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After the huge success of her first album for Alpha, Crazy Girl Crazy (Alpha 293), which received a Grammy Award, a JUNO Classical Award in Canada, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, FFFF...

This recording was made under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw in December 2019, two months before his death. A few weeks before that, he had called Thomas Dieltjens, artistic director of Het...

Alexandre Bloch, who has been Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lille since 2016, has chosen to devote a whole season of concerts to Mahler's symphonies. The Seventh (1904-05) is the most...

Alpha continues to explore it's catalogue and this year again offers a wide variety of combinations. After a box assembling the gems of the Baroque era (Masters of the Baroque - Alpha 372), the piano...

Marais / Ensemble Spirale Marais: Folies D'Espagne, Suite En Mi CD1. Les Folies D'espagne 2. I. Pr?ludium 3. II. Fantasie 4. III. Allemande 5. IV. Courante 6. V. Sarabande 7. VI. Sarabande ?...

Herv? Niquet resurrects Ariane et Bacchus (1696), using for the first time the exact performing forces and layout of the Paris Op?ra orchestra in 1700 and thus giving us a historically informed...

Between 1680 and 1728, Marin Marais brought the pi?ce de viole to the peak of perfection. An 'unremitting' teacher, he was also the publisher of his own music and invented special signs to notate...

The late Sophie Watillon displays her extreme sensitivity in the finest chamber music of Marin Marais, taken from his books of pieces for viol: La R?veuse, Dialogue, Plainte, Caprice, Les Folies...

Ravel and the Basque Country have always been one and the same. His Concerto in G major is the central work of this album and is presented here in an original arrangement for piano and small ensemble...

Time and Eternity. Always in search of powerful musical experiences, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern - of which she has just taken over the artistic direction -here juxtapose...

After the success of the Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of 56 reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogues of the house labels back into the spotlight, here are...

The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of it's creation and it's sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn's quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens...