ALPHA

The fruitful partnership between the Alpha label, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Palazzetto Bru Zane continues with this set of chamber music by Anton Reicha, performed by the musicians of...

?Three leading soloists celebrate Nature in the Romantic era. Flautist Juliette Hurel and pianist H?l?ne Couvert, currently celebrating thirty years of musical partnership, are joined for this...

The attachment of King Louis XII and a whole people to Queen Anne of Brittany can be heard on this disc, where Denis Raisin Dadre and his ensemble Doulce M?moire juxtapose Antoine de F?vin's Missa...

Sandrine Piau and V?ronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other,...

Anthony Romaniuk, multi-keyboardist, alchemist of pianos, or 'musical polyglot' as some people call him, presents his new album as follows: 'I remember very clearly the occasions in my childhood when...

Born in Lower Saxony just three years before Beethoven, the violinist Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) was, like him, a virtuoso instrumentalist of precocious gifts. His career too was radically affected...

The French baritone Florian Sempey has established himself as a key player on today's operatic scene. For his first solo recital, Rossini was the obvious choice, first of all because he has already...

Nino Rota was not only the man who wrote film scores for Fellini (La strada etc), Ren? Cl?ment and King Vidor. He was also a twentieth-century great composer. A child prodigy, he studied in America...

Composer Guillaume Roussel has written the original music for the film Couleurs de l'incendie directed by and featuring Clovis Cornillac with co-stars L?a Drucker, Beno?t Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz and...

The history of coffee is fascinating! From the opening of the first establishments in Constantinople in the middle of the sixteenth century to the appearance and diffusion of the drink in Europe in...

Until the end of the Ancien R?gime, one of the main activities of composers - and one of their chief means of subsistence - was that of ma?tre de chapelle or Kapellmeister, directing the music...

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Sa?ns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia...