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Vivi Vassileva
Singin' Rhythm [ Alpha / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] The percussionist Vivi Vassileva is one of the most fascinating classical soloists of her generation, and she now releases her debut cd, entitled ""singin' rhythm"", on the alpha classics label. Born in 1994 to a bulgarian family of musicians - her... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers Vox Luminis / A Nocte Temporis / Lionel Meunier / Reinoud Van Mechelen [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] The Orpheus myth was as important for the birth of opera in France as it had been in Italy. In 1684, Charpentier composed a work for three voices, Orphée descendant aux Enfers. With this piece, remarkable for its style and concision, he showed how... |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Abendmusiken Vox Luminis & Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Choral |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Dixit Dominus Magnificat Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] After several recordings on Ricercar and a first disc on Alpha, Actus Tragicus, containing early Bach cantatas, 'of staggering profundity, purity and beauty' (ffff Télérama), Lionel Meunier and his ensemble Vox Luminis devote this new project to two... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier's first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Reines Véronique Gens, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] After Passion (ALPHA747), Véronique Gens reunites with Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas' ensemble Les Surprises to celebrate a type of role intrinsically linked to 17th- and 18th-century French baroque opera: queens! |
ANDRÉ CAMPRA / HENRY DESMAREST
Desmarets & Campra : Iphigénie en Tauride Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak, Olivia Doray, Floriane Hasler; Tomislav Lavoie; Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Nearly a century before Gluck, another opera called Iphigénie en Tauride - same plot, same protagonists - had immense success on the opera stage. This 'first' Iphigénie has rather a curious history. |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Les Divas d'Offenbach Véronique Gens (soprano), Hervé Niquet, Chœur Et Orchestre National Des Pays de La Loire [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2025 ] "...Captured in warm, glowing sound, with the superb Choeur et Orchestre des Pays de la Loire matching the music's joie de vivre under Hervé Niquet, this is simply a delight." BBC Music Five Stars |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Sinfonietta Véronique Gens (soprano) / Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "There is little question that it ranks among her finest achievements...Gens and Bloch take us through this complex terrain in ways that combine directness with admirable restraint." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 23 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / J.S. BACH
Vsevolod Zavidov Plays Rachmaninoff Vsevolod Zavidov (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2026 ] Vsevolod Zavidov (born in 2005 in Moscow) is now considered one of the most promising young pianists to emerge from the great Russian tradition. A pupil of Nelson Goerner's, he made his name on the international stage by winning the very first Radu... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String quintets op.29 & 104, Fugue op.137 WDR Symphony Orchestra chamber players [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] With this recording of chamber music composed by Beethoven at three key moments in his life, Alpha begins a collaboration with the WDR of Cologne and its various ensembles. Here a group of chamber musicians from the symphony orchestra presents the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 'Pastoral' Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck [ Alpha Resound Collection, Vol. 8 / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "...these are terrific performances, which demand close attention. Martin Haselböck is a fine musician, as both organist and conductor. If his reputation is greatest in his native Austria and Germany he is an insightful and accomplished musician." |
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BEETHOVEN
Resound Beethoven: Egmont [with narration in English & German] Wiener Akademie Orchester, Martin Haselböck, with Bernardo Bobro (soprano) & Herbert Föttinger, John Malkovich (narrators) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] With RESOUND the orchestral works of Beethoven are brought back to the halls and theatres of their Viennese premieres or other venues where they received their earliest performances. .. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Melodies Avec Orchestre Yann Beuron, Tassis Christoyannis, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Although the turn of the twentieth century marked the golden age of French song, the genre was generally accompanied on the piano and only rarely orchestrated by its composers. But Camille Saint-Saëns, a great lover of poetry, was also a champion of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Beethoven / Liszt: Symphony No 9 in D minor (piano transcription) Yury Martynov (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 15/May/2016 ] "the metamorphosis from the storm unleashed at the opening of the finale to the imploring earnestness of the 'Ode to Joy' is stunningly affecting" (Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2016) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Organ Works Yves Rechsteiner [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] Three of Liszt's greatest organ works together with rarely recorded transcriptions! |
J.S. BACH
Fantasia Cromatica, Sonatas and Transcriptions Yves Rechsteiner (pedal harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] Harpsichord works and transcriptions by J.S. Bach played on a pedal harpsichord. |
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Zauberoper
Konstantin Krimmel; Hofkapelle München; Rüdiger Lotter [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] |
MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 KV 216, Bassoon Concerto KV 191 & Piano Concerto No. 5 KV 175 Ziyu He (violin), Theo Plath (bassoon), Mélodie Zhao (piano), Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young... |
