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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1 cover
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1
Astrig Siranossian (cello), Philharmonie Südwestfalen; Nabil Shehata
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ]
The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia Boulanger (Dear Mademoiselle, ALPHA635) recently...
Shadows of My Ancestors cover
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PROKOFIEV / SAIDAMINOVA / RAVEL
Shadows of My Ancestors
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
[ Alpha / CD - released 12/Jan/2024 ]
"Throughout this release, one consistently gets caught up in Abduraimov's gorgeous and focused sonority, his rock-solid rhythm." Gramophone Recording of the Month February 2024
Brahms: String Sextets cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Sextets
Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ]
BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER
La Tarantella cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Tarantella
Christina Pluhar, L' Arpeggiata, Marco Beasley, Lucilla Galeazzi
[ Alpha / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ]
Traditional music from the Kingdom of Naples. In 1630 a strange disease called "Tarantism" struck Italy. It was attributed to a spider's bite with alternating symptoms of exaltation and prostration. Tarantella are enchanting songs and dances meant...
So Romantique! cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
So Romantique!
Cyrille Dubois (tenor) / Orchestre National de Lille; Pierre Dumoussaud
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ]
"The album is a treasury of rarely heard (and previously unheard) music...Dubois handles them all with intelligence, finesse and flair, singing with perfect native French diction." Opera
Estonian Premieres cover
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TONU KORVITS / ULO KRIGUL / HELENA TULVE / TAUNO AINTS / LEPO SUMERA
Estonian Premieres
Estonian Festival Orchestra; Paavo Järvi
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ]
After two recordings released on Alpha Classics (including a monograph devoted to Erkki-Sven Tüür - ALPHA595 - that won a Diapason d'Or in 2020), the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi present six works by five internationally renowned...
Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal
Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico
[ Alpha / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ]
"As always, Antonini coaxes first-class performances from the members of Il Giardino Armonico." BBC Music Orchestral Choice March 2023
Haydn 2032, Vol. 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs
Giovanni Antonini; Kammerorchester Basel
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ]
The twelfth volume in the Haydn2032 series, in which Giovanni Antonini conducts the Kammerorchester Basel, is devoted to 'games and pleasures'. The symphonies, recorded here, were composed for the daily theatrical performances held at Eszterháza.
Haydn 2032, Vol. 14: L'impériale cover
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 14: L'impériale
Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ]
The fourteenth volume of the Haydn2032 edition is entitled L'Imperiale, after the nickname given to Symphony no.53 in the nineteenth century. This was perhaps Haydn's most famous symphony during his lifetime. Premiered in the theatre at Eszterhaza...
Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas cover
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JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN / ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas
Jean Rondeau (early keyboard instruments), Anna Besson, Myriam Rignol
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ]
In 1700, Corelli published his 12 violin sonatas, Opus 5, in Rome. A veritable revolution in violin technique, they won the admiration of eminent composers (Bach, Dandrieu, Couperin) and greatly influenced the French (Francoeur, Leclair, Senaille,...
Rameau: Zoroastre 1749 cover
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Zoroastre 1749
Jodie Devos (Amélite), Véronique Gens (Erinice), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Zoroastre), Tassis Christoyannis (Abramane), Chœur de Chambre de Namur
[ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ]
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) left two very different versions of his tragédie en musique Zoroastre: the first, in 1749, received a lukewarm reception and the work was withdrawn from the repertory. Rameau gave it a thorough revision in 1756. At...
Jodie Devos - Bijoux Perdus cover
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MASSE / MEYERBEER / HALVEY / THOMAS / ADAM / etc
Jodie Devos - Bijoux Perdus
Jodie Devos (soprano) / Brussels Philharmonic; Pierre Bleuse
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ]
"Devos is again wonderful. Her warm voice comes flying out of the grooves, and one can sit back and just revel in it. The orchestra is idiomatically led by Pierre Bleuse. Alpha provides a warm and balanced acoustic." Fanfare
Offenbach: Colorature cover
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Colorature
Jodie Devos (soprano) / Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Laurent Campellone
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ]
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Recital
Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet cover
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
Julian Prégardien; Martin Helmchen; Christian Tetzlaff; Florian Donderer; Rachel Roberts; Tanja Tetzlaff; Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
[ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ]
Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the...
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture cover
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture
Andreas Staier, Le Concert de La Loge, Julien Chauvin
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ]
Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, 'one...
Bach Inspiration cover
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J.S. BACH
Bach Inspiration
Juliette Hurel (flute), Mailys de Villoutreys (soprano), Ensemble Les Surprises
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ]
After a Mozart release with the Quatuor Voce, Juliette Hurel has devised a programme focusing on Bach, featuring two staples of the flute repertoire: the Suite for orchestra no.2 with its famous Badinerie and the Partita for solo flute, his only work...
Kate Lindsey: Tiranno cover
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MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / HANDEL / MONARI
Kate Lindsey: Tiranno
Kate Lindsey (soprano) / Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ]
"This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the subtle and inflected playing of the Arcangelo group" BBC
Weber: Overtures / Konzertstück in F minor / Arias cover
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CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Weber: Overtures / Konzertstück in F minor / Arias
Martin Helmchen; Anna Prohaska; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; Christoph Eschenbach
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/May/2021 ]
200 years ago, on May 26th 1821, today's Berlin Concert Hall was inaugurated as "Königliches Schauspielhaus". Destroyed as "Preußisches Staatstheater" during World War II, the building, located in eastern Berlin, was rebuilt during GDR times and...
Mozart: Requiem (LP) cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem (LP)
Simone Kermes, Stephanie Houtzeel, Markus Brutscher / MusicAeterna / New Siberian Singers, Teodor Currentzis
[ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ]
Mozart's Requiem is a supreme masterpiece of the history of music and a work inextricably bound up with the Mozartian legend. Now Alpha's recording of it under the direction of Teodor Currentzis is given a new lease of life in a vinyl reissue. A...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 cover
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ]
Anton Bruckner called his Symphony no.8 in C minor a 'mystery'; others have seen it as an 'apocalyptic' work. For Paavo Jarvi, it is the composer's 'most unusual symphony' and the 'pinnacle' of his symphonic output. In the history of the...