JOHAN FARJOT
Farjot: Lovescapes Rosemary Standley; David Tepfer; Jeanne Gérard; Sandrine Piau; Ambroisine Bré; Delphine Haidan; Stanislas de Barbeyrac; Geneviève Laurenceau; Arnaud T [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Johan Farjot's music prolongs the inner resonances of David Tepfer's beautiful poems, dealing with the frissons and sorrows of love. On the road to the eighty-eight temples of the Japanese island of Shikoku, the piano of Johan Farjot or David... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love (LP) Rosemary Standley; Ensemble Contraste; Johan Farjot; Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste: 'We all have a few notes of... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love Rosemary Standley (vocals), Ensemble Contraste, Johan Farjot, Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey, the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the Ensemble Contraste. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina / Tamerlano (complete operas recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Sandrine Piau, Maite Beaumont, Christophe Dumaux, Jeremy Ovenden, Sophie Karthauser, Ann Hallenberg / Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conduct [ Alpha BLU-RAY / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "This is essential viewing for those who take Handel as a dramatist seriously." Gramophone DVD of the Month January 2017 |
DEBUSSY / ROUSSEL / GODARD / CAPLET / etc
Une Flute Invisible: French Music at the Dawn of the 20th Century Sandrine Piau (soprano) Herve Lamy (tenor) Gilles de TalhouAt (flute) Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006 - A program of French song from the early years of the 20th century focussing on Debussy and his contemporaries. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sarah Aristidou - Æther Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud, Christian Rivet / Orchester des Wandels, Thomas Guggeis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
GEORGE ENESCU / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL
Impressions d'enfance Sarah Nemtanu; Romain Descharmes [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Leader of the Orchestre National de France for the past two decades, chamber musician, high-flying soloist, Sarah Nemtanu is one of the most dynamic musical figures on today's French scene. With her partner Romain Descharmes, she presents here a very... |
Sarah Willis
Mozart y Mambo (DVD & Blu-Ray Version) [ Alpha Classics / DVD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] After the resounding success of the album Mozart y Mambo (ALPHA578), this DVD/Blu-ray presents a recording of a concert in Havana and a documentary following in the footsteps of Sarah Willis in Cuba, with the now celebrated Rondo alla mambo,... |
RINIKER / BISSILL / BATES / WALLENDORF
Various Composers - Horn Discoveries Sarah Willis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] The French horn is notoriously difficult to play. You can practise all you like but there is no guarantee that the note you blow into the mouthpiece is the same one which will come out of the bell once it has travelled through all the twists and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo (Limited Edition LP) Sarah Willis (horn) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme,... |
Sarah Willis; Jonathan Kelly; Wenzel Fuchs; Stefan Schweigert; Harold Madrigal Frías; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; The Sarahba
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana LP) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] |
DOMENICO MAZZOCCHI
La Catena D’Adone (complete opera) Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Simone Kermes, Dimitris Tiliakos, Deborah York / New Siberlian Singers / Teodor Curentzis [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Currentzis reminds us that this is, first and foremost, an opera about desire, and offers us something at once sexier and more probingly tragic. MusicAeterna's playing doesn't have the OAE's refinement, but is infinitely warmer in sound and far more... |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Simone Kermes (soprano), Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Arnaud Richard (bass), The New Siberian Singers, MusicAeterna [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] This recording of Mozart's Requiem, made by Teodor Currentzis in 2011, attracted great attention and soon became a benchmark in the work's discography! In its incredible ardour and sweeping inspiration, it demonstrates the full talent... |
BEETHOVEN / RICHARD STRAUSS
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 'Eroica" & Strauss: Metamorphosen Sinfonia Grange au Lac / Esa Pekka-Salonen [ Alpha / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] This live recording of Strauss's Metamorphosen and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony marks the birth on record of the 'Sinfonia Grange au Lac', an orchestra created in July 2018 on the occasion of the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian, the prestigious festival... |
LOUIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Suites & Pavane Skip Sempé [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well, this one is about what comes next. ...The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Harpsichord Suites Skip Sempa (harpsichord) [ Alpha / CD - released 19/Oct/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005: Baroque Instrumental - "This is demonstration-class musicianship at the harpsichord." |
ANTOINE REICHA
Reicha: Musique de Chambre Solistes de la Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] ".it all leaves you wanting to hear more, both of Reicha and of his performers." Gramophone |
EDOUARD LALO
Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano Soloists of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Édouard Lalo made his mark on French music with his opera Le Roi d'Ys, but his instrumental output also has considerable historical importance, with its resolutely innovative aims for its time. More specifically, his concertante music rewards the... |
J.S BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 11/Sep/2020 ] The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has always sought to make music a language open to the world. A prizewinner in the Rostropovich Competition at the age of twenty-five, she is the interpreter of choice for many contemporary composers |