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In the seventeenth century, the Ospedale della Piet? in Venice took in young orphan girls who received advanced musical instruction. The concerts given there attracted visitors from all over the...

The young mezzo-soprano Adele Charvet has joined Alpha for several upcoming projects. In 2017 she received the Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy. While she has already attracted attention in the...

Although Lully never held any post in the Chapelle du Roi, his influence on the development of the grand motet, so emblematic of the Grand Si?cle, was of decisive importance. He wrote imposing motets...

Nearly a century after it's composition, Lully's Pers?e was recreated in 1770 to mark an exceptional event: the inauguration of the Royal Opera House at Versailles Palace, built to celebrate the...

Armide, premiered in 1686, was the last joint work of Lully and the poet Philippe Quinault. It immediately became a pillar of the Op?ra's repertory, which it finally left only in 1766, when it was...

Lutoslawski,Witold / Urbanski,Krzysztof Lutoslawski CD1. I. Intrada 2. II. Capriccio Notturno E Arioso 3. III. Passacaglia, Toccata E Corale 4. I. Fujarka (Piccolo) 5. II. Hurra Polka 6. III...

The 'Dissonance' Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes it's nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction...

Guillaume de Machaut was born around 1300 in the environs of Reims, which at that time was a flourishing royal city with a population of almost 20,000, famous throughout Europe for it's textile...

Machaut / Ohana / Stravinsky Azahar CD

Barbara Hannigan writes: "Sehnsucht, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-si?cle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19...

Collectif9 is a Montreal-based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large-scale works. Alpha is...

After the huge success of her first album for Alpha, Crazy Girl Crazy, which received a Grammy Award, a JUNO Classical Award in Canada, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, FFFF in T?l?rama...