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PURCELL
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas 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... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 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... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 & The Hero's Song NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Following on from his critically acclaimed Lutosławski programme, the conductor Krzysztof Urbański pursues his collaboration with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester et Alpha. The New World Symphony is a work that has always fascinated Krzysztof... |
STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski [ Alpha / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Jan/2018 ] One of the big events of 2017 was the opening of the Hamburg Philharmonie. Krzysztof Urbański and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra gave inaugural concerts there that made a lasting impact on audiences and critics alike. On this occasion, the Polish... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Krzysztof Urbański [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Is the imitation of rolling thunder, howling winds and bleating sheep a form of musical composition worthy of the name? Can we take seriously a composer who boasts of being able to 'set a restaurant menu to music, if need be'? These were the kinds of... |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Concerto For Orchestra / Little Suite / Symphony No. 4 NDR Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Since 2015, Krzysztof Urbański has been principal guest conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, one of the leading German orchestras. They are currently preparing together the inauguration in January 2017 of Hamburg's new concert hall,... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albéniz: Iberia Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Debussy and Messiaen regarded Iberia as THE piano masterpiece of the twentieth century: 'One's eyes close, as if dazzled from having gazed upon too many images', wrote Debussy in 1905. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 14/Aug/2017 ] "Chopin's soul seems to be revealed in these warmly recorded performances." BBC Music Instrumental Choice January 2018 |
BEETHOVEN
Sonata No.29 'Hammerklavier' Bagatelles Op.126 Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] He is nicknamed 'the poet of the piano', an epithet confirmed by each of his appearances in concert or on record, most recently with his multi-award-winning Debussy and Chopin CDs. Nelson Goerner already has an imposing discography, but this is the... |
C.P.E. BACH
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Nevermind, Anna Besson, Louis Creac'h, Robin Pharo; Jean Rondeau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] For their third album on Alpha, the musicians of Nevermind - Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (viola), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba) and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) - explore the riches of a little-played repertory, the quartets and sonatas of Carl... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) / Alexander Lonquich (Fortepiano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Beethoven's output for cello and piano is fascinating because it covers every period of his career, from early to late, with references to Bach in op.69 and op.102 no.2 and an especially innovative and amazingly modern musical language. . |
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN / MAURICE RAVEL
Salonen / Ravel Nicolas Altstaedt; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Dima Slobodeniouk; Pekka Kuusisto [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen's monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer's direction. In partnership with the... |
A Nocte Temporis, Anna Besson, Reinoud van Mechelen
The Dubhlinn Gardens [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] The Dubhlinn Gardens: an evening in the high society of 18th century Dublin, where traditional music was 'civilising' itself for the salon… This programme was inspired by the passion for traditional Irish music that flautist Anna Besson has felt... |
ANONYMOUS
Oh, ma belle brunette Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis, with Anna Besson (baroque flute) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] The term 'brunette' refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. |
LOYSET COMPERE
Compere: Missa Galeazescha, Music for the duke of Milan Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "...the groups are so well blended (and indeed opulent) that one imagines that Galeazzo would have been delighted. In fact, the variety of approaches on offer is one of this disc's most attractive aspects." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos 9 & 17 Olga Pashchenko (fortepiano) / Il Gardellino [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] "I suspect all but those most allergic to the fortepiano will find Pashchenko's dashing interpretation a fine alternative. I do hope this is the beginning of a series, as I would love to hear what these performers would make of the later concertos." |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein Olga Pashchenko (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Olga Pashchenko is in the process of creating a unique place for herself in the world of the keyboard: she moves with astounding ease and skill from the harpsichord to the fortepiano, the organ and the modern piano. After a recording of... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Sonates, Naples, 1685 Olivier Cavé [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] These sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti seem to contain all the vivid colours of Naples: in the hands of Olivier Cavé, they spring to life as playful tableaux, dreams where the notes resemble reminiscences, each of them conjuring up a noisy, turbulent... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos K.415, 175, 503 Olivier Cavé, Divertissement, Rinaldo Alessandrini [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] Olivier Cavé has made several acclaimed discs for Aeon (Clementi, Haydn, Bach, Scarlatti). This student of Nelson Goerner, Maria Tipo and Aldo Ciccolini invariably impresses listeners with the refinement of his playing. This is an album of three... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Olivier Cavé (piano), Kammerakademie Potsdam, Patrick Hahn [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] A subtle performer of the Baroque and Classical piano repertory, Olivier Cavé here offers us for the first time his interpretation of Beethoven's first two concertos, written between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. |
