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BEETHOVEN
The Complete String Quartets Belcea Quartet [ Alpha Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Alpha is reissuing the complete Beethoven quartets by the Belcea Quartet : 'Beethoven's music has been at the center of our life as a quartet from our very first rehearsal together back in 1994. However, it is more recently that we immersed ourselves... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3 / Piano Quintet Belcea Quartet, Piotr Anderszewski (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Chamber |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Clavier Übung II Benjamin Alard [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] It had been almost four year since Johann Sebastian Bach, the famous music director of Leipzig, hadn't had a new work published. In 1731, it had been the Sixth Partita, which had put an end to a collection published year after year and published this... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonates en trio, BWV 525-530 Benjamin Alard [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's Trio Sonatas for organ, masterpieces in their intrinsic poetic power, were composed between 1723 and 1725, in his early days as Kantor in Leipzig. They are performed here by Benjamin Alard, First Prize winner in the organ... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830 Benjamin Alard [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] Among Bach's published works we find the four-part Clavier Übung anthology designated for both harpsichord (parts I, II and IV) and organ (part III). The first collection, published in 1731, contains Six Partitas for the harpsichord composed "for the... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Trio Sonatas Nos. 1-6, BWV525-530 Benjamin Alard [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] Originating in Italy, the trio sonata imposed itself as one of the major musical forms of the 18th century. Having been formalised in sharply contrasting movements by Corelli, it seduced composers who found within it a means to develop their thematic... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Forbidden Fruit Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] ".It's all delivered with wit, intelligence and sophistication, and the thematic joins don't feel forced despite the breadth of the material." Gramophone |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Franz Schubert's masterpiece, his song cycle Winterreise ('Winter Journey'), was written shortly before his death in 1828, at the age of only 31. On his winter journey, the singer wanders as a lost soul in harsh terrain, wracked by conflicting... |
Bertrand Cuiller (harpsichord)
Scarlatti & Soler: Sonatas per Cimbalo & Fandango [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] Born in the same year as Handel and Bach in 1685, the Neapolitan harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti was a virtuoso with a very particular style. In Madrid, he became 'Domingo Escarlatti' and lived as a music teacher to Queen Maria-Barbara. He wrote... |
Idil Biret (piano), Irina Nikotina (violin, Massenet Concerto) Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Alain Pâris
Massenet and Franck - Music for Piano and Orchestra [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2006 ] French music of the late 19th and early 20th century abounds in fine symphonies and concertos that are rarely explored. During the symphonic revival initiated by Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck, several famous virtuosos encouraged composers to... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Suites Francaises Blandine Rannou [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910-916 Blandine Rannou [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Pièces pour clavecin Blandine Rannou [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
J. S. BACH
Sonates pour violon obligé et clavecin, BWV 1014-1019 Blandine Rannou, Florence Malgoire [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
BALBASTRE / COUPERIN / DANDRIEU / MARCHAND / etc
Deux Siècles d'Orgue: Two centuries of organ music at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles François Espinasse (organ) Frédéric Desenclos (organ) Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] The recently restored organ of the chapel bears witness to the glorious past of this historic site and the magnificence of the royal liturgy. This project, entrusted to the four resident organists of the instrument, presents a rich panorama of the... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini Vol.2 Sonate Per Il Violoncello Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Reunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] 'Shortly after Luigi Boccherini's death on 28 May 1805, two journalists in Leipzig and Paris agreed that he had been (for the former) "an excellent cellist capable of bewitching audiences with the incomparable sound and expressive melody of his... |
GEMINIANI / TURLOUGH / O'CAROLAN / OSWALD
Give Me Your Hand: Geminiani & The Celtic Earth Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Reunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Some of the Italian musicians who came to London to 'make their fortunes' found themselves influenced by the Celtic lands and their rich tradition of folk music. They were in their turn admired and sometimes even copied by their counterparts in the... |
FRESCOBALDI
Frescobaldi: Canzoni Bruno Cocset; Les Basses Réunies [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] With his Canzoni, Frescobaldi affirmed the genre, rather than renewing it, but brought it to its peak. For this recording, Les Basses Réunies reconstructed a consort of low-pitched members of the violin family, which are joined by the smooth sound of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Cello, Vol. 1 Bruno Cocset (cello), Maude Gratton (fortepiano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Bruno Cocset, an eminent ambassador of the Baroque cello, here makes a teenage dream come true: to record the Beethoven sonatas. 'When we rediscover it from the inside, this music overwhelms us: its art of the mise en abyme, its ability to deviate... |
Bruno Helstroffer
Calling The Muse: Old & New Pieces For Theorbo [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometres travelled with that theorbo of mine, the cities and the countryside, the railways, the skies, the scents, the lights; but... |
