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ADAMS / STRAVINSKY / GERSHWIN / BERN
Hallelujah Junction Lukas Geniušas, Anna Geniushene [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Apr/2025 ] Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas both have brilliant careers as soloists: Anna won the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 and now records for Fuga Libera, while Lukas' two Rachmaninov recordings, a recital of... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Schubert / Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy Lukas Geniušas (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitr?nas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 19/Jun/2026 ] "A thrilling album, with pianist, orchestra, repertoire and sound ideally matched." Gramophone Editor's Choice |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (On Period Instruments) Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2026 ] Following the critical and public success of Mahler's Symphony no.9, Philipp von Steinaecker and the Mahler Academy Orchestra continue their recording of Mahler's symphonies on period instruments with the Fifth Symphony. For this recording, the new... |
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... |
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.... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 KV 466 & 22 KV 482 Marie-Ange Nguci (piano), Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2026 ] The sixteenth volume of the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series - the penultimate instalment in this collection dedicated to the younger generation of performers, produced in collaboration with the Orpheum Foundation - is fast becoming... |
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... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / STRAVINSKY / WEINBERG
From Eastern Europe - Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] The Hecker/Helmchen duo is renowned for the high standard of their performances, which is reflected in their recordings. The German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker caused a sensation by winning both the First Prize and two Special Prizes at the eighth... |
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 |
LUDWIG van 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... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830 Martin Helmchen (1790 Tangent Piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] "Helmchen is drawn to the hybrid capabilities of his instrument, which stimulate fresh insights into how Bach's Partitas can be played and experienced" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2024 |
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... |
