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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... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Francesca Da Ramini Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Paavo Järvi, Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, here launches a complete recording of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, the first in both his rich discography and that of the Swiss orchestra: 'When I... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "Järvi's new account of Symphony No. 7 shows the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in peak condition. Tempos never drag. The orchestral sound is detailed and expansive, woodwind expressive, brass white-hot. Colours are rich, tenderness offsetting majesty." |
Various Artists
Viva! 30 ans d'art choral [ Alpha Classics / CD - 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... |
LEKEU / FAURE / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / SAINT-SAENS / CHAUSSON etc
Véronique Gens: Nuits Véronique Gens / I Giardini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] As the symbiosis between the art of the poet and that of the composer, the French mélodie became the jewel of the salons of the 'Belle Époque'. By placing a string quartet and a piano around the singer, Chausson's Chanson perpétuelle, Lekeu's... |
BRUNEAU / FRANCK / GODARD / MASSENET / BIZET / etc
Véronique Gens - Visions Véronique Gens (soprano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "Gens and Niquet throw themselves into all this with an engrossing mix of abandon and restraint. Gens's trademark combination of purity of utterance and smoky tone speaks volumes." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer & Symphonie, Op. 20 Véronique Gens; Orchestre National de Lille; Alexandre Bloch [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] Ernest Chausson is a most unusual figure in French music, positioned at the crossroads where the romanticism of Berlioz and Franck meet the language of Wagner and the symbolism of the young Debussy. His Poème de l'amour et de la mer is a unique score... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Les Divas d'Offenbach Véronique Gens (soprano), Hervé Niquet, Choeur Et Orchestre National Des Pays de La Loire [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] "But as we've come to expect from Palazzetto Bru Zane, this new recital is simultaneously a joy in its own right and a valuable piece of scholarship, with premiere recordings and previously unheard versions ..." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 |
DUBOIS / HAHN / FAURÉ / GOUNOD / CHAUSSON / SAINT-SAËNS
Paysage Véronique Gens (soprano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] "Her soprano is in remarkably good shape, supple and elegant, her diction exemplary and her phrasing exquisite, deftly capturing the mood of each song." Gramophone Award Finalist - Voice & Ensemble |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: String Quintets & Octet WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Max Bruch was eighty years old when, in 1918, he decided to return to the chamber music genre he had frequented in his early years. Stimulated by the violin virtuoso Willy Hess, he composed two string quintets and an octet, monuments to beauty and... |
"Deadly" Headley Bennett
35 Years From Alpha (LP) [ On-U Sound Records / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Long awaited reissue of the 1982 solo LP from the late, great "Deadly" Headley Bennett, a key sideman from the golden age of Jamaican music who played on hundreds of records in a long and storied career. Designed as a showcase record for his... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Études Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "The Polish musicologist Zdzisław Jachimecki famously called Chopin's Études 'the Gospel of all piano music'. In this context I would describe both Zayas and Pollini as evangelists of Chopin's work, while Aaron Pilsan is a new and convincing exegete" |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Aaron Pilsan is only twenty-five years old, but he already has a busy career to his credit, with a solo album devoted to Beethoven and Schubert - very well received by the critics - and another of duo repertory with the cellist Kian Soltani. A... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 / Geistervariationen (with Widmann: Elf Humoresken) Aaron Pilsan (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Schumann composed Kreisleriana in April 1838, at the age of 27, exactly the same age as Aaron Pilsan today : "The youthful thing that I can identify with in Kreisleriana is its spontaneity. If I had to describe the piece, I would use the German word... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / RENALDO HAHN
Saint-Saëns - Hahn: À la lumière Accentus; Christophe Grapperon; Eloïse Bella Kohn [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Ever since its creation more than twenty-five years ago, the Accentus chamber choir has ardently championed the a cappella repertory: under its conductor and founder Laurence Equilbey, it has produced an impressive discography that sets the benchmark... |
GIOVANNI BONONCINI
Bononcini: La nemica d'amore fatta amante Adriana Fernández; Martin Oro; Furio Zanasi; Ensemble 415; Chiara Banchini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Ensemble 415 and Chiara Banchini revive the serenata a tre La nemica d'amore fatta amante by Giovanni Bononcini, a prodigious composer who was Handel's 'rival' in London and just as prolific as Alessandro Scarlatti in producing cantatas in the early... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Je chante la nuit Agathe Peyrat, Pierre Cussac [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2026 ] The soprano (and ukulele player) Agathe Peyrat and the accordionist (and singer) Pierre Cussac form a unique duo, free-spirited and open to blending genres. In this programme, they embrace a classical repertoire, while putting their own spin on... |
THIERRY ESCAICH
Escaich: Te Deum pour Notre-Dame Alain Altinoglu; Thierry Escaich; Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris; NFM Choir; Frankfurt Radio Symphony [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] The French composer and organist Thierry Escaich composed his Te Deum pour Notre-Dame for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; a hymn to the Cathedral's resurrection, it is a large-scale work for children's choir, two mixed choirs and... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BELA BARTOK
Strauss & Bartók: Violin Concertos Alena Baeva; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2026 ] "Alena Baeva offers Bartók and Strauss violin concertos of thoughtfulness and virtuosity, with excellent support from Paavo Järvi and his musicians." Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 26 |
