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Sarah Willis
Mozart y Mambo (DVD & Blu-Ray Version) [ Alpha Classics / DVD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] After the resounding success of the album Mozart y Mambo (ALPHA578), this DVD/Blu-ray presents a recording of a concert in Havana and a documentary following in the footsteps of Sarah Willis in Cuba, with the now celebrated Rondo alla mambo,... |
RINIKER / BISSILL / BATES / WALLENDORF
Various Composers - Horn Discoveries Sarah Willis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] The French horn is notoriously difficult to play. You can practise all you like but there is no guarantee that the note you blow into the mouthpiece is the same one which will come out of the bell once it has travelled through all the twists and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo (Limited Edition LP) Sarah Willis (horn) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme,... |
Sarah Willis; Jonathan Kelly; Wenzel Fuchs; Stefan Schweigert; Harold Madrigal Frías; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; The Sarahba
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana LP) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] |
Sarah Willis; The Sarahbanda
Sarahbanda (Coloured LP Version) [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Meet the Sarahbanda - the Cuban band with a twist! Formed as part of the popular Mozart y Mambo project by Sarah Willis of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Sarahbanda explores the captivating Cuban dance rhythms in a way never heard before. |
BELA BARTOK / FREDERIC CHOPIN / / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL / CARL MARIA VON WEBER / ALEXI STANCHINSKY
Debut Sasha Stychkina (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2026 ] Greek-Russian pianist Sasha Stychkina, born in December 2003 in Moscow into a family of musicians and filmmakers, is the youngest finalist and winner in the history of the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris in November... |
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DOMENICO MAZZOCCHI
La Catena D’Adone (complete opera) Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Simone Kermes, Dimitris Tiliakos, Deborah York / New Siberlian Singers / Teodor Curentzis [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Currentzis reminds us that this is, first and foremost, an opera about desire, and offers us something at once sexier and more probingly tragic. MusicAeterna's playing doesn't have the OAE's refinement, but is infinitely warmer in sound and far more... |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Simone Kermes (soprano), Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Arnaud Richard (bass), The New Siberian Singers, MusicAeterna [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] This recording of Mozart's Requiem, made by Teodor Currentzis in 2011, attracted great attention and soon became a benchmark in the work's discography! In its incredible ardour and sweeping inspiration, it demonstrates the full talent... |
BEETHOVEN / RICHARD STRAUSS
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 'Eroica" & Strauss: Metamorphosen Sinfonia Grange au Lac / Esa Pekka-Salonen [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] This live recording of Strauss's Metamorphosen and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony marks the birth on record of the 'Sinfonia Grange au Lac', an orchestra created in July 2018 on the occasion of the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian, the prestigious festival... |
LOUIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Suites & Pavane Skip Sempé [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well, this one is about what comes next. ...The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Harpsichord Suites Skip Sempa (harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 19/Oct/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005: Baroque Instrumental - "This is demonstration-class musicianship at the harpsichord." |
ANTOINE REICHA
Reicha: Musique de Chambre Solistes de la Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] ".it all leaves you wanting to hear more, both of Reicha and of his performers." Gramophone |
EDOUARD LALO
Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano Soloists of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Édouard Lalo made his mark on French music with his opera Le Roi d'Ys, but his instrumental output also has considerable historical importance, with its resolutely innovative aims for its time. More specifically, his concertante music rewards the... |
J.S BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 11/Sep/2020 ] The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has always sought to make music a language open to the world. A prizewinner in the Rostropovich Competition at the age of twenty-five, she is the interpreter of choice for many contemporary composers |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] For her new recording, entitled 'Or' (light), cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, 'a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time': first, Couperin's Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 5 & 6 Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] "For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti's hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense. |
ZYGEL / RAVEL / VARIOUS ANONYMOUS COMPOSERS
Chants Juifs Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] "This cycle of Jewish Songs is born of my research on traditional Hebrew music, a deeply rooted ancient music which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout centuries of wandering. I listened to the liturgical melodies from different sources and... |
Sophie de Bardonnèche; Lucile Boulanger; Justin Taylor
Destinées [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Destined to be musicians? The female composers to whom Baroque violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche pays tribute enjoyed very different fates: while the name Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) continued to be remembered, who knows Mlle Duval (born... |
MARIN MARAIS
Marais: La rêveuse et autres pièces de viole Sophie Watillon [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The late Sophie Watillon displays her extreme sensitivity in the finest chamber music of Marin Marais, taken from his books of pieces for viol: La Rêveuse, Dialogue, Plainte, Caprice, Les Folies d'Espagne, and the Tombeau pour Monsieur de... |
