LE BERGER POETE
Le Berger Poète: Suites Et Sonates Pour Flute Et Musette Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ 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,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A l'ombre d'un ormeau Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien / François Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] |
Les Pages & Les Chantres
Forme: The Vow Of Louis Xiii [ Alpha / CD - released 4/Sep/2006 ] |
CLAUDE LE JEUNE
Lejeune: Motets pour le culte catholique et psaumes protestants Les Pages & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Claude Lejeune, who moved in Protestant circles but was also in the service of the royal court, composed both Huguenot polyphonic psalms in French and Catholic liturgical pieces in Latin. The genres are juxtaposed in this recording by Olivier... |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Les Indes Galantes BLU-RAY Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The performers have enormous fun with Boismortier's opera." (BBC Music Opera Choice April 2016) |
BIBER
Mysterien Sonaten: The Rosary Sonatas Les Veilleurs de Nuit / Alice Pierot (direction & violin), [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Les Veilleurs de Nuit: Alice Piérot (direction & violin), Pascal Monteilhet (théorbe), Marianne Muller (viola de gamba), Elisabeth Geiger (claviorganum) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas No.1, 10 & 5 'Spring' Lorenzo Gatto, Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas (Alpha 240), which won a Diapason d'Or of the year (the magazine hailed 'the birth of a great duo') and 'Choc' de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer continue their... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos.3, 6, 7 & 8 Lorenzo Gattp / Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Building on the success of the first two instalments of their cycle devoted to Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin (Alpha 240, Diapason d'Or of the year, and Alpha 407), Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer conclude this complete series by recording... |
ROSSI / MAZZOCCHI / CARISSIMI
Il Tormento E’Lestasi Los Musicos de Su Alteza [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The instrumental playing, in both the sacred works and Marini's famous Passacaglia is very assured" (International Record Review) |
JOSEPH RUIZ SAMANIEGRO
La vida es sueno... Los Musicos se Su Alteza / Luis Antonio Gonzales [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] We know very little about Ruiz Samaniego, Kapellmeister in Saragossa during the second half of the 18th-century. However, he left an abundant music production, including some villancicos. These polyphonic vocal works of theatrical origin have been... |
J. S. BACH / CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Bach & Abel: Solo Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] This is Lucile Boulanger's first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing - BBC Music Magazine even described her as 'the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba' - juxtaposes Bach with Carl F. Abel. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin, Piano & Flute Concertos Ludvig Gudim (violin), Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Josephine Olech (flute) / ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Original Version) & Preludes Op. 32 Lukas Geniušas (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] :"Comparisons are odious in this instance. Anyone with more than just a passing interest in Rachmaninov will need to have this excellently recorded disc on their real or virtual shelves." Gramophone Editors Choice Dec 2023 |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Ciaccona. Il mondo che gira María Cristina Kiehr; Stylus Phantasticus; Victor Torres [ 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... |
Marc Minkowski; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Florian Sempey
Rossini: Figaro? Sì! [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The French baritone Florian Sempey has established himself as a key player on today's operatic scene. For his first solo recital, Rossini was the obvious choice, first of all because he has already performed the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia... |
STEFANI / MONTEVERDI / CACCINI / ANONIMO / MORINI
La Bella Noeva Marco Beasley (voice) / Accordone [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] In the 17th and 18th Centuries music circulated in Europe in the form of manuscript arrangements of popular works. Marco Beasley and Accordone have proposed to revive this quotidian practice of the epoch. |
Marco Beasley; Guido Morini; Accordone
La bella noeva [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Inspired by the practice of Nuove Musiche advocated by Caccini in 1602, this album takes us to the foundations of modern Italian vocal music: a journey to the heart of the musical innovation that led to opera, presented by the singer Marco Beasley,... |
Marco Ceccato; Accademia Ottoboni
Bononcini: Cello Sonatas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747) and his younger brother, Antonio Maria (1677-1726) were considered by their contemporaries to be among the most outstanding cello virtuosi of their time; today, however, they are best known not only as... |