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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 |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] For her new recording, entitled 'Or' (light), cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, 'a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time': first, Couperin's Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 5 & 6 Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] "For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti's hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense. |
ZYGEL / RAVEL / VARIOUS ANONYMOUS COMPOSERS
Chants Juifs Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] "This cycle of Jewish Songs is born of my research on traditional Hebrew music, a deeply rooted ancient music which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout centuries of wandering. I listened to the liturgical melodies from different sources and... |
Sophie de Bardonnèche; Lucile Boulanger; Justin Taylor
Destinées [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Destined to be musicians? The female composers to whom Baroque violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche pays tribute enjoyed very different fates: while the name Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) continued to be remembered, who knows Mlle Duval (born... |
MARIN MARAIS
Marais: La rêveuse et autres pièces de viole Sophie Watillon [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The late Sophie Watillon displays her extreme sensitivity in the finest chamber music of Marin Marais, taken from his books of pieces for viol: La Rêveuse, Dialogue, Plainte, Caprice, Les Folies d'Espagne, and the Tombeau pour Monsieur de... |
CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON
The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time-I Sophie Watillon, Friederike Heumann, Brian Franklin (viols) / Matthias Spaeter (theorba) / Luca Guglielmi (organ) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] Christopher Simpson was one of England's finest composers of viol music in the 17th century, and his treatise on viol technique, which included discussion of the prized art of improvisation, was an important contribution to the compendium of... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments Spunicunifait [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Spunicunifait is the curious name adopted by a group of five musicians, all of whom have a great deal of experience in chamber music as well as in prestigious orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; they have founded this ensemble to be... |
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CHARPENTIER
Leçons de Ténèbres Stephan Macleod (bass) / Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] |
MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Piano Concerto No. 8 KV. 246 "Lützow" &, Horn Concerto No. 4 KV 495 Stephen Waarts (violin), Can Çakmur (piano), Ivo Dudler (horn), Camerata Schweiz, Howard Griffiths [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young... |
DOWLAND / CACCINI / DESPREZ etc
Akoé: Nuevas Músicas Antiguas Taracea [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The debut of the Taracea ensemble creates a bridge between past and present. The Madrid-based trio's artistic project is to combine early music, jazz and improvisation. Its founder Rainer Seiferth, a German musician who lives in Spain, plays the... |
EDOUARD LALO
Complete Songs Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2015 ] Born in 1823 and dying in 1892, Édouard Lalo encompassed this period of Romanticism that witnessed the evolution of the romance de salon genre into the mélodie française or French art song. Injustice of posterity: only Fauré, Duparc and Debussy have... |
GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Labirinto d'amore Thomas Dunford (lute) & Anna Reinhold (soprano) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The 'Eric Clapton of the lute' (BBC Magazine) comes back to the Alpha microphones, this time with the soprano Anna Reinhold. Here, Thomas Dunford applies his truly prodigious virtuosity to the eight Toccatas from the first book by Meister... |
