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JEAN-HENRY d'ANGLEBERT
Pieces de Clavecin & airs d'apres M. de Lully Celine Frisch (clavecin francais) / Cafe Zimmermann / Paul Valetti [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2007 ] The originality of this recording lies in the fact that it enables music lovers to compare D'Anglebert's transcriptions with the music of Lully in its original version. |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: Lagrime e Sospiri Chantal Santon Jeffery, Benjamin Chenier, Galilei Consort [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2017 ] The life of Stradella, murdered on a Genoese piazza at the age of forty-two on the orders of a jealous rival in love, has achieved mythical status and inspired several novels and operas featuring Stradella the adventurer, the rebel and above all... |
J. S. BACH
Bach before Bach Chouchane Siranossian; Leonardo García Alarcón; Balázs Máté [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] In the Europe of the first half of the seventeenth century, instrumental music became a source of sonic and expressive experimentation. Influenced by vocal rhetoric, composers sought to replace words with a new musical language. The virtuosity of the... |
FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI / PIETRO LOCATELLI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Duello d'archi a Venezia Chouchane Siranossian (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] "For this recording we have created an imaginary 'battle of the bows' between Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini and Locatelli, the 'four musketeers' of the violin in Venice during the first half of the 18th century", said Chouchane Siranossian and Andrea... |
SIGMUND ROMBERG
Romberg: Violin Concertos Chouchane Siranossian (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Born in Lower Saxony just three years before Beethoven, the violinist Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) was, like him, a virtuoso instrumentalist of precocious gifts. His career too was radically affected by the Napoleonic Wars and a formative encounter... |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Tartini: Violin Concertos Chouchane Siranossian (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Baroque Instrumental |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JORG WIDMANN
Schumann/Widmann: Das heiße Herz Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Andreas Frese (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Bass-baritone Christian Immler, accompanied by the pianist Andreas Frese, juxtaposes the contemporary composer Jörg Widmann with the Romantic Schumann in three cycles of lieder written between 1849 and 2013. 'For us, Jörg Widmanns song cycle Das... |
ERIC MONTALBETTI
Montalbetti: Chamber Music Harmonieuses Dissonances Christian Tetzlaff / Alexander Vorontsov / Delphine Haidan / Pierre Génisson / Les Dissonances / Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Harmonieuses Dissonances: that is the title of the string quartet that closes this second album of music by Eric Montalbetti, but above all it is a statement of the very subject of the works assembled here: they start out from heterogeneous elements,... |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Dies Irae, De Profundis, Te Deum Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón, Millenium Orchestra [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] 'Although Lully never held any post in the Chapelle du Roi, his influence on the development of the grand motet, so emblematic of the Grand Siècle, was of decisive importance. He wrote imposing motets celebrating the glory of God and the King for the... |
CL
Alpha (Colour Version CD) [ Very Cherry Inc / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] ALPHA is the highly anticipated debut solo album from South Korean rapper/singer/songwriter, CL. Exploding onto the K-pop scene at the age of 17, she was the leader of one of the best-selling and highest charting groups in Billboard Top 200's... |
CL (Mono Version CD)
Alpha [ Very Cherry Inc / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] ALPHA is the highly anticipated debut solo album from South Korean rapper/singer/songwriter, CL. Exploding onto the K-pop scene at the age of 17, she was the leader of one of the best-selling and highest charting groups in Billboard Top 200's... |
BERLIOZ / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / POULENC
Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc Claire Chevalier (piano), Claire Chevallier (piano) & Jos van Immerseel (piano), Katerina Chrobokova & Jos van Immerseel (harpsichord) Anima Eterna Br [ Alpha / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Happy Birthday, Mister Jos! Jos Van Immerseel is celebrating his 70th birthday with three important releases that will punctuate the end of the year at Alpha: a symphonic programme (Janacek, Dvorak), a chamber music programme (Schubert) and a set... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453) Claire Huangci (piano) / Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young... |
DE LALANDE
Tenebrae Claire Lefilliatre, Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ ALPHA / 2 CD ] "The packaging of this CD is sumptuous, and the accompanying booklet has outstandingly good notes. The recording contains fine performances of some very beautiful music and can be strongly recommended." IRR |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Anima Erterna Claron McFadden, Bart van Caenegem, Amina Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] George Gershwin composed his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. In the same year, he launched his collaboration with his brother Ira, which produced countless songs. He never achieved his ambition of studying with Maurice Ravel, but was always enthralled by... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Trios For Clarinet, Cello & Piano Op. 11 & Op. 38 Claudio Bohórquez (cello) / Eric Le Sage (piano) / Paul Meyer (clarinet) [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] With this new series entitled 'Salon de musique', Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN / FRANCOIS d'AGINCOURT / PIERRE DANDRIEU / LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN / etc
L'Aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] 'But what are we going to do with all these pleasures?' A question sung tête-à-tête by the Princess and the Prince in Jacques Demy's film Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin), and a more bothersome question for harpsichordists drawn to the age of Louis XV. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier - Book II Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Two years after releasing her CD dedicated to Book I of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Céline Frisch now presents the second volume of this musical landmark. Bach compiled Book II in 1744, twenty-two years after Book I. It took until 1801 for... |
JOHN BLOW
Venus and Adonis Céline Scheen & Marc Mauillon / Les Musiciens du Paradis & La Maîtrise de Caen, Bertrand Cuiller [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] After the successes of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Cadmus & Hermione, Alpha is continuing its audiovisual exploration of lyric repertoires offering, for the first time on DVD, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, accompanied by his Ode to Saint Cecilia.. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
No Time for Chamber Music Collectif9 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Collectif9 is a Montreal-based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large-scale works. Alpha is starting a collaboration with this innovative group... |
