ANTOINE de FEVIN
Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne Doulce Mémoire; Denis Raisin Dadre; Yann-Fañch Kemener [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The attachment of King Louis XII and a whole people to Queen Anne of Brittany can be heard on this disc, where Denis Raisin Dadre and his ensemble Doulce Mémoire juxtapose Antoine de Févin's Missa pro defunctis with Breton folk songs for solo voice... |
BAPTISTE TROTIGNON / FRANCIS POULENC / DAVE BRUBECK
Les Boys Duo Jatekok [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The piano duo formed by Arthur Gold (1917-90) and Robert Fizdale (1920-95) enjoyed immense fame in the post-war years. Poulenc wrote a piece for them, as did Darius Milhaud, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio and John Cage. They recorded with Leonard... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANCIS POULENC
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux [The Carnival of the Animals] / Poulenc: Double Concerto Alex Vizorek (voice) Duo Jatekok (pianos) / Orchestre National de Lille; Lucie Leguay; [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. The French composer never imagined that his bestiary would become one of the most famous works in musical history, a staple repertory piece on a par with Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. |
EDOUARD FERLET
Plucked 'N Dance Edouard Ferlet, Violaine Cochard [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] A journey through countries, periods and styles on the theme of dance. The themes and melodies are borrowed from Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Italian, English, Hungarian and French composers, inspired by folk music and dances. Édouard Ferlet has... |
J.S. BACH
Inventions & Sinfonies Elisabeth Joye (clavecin) [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] Elisabeth Joyé (harpsichord) |
JACQUES DUPHLY
Pieces de clavecin Elisabeth Joye (historic harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
KORNGOLD / ZEMLINSKY / MAHLER / BERG / SCHONBERG
Vienne 1900 Emmanuel Pahud / Paul Meyer / Daishin Kashimoto / Zvi Plesser / Eric Le Sage [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2020 ] Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Queen's Delight: English Songs & Country Dances of the 17th & 18th Century Fiona McGown (mezzo), Enea Sorini (baritone), Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This programme reflects the full flavour and richness of English music and the instrumental and vocal repertory it inspired in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rhythmic impulse of this repertory - sometimes making use of... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Concertone Ensemble 415; Chiara Banchini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] This programme, performed by Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415, gives a glimpse of Mozart's early compositions, written in Salzburg, most of which were intended for performance at social events or in the open air. |
ANONYMOUS
Au Sainct Nau Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] "The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Early Music) |
JOHN CAGE / ELLIOT CARTER / MORTON FELDMAN / etc
New York Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher [ ALPHA / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Here is the third release in the collaboration between the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Alpha. This time the musicians of the ensemble and their conductor Matthias Pintscher focus on American music: Intégrales by Edgar Varèse (1924), Music for... |
XENAKIS
Nomos Alpha / Thallein / Phlegra / Komboi / etc Benny Sluchin, Pierre Strauch, Elisabeth Chojnacka / Ensemble Intercontemporain [ Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] ""A splendid introduction to Xenakis: exciting, rhythmic and frequently violent. All the performers dig in with relish, but special praise to Chojnacka, who manages the composer's virtual re-invention of the harpsichord with amazing virtuosity." BBC... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Ouvertures [Suites] Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] "Excellent performances and initiative." MusicWeb |
J. S. BACH / NICOLAS BERNIER
Routes du café Ensemble Masques / Olivier Fortin [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] The history of coffee is fascinating! From the opening of the first establishments in Constantinople in the middle of the sixteenth century to the appearance and diffusion of the drink in Europe in the following century, coffee and coffee houses were... |
GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin; Raffaele Giordani; Cristina Fanelli; Hana Blažíková; William Shelton; Manuel Nunez-Camelino; Romain Bockler [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] A highly prolific composer, Giovanni Legrenzi practised his art in oratorios and other works for the church, as well as in opera and chamber music. In fact he explored all the musical genres of his period, taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli... |
Monteverdi, Bassani, De Macque, Trabaci, Gesualdo
Este libro es de Don Luis Rossi Ensemble Poïésis, Marion Fourquier [ 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... |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Dardanus Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Alpha / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] |
JULIEN JOUBERT
Joubert: Ariettes Oubliées Ensemble Romances sans paroles; Marie-Noëlle Maerten [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] 'You have understood nothing of my simplicity', wrote Paul Verlaine in Child Wife. And that is precisely what Julien Joubert's music seems to whisper to us with each note.The composer and pianist works regularly with the Maîtrise de Radio France,... |
MARAIS
Marais: Folies D'espagne Ensemble Spirale, Marianne Muller [ Alpha / 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,... |
SCHUMANN
An Clara: piano works (incls Papillons) Eric le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "Eric Le Sage is an extremely cultivated disciple of the great French tradition of Schumann piano." Financial Times |