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  • Méditation: Keyboard Works by Bach, Couperin & Others / Andreas Staier

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    Andreas Staier’s informed and inspired interpretations have left their mark on the discography of both the harpsichord and the fortepiano and have enabled us to see Bach, Mozart and Schubert in a completely new light....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2024

  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; The Wood-Nymph; Valse Triste / Rouvali, Gothenburg SO

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    The 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

  • Shadows of My Ancestors / Behzod Abduraimov
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    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

  • Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas / Besson, Rignol, Rondeau

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    In 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

  • Charpentier: Médée / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

    $39.99

    Médée, 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

  • Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum / Camboulas, Ensemble Les Surprises

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    Two 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

  • Reflet / Piau, Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
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    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

  • Bartók, Nichifor, Poulenc & Schoenfield: Take 3 / Kopatchinskaja, Bieri, Leschenko

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    The 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

  • Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time - Murail: Stalag VIIIA / Het Collectief

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    Olivier 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

  • Bach: Transcriptions / Fortin, Martin

    $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

  • Enigma / Aristidou, Gerzenberg, J. Widmann
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    ‘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

  • J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4
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    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

  • Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1; Preludes Op. 32 / Geniušas

    $20.99

    The pianist Lukas Geniušas has recorded the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata no.1 in the composer’s Swiss home Villa Senar (Sergei & Natalia Rachmaninoff) and on his own piano, an unusually long Steinway &...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 / Franck, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

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    The baritone Matthias Goerne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck launch a trilogy of Shostakovich’s works for baritone and orchestra with a recording of Symphony No.14. This will be followed by Symphony...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Ravel & Shostakovich: Piano Trios / Busch Trio
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    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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