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FRANZ LISZT / FRANZ SCHUBERT / CLARA SCHUMANN / LILI BOULANGER
Voyage Intime Sandrine Piau (soprano) David Kadouch (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Sandrine Piau and the pianist David Kadouch have formed a new duo whose first concerts have been enthusiastically received. As is her wont, the French soprano enjoys intermingling languages and the worlds of different composers and poets around a... |
STRAUSS / BERG / ZEMLINSKY
Clair-Obscur Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart y Mambo Sarah Willis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the horn, which she champions around the world. Already a horn player with the Berlin Philharmoniker, in 2014 she launched for the German television channel Deutsche Welle what was soon to... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 "Polish" / Polonaise from "Eugene Onegin" / Festival Coronation March Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] With this final volume of their Tchaikovsky cycle, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich complete their exploration of the Russian composer's symphonies. Symphony No. 3, also known as the "Polonaise" (1875) |
LULLY / CHARPENTIER / DESMARETS
Véronique Gens - Passion Véronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises; Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] "Gens is in thrilling voice. She has the knack - harder, surely, in miscellaneous pieces than in a complete opera - of instantly getting to the heart of a character…Warmly recommended." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 |
Adèle Charvet; Florian Caroubi
Belle Epoque! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] For her second recital with piano, mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet reunites with Florian Caroubi, who has been her regular duo partner since 2015. Together they celebrate the belle époque of the great French melodists (Massenet, Debussy, Fauré) and their... |
COPLAND / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / BARBER etc
Long Time Ago Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The young mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet has already attracted attention in the opera house, but she is also passionately interested in the song repertory. For her first album, she has devised a very personal programme, deriving in part from her musical... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032: Die Schöpfung (complete oratorio) Anna Lucia Richter; Florian Boesch; Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico; Maximilian Schmitt; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1 Astrig Siranossian (cello), Philharmonie Südwestfalen; Nabil Shehata [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia Boulanger (Dear Mademoiselle, ALPHA635) recently... |
Bloc Party
Alpha Games [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] Bloc Party return with Alpha Games, their first new album since 2016's Hymns. Alpha Games, produced by Nick Launay & Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), includes new single 'Traps', which sees the band returning to the raucous,... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Armide 1778 (complete opera) Chantal Santon Jeffery, Katherine Watson, Véronique Gens, Tassis Christoyannis / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD/Book - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Recording of the Month - BBC Music Magazine, November 2020 |
DVORAK / GRIEG / BRAHMS
Dvorak / Grieg / Brahms: Music for Piano, Four hands Claire Chevallier, Jos Van Immerseel (piano Bechstein 1870) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Apr/2017 ] Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier have enjoyed a close collaboration for many years now. Like Jos van Immerseel, Claire Chevallier loves period pianos; like him, she is a researcher and possesses her own collection of keyboard... |
W. A. MOZART / C.P.E. BACH
Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach Céline Frisch (harpsichord/piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] Young and foolish is the title Cafe Zimmermann has chosen for this programme, which features music from the 1770s and 1780s by Mozart and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, starting with Mozart's famous and sparkling Divertimento KV 138. For this fascinating... |
NINO ROTA
Rota: Chamber Music Daishin Kashimoto; Emmanuel Pahud; Éric Le Sage; Aurélien Pascal; Paul Meyer; François Meyer; Various Artists [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Nino Rota was not only the man who wrote film scores for Fellini (La strada etc), René Clément and King Vidor. He was also a twentieth-century great composer. A child prodigy, he studied in America with Fritz Reiner, crossed paths with Toscanini,... |
"Deadly" Headley Bennett
35 Years From Alpha [ On-U Sound Records / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Long awaited reissue of the 1982 solo LP from the late, great "Deadly" Headley Bennett, a key sideman from the golden age of Jamaican music who played on hundreds of records in a long and storied career. Designed as a showcase record for his... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Quartets Nos 2 & 3 Elias String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "The A major Quartet is, to my ears, the jewel of the set, and the Elias play it with profound tenderness." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2018 |
HINDEMITH / BERG / CHAUSSON / SCHOENBERG
Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan (soloist), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Emerson String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "The Emersons come to [the Schoenberg] as if it were new, hot from the press, and in doing so they recreate the sense of inordinate extravagance that made early audiences so uneasy." Gramophone Award Nomination 2024 - Chamber |
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ von BIBER
Biber: Requiem Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart's Clavichord Georg Nigl; Alexander Gergelyfi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Jul/2025 ] How did Mozart hear his own music at home in Salzburg? This recording provides the answer, as it was made not only in the house in which he lived but also with the clavichord that he used to compose Die Zauberflöte, La clemenza di Tito and the... |
WOLFGANG RHIM
Rhim: Jakob Lenz (complete opera) De Munt La Monnaie / Georg Nigl, Henry Waddington, John Graham-Hall / Franck Ollu (cond) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] Wolfgang Rihm's chamber opera Jakob Lenz has become one of the most frequently performed works in the 20thcentury German opera repertoire. |
