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JACQUES CHAMPION de CHAMBONNIERES
Chambonnières Overseas Louise Acabo [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] Alpha Classics proudly presents "Baroque Stories", a new series of recordings devoted to young talents in early music; its first recording introduces Louise Acabo, a French harpsichordist and winner of several international competitions who divides... |
J. S. BACH / CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Bach & Abel: Solo Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] This is Lucile Boulanger's first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing - BBC Music Magazine even described her as 'the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba' - juxtaposes Bach with Carl F. Abel. |
Lucile Boulanger
La messagère: XVII-XXIe siècles, un portrait de la viole de gambe [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] After the immense success of her Bach-Abel album (ALPHA783), Lucile Boulanger celebrates the French viol through the centuries: 'This transchronological dialogue traces the history of a dynasty of composers in a subjective, even emotional way', from... |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
The Golden Hour Lucile Boulanger; Simon Pierre; Olivier Fortin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Characterful music demands characterful playing, of course, and that is what it gets from these talented and experienced chamber musicians, who throughout avoid any sense of the routine. - Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Comédie Humaine: Chansons balzaciennes Lucile Richardot (soloist), Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Jérôme Varnier (soloist), Arnaud Marzorati (soloist) Les Lunaisiens, Arnaud Marzorati [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Arnaud Marzorati and his singers, 'Les Lunaisiens', are unrivalled specialists in the popular French songs of the past centuries. Here they tackle two great monuments of 19th-century France: the writer Honoré de Balzac, and songwriter Pierre-Jean de... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin, Piano & Flute Concertos Ludvig Gudim (violin), Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Josephine Olech (flute) / ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Original Version) & Preludes Op. 32 Lukas Geniušas (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] :"Comparisons are odious in this instance. Anyone with more than just a passing interest in Rachmaninov will need to have this excellently recorded disc on their real or virtual shelves." Gramophone Editors Choice Dec 2023 |
ADAMS / STRAVINSKY / GERSHWIN / BERN
Hallelujah Junction Lukas Geniušas, Anna Geniushene [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas both have brilliant careers as soloists: Anna won the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 and now records for Fuga Libera, while Lukas' two Rachmaninov recordings, a recital of... |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Ciaccona. Il mondo che gira María Cristina Kiehr; Stylus Phantasticus; Victor Torres [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
Marc Minkowski; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Florian Sempey
Rossini: Figaro? Sì! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The French baritone Florian Sempey has established himself as a key player on today's operatic scene. For his first solo recital, Rossini was the obvious choice, first of all because he has already performed the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia... |
STEFANI / MONTEVERDI / CACCINI / ANONIMO / MORINI
La Bella Noeva Marco Beasley (voice) / Accordone [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] In the 17th and 18th Centuries music circulated in Europe in the form of manuscript arrangements of popular works. Marco Beasley and Accordone have proposed to revive this quotidian practice of the epoch. |
Marco Beasley; Guido Morini; Accordone
La bella noeva [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Inspired by the practice of Nuove Musiche advocated by Caccini in 1602, this album takes us to the foundations of modern Italian vocal music: a journey to the heart of the musical innovation that led to opera, presented by the singer Marco Beasley,... |
Marco Ceccato; Accademia Ottoboni
Bononcini: Cello Sonatas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747) and his younger brother, Antonio Maria (1677-1726) were considered by their contemporaries to be among the most outstanding cello virtuosi of their time; today, however, they are best known not only as... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Violoncello Del Cardinale Marco Ceccato (cello) / Accademia Ottoboni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni played a prominent role in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with their patronage of the three most important composers of the day, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel.... |
SCHUBERT
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No. 2 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antje Weithaas, Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Following a first recording on Alpha devoted to Brahms which garnered much praise - 'real duo playing' said Gramophone, while Classica discerned 'shared music making . . . a world full of nuances and subtlety, boundless sonic imagination... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / STRAVINSKY / WEINBERG
From Eastern Europe - Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] The Hecker/Helmchen duo is renowned for the high standard of their performances, which is reflected in their recordings. The German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker caused a sensation by winning both the First Prize and two Special Prizes at the eighth... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] "[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts of momentum and repose Brahms demands" BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Resound Beethoven Martin Haselböck [ Alpha Classics / 5 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] In the course of the eight recordings released by Alpha, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, conducted by Martin Haselböck, has accomplished its objective of recording the complete Beethoven symphonies on period instruments.... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4 & Op. 7 Martin Haselböck; Orchester Wiener Akademie; Jeremy Joseph [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Handel is best known to the wider public for his large-scale choral and orchestral works, but his organ music is equally precious. It was the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels who, diverting him from a career in the law, spotted his exceptional abilities on... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variationos Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] The pianist Martin Helmchen has now joined Alpha for several recordings. Acknowledged as one of the leading pianists of his generation, an eminent interpreter of the German repertoire, Helmchen will explore various periods and composers (including... |
