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Martin Helmchen
Schumann: Novelletten & Gesänge der Frühe [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Schumann was twenty-eight years old when he composed in 1838 a cycle of eight pieces for piano, the Novelletten (Novelettes) op.21. This impressive, highly virtuosic set was dedicated to the pianist Adolf von Henselt, whose spectacular playing and... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Martin Helmchen (piano) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] As the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth approaches, and following a much admired version of the Diabelli Variations (Alpha 386 - Gramophone Editor's Choice), Martin Helmchen has decided to record his complete piano concertos... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Sonata 3 op.5 / Variations on a theme by Paganini Nelson Goerner (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] "he doesn't detonate the instrument in an effort to accommodate the occasionally overblown writing but has mastered its details so thoroughly that, for all the breadth and heft of the musical ideas, the piece sounds proportionate to the piano" Gramop |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Creation Nicolas Altstaedt, Lockenhaus Artists [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Forty years have passed since Gidon Kremer created a little musical oasis in the Austrian town of Lockenhaus in 1981. The violinist's open-minded attitude has left its mark on this event, which has become a must in the concert calendar, and the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Burleske / Serenade / Tod und Verklärung Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck; Nelson Goerner [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "Goerner opens with blistering energy...Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France offer dramatic and characterful support." Gramophone |
WIDMANN / RAVEL / CPE BACH / KODALY / LECLAIR etc
Sol & Pat Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] "The beauty of this programme - quite aside from the players' crazed spontaneity - is that it revolves around two duo masterpieces: Ravel's Sonata in A minor...and Zoltán Kodály's Duo, Op. 7." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2022 |
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater Patrizia Bovi (soprano), Pino de Vittorio (tenor), Bernard Arrieta (bass) / Chantres de la Chapelle, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] This recording stands out insofar as it restores the context of the sun-drenched, dramatic processions through the streets of Naples.: the singing and playing of professional musicians mingled with ritual dances and other singing. |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS / PHILIP GLASS
Amazônia. Villa-Lobos - Glass Simone Menezes, Camila Provenzale, Philharmonia Zurich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest... Sebastiao Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516 Quatuor Van Kuijk; Adrien La Marca [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "Time and again, they seem to me to catch this music exactly where it speaks most powerfully: balanced perfectly - poignantly - between laughter and tears." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2020 |
FLORENCE PRICE / HARRY BURLEIGH / BARRETT STRONG / NORMAN WHITFIELD / BAPTISTE TROTIGNON / etc
Because Reginald Mobley (counter-tenor) Baptiste Trotignon (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Grammy Awards 66th Awards (2024) Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album |
Reto Bieri (clarinet), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Take 3 [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] The basic idea of this album was to play in threes... Not to play 'something', but to experiment 'in threes' with sound worlds as different as those of Bartok, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes, composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartok... |
TRADITIONAL
Scottish Music of the 18th Century Robert Getchell (tenor) / Les musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] One of the most fascinating aspects of Scottish music in the eighteenth century is the extent to which traditional and classical music interacted. And by the early nineteenth century, Scottish songs had become popular in Europe too, and were being... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Sandrine Piau / Christopher Lowrey / Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "Piau finds just the right balance between beauty of sound and fervent expressivity…[Lowrey] combines lucid diction with an aptly plangent sound - always beautifully controlled." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice June 2020 |
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 |
STRAUSS / BERG / ZEMLINSKY
Clair-Obscur Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble |
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... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart y Mambo Sarah Willis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the horn, which she champions around the world. Already a horn player with the Berlin Philharmoniker, in 2014 she launched for the German television channel Deutsche Welle what was soon to... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances Sarah Willis (horn), Havana Lyceum Orchestra, José Antonio Méndez Padrón [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Following the phenomenal success of the first Mozart y Mambo album, Sarah Willis returns to Cuba not only to record two more Mozart horn concertos but also to create a landmark original work that takes its place in Cuban music history. In Mozart y... |
Sarah Willis (horn), Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "My dream of recording all four of the Mozart horn concertos has been fulfilled at last. Little did I know that this long-held dream would come true in Cuba of all places and with a Cuban orchestra! I have learned so much about Cuban music and how to... |
