ALPHA

Allegri's Miserere, with it's heartbreaking harmonies, it's verses alternately chanted and ornamented, it's seraphic voices, is sheer Baroque magic. Since it's composition in Rome in 1630, the work...

After a boxed set devoted to nineteenth-century French music (Alpha, 2015) and another containing Beethoven's symphonies and overtures (Alpha, 2018), Jos Van Immerseel and his period-instrument...

George Antheil called himself a 'Pianist-Futurist'. A lover of speed, cars and airplanes, the American composer settled in the Paris of the Ann?es Folles, where he frequented Picasso and Stravinsky,...

Temptation, prohibition, good, evil... 'how relevant are these in today's world?' asks Benjamin Appl. With the complicity of pianist James Baillieu, we are taken on a musical arc from simple folk...

'72 Angels is a large-scale work for mixed choir and saxophone quartet. It is structured as seventy-two prelude-evocations and an epilogue. Each prelude sets to music one of the seventy- two names...

Bach / Charlesworth / Cafe Zimmermann C.P.E. Bach: Der Fruhling CD1. Der Fr?hling, WQ237 - Rupert Charlesworth/Cafe Zimmermann 2. I. Allegro Assai - Cafe Zimmermann 3. II. Andantino - Cafe Zimmermann...

Bach / Cocset,Bruno / Les Basses Reunies Bach: Sonates Chorales & Trios CD1. Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, BWV659 2. I. Adagio 3. II. Allegro Ma Non Tanto 4. III. Andante 5. IV. Allegro Moderato 6...

?Ever since the foundation of his ensemble in 2009, Damien Guillon has been forging ahead in the (re)discovery of J. S. Bach's cantatas. 'Trinitatis' is devoted to three cantatas for the season after...

Bruno Helstroffer writes of his new release: "It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometers travelled with that...

The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has always sought to make music a language open to the world. A prizewinner in the Rostropovich Competition at the age of twenty-five, she is the...

While Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was above all else a dazzlingly accomplished harpsichordist, his considerable output for flute can easily be explained by the milieu in which he worked for nearly...

With these sonatas by C. P. E. Bach, Fran?ois Lazarevitch continues the exploration of the jewels of the flute and recorder repertory he has embarked on with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien or as a...