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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich continue their complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Seventh, considered one of his most complex and challenging symphonies: "The Mahler we encounter in Symphony No. 7 is more complex, darker and... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.7 (LP) Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich continue their complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Seventh, considered one of his most complex and challenging symphonies: "The Mahler we encounter in Symphony No. 7 is more complex, darker and... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / 4 CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] "I don't think Mendelssohn gets the attention he deserves," said Paavo Järvi at the start of the 2020 -2021 season. |
MESSIAEN
Messiaen: L'Ascension, Le Tombeau resplendissant, Les Offrandes oubliées, Un Sourire Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Paavo Järvi inaugurates his new contract as conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with a programme devoted to Messiaen. Alpha Classics will accompany this extremely promising combination: 'I've always admired French music very much. (...) I... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, following a first volume devoted to Symphony no.5 and the symphonic poem Francesca da... |
ANTHONY PITTS
Alpha and Omega Tonus Peregrinus / Anthony Pitts [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2008 ] There are few better examples of a composer's style developing concurrently with the emergence of a vocal group than in the a cappella vocal music of Antony Pitts. The Tonus Peregrinus octet exists to perform ancient and modern works interspersed... |
FRANK BRIDGE / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Bridge/Britten/Debussy - Cello Sonatas Truls Mørk (cello) Håvard Gimse (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] The great Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk makes a triumphal return to chamber music with his regular piano partner Håvard Gimse. The programme features two English composers, Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge, whose Cello Sonata was written... |
JULES MASSENET / CHARLES GOUNOD / GIUSEPPE VERDI / GIACOMO PUCCINI / FRANCO ALFANO / HENRI TOMASI / ALFREDO CATALINI
Par amour Vannina Santoni, Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Marie Zeitouni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Love is the common thread running through this first recorded recital by soprano Vannina Santoni; it's also an opportunity to look back over her fifteen-year career, through her leading roles, alongside her favourite musicians. With the help of the... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer Vannina Santoni, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck, Vannina Santoni (soloist) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Debussy's song cycle Ariettes oubliées of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine's collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C'est l'extase and Il pleure dans mon cœur - penetratingly poetic images of love's ecstasy and rainlike tears of... |
Various Artists
Bach: L'Extase Musicale [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Johann Sebastian Bach? His very name arouses admiration, while his art generally provokes wonder, even ecstasy... To 'pay homage' to Bach is to acknowledge his special status - if not the God, at least the Pope of musicians: an unquestionable and... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Rediscovered Yury Martynov (piano), Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano), Alexei Lubimov (piano), Olga Pashchenko (piano) Anima Eterna, Cristofori, Jos van Immerseel [ Alpha Classics / 17 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2020 ] To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, the Beethoven Rediscovered box includes17 CDs that offer a chance to rediscover his symphonies, concertos and sonatas on period instruments. |
MARCHANT / DANDRIEU / CHARPENTIER / COUPERIN
À la gloire de Dieu et du Roi Various Artists [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] During the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) sacred music took three essential forms: the largescale grand motet (specific to the French court), the smaller-scale petit motet, and organ pieces alternating with plainchant. All three forms were brought... |
RAMEAU / POULENC / DEBUSSY / BRITTEN / KODALY etc
Viva! 30 ans d'art choral (LP version) Various Artists [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion, it has decided to bring together nineteen excerpts from recordings made by ensembles it has supported since 1989, thanks to the... |
Víctor Torres; Stylus Phantasticus
Erlebach: Zeichen im Himmel [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] |
MOZART
Mozart: Concertone KV 190, Horn Concerto No. 3 KV 447, Piano Concertos Nos. 2 KV 39 & 4 KV 41 Veriko Tchumburidze; Sofiko Tchumburidze; Pascal Deuber; Giorgi Gigashvili; Sasha Calin; Marcus Thomas Pouget; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] For the 13th volume in the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series, Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili, who has already released a highly acclaimed debut album (Alpha 930), has agreed to tackle the early piano concertos of the very young Mozart:... |
HAHN / CHAUSSON / DUPARC
Néère Veronique Gens (soprano), Susan Manoff (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2015 ] "Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all." Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Vocal |
DVORAK / MARTINU
Dvořák & Martinů: Cello Concertos Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Gergely Madaras [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] The winner of the very first Queen Elisabeth Competition for cellists in Brussels in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferrière also won the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category 'Soloist of the Year', and joined Alpha Classics in 2019 for... |
RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH / DENISOV
Rachmaninov / Shostakovich / Denisov Victor Julien-Laferrière / Jonas Vitaud [ Alpha / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] The winner of the very first Queen Elisabeth Competition for cellists in Brussels in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferrière also received the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category 'Soloist of the Year'. His chamber recordings with the... |
HENRI DUTILLEUX / PASCAL DUSAPIN
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain / Dusapin: Outscape Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello) / Orchestre National de France; Kristiina Poska, David Robertson [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra: Outscape by Pascal Dusapin: "The title itself carries the... |
ERLEBACH
Zeichen im Himmel Victor Torres (singer) / Stylus Phantasticus [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] Without the fire that destroyed most of his work Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) would probably be regarded as one of the most distinguished of J.S. Bach's predecessors. |
