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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... |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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. |
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... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Enchantresses Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - VOCAL |
GEORG FREDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Brockes-Passion Sandrine Piau; Stuart Jackson; Konstantin Krimmel; Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Barthold Heinrich Brockes wrote a libretto on the Passion of Christ - based on the account in Matthew's Gospel - which was set to music by many composers of his time, including Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philip Telemann and George Frideric Handel. It is... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest Santtu-Matias Rouvali; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] This volume concludes the complete Sibelius symphonies performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali. This series has already won numerous awards around the world and reaches its climax here with three of Sibelius'... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sarah Aristidou - Æther Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud, Christian Rivet / Orchester des Wandels, Thomas Guggeis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
GEORGE ENESCU / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
Impressions d'enfance Sarah Nemtanu; Romain Descharmes [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Leader of the Orchestre National de France for the past two decades, chamber musician, high-flying soloist, Sarah Nemtanu is one of the most dynamic musical figures on today's French scene. With her partner Romain Descharmes, she presents here a very... |
