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The musicians featured on this new release write: "For some years now we have been interested in the experiments of composers on the frontiers of Baroque musical language. The music of the sons of...

Gershwin / Eterna / Caenegem Gershwin CD

Ever since it's creation more than twenty-five years ago, the Accentus chamber choir has ardently championed the a cappella repertory: under it's conductor and founder Laurence Equilbey, it has...

Jo?l Grare, percussionist and tireless seeker of offbeat sounds and instruments, here presents his third album for Alpha: 'Footprints beneath the snow: first sounds of innocence, cowbells and...

Grieg / Eriksmoen / Cemin Lieder & Songs CD

The starting point for Barbara Hannigan's third recording for Alpha is a work by G?rard Grisey (1946-98) that is particularly close to her heart. Grisey wrote: 'I conceived the Quatre Chants pour...

Guillemain,Louis-Gabriel / Nevermind Conversations CD

Vittorio Ghielmi, one of today's most admired viola da gamba soloists, comes from a family of musicians (his brother founded Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini). In parallel with his erudite...

After a first album dedicated to Weill, Zemlinsky and Korngold (Alpha272), Kate Lindsey explores here her other repertoire of choice, the music of the eighteenth century. In partnership with Jonathan...

Handel is best known to the wider public for his large-scale choral and orchestral works, but his organ music is equally precious. It was the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels who, diverting him from a career...

London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the...

Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many...