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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Violoncello Del Cardinale Marco Ceccato (cello) / Accademia Ottoboni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni played a prominent role in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with their patronage of the three most important composers of the day, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel.... |
SCHUBERT
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No. 2 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antje Weithaas, Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Following a first recording on Alpha devoted to Brahms which garnered much praise - 'real duo playing' said Gramophone, while Classica discerned 'shared music making . . . a world full of nuances and subtlety, boundless sonic imagination... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] "[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts of momentum and repose Brahms demands" BBC Music |
BEETHOVEN
Resound Beethoven Martin Haselböck [ Alpha Classics / 5 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] In the course of the eight recordings released by Alpha, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, conducted by Martin Haselböck, has accomplished its objective of recording the complete Beethoven symphonies on period instruments.... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4 & Op. 7 Martin Haselböck; Orchester Wiener Akademie; Jeremy Joseph [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Handel is best known to the wider public for his large-scale choral and orchestral works, but his organ music is equally precious. It was the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels who, diverting him from a career in the law, spotted his exceptional abilities on... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variationos Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] The pianist Martin Helmchen has now joined Alpha for several recordings. Acknowledged as one of the leading pianists of his generation, an eminent interpreter of the German repertoire, Helmchen will explore various periods and composers (including... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Composed in 1944 and first performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 March 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, this is the second great pianistic cycle by Olivier Messiaen: a major work indeed, not only in the composer's oeuvre but in the entire repertoire for... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Pianos concertos 1 & 4 Martin Helmchen / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Andrew Manze [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Beethoven's piano concertos are a precious source for understanding the history of the practice of this instrument, which, in the early nineteenth century, permanently replaced the harpsichord in the hearts of composers. Thus one can still hear the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto 3 & Triple Concerto Martin Helmchen (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] German pianist Martin Helmchen continues his journey through Beethoven's piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Andrew Manze. In the Third Concerto, published in 1804, Beethoven seems to be moving away from the Mozartian model... |
J.S. BACH / J.W. HERTEL / MOZART
Sentiment Mathis Stier (bassoon) Ensemble Reflektor [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Born in 1994, bassoonist Mathis Stier not only won second prize at the 2019 ARD Competition, but was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize. Mathis Stier has a natural affinity with the music of the 18th century and the three works which he has... |
YEDID NEFESH
Yedid Nefesh: Amant De Mon Ame Meirav Ben, David-Harel, Yaïr Harel [ 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,... |
Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Sierra Kilo Alpha [ ABC / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Only three years from Melbourne Ska Orchestra's critically acclaimed debut album - sees the release of their second album, 'Sierra-Kilo-Alpha' - picking up where they left off, taking the age old style of Ska and adding to it with... |
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo), Les Lunaisiens, Chœur de femmes audomaria de Saint-Omer, Arnaud Marzorati, Adélaïde Stroesser
Merd'v'là l'hiver: Complaintes des gens de rue [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a 'lament' that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and... |
PETER EOTVOS
DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums Midori, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Grubinger Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The first of these three concertos was not only written for Midori, but playfully takes the (adjusted) syllables of her name as a quasi-tone row from which to concoct a tripartite argument." (Sunday Times) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 Miguel Da Silva (viola), Xavier Phillips (cello), François-Frédéric Guy (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Brahms's Trio op.114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas op.120), is presented here in its version with viola: 'Like all Brahms's works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor Mikko Franck; Nathalia Milstein; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] After Franck, Debussy and Strauss, Mikko Franck and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France here continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics, this time with the spotlight on Igor Stravinsky. The programme begins with two pieces from his... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) DVD/Blu-ray Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Alpha DVD + Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "there are exquisite solos too, especially from soprano Silvia Frigato and tenor Nicholas Mulroy." (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (complet opera) Anna Stéphany, Antoinette Dennefeld, Nicky Spence, David Steffens / Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Ben Glassberg [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Flanked by a spectacular cast featuring the role debuts of Nicky Spence (named 'Personality of the Year' by BBC Music Magazine in 2022) and Simona Šaturová, the conductor Ben Glassberg (Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie) once again... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major / Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 Julian Trevelyan (piano) / ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Christian Zacharias [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] This Alpha back catalogue reissue is an opportunity to discover or rediscover the talent of 'the enfant terrible of classical music', as Le Figaro called him, for whom 'music is intended to transport into the waking world the sentiments we feel when... |
