) [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] "Schmitt allows the music to speak in a natural way, and the result is beautiful." (Gramophone) |
SCHMELZER
Violin Sonatas Helene Schmitt (violin) Jan Krigovsky (violone) Stephan Rath (theorbo) & Jorg-Andreas Botticher (claviorganum) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] After her acclaimed version of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, Hélène Schmitt devotes a new recording to unpublished Sonatas by Schmelzer (ca 1620-1680), recently discovered in the archives of the British Library. These Sonatas will no doubt confirm the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 KV 456 & 21 KV 467 Howard Griffiths; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Jonathan Fournel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] This is another strong instalment in a consistently intriguing series, and a K467, especially, that is well worth hearing. - Gramophone |
FLORENCE PRICE / CLARA SCHUMANN / AMY BEACH / FANNY HENSEL
Piano Heroines Claire Huangci (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] After a 'spellbinding' album for Alpha devoted to her American roots (Alpha1071), pianist Claire Huangci now celebrates female composers, acknowledging: 'The realities these women faced are difficult to imagine for any modern woman in the field.'... |
CAROLINE SHAW
Shaw: The Wheel I Giardini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] For the American composer Caroline Shaw, writing music is like 'cooking someone you love a meal', she told BBC Music Magazine. The youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Shaw has premiered works at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms. She... |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 8: La Roxolana (LP) Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 22/Jan/2021 ] For its eighth volume, Haydn2032 invites us on a musical journey that takes the Balkan route. Of all the 'Viennese Classical School', Joseph Haydn is certainly the composer closest to folk music, first because he spent his early years in the... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn 2032 Volume 2: Il Filosofo Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] For this second volume in the Haydn 2032 project, the complete recording of his symphonies, Giovanni Antonini has chosen to put forward the Symphony Der Philosoph. He associates with it a symphony by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, eldest son of the Kantor... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La morte della Ragione Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD/Book - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal virtuosity, brandishing their instruments with particular bravura in the battle pieces. Alpha's recording is detailed without being oppressive" BBC Music Five Stars |
JOSEF HAYDN
Project Haydn 2032 - Vol. 4 'Il distratto' Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Aug/2017 ] "The orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy -the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all others are measured." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Orchestral |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann - Music for Recorder Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (recorder/director) [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Nov/2016 ] The year 2017 marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific composers of the Baroque era. Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico have taken this opportunity to pay tribute to his eclecticism in a... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hommage à Jodie Devos Jodie Devos [ Alpha Classics / 7 CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Jodie Devos is sorely missed. Aged just thirty-five, she died on 16 June 2024. Wishing to perpetuate her memory and her art, we have decided to publish this boxed set containing all of the recordings she made for Alpha Classics over a period of ten... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F minor (with Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La Passione') Jodie Devos; Adèle Charvet; Julien Chauvin / Maîtrise de Radio France; Le Concert de la Loge [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Pergolesi's Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century - Rousseau called its first movement 'the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer'. |
BRIDGE / POLDOWSKI / QUILTER / BRITTEN / WALTON etc
And Love Said... Jodie Devos (soprano), Nicolas Krüger (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Song |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2 Jonathan Cohen; Arcangelo; Thomas Dunford; Sophie Gent; Jonathan Manson [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The sonata concertata form is perfectly illustrated in these trios by Dietrich Buxtehude which, according to Peter Wollny constitute 'a landmark in the history of the sonata'. They provide a better understanding of a composer who has owed his fame... |
Joseph Swensen; Christiane Libor; Michael Weinius; Derek Welton; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Salvatore Caputo; Chœur de l'Opéra National de
Ring Odyssey [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] "'If, in a parallel universe, Wagner wrote a symphony rather than a sixteen-hour Ring, it might actually resemble my Ring Odyssey.' These are the words used by the new music director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen, to... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Concerti for Clarinet, Grand Duo Concertant & Der Freischütz Overture Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Denis Kozhukin Irish Chamber Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] For his first release on Alpha, the clarinetist and conductor Jörg Widmann celebrates the music of a composer who wrote some of the finest pieces ever devoted to his instrument: Carl Maria von Weber. |
WIDMANN / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN
Widmann, Strauss & Beethoven: Con brio Jörg Widmann, Irish Chamber Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Here we meet Jörg Widmann as soloist, conductor and composer. With his piece Con brio, premiered in 2008, he pays a vibrant tribute to Beethoven in general and his Seventh Symphony in particular. At the head of the excellent Irish Chamber Orchestra,... |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide Judith van Wanroij; Stéphanie d'Oustrac; Cyrille Dubois; Tassis Christoyannis; Jean-Sébastien Bou; David Witczak; Anne-Sophie Petit; Jehanne Amzal; Ma [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Since the Baroque revival of the late 1980s, Iphigénie en Aulide is Gluck's only French opera to have remained unrecorded on period instruments. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Castor et Pollux (1737 Version) Judith van Wanroij; Véronique Gens; Reinoud Van Mechelen; Tassis Christoyannis; Olivia Doray; Hasnaa Bennani; Jehanne Amzal; David Witczak [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Castor et Pollux is Rameau's third opera and is packed with arias that show off the soloists to their best advantage: Tristes apprêts for Télaïre, Nature, Amour for Pollux, Séjour de l'éternelle paix for Castor, and Soulevons tous les dieux for... |
