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  • Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide
    Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide

    $29.99

    Since the Baroque revival of the late 1980s, Iphigenie en Aulide is Gluck's only French opera to have remained unrecorded on period instruments. To celebrate it's 250th anniversary in 2024, Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2024

  • Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
    Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni

    $11.99

    A bestselling recording since it's first release in 2008, Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti's memorable performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been reissued by Alpha Classics for a second time. Using both the Le Cene...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2024

  • Gershwin, Beach & Barber: Made in USA
    Gershwin, Beach & Barber: Made in USA

    $20.99

    Presented as 'An Experiment in Modern Music' when it was premiered in 1924, Rhapsody in Blue made George Gershwin famous, and he soon set to work on a version for solo piano, recorded here by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 20, 2024

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale

    $29.99

    This album offers a new approach to the character of Scheherazade, with Rimsky-Korsakov's musical masterpiece transcribed for the forces of Ensemble K and a previously unpublished text, freely adapted from the Thousand and One Nights...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 20, 2024

  • Wagner: Ring Odyssey
    Wagner: Ring Odyssey

    $29.99

    'If, in a parallel universe, Wagner wrote a symphony rather than a sixteen-hour Ring, it might actually resemble my Ring Odyssey.' These are the words used by the new music director of the Orchestre National...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2024

  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
    Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

    $20.99

    Following their recordings of Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 7 (ALPHA932, Diapason d'Or) and 8 (ALPHA987, awarded 'best symphonic recording of the year' at the International Classical Music Awards), Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich here conclude...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2024

  • Fleeting Castles
    Fleeting Castles

    $20.99

    Each of the pieces in this programme is like an ephemeral castle that I can take refuge in when I feel like it, says Sebastien Llinares. The French guitarist, who stands at the crossroads of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2024

  • Impressions parisiennes
    Impressions parisiennes

    $20.99

    Having recorded the 'great' French quartets of Debussy and Ravel (ALPHA295), the Van Kuijk Quartet now takes another path and explores treasures by Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2024

  • Ronsard et la musique - Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!
    Ronsard et la musique - Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!

    $29.99

    2024 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Ronsard, known as the Prince des Poetes, whose poems have been set to music more than four hundred times over the centuries. This programme has been...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2024

  • Mendelssohn: Symphonies / Järvi, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
    Mendelssohn: Symphonies / Järvi, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

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    "I don't think Mendelssohn gets the attention he deserves," said Paavo Järvi at the start of the 2020-2021 season. Faced with this observation, he undertook to record a complete cycle of Mendelssohn's orchestral works with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 29, 2024

  • Faure: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis
    Faure: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis

    $20.99

    While Faure's Requiem is a monument of French sacred music, Gounod's Messe de Clovis is much less well known. It was composed from 1891 onwards as a tribute to Clovis who, like Joan of Arc,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2024

  • C. P. E. Bach: Symphonies & concerto pour violoncelle
    C. P. E. Bach: Symphonies & concerto pour violoncelle

    $20.99

    C. P. E. Bach: Symphonies & concerto pour violoncelle


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2007

  • J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
    J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

    $29.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2007

  • Richter: Quatuors Op 5 / Rincontro
    Richter: Quatuors Op 5 / Rincontro

    $8.99

    F. X. RICHTER String Quartets, op. 5: No. 1 in C; No. 2 in B?; No. 3 in A. MOZART The Well-Tempered Clavier: Fugue arrangements. Canon alla seconda , K 562c ? Rincontro (period instruments)...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2007

  • DONATONI / GUBAIDULINA / LIGETI / TANADA / XENAKIS: Works fo
    DONATONI / GUBAIDULINA / LIGETI / TANADA / XENAKIS: Works fo

    $8.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2007