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GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: Missa Se la face ay pale Antoine Guerber, Diabolus in Musica [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons) Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 4/Jul/2025 ] In the summer of 1717, after performing his Water Music during a royal cruise on the Thames, Handel began composing for James Brydges (1674-1744), who became the first Duke of Chandos and created the Cannons Concert at his estate in Cannons (near... |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op.1 Arcangelo, Sophie Gent, Jonathan Manson, Thomas Dunford, Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] For this recording of music by Buxtehude, Jonathan Cohen, founder of the ensemble Arcangelo, is joined by a distinguished trio, including two regulars on the Alpha label, Sophie Gent and Thomas Dunford, alongside the gambist Jonathan... |
Arianna Vendittelli; Emőke Baráth; Filippo Mineccia; Margherita Maria Sala; Valerio Contaldo; Federico Fiorio; Accademia Bizantina; Ottavio Dantone
Giacomelli: Cesare in Egitto [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] The Italian conductor Ottavio Dantone breathes new life into Cesare in Egitto, an opera by Geminiano Giacomelli (1692-1740) based on a libretto written by Domenico Lalli with the assistance of a young collaborator not yet in his thirties: Carlo... |
Aromate, Michèle Claude
Rayon De Lune [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
GEORGES BIZET / CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE / JACQUES AUBERT
Passage secret Arthur Ancelle; Ludmila Berlinskaya [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] It goes without saying that the duo's ensemble precision is second to none. - Gramophone |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Dissonance Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Lukas Geniušas (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] "Grigorian is utterly compelling throughout. Even on disc, without the visuals, you can hear how Grigorian lives and breathes each song...Pianist Lukas Geniušas is an equal partner dramatically." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Song |
JEAN CRAS / MARCELLE SOULAGE / PIERRE-OCTAVE FERROUD
Invisibles Astrig Siranossian (cello), Nathanäel Gouin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Astrig Siranossian and Nathanael Gouin pluck from obscurity three rare works that time has rendered (temporarily) invisible. The first of these sonatas for cello and piano, recorded at the La Grange-Fleuret Music Library, was composed by Jean Cras in... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dear Mademoiselle: A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger Astrig Siranossian (cello), Nathanäel Gouin (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] An emblematic figure of her time, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) taught and inspired several generations of musicians, from Igor Stravinsky to Quincy Jones. Her musical and pedagogical philosophy, demanding yet highly stimulating, influenced the entire... |
VICTOR AVIAT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Ein Portrait Victor Aviat (oboe, oboe d'amore, voice, piano), Kim Barbier (piano), Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Zoltan Szoke (horn), Naomi Shaham (double bass) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] An internationally renowned oboist, Victor Aviat was a soloist with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart under Claudio Abbado, and Iván Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra for 20 years. He also studied piano, composition, and... |
BAPTISTE TROTIGNON
Anima Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] An eminent ambassador of the 'French touch' in jazz and winner of many awards (Django-Reinhardt, Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or, SACEM jazz awards) - Baptiste Trotignon has been composing for symphony orchestras and classical musicians for several... |
BERIO / BERG / GERSHWIN
Berio / Berg / Gershwin: Crazy Girl Crazy Barbara Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra & film directed by Mathieu Amalric [ Alpha Classics / CD/DVD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] 2018 Grammy Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album |
LUIGI NONO / FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / GERARD GRISEY
La Passione Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor), Ludwig Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself died unexpectedly at only 52 shortly before the work's premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording." BBC Music |
ALBAN BERG / GUSTAV MAHLER
Sehnsucht: Berg - Mahler Live in Rotterdam Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Raoul Steffani (baritone) / Camerata RCO, Rolf Verbeek [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Sehnsucht, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-siècle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective Sehnsucht arose, in performers and audiences alike.... |
SCHOENBERG / BERG / WEBERN / ZEMLINSKY
Vienna - Fin de Siècle Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Reinbert De Leeuw (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Solo Vocal |
Hannigan/De Leeuw
Vienna Fin De Siecle (Lp) [ Alpha / 2 LP - released 29/Apr/2019 ] After the huge success of her first album for Alpha, Crazy Girl Crazy (Alpha 293), which received a Grammy Award, a JUNO Classical Award in Canada, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, FFFF in Télérama and DIAMANT in Opéra Magazine and was... |
ZOLTAN KODALY / ANTONIN DVORAK
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 - Dvorák: Piano Trio, Op. 90 "Dumky" Barnabás Kelemen; Nicolas Altstaedt; Alexander Lonquich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] After the success of the recent recording of works by Veress and Bartók, which won both a Gramophone Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2020, the Lockenhaus Festival series, curated by its artistic director Nicolas Altstaedt, continues its... |
JOHANNES MATTHESON
Mattheson: De Brauchbare Virtuoso Diana Baroni (transverse flute), Pablo Valetti (violin), Petr Skalka (cello), Dirk Börner (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2003 ] |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: With All My Breath and All My Blood Giorgi Gigashvili (piano), Lisa Batiashvili (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] For his second recital, Giorgi Gigashvili chose Prokofiev, a composer he has been playing intensively for ten years. Nicknamed the "War Sonatas", these three masterpieces are, for him, "battles in themselves", sonatas to which one gives "heart and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Storie Di Napoli Marco Beasley, Ensemble Accordone, Gido Morini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Oct/2012 ] This programme of Neapolitan music, covering a vast historical span (from the Renaissance to the 20th century) is a 'manifesto' of the musical influences that have nurtured Marco Beasley. Guido Morini's arrangements, written especially for him, make... |
