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MAURICE RAVEL / BRUNO MANTOVANI
Poétiques de l'instant II: Ravel & Mantovani Quatuor Voce / Juliette Hurel (flute), Rémi Delangle (clarinet), Emmanuel Ceysson (harp) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] This second instalment of our long-term project Poétiques de l'Instant (Poetry of the Moment) combines two masterly string quartets with a range of other instrumental colours, unpublished transcriptions and first performances. |
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LERA AUERBACH
Auerbach: 72 Angels Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Dijkstra [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] '72 Angels is a large-scale work for mixed choir and saxophone quartet. It is structured as seventytwo prelude-evocations and an epilogue. Each prelude sets to music one of the seventy- two names derived from an esoteric interpretation of Exodus... |
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LABORDE / BERTON / TRIAL / GLUCK / GOSSEC / GRETRY:
Legros, haute-contre de Gluck Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] "...He is at his best as the pastoral lover, when the luminous timbre of his high notes glows amid the flutes and reeds of A Nocte Temporis, the superb period-instrument band that he founded and expertly directs." BBC Music |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concert Arias Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Fresh from his triumphant onstage success in Paris, Berlin and Brussels singing leading roles in the operas of Rameau and Mozart, tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen presents his long-awaited first Mozart recording. Together with his ensemble A Nocte... |
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NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clérambault: Cantates Françoises Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] After a Bach album, the tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis present a programme of French music devoted to Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), a precociously gifted composer who published four volumes comprising a total of... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV491 & 17 KV453 Éric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester; François Leleux [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Mozart's piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H.C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer's life and... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Nocturnes Éric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] With their poetry, their passonate and intimate lyricism, their refined style that gradually reveals hidden depths, the thirteen Nocturnes of Gabriel Fauré are the most significant group of works in his oeuvre for solo piano. |
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RICHTER
String Quartets Op.5 Rincontro [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] These works by Mozart and Richter represent the meeting of those two periods. Richter – incidentally, Mozart heard and appreciated one of his Masses at Strasbourg Cathedral in 1778 – achieved an original synthesis in his String Quartets opus 5 |
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TRADITIONAL
Scottish Music of the 18th Century Robert Getchell (tenor) / Les musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] One of the most fascinating aspects of Scottish music in the eighteenth century is the extent to which traditional and classical music interacted. And by the early nineteenth century, Scottish songs had become popular in Europe too, and were being... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage Roger Muraro [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] The great French pianist Roger Muraro joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Born in Lyon to Venetian parents, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod and is regarded as the leading specialist in the music of Olivier Messiaen, to which he has... |
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CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
Chiaroscuro: Godowsky, Franck & Rachmaninoff Roman Borisov [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In 2022, 19-year-old pianist Roman Borisov became the youngest winner of the prestigious Kissinger KlavierOlymp competition. |
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Roman Borisov; Gabriel Pidoux; ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Howard Griffiths
Mozart Piano concertos No. 11, 13 (KV413 & 415) & Oboe concerto KV 314 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] For the sixth volume of this series devoted to Mozart performances by the young generation of soloists, the pianist Roman Borisov, who won First Prize at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2022 when he was the youngest participant in the competition, has... |
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JOHAN FARJOT
Farjot: Lovescapes Rosemary Standley; David Tepfer; Jeanne Gérard; Sandrine Piau; Ambroisine Bré; Delphine Haidan; Stanislas de Barbeyrac; Geneviève Laurenceau; Arnaud T [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Johan Farjot's music prolongs the inner resonances of David Tepfer's beautiful poems, dealing with the frissons and sorrows of love. On the road to the eighty-eight temples of the Japanese island of Shikoku, the piano of Johan Farjot or David... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love (LP) Rosemary Standley; Ensemble Contraste; Johan Farjot; Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste: 'We all have a few notes of... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love Rosemary Standley (vocals), Ensemble Contraste, Johan Farjot, Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey, the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the Ensemble Contraste. |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Sandrine Piau / Christopher Lowrey / Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "Piau finds just the right balance between beauty of sound and fervent expressivity…[Lowrey] combines lucid diction with an aptly plangent sound - always beautifully controlled." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice June 2020 |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina / Tamerlano (complete operas recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Sandrine Piau, Maite Beaumont, Christophe Dumaux, Jeremy Ovenden, Sophie Karthauser, Ann Hallenberg / Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conduct [ Alpha BLU-RAY / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "This is essential viewing for those who take Handel as a dramatist seriously." Gramophone DVD of the Month January 2017 |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Quintette imaginaire Sandrine Piau, Quatuor Psophos [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Sandrine Piau admits that she has always been fascinated not only by Schubert's music but also by the genre of the string quartet. "The endless quest for the pure gesture in which we lose ourselves in order to become one with each other reminds me of... |
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DEBUSSY / ROUSSEL / GODARD / CAPLET / etc
Une Flute Invisible: French Music at the Dawn of the 20th Century Sandrine Piau (soprano) Herve Lamy (tenor) Gilles de TalhouAt (flute) Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006 - A program of French song from the early years of the 20th century focussing on Debussy and his contemporaries. |
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FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 9: L'Addio Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] This ninth volume of the Haydn2032 series focuses on the composer's psychological subtlety in its focus on a central work: his Symphony no.45, known as the 'Abschieds-Symphonie' ('Farewell' Symphony), composed in 1772. It is said to have got its... |