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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... |
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. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Sonate en si mineur, Sonetti di Petrarca, Valse oubliée No.2, Étude "La leggierezza", Rhapsodie hongroise No.6 Nelson Goerner [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] This is pianist Nelson Goerner's twelfth recording for the Alpha Classics label. He devotes his new album to the solo piano works of Franz Liszt, with the famous Sonata in B minor as the centrepiece; nearly twenty years after his first CD of the... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / G.F. HANDEL / ADOLF SCHULZ-EVLER
Schumann, Handel, Strauss & Schulz-Evler Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] For his tenth solo recording for Alpha Classics and Outhere Music, Nelson Goerner returns to a composer he particularly cherishes: Schumann, here with the Davidsbündler, his imaginary music society created to combat the Philistines, musicians... |
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... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Nevermind [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] A genuine masterpiece inspires musicians to adopt, adapt, or transcribe it without losing any of its greatness. |
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... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN / FRANCIS POULENC / KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI / JEAN YVES DANIEL-LESUR / CAROLINE MARCOT
Dialogue NFM Choir, Lionel Sow [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/May/2026 ] The NFM choir from Wrocław juxtaposes Penderecki and French composers, creating a dialogue between Polish and French music of the 20th century, between the singers from Wrocław, where the choir is based, and Frenchman Lionel Sow, its conductor since... |
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. . |
OLLI MUSTONEN / ZOLTAN KODALY
Heavenly Lights Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Aug/2026 ] For this fifth volume in the Lockenhaus Festival series, under the artistic direction of Nicolas Altstaedt, the cellist presents two works by the Finnish composer Olli Mustonen (born 1967, a student of Rautavaara), including Heavenly Lights... |
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... |
