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EUGENE YSAYE
Ysaÿe - Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Kerson Leong (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 32 Sonatas Konstantin Lifschitz (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 10 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] In a world like ours, shaped by centrifugal forces, even a monumental corpus like Beethoven's thirty wo piano sonatas can appear in a new light. Chronological examination of its genesis reveals fascinating parallels. - The Sonatas op.2 were published... |
BEETHOVEN / FERRÉ / SOLLIMA
Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piazzolla Reflections Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Riga-born Ksenija Sidorova is today one of the most eminent global ambassadors of the classical accordion. She has proudly borne the colours of her instrument in appearances in the world's leading halls and with the foremost orchestras. Here she pays... |
NATALIS CORDAT / NICOLAS SABOLY
Baroque Christmas in Occitania La Camera delle Lacrime, Bruno Bonhoure [ Alpha / CD - released 27/Oct/2008 ] Natalis Cordat (ca1610-1663), was a country vicar who wrote very refined and aristocratic 'noëls' whilst Nicolas Saboly (1614-1678), the caustic master of an Avignon Chapel, was a writer of small pieces in a popular vein. The Camera delle Lacrime... |
D'ANGLEBERT / LULLY
Se Canta Que Recante: Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully La Camera Delle Lacrime / Bruno Bonhoure (voix & dirction) [ Alpha / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "These d'Anglebert harpsichord works are played with sparkling technique, wit and insight by Frisch on a magnificent modern copy of an instrument by Vincent Tibaut" IRR |
BOLOGNA / CASERTA / LANINI / PADOVA / PERUGIA / etc
Metamorfosi Trecento La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of 'things that never happened, but always are'. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality... |
SIGISMUND NEUKOMM
Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra; Ben Glassberg / Sally Matthews; Julian Hubbard; Carole Wilson; Giselle Allen; Ed Lyon; Henri de Beauffort; Katharina Bie [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover. |
ANONYMOUS / SCHEIDEMANN / STEFFKINS / JENKINS / etc
My precious manuscript - Fantastic sonatas from England to German La Sainte Folie Fantastique [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "This highly captivating programme is performed with great dedication. The musicians deliver strongly rhetorical and gestural interpretations which lend these pieces a pronounced theatrical character." (MusicWeb Aug 2013) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hypnos La Tempête; Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Hypnos, God of Sleep . . . Simon-Pierre Bestion's recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, 'the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while... |
La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Schutz & Schein: Larmes De Résurrection [ Alpha / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of... |
STEFANO LANDI
Homo fugit velut umbra L'Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] "If authenticity is about the 'spirit' rather than the 'letter', then these performances are 'authentic' in spades. Landini's songs of love, loss and longing are handsomely served by l'Arpeggiata." Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Jan 2006) |
DEBUSSY / FAURE / POULENC
En sourdine Frédéric Loiseau, Laurent Naouri (baritone) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] We are familiar with the flamboyant baritone Laurent Naouri, a distinguished exponent of the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann from Paris to The Metropolitan Opera New York and an unforgettable Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande. But here it is a... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Don Giovanni Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Here is the third and last instalment in the 'Live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées' series of Mozart operas conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. After Die Entführung aus dem Serail and La clemenza di Tito comes Don Giovanni, recorded in 2016. On the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon Le Concert de la Loge; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Julien Chauvin; Sandrine Piau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Mozart's Requiem was not performed in Paris until 1804, in a version slightly different from the composer's original score. The press reported a triumph. That same year also saw the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte - who had brought back a pronounced... |
CHERUBINI / PLANTADE
Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Aug/2017 ] "Niquet brings fresh artistry and specifically French authority honed over decades with Le Concert Spirituel to both works. For me, this is a prize-winning disc" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Choral |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Hervé Niquet and his Concert Spirituel offer a programme to the glory of Antonio Vivaldi: his Gloria and Magnificat, genuine masterpieces of sacred vocal music, demonstrate the same variety of styles, tempo and atmospheres that characterise his... |
HANDEL
Handel: Messiah 1754 Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / 2 CD/Book - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Why yet another Messiah? 'I went through the different scores that exist and decided on the very interesting 1754 version, which features five soloists. You must remember that, when Handel arrived somewhere to perform his oratorio, he had soloists of... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIOVANNI BATTISTA REALI
Specchio Veneziano Le Consort; Victor Julien-Laferrière [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Specchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror - this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681,... |
