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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Plaisirs Illuminés Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello) / Camerata Bern, Francisco Coll (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 WINNER - Concerto |
BIBER
Biber: Les sonates du Rosaire Patrick Bismuth; Ensemble La Tempesta [ 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... |
MAURICE RAVEL / BENJAMIN ATTAHIR
Ravel: Valse & Rapsodie Espagnole / Attahir: Adh-Dhor Patrick Wibart / Orchestre National de Lille / Alexandre Boch [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Alexandre Bloch juxtaposes two French composers on this disc. First of all, Maurice Ravel, with the Rapsodie espagnole, his first major work for orchestra alone, written at the age of thirty-two, and La Valse, premiered thirteen years later and which... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Pierre Dumoussaud; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Stanislas de Barbeyrac; Chiara Skerath; Alexandre Duhamel; Jérôme Varnier; Janina Baechle [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "Alpha's recording may not be filled with star names but it reveals so much more about the work than before. It is particularly worth acquiring for those who wish to really get inside the orchestral details of this opera." MusicWeb Recommended |
The Postures
Bushwalker / Alpha Male (7in) [ MUZAI Records / 7in - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
J. S. BACH
Missae Breves BWV 233 & 236 Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "These beautifully sculpted performances present a perspective on Bach which is committed to beauty of sound." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2011) |
J. S. BACH
Missae Breves BWV 234 & 235 Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "the vitality of the choral movements of both Masses and the richly flavoured instrumental accompaniment, directed by Raphaël Pichon with warmth and an unusual sensitivity to the periodic structure of each movement." Gramophone Magazine, Dec 2008 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of its creation and its sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn's quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens with the Quartet op.13, composed in 1827, when he was... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Despite its Dutch-sounding name, the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk in 2012 is French. But its short career is already international. The Quatuor Van Kuijk won First Prize in the 2015 Wigmore Hall Competition and First Prize and Audience Award... |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL / CHAUSSON
String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk, Kate Lindsey, Aphonse Cemin [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Sep/2017 ] releaseseptember2017Quatuor Van KuijKKatelindsey*alphonse Cemin*- alpha 295 -The first disc of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a 'Choc de Classica' and 'Diapason Découverte'. Now they return to their roots... |
BARTOK / SCHULHOFF / JANACEK
Lettres Intimes: Quartets by Bartók, Schulhoff & Janácek Quatuor Voce [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] The Quatuor Voce, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, follows up its two recordings of Mozart with Juliette Hurel (ALPHA204) and Brahms with Lise Berthaud (ALPHA214) by inviting us on a journey to central Europe. The three works recorded... |
MOZART / SCHUBERT
Mozart / Schubert: Quartets Nos.15 Quatuor Voce [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] The Quatuor Voce is fifteen years old! To celebrate this anniversary, the four musicians present a CD focusing on two composers, Mozart and Schubert, but only one number: 15! This milestone, an age imbued with both ardour and maturity, is therefore... |
Quatuor Voce; Jodie Devos; Juliette Hurel; Emmanuel Ceysson
Poétiques de l'instant [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The Quatuor Voce presents Poétiques de l'instant, a long-term project and a diptych of recordings that aim to combine two of the key works in the repertory of any string quartet - the masterpieces of Debussy and Ravel - with other pieces of music and... |
MAURICE RAVEL / BRUNO MANTOVANI
Poétiques de l'instant II: Ravel & Mantovani Quatuor Voce / Juliette Hurel (flute), Rémi Delangle (clarinet), Emmanuel Ceysson (harp) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] This second instalment of our long-term project Poétiques de l'Instant (Poetry of the Moment) combines two masterly string quartets with a range of other instrumental colours, unpublished transcriptions and first performances. |
LERA AUERBACH
Auerbach: 72 Angels Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Dijkstra [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] '72 Angels is a large-scale work for mixed choir and saxophone quartet. It is structured as seventytwo prelude-evocations and an epilogue. Each prelude sets to music one of the seventy- two names derived from an esoteric interpretation of Exodus... |
NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clérambault: Cantates Françoises Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] After a Bach album, the tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis present a programme of French music devoted to Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), a precociously gifted composer who published four volumes comprising a total of... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV491 & 17 KV453 Éric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester; François Leleux [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Mozart's piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H.C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer's life and... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Nocturnes Éric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] With their poetry, their passonate and intimate lyricism, their refined style that gradually reveals hidden depths, the thirteen Nocturnes of Gabriel Fauré are the most significant group of works in his oeuvre for solo piano. |
RICHTER
String Quartets Op.5 Rincontro [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Mar/2006 ] These works by Mozart and Richter represent the meeting of those two periods. Richter – incidentally, Mozart heard and appreciated one of his Masses at Strasbourg Cathedral in 1778 – achieved an original synthesis in his String Quartets opus 5 |
Roman Borisov; Gabriel Pidoux; ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Howard Griffiths
Mozart Piano concertos No. 11, 13 (KV413 & 415) & Oboe concerto KV 314 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] For the sixth volume of this series devoted to Mozart performances by the young generation of soloists, the pianist Roman Borisov, who won First Prize at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2022 when he was the youngest participant in the competition, has... |
