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add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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...
add to cart $60.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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
add to cart $110.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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....
add to cart $50.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks 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...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks OLIVIER MESSIAEN Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Composed in 1944 and first performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 March 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, this is the second great pianistic cycle by Olivier Messiaen: a major work indeed, not only in the composer's oeuvre but in the entire repertoire for...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks J. S. BACH Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830 Martin Helmchen (1790 Tangent Piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] "Helmchen is drawn to the hybrid capabilities of his instrument, which stimulate fresh insights into how Bach's Partitas can be played and experienced" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2024
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Beethoven: Pianos concertos 1 & 4 Martin Helmchen / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Andrew Manze [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Beethoven's piano concertos are a precious source for understanding the history of the practice of this instrument, which, in the early nineteenth century, permanently replaced the harpsichord in the hearts of composers. Thus one can still hear the...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Beethoven: Piano Concerto 3 & Triple Concerto Martin Helmchen (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] German pianist Martin Helmchen continues his journey through Beethoven's piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Andrew Manze. In the Third Concerto, published in 1804, Beethoven seems to be moving away from the Mozartian model...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks J.S. BACH / J.W. HERTEL / MOZART Sentiment Mathis Stier (bassoon) Ensemble Reflektor [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Born in 1994, bassoonist Mathis Stier not only won second prize at the 2019 ARD Competition, but was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize. Mathis Stier has a natural affinity with the music of the 18th century and the three works which he has...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks YEDID NEFESH Yedid Nefesh: Amant De Mon Ame Meirav Ben, David-Harel, Yaïr Harel [ 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,...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks Melbourne Ska Orchestra Sierra Kilo Alpha [ ABC / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Only three years from Melbourne Ska Orchestra's critically acclaimed debut album - sees the release of their second album, 'Sierra-Kilo-Alpha' - picking up where they left off, taking the age old style of Ska and adding to it with...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo), Les Lunaisiens, Chœur de femmes audomaria de Saint-Omer, Arnaud Marzorati, Adélaïde Stroesser Merd'v'là l'hiver: Complaintes des gens de rue [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a 'lament' that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PETER EOTVOS DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums Midori, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Grubinger Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The first of these three concertos was not only written for Midori, but playfully takes the (adjusted) syllables of her name as a quasi-tone row from which to concoct a tripartite argument." (Sunday Times)
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHANNES BRAHMS Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 Miguel Da Silva (viola), Xavier Phillips (cello), François-Frédéric Guy (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Brahms's Trio op.114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas op.120), is presented here in its version with viola: 'Like all Brahms's works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks IGOR STRAVINSKY Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor Mikko Franck; Nathalia Milstein; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] After Franck, Debussy and Strauss, Mikko Franck and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France here continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics, this time with the spotlight on Igor Stravinsky. The programme begins with two pieces from his...
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) DVD/Blu-ray Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Alpha DVD + Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "there are exquisite solos too, especially from soprano Silvia Frigato and tenor Nicholas Mulroy." (Gramophone)
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks W. A. MOZART Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (complet opera) Anna Stéphany, Antoinette Dennefeld, Nicky Spence, David Steffens / Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Ben Glassberg [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Flanked by a spectacular cast featuring the role debuts of Nicky Spence (named 'Personality of the Year' by BBC Music Magazine in 2022) and Simona Šaturová, the conductor Ben Glassberg (Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie) once again...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks W. A. MOZART Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major / Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 Julian Trevelyan (piano) / ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Christian Zacharias [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian...