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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 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Quintette imaginaire Sandrine Piau, Quatuor Psophos [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Sandrine Piau admits that she has always been fascinated not only by Schubert's music but also by the genre of the string quartet. "The endless quest for the pure gesture in which we lose ourselves in order to become one with each other reminds me of... |
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. |
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 9: L'Addio Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] This ninth volume of the Haydn2032 series focuses on the composer's psychological subtlety in its focus on a central work: his Symphony no.45, known as the 'Abschieds-Symphonie' ('Farewell' Symphony), composed in 1772. It is said to have got its... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Enchantresses Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - VOCAL |
GEORG FREDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Brockes-Passion Sandrine Piau; Stuart Jackson; Konstantin Krimmel; Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Barthold Heinrich Brockes wrote a libretto on the Passion of Christ - based on the account in Matthew's Gospel - which was set to music by many composers of his time, including Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philip Telemann and George Frideric Handel. It is... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest Santtu-Matias Rouvali; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] This volume concludes the complete Sibelius symphonies performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali. This series has already won numerous awards around the world and reaches its climax here with three of Sibelius'... |
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 ] |
Sarah Willis; The Sarahbanda
Sarahbanda (Coloured LP Version) [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] "Meet the Sarahbanda - the Cuban band with a twist! Formed as part of the popular Mozart y Mambo project by Sarah Willis of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Sarahbanda explores the captivating Cuban dance rhythms in a way never heard before. |
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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." |
