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Haydn 2032, Vol. 7: Gli Impresari cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 7: Gli Impresari
Kammerorchester Basel; Giovanni Antonini
[ Alpha / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ]
Under the title Gli impresari, The Impresarios - i.e. the directors of the theatre troupes that Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy engaged to perform in his opera houses - this CD gathers together some of the orchestral works by Joseph Haydn linked by...
Haydn 2032 Volume 6 - Lamentatione (Limited Edition LP & CD) cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032 Volume 6 - Lamentatione (Limited Edition LP & CD)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 31/Aug/2018 ]
The year 2017 was a vintage one for Giovanni Antonini: he was awarded an Echo Klassik, two Gramophone Awards and a Diapason d'Or of the Year for his recent releases. Two of these prizes distinguished Il Distratto, volume 4 of the complete recording...
Project Haydn 2032: L'Homme De Genie [Symphonies 19, 80, 81] cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Project Haydn 2032: L'Homme De Genie [Symphonies 19, 80, 81]
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[ Alpha / CD - released 9/Feb/2018 ]
"This is another winning entry into Antonini's Haydn discography." Gramophone
Offenbach: Fables de La Fontaine cover
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Fables de La Fontaine
Karine Deshayes / Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie / Jean-Pierre Haeck
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ]
A grasshopper, a milkmaid's pail, a shepherd, a fox, a country mouse, a cobbler... These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842, some 150 years after they were...
Samsara: Schumann & Fauré cover
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GABRIEL FAURÉ / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Samsara: Schumann & Fauré
Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano), Éric Le Sage (piano)
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ]
For her fourth recital on Alpha Classics, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey has chosen to record two cycles, Schumann's well-known Frauenliebe und Leben and Fauré's La Chanson d'Ève, a much more unfamiliar work.
Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos cover
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BENJAMIN BRUCH / MAX BRUCH
Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Kerson Leong (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra; Patrick Hahn
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ]
"it is the coupling of the Britten Violin Concerto (gratifyingly becoming more and more core repertoire these days) which...sets this disc apart…I can't recall a better account of the piece than this." Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023
Ysaÿe - Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin cover
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Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Daniel Heide (piano)
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ]
"...beautifully sung, played and recorded - is among the most satisfying and quietly moving to come my way for a long time." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Song
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas
Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
[ Alpha Classics / 10 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ]
In a world like ours, shaped by centrifugal forces, even a monumental corpus like Beethoven's thirty wo piano sonatas can appear in a new light. Chronological examination of its genesis reveals fascinating parallels. - The Sonatas op.2 were published...
Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré cover
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BEETHOVEN / FERRÉ / SOLLIMA
Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ]
Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario...
Piazzolla Reflections cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piazzolla Reflections
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ]
Riga-born Ksenija Sidorova is today one of the most eminent global ambassadors of the classical accordion. She has proudly borne the colours of her instrument in appearances in the world's leading halls and with the foremost orchestras. Here she pays...
Crossroads cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Crossroads
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) Sinfonietta Riga, Normunds Šnē
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ]
After Piazzolla Reflections, (ALPHA664), Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova devotes this new recording to Bach and compositions influenced by his music - starting with the famous Concerto BWV 1052, which has inspired so many adaptations for piano,...
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NATALIS CORDAT / NICOLAS SABOLY
Baroque Christmas in Occitania
La Camera delle Lacrime, Bruno Bonhoure
[ Alpha / CD - released 27/Oct/2008 ]
Natalis Cordat (ca1610-1663), was a country vicar who wrote very refined and aristocratic 'noëls' whilst Nicolas Saboly (1614-1678), the caustic master of an Avignon Chapel, was a writer of small pieces in a popular vein. The Camera delle Lacrime...
Se Canta Que Recante: Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully cover
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D'ANGLEBERT / LULLY
Se Canta Que Recante: Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully
La Camera Delle Lacrime / Bruno Bonhoure (voix & dirction)
[ Alpha / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ]
"These d'Anglebert harpsichord works are played with sparkling technique, wit and insight by Frisch on a magnificent modern copy of an instrument by Vincent Tibaut" IRR
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BOLOGNA / CASERTA / LANINI / PADOVA / PERUGIA / etc
Metamorfosi Trecento
La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti
[ Alpha / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ]
Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of 'things that never happened, but always are'. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality...
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SIGISMUND NEUKOMM
Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
[ Alpha / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ]
In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including...
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw
La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra; Ben Glassberg / Sally Matthews; Julian Hubbard; Carole Wilson; Giselle Allen; Ed Lyon; Henri de Beauffort; Katharina Bie
[ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ]
Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover.
My precious manuscript - Fantastic sonatas from England to German cover
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ANONYMOUS / SCHEIDEMANN / STEFFKINS / JENKINS / etc
My precious manuscript - Fantastic sonatas from England to German
La Sainte Folie Fantastique
[ Alpha / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ]
"This highly captivating programme is performed with great dedication. The musicians deliver strongly rhetorical and gestural interpretations which lend these pieces a pronounced theatrical character." (MusicWeb Aug 2013)
Hypnos cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hypnos
La Tempête; Simon-Pierre Bestion
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ]
Hypnos, God of Sleep . . . Simon-Pierre Bestion's recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, 'the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while...
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ORLANDO DI LASSO
Lasso: Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait
La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ]
Orlando di Lasso (b. 1532 in Mons) was one of the most important and prolific composers in the whole of sixteenth-century Europe. Famed as a singer from boyhood, he escaped several kidnapping attempts ordered by princes who coveted his talent for...