ALPHA

With it's collection created in collaboration with the Academy of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Alpha continues to support new talents. The Esm? Quartet, consisting of four Korean women musicians,...

Building on the success of their first album of Beethoven violin sonatas, which won a Diapason d'Or of the year (the magazine hailed 'the birth of a great duo') and 'Choc' de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto...

In the course of the eight recordings released by Alpha, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, conducted by Martin Haselb?ck, has accomplished it's objective of recording the complete Beethoven symphonies...

As the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth approaches, and following a much-admired version of the Diabelli Variations (Alpha 386 - Gramophone Editor's Choice), Martin Helmchen...

Beethoven / Helmchen Diabelli Variations CD1. Tema. Vivace 2. Variation I. Alla Marcia Maestoso 3. Variation II. Poco Allegro 4. Variation III. L'istesso Tempo 5. Variation IV. Un Poco Pi? Vivace 6...

A leading authority on the fortepiano, Jos Van Immerseel has devised a programme focusing on the music Beethoven composed for a Viennese piano with a range of five octaves. This includes the finest...

In a world like ours, gripped by centrifugal forces, even a monument like Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas appears in a new light. The compositional timeline reveals fascinating parallels: the Sonatas of...

Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon...

Building on the success of the first two installments of their cycle devoted to Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin (Alpha 240, Diapason d'Or of the year, and Alpha 407), Lorenzo Gatto and...

In a world like ours, shaped by centrifugal forces, even a monumental corpus like Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas can appear in a new light. Chronological examination of it's genesis reveals...

Beethoven / Liszt / Martynov,Yury Beethoven & Liszt: Symphony No. 9 CD1. I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestoso 2. II. Molto Vivace 3. III. Adagio Molto E Cantabile 4. IV. Finale (Presto)

Beethoven's output for cello and piano is fascinating because it covers every period of his career, from early to late, with references to Bach in op.69 and op.102 no.2 and an especially innovative...