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After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes it's complete recording of Mendelssohn's string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3...

Chouchane Siranossian is a rising star of the baroque and classical violin, Jakob Lehmann a virtuoso violinist and orchestral director who frequently conducts Anima Eterna. Together, they embody what...

Forty years have passed since Gidon Kremer created a little musical oasis in the Austrian town of Lockenhaus in 1981. The violinist's open-minded attitude has left it's mark on this event, which has...

Composed in 1944 and first performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 March 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, this is the second great pianistic cycle by Olivier Messiaen: a major work indeed, not only in the...

Paavo J?rvi inaugurates his new contract as conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with a programme devoted to Messiaen. Alpha Classics will accompany this extremely promising combination:...

Here are the Monteverdi Vespers as you've never heard them before! 'I see these Vespers as a great incantatory ritual that connects the sacred with the pagan, the intimate with the collective. I...

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is naturally an iconic work for Leonardo Garc?a Alarc?n. The Argentinian conductor has performed and matured his interpretation of Monteverdi's masterpiece throughout his life...

Monteverdi / Cappella Mediterranea Monteverdi: I 7 Peccatti Capitali CD1. Speranza, Tu Mi Vai 2. Si Dolce E'l Tormento 3. Chi Parla? 4. Compagni, Udiste? 5. Ardo E Scoprir Ahi Lasso 6. Son Risoluto...

The great Norwegian cellist Truls M?rk makes a triumphal return to chamber music with his regular piano partner H?vard Gimse. The program features two English composers, Benjamin Britten and his...

'The senses reign, and Reason now is dead' (Petrarch). Giovanni Antonini, flautist and founder of the legendary Italian ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, enjoys musical voyages, the discursiveness of...

Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the horn, which she champions around the world. Already a horn player with the Berlin Philharmoniker, in 2014 she launched for the German...

Following the phenomenal success of the first Mozart y Mambo album, Sarah Willis returns to Cuba not only to record two more Mozart horn concertos but also to create a landmark original work that...