Alpha Classics Label Sale 2025
Over 700 titles from France’s Alpha Classics are on sale now at ArkivMusic!
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
746 products
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![Strauss: Four Last Songs - Laws of Solitude / Asmik Grigorian]()
On SaleStrauss: Four Last Songs - Laws of Solitude / Asmik Grigorian$13.99 Regular price
$20.99Singer Asmik Grigorian has chosen to record both versions of Richard Strauss's ultimate masterpiece, composed in 1948: the version with orchestra and the much rarer version with piano. For her, this work is associated with...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 16, 2024
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![Bartók, Nichifor, Poulenc & Schoenfield: Take 3 / Kopatchinskaja, Bieri, Leschenko]()
On SaleBartók, Nichifor, Poulenc & Schoenfield: Take 3 / Kopatchinskaja, Bieri, Leschenko$13.99 Regular price
$20.99The basic idea of this album was to play in threes… Not to play 'something', but to experiment 'in threes' with sound worlds as different as those of Bartók, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes,...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 26, 2024
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![Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas / Besson, Rignol, Rondeau]()
On SaleCorelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas / Besson, Rignol, Rondeau$13.99 Regular price
$20.99In 1700, Corelli published his 12 violin sonatas, Opus 5, in Rome. A veritable revolution in violin technique, they won the admiration of eminent composers (Bach, Dandrieu, Couperin) and greatly influenced the French (Francoeur, Leclair,...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 26, 2024
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![Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; The Wood-Nymph; Valse Triste / Rouvali, Gothenburg SO]()
On SaleSibelius: Symphony No. 4; The Wood-Nymph; Valse Triste / Rouvali, Gothenburg SO$13.99 Regular price
$20.99The Fourth is Sibelius's most difficult symphony. For some, it is his masterpiece. When the symphony was premiered on 3 April 1911 in Helsinki, one critic compared it to Barkbröd - tree bark eaten by...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 26, 2024
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![Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum / Camboulas, Ensemble Les Surprises]()
On SaleCharpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum / Camboulas, Ensemble Les Surprises$13.99 Regular price
$20.99Two Te Deums go head to head! The famous one by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a completely new one by Henry Desmarets. Charpentier and Desmarets, remarkable composers of both sacred music and opera, shared a taste...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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![Reflet / Piau, Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo]()
Reflet / Piau, Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo$20.99
Clair Obscur (Alpha 727), dedicated to German lieder with orchestra, explored the antagonism between light and shadow. Reflet conjures up the nuances and transparencies of French melodies. There is in reflection the idea of an...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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![Charpentier: Médée / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel]()
On SaleCharpentier: Médée / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel$25.99 Regular price
$39.99Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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![Shadows of My Ancestors / Behzod Abduraimov]()
Shadows of My Ancestors / Behzod Abduraimov$20.99
Whereas Prokofiev was captivated by Romeo and Juliet, Ravel had shut himself away a quarter of a century earlier in Levallois Perret to compose Gaspard de la nuit, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's collection of poems...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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![Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time - Murail: Stalag VIIIA / Het Collectief]()
On SaleMessiaen: Quartet for the End of Time - Murail: Stalag VIIIA / Het Collectief$13.99 Regular price
$20.99Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works...
Format: CD
Release Date: December 22, 2023
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![Philarmonica - Matteis, Purcell, & Mrs. Philarmonica / Le Consort]()
On SalePhilarmonica - Matteis, Purcell, & Mrs. Philarmonica / Le Consort$13.99 Regular price
$20.99In the second half of the seventeenth century, London experienced an artistic golden age, with the arrival of many foreign musicians and the proliferation of theatres and concert halls wher e audiences came to listen...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 24, 2023
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![Mozart: Concertos; Andante for Flute]()
On SaleMozart: Concertos; Andante for Flute$13.99 Regular price
$20.99For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 17, 2023
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![J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4]()
J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4From $20.99
For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti's hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is...
Format: CD, Vinyl
Release Date: November 03, 2023
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![Enigma / Aristidou, Gerzenberg, J. Widmann]()
Enigma / Aristidou, Gerzenberg, J. Widmann$20.99
‘Enigma’ is the Greek word for ‘riddle’, ‘mystery’, ‘secret’. At the moment of entering or leaving life, there is always a sound: the cry of a newborn baby or the last sigh of a dying...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 03, 2023
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![Bach: Transcriptions / Fortin, Martin]()
On SaleBach: Transcriptions / Fortin, Martin$13.99 Regular price
$20.99"Johann Sebastian Bach used the recorder in two Brandenburg concertos and some twenty cantatas and oratorios, but alas, he left us no sonata with harpsichord," say Julien Martin and Olivier Fortin. Arranging chamber music for...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 03, 2023
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![Ravel & Shostakovich: Piano Trios / Busch Trio]()
Ravel & Shostakovich: Piano Trios / Busch Trio$20.99
Ravel composed his Piano Trio M67 just before enlisting voluntarily in the First World War. Inspired by the Basque country and its zortziko dance, the Trio ends with a sombre, almost anguished fourth movement. A...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 20, 2023
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