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Alpha Wolf
Half Living Things [ Cooking Vinyl Australia / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In the ever-evolving sonic landscape of Alpha Wolf, their music transforms like a shapeshifting beast, defying expectations and breaking through boundaries with the weight of wrecking-ball dynamics and captivating off-kilter hooks. The Australian... |
Alpha Wolf
Half Living Things (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Cooking Vinyl Australia / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In the ever-evolving sonic landscape of Alpha Wolf, their music transforms like a shapeshifting beast, defying expectations and breaking through boundaries with the weight of wrecking-ball dynamics and captivating off-kilter hooks. The Australian... |
Alpha Wolf
Half Living Things (LP) [ Cooking Vinyl Australia / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] In the ever-evolving sonic landscape of Alpha Wolf, their music transforms like a shapeshifting beast, defying expectations and breaking through boundaries with the weight of wrecking-ball dynamics and captivating off-kilter hooks. The Australian... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN / ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas Jean Rondeau (early keyboard instruments), Anna Besson, Myriam Rignol [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] In 1700, Corelli published his 12 violin sonatas, Opus 5, in Rome. A veritable revolution in violin technique, they won the admiration of eminent composers (Bach, Dandrieu, Couperin) and greatly influenced the French (Francoeur, Leclair, Senaille,... |
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... |
Reto Bieri (clarinet), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Take 3 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The basic idea of this album was to play in threes... Not to play 'something', but to experiment 'in threes' with sound worlds as different as those of Bartok, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes, composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartok... |
BERLIOZ / DUPARC / KOECHLIN / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / BRITTEN
Reflet Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-Francois Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] "It almost goes without saying that the performances are magnificent...Warmly supported by the Orchestre Victor Hugo under Jean-François Verdier and captured in glowing sound, Piau has created another sublime album." 5/5 BBC Music Magazine |
PROKOFIEV / SAIDAMINOVA / RAVEL
Shadows of My Ancestors Behzod Abduraimov (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Jan/2024 ] "Throughout this release, one consistently gets caught up in Abduraimov's gorgeous and focused sonority, his rock-solid rhythm." Gramophone Recording of the Month February 2024 |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa Het Collectief [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp.... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 - Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 - Andante for Flute KV 315 - Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair, Aaron Pilsan, Nicolas Rames, Diren Duran, Elisabeth Plank [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas... |
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 ] |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Original Version) & Preludes Op. 32 Lukas Geniušas (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] :"Comparisons are odious in this instance. Anyone with more than just a passing interest in Rachmaninov will need to have this excellently recorded disc on their real or virtual shelves." Gramophone Editors Choice Dec 2023 |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach & l'Italie Justin Taylor (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Johann Sebastian Bach hardly ever left his native Saxony, yet he was always up to date on what was going on elsewhere in Europe. Naturally, he paid close attention to innovations from Italy, the cradle of the concertante style, and instilled... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS / PHILIP GLASS
Amazônia. Villa-Lobos - Glass Simone Menezes, Camila Provenzale, Philharmonia Zurich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest... Sebastiao Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce... |
HINDEMITH / BERG / CHAUSSON / SCHOENBERG
Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan (soloist), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Emerson String Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "..It's all wonderfully played, with the group favouring a Romantic view of the Berg and Schoenberg. The highlights, though, are the lesser known pieces: Hindemith's Melancholie and Chausson's brief, beautiful Chanson Perpétuelle." NZ Listener |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 14: L'impériale Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] The fourteenth volume of the Haydn2032 edition is entitled L'Imperiale, after the nickname given to Symphony no.53 in the nineteenth century. This was perhaps Haydn's most famous symphony during his lifetime. Premiered in the theatre at Eszterhaza... |
Sarah Willis (horn), Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "My dream of recording all four of the Mozart horn concertos has been fulfilled at last. Little did I know that this long-held dream would come true in Cuba of all places and with a Cuban orchestra! I have learned so much about Cuban music and how to... |
Bruno Helstroffer, Chantal Santon Jeffery
L'âme-son [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] It was in the second half of the sixteenth century that the guitar became fashionable in France: it was the instrument of the people, whereas the lute was associated with the intellectuals and the nobility. Henry Grenerin became a page (choirboy) in... |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Anton Bruckner called his Symphony no.8 in C minor a 'mystery'; others have seen it as an 'apocalyptic' work. For Paavo Jarvi, it is the composer's 'most unusual symphony' and the 'pinnacle' of his symphonic output. In the history of the... |
