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J.S. BACH
Pieces for violin & basse continue Helene Schmitt (violin) Alain Gervreau (violoncello) Jan Willem Jansen (clavecin) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Hélène Schmitt (violin), Alain Gervreau (cello), Jan Willem Jansen (harpsichord) |
ISTANPITA
Istanpita: Danses Florentines Du Trecento Henri & Idruss Agnel [ 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,... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa Het Collectief [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp.... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Het Collectief, Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] This recording was made under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw in December 2019, two months before his death. |
BARTOK / LIGETI
Bartók & Ligeti Hidéki Nagano (piano) Pierre Strauch (cello) Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin) / Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2016 ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - December 2015 |
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1/Sep/2007 ] After her acclaimed version of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, Hélène Schmitt devotes a new recording to unpublished Sonatas by Schmelzer (ca 1620-1680), recently discovered in the archives of the British Library.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... |
