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J Path
Threshing Around (Alpha Steppa Remix) [ Tigram / 10in - released 1/Nov/2013 ] |
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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... |
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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'. |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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,... |
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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. |
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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... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135 Julia Korpacheva (soprano) & Petr Migunov (bass) / MusicAeterna Novosibirsk, Teodor Currentzis (direction) [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] "MusicAeterna makes up for its small-bodied sound with gripping orchestral execution under Teodor Currentzis' taut and focused direction. An excellent disc, one of the choice recordings of this uncompromising work." (10/10 ClassicsToday Feb 2011) |
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ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN
Schumann: Dichterliebe Julian Prégardien / Eric Le Sage / Sandrine Piau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ] "There is more on this riveting disc than I have room to mention, but the full flavor is here, and what a feast it is. This is glorious Schumann." Fanfare |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Confidence Julien Behr / Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon / Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The French tenor Julien Behr is one of today's rising vocal stars. Voted 'Révélation artiste lyrique de l'Adami' in 2009, the year he made his international debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, he has become famous for his Mozart roles... |
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BORIS / BOULANGER / DE GRANDVAL / HOLMES
Compositrices à l'aube du XXe siècle Juliette Hurel (flute), Hélène Couvert (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] Juliette Hurel and Hélène Couvert, who have long enjoyed a close rapport on the concert platform and on disc, here celebrate five French women composers at the turn of the twentieth century. Countess Clémence de Grandval was the composer of some... |
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W. A. MOZART
Flute Quartets Nos. 1-4 (complete) Juliette Hurel (flute) / Quatuor Voce [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] "Juliette Hurel is an excellent flautist, warm and clean tone, but a musician whose insight is often circumscribed by emotional reticence" (Gramophone) |
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HAYDN
Haydn: Flute Sonatas Juliette Hurel, Hélène Couvert [ 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,... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Jupiter Jupiter, Thomas Dunford [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] In founding the Jupiter ensemble, the lutenist Thomas Dunford wanted to 'rediscover the spirit of chamber music in the Baroque repertory. Jupiter operates in a kind of fraternity, as if we had always known each other . . . Vivaldi's highly contrasted... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / CLAUDE RAMEAU / JEAN-FRANCOIS TAPRAY etc
La famille Rameau Justin Taylor [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] During his lifetime, Rameau enjoyed a glittering reputation and was admired by all Europe, while Debussy's Hommage à Rameau proves that his fame survived down the centuries. But what do we know about the rest of the Rameau family? After a highly... |
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THE FORQUERAY FAMILY
La Famille Forqueray: Portraits Justin Taylor (harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] ustin Taylor, the winner of the 2015 edition of the celebrated harpsichord competition of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges (which has honoured some of the world's finest players, including Scott Ross, Christophe Rousset, Pierre Hantaï, Benjamin... |
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JEAN-FRANCOIS DANDRIEU / ARCANGELO CORELLI
Opus 1 Justin Taylor, Le Consort [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] 'Although Dandrieu is best-known for his talents as an organist, his trio sonatas deserve a prominent position in the chamber music of the period. They show a stunning mastery of style and variety of characters. Dances overflowing with energy,... |