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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Krzysztof Urbański [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Is the imitation of rolling thunder, howling winds and bleating sheep a form of musical composition worthy of the name? Can we take seriously a composer who boasts of being able to 'set a restaurant menu to music, if need be'? These were the kinds of... |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Concerto For Orchestra / Little Suite / Symphony No. 4 NDR Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Since 2015, Krzysztof Urbański has been principal guest conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, one of the leading German orchestras. They are currently preparing together the inauguration in January 2017 of Hamburg's new concert hall,... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albéniz: Iberia Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Debussy and Messiaen regarded Iberia as THE piano masterpiece of the twentieth century: 'One's eyes close, as if dazzled from having gazed upon too many images', wrote Debussy in 1905. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Sonate en si mineur, Sonetti di Petrarca, Valse oubliée No.2, Étude "La leggierezza", Rhapsodie hongroise No.6 Nelson Goerner [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] This is pianist Nelson Goerner's twelfth recording for the Alpha Classics label. He devotes his new album to the solo piano works of Franz Liszt, with the famous Sonata in B minor as the centrepiece; nearly twenty years after his first CD of the... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 14/Aug/2017 ] "Chopin's soul seems to be revealed in these warmly recorded performances." BBC Music Instrumental Choice January 2018 |
BEETHOVEN
Sonata No.29 'Hammerklavier' Bagatelles Op.126 Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] He is nicknamed 'the poet of the piano', an epithet confirmed by each of his appearances in concert or on record, most recently with his multi-award-winning Debussy and Chopin CDs. Nelson Goerner already has an imposing discography, but this is the... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Nevermind [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] A genuine masterpiece inspires musicians to adopt, adapt, or transcribe it without losing any of its greatness. |
C.P.E. BACH
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Nevermind, Anna Besson, Louis Creac'h, Robin Pharo; Jean Rondeau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] For their third album on Alpha, the musicians of Nevermind - Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (viola), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba) and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) - explore the riches of a little-played repertory, the quartets and sonatas of Carl... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) / Alexander Lonquich (Fortepiano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Beethoven's output for cello and piano is fascinating because it covers every period of his career, from early to late, with references to Bach in op.69 and op.102 no.2 and an especially innovative and amazingly modern musical language. . |
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN / MAURICE RAVEL
Salonen / Ravel Nicolas Altstaedt; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Dima Slobodeniouk; Pekka Kuusisto [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen's monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer's direction. In partnership with the... |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / MORTON FELDMAN / PAUL MCCARTNEY / SANDOR VERESS
Blackbirds: Music from the 1960s - Bacewicz, Britten, Feldman, Veress Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Maxim Emelyanychev (piano), Thomas Dunford (lute, voice), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Nicolas Altstaedt's starting point for this recording was the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): "On reading through the work for the first time, I immediately thought: why is this... |
A Nocte Temporis, Anna Besson, Reinoud van Mechelen
The Dubhlinn Gardens [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] The Dubhlinn Gardens: an evening in the high society of 18th century Dublin, where traditional music was 'civilising' itself for the salon… This programme was inspired by the passion for traditional Irish music that flautist Anna Besson has felt... |
ANONYMOUS
Oh, ma belle brunette Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis, with Anna Besson (baroque flute) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] The term 'brunette' refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. |
LOYSET COMPERE
Compere: Missa Galeazescha, Music for the duke of Milan Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "...the groups are so well blended (and indeed opulent) that one imagines that Galeazzo would have been delighted. In fact, the variety of approaches on offer is one of this disc's most attractive aspects." Gramophone |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY HENSEL
Guess Who? Olga Pashchenko [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Pianist Olga Pashchenko creates musical narratives with selections from Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. As children, the two immensely prodigious siblings enjoyed using text to inspire their piano pieces, although which of them was... |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18 Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present a third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following two volumes (Alpha 726 and 942) that were very well received by the press and the public: 'The most exhilarating "authentic" Mozart I have ever heard,'... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 9 & 17 Olga Pashchenko (fortepiano) / Il Gardellino [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] "I suspect all but those most allergic to the fortepiano will find Pashchenko's dashing interpretation a fine alternative. I do hope this is the beginning of a series, as I would love to hear what these performers would make of the later concertos." |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein Olga Pashchenko (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Olga Pashchenko is in the process of creating a unique place for herself in the world of the keyboard: she moves with astounding ease and skill from the harpsichord to the fortepiano, the organ and the modern piano. After a recording of... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Sonates, Naples, 1685 Olivier Cavé [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] These sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti seem to contain all the vivid colours of Naples: in the hands of Olivier Cavé, they spring to life as playful tableaux, dreams where the notes resemble reminiscences, each of them conjuring up a noisy, turbulent... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos K.415, 175, 503 Olivier Cavé, Divertissement, Rinaldo Alessandrini [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] Olivier Cavé has made several acclaimed discs for Aeon (Clementi, Haydn, Bach, Scarlatti). This student of Nelson Goerner, Maria Tipo and Aldo Ciccolini invariably impresses listeners with the refinement of his playing. This is an album of three... |
