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ADÈLE HUGO
Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo Karine Deshayes (soloist), Sandrine Piau (soloist), Isabelle Druet (soloist), Anaïde Apelian, Laurianne Corneille, Axelle Fanyo (soloist), Thomas Saul [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] The composer Richard Dubugnon has orchestrated 14 of her songs, and his instrumentations lend an idiomatic, sometimes colourful, often mellow slant to some appealing melodies. - The Guardian |
MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / HANDEL / MONARI
Kate Lindsey: Tiranno Kate Lindsey (soprano) / Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] "This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the subtle and inflected playing of the Arcangelo group" BBC |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / CARL LOEWE
Schubert / Loewe: Mythos Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Passion, solitude, nostalgia, the pain of the world, flight, death - these are the typical themes of Romanticism. Konstantin Krimmel has already explored this era of extreme emotion in Saga, his first recital album (Alpha549). Now, with collaborative... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Bomba Flamenca La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Apr/2026 ] Simon-Pierre Bestion immerses us in the world of Charles V and a Spain marked by Arab-Andalusian culture. From 1515 onwards, Spain also welcomed musicians and singers from Flanders: this Capilla flamenca had an explosive effect on Spanish music... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Masques Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (tenor), Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] This album celebrates Antonio Vivaldi's compositions for a particular vocal register, the alto, and for soloists from three different instrumental families: strings, woodwinds (the transverse flute) and brass (the horn). |
SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / BERLIOZ / MASSENET etc
Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Recital BBC Music Award Finalist 2020 |
FRANZ LISZT / FRANZ SCHUBERT / CLARA SCHUMANN / LILI BOULANGER
Voyage Intime Sandrine Piau (soprano) David Kadouch (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Sandrine Piau and the pianist David Kadouch have formed a new duo whose first concerts have been enthusiastically received. As is her wont, the French soprano enjoys intermingling languages and the worlds of different composers and poets around a... |
STRAUSS / BERG / ZEMLINSKY
Clair-Obscur Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart y Mambo Sarah Willis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the horn, which she champions around the world. Already a horn player with the Berlin Philharmoniker, in 2014 she launched for the German television channel Deutsche Welle what was soon to... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Faust Symphony Steve Davislim (tenor) / Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Mar/2016 ] "[Haselböck] reveals aspects of Liszt's scoring that would otherwise go unnoticed. ...with Haselböck, you begin to understand Liszt's sound world as he understood it, more or less, though whose interpretation he would have favoured is anyone's guess" |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 "Polish" / Polonaise from "Eugene Onegin" / Festival Coronation March Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] With this final volume of their Tchaikovsky cycle, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich complete their exploration of the Russian composer's symphonies. Symphony No. 3, also known as the "Polonaise" (1875) |
LULLY / CHARPENTIER / DESMARETS
Véronique Gens - Passion Véronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises; Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] "Gens is in thrilling voice. She has the knack - harder, surely, in miscellaneous pieces than in a complete opera - of instantly getting to the heart of a character…Warmly recommended." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 |
Adèle Charvet; Florian Caroubi
Belle Epoque! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] For her second recital with piano, mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet reunites with Florian Caroubi, who has been her regular duo partner since 2015. Together they celebrate the belle époque of the great French melodists (Massenet, Debussy, Fauré) and their... |
COPLAND / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN / BARBER etc
Long Time Ago Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The young mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet has already attracted attention in the opera house, but she is also passionately interested in the song repertory. For her first album, she has devised a very personal programme, deriving in part from her musical... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032: Die Schöpfung (complete oratorio) Anna Lucia Richter; Florian Boesch; Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico; Maximilian Schmitt; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1 Astrig Siranossian (cello), Philharmonie Südwestfalen; Nabil Shehata [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia Boulanger (Dear Mademoiselle, ALPHA635) recently... |
Bloc Party
Alpha Games [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] Bloc Party return with Alpha Games, their first new album since 2016's Hymns. Alpha Games, produced by Nick Launay & Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), includes new single 'Traps', which sees the band returning to the raucous,... |
Bloc Party
Alpha Games (Indie Vinyl LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 29/Apr/2022 ] Bloc Party return with Alpha Games, their first new album since 2016's Hymns. Alpha Games, produced by Nick Launay & Adam Greenspan (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), includes new single 'Traps', which sees the band returning to the raucous,... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Armide 1778 (complete opera) Chantal Santon Jeffery, Katherine Watson, Véronique Gens, Tassis Christoyannis / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD/Book - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Recording of the Month - BBC Music Magazine, November 2020 |
DVORAK / GRIEG / BRAHMS
Dvorak / Grieg / Brahms: Music for Piano, Four hands Claire Chevallier, Jos Van Immerseel (piano Bechstein 1870) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Apr/2017 ] Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier have enjoyed a close collaboration for many years now. Like Jos van Immerseel, Claire Chevallier loves period pianos; like him, she is a researcher and possesses her own collection of keyboard... |
