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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Les Indes Galantes BLU-RAY Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The performers have enormous fun with Boismortier's opera." (BBC Music Opera Choice April 2016) |
BIBER
Mysterien Sonaten: The Rosary Sonatas Les Veilleurs de Nuit / Alice Pierot (direction & violin), [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Les Veilleurs de Nuit: Alice Piérot (direction & violin), Pascal Monteilhet (théorbe), Marianne Muller (viola de gamba), Elisabeth Geiger (claviorganum) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas No.1, 10 & 5 'Spring' Lorenzo Gatto, Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas (Alpha 240), which won a Diapason d'Or of the year (the magazine hailed 'the birth of a great duo') and 'Choc' de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer continue their... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos.3, 6, 7 & 8 Lorenzo Gattp / Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Building on the success of the first two instalments of their cycle devoted to Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin (Alpha 240, Diapason d'Or of the year, and Alpha 407), Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer conclude this complete series by recording... |
ROSSI / MAZZOCCHI / CARISSIMI
Il Tormento E’Lestasi Los Musicos de Su Alteza [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The instrumental playing, in both the sacred works and Marini's famous Passacaglia is very assured" (International Record Review) |
JOSEPH RUIZ SAMANIEGRO
La vida es sueno... Los Musicos se Su Alteza / Luis Antonio Gonzales [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] We know very little about Ruiz Samaniego, Kapellmeister in Saragossa during the second half of the 18th-century. However, he left an abundant music production, including some villancicos. These polyphonic vocal works of theatrical origin have been... |
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... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Schubert / Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy Lukas Geniušas (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitr?nas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 19/Jun/2026 ] Pianist Lukas Geniušas pays tribute to the fantasy, a form synonymous with freedom, dear to the Romantics. Schubert sets the figure of the wanderer to music in his Lied Der Wanderer, which, a few years later, would give rise to a large-scale... |
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. |
