SCHUMANN
Gesange der Frube [2 CD set] Eric le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
SCHUMANN
Humoreske Op. 20 / Piano Sonatas Eric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "These are altogether exceptionally sympathetic and rewarding performances." BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Sonatas / Etudes / Fantasias / etc Eric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "…scintillating performances. Eric Le Sage's playing… is admirably unaffected… a rewarding collection." BBC Music Magazine, February 2010 **** |
BEETHOVEN
To be loved: Beethoven, Bridge & Chin Esmé Quartet [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] With its collection created in collaboration with the Academy of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Alpha continues to support new talents. The Esmé Quartet, consisting of four Korean women musicians, was founded in 2016 and is based in Germany. Its... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 Sinfonietta Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] The Järvi family is a pillar of Estonian musical life. Paavo is now director of the Pärnu Festival, held in August each year, which brings together the finest Estonian musicians, joined by the cream of European orchestras: members of the Deutsche... |
SVEN TÜÜR
Tuur: Mythos Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "The recorded sound is full and detailed, and presentation is good, with nice photos and booklet texts in English, German, French and Estonian." MusicWeb Recommended |
RAMEAU
Que les mortels servent de modele aux dieux Eugénie Warnier (soprano), Arnaud Richard (bass) / Ausonia / Frederic Haas [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] May the mortals be a model for the gods |
HANDEL / ARIOSTI / BONONCINI
Royal Handel Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Le Consort [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the new capital of opera. The only language to be sung... |
LEFEBVRE / MONTECLAIR / COURBOIS / CLERAMBAULT
Venez chère ombre Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Le Consort; Justin Taylor [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who has signed up with Alpha for several recordings, is one of the most prominent vocal artists of her generation. She was chosen as 'Révélation lyrique' at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2018, and elected the same... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / PIETRO LOCATELLI / SERAFINO RAZZI
Nisi Dominus Eva Zaïcik, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique; Deborah Cachet; Benoît-Joseph Meier; Francisco Mañalich; Virgile Ancely [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] In the seventeenth century, the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice took in young orphan girls who received advanced musical instruction. The concerts given there attracted visitors from all over the world, curious to hear these divine voices which... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Concertos For Pianos Evgeni Koroliov / Anna Vinnitskaya / Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva / Kammerakademie Postdam [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three Alpha recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov. Evgeni Koroliov is a great master of the piano, a great Bach specialist, whose recordings of Bach are an acclaimed... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Semaine Mystique: Devotional songs from the reign of Louis XIII Faenza / Marco Horvat [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Art of Fugue Filippo Gorini [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The Italian pianist Filippo Gorini took advantage of the world health crisis to immerse himself in The Art of Fugue, Johann Sebastian Bach's unfinished mystical masterpiece: 'The view that it should be seen solely as a theoretical marvel is... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas Opus 106, 111 Filippo Gorini (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] After a first recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations acclaimed by the critics (Diapason d'Or, BBC, Guardian, Le Monde) Filippo Gorini, a student of Alfred Brendel and winner of the first Prize and Audience Prize of the Bonn Beethoven... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variation Filippo Gorini (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Supporting new talents is in the Alpha label's DNA. Here is the very first recording of the Italian pianist Filippo Gorini, who was recently awarded First Prize in the Telekom-Beethoven Competition in Bonn. He has also won the same competition's... |
MOZART
Mozart: Quintette avec clarinette K 581 & Quatuors K 380 & K 378 Florent Héau, Quatuor Manfred [ 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... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Project Haydn 2032 - Vol. 3: Solo e pensoso Francesca Aspromonte (soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Aug/2017 ] "As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy - the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all others are measured." Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 |
GIOVANNI LORENZO LULIER
Lulier Francesca Boncompagni, Accademia Ottoboni, Marco Ceccato [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] In Rome between the late seventeenth century and the early eighteenth, academies and 'conversazioni' (artistic gatherings) organised by aristocrats and cardinals attracted the leading writers and musicians. The names of Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Pièces pour orgue Francis Jacob [ 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... |
J. S. BACH
Bach (J.S.): Sonates & Solo Pour La Flute Traversiere Francois Lazarevitch (traverse flute) / Les Musiciens De Saint-Julien, Thomas Dunford [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] As director of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch has enabled us to discover numerous treasures stemming from dance and folk music. For the first time on Alpha, he has recorded a solo album, devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach's Flute... |