Alpha Classics
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A record label committed to artistic projects that are demanding, bold and often off the beaten track. Part of the @outheremusic family.
Joined March 2015
#MartinHelmchen embarks on a complete recording of #Schubert's piano sonatas, with four double albums to be released before the bicentenary of the composer's death. → Discover 'Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1', out now: https://t.co/cjFTaZXIbn
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"The singing is so clean and accurate, luminous clarity, and the recording as well just adds the right sense of air and resonance to the sound. It’s a compelling recital." - @BBCRadio3 → Discover #EnsembleAltera & @ChrisALowrey's album, 'Dazzling Light': https://t.co/f82hqr6jbI
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"[...] Abduraimov and Petrenko unquestionably make the best case for this concerto." - @GramophoneMag → Discover #BehzodAbduraimov, #VasilyPetrenko and the @royalphilorch's album, 'Prokofiev & Shor': https://t.co/n8Tm4Yx3Y5
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"The duo’s debut album is a finely balanced and imaginative combination, with John Adams’ eclectic title work the standout." ★★★★ @guardian → Discover Lukas Geniušas & Anna Geniushene's 'Hallelujah Junction: Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin & Copland': https://t.co/kbahZ3HuSR
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"Arcangelo brings warm-toned playing to Handel: Chandos Anthems [...] Artistic director Jonathan Cohen favours gentle musicianship in this intimate recording." ★★★★ - @FinancialTimes → Discover @ArcangeloTeam's album, 'Handel: Chandos Anthems': https://t.co/sheuCHx8kM
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"The spell never lets up from then on, with the Gothenburg strings wonderfully expressive in the finale's closing bars." ★★★★ BBC @MusicMagazine → Discover #SanttuMatiasRouvali & @GbgSymfoniker's album, 'Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest': https://t.co/NZ7a7bVi4V
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The @BelceaQuartet’s new recording of quartets by #Debussy and #Szymanowski introduces Suyeon Kang, and includes a return to the Debussy Quartet which the Belceas previously recorded on its very first album 25 years ago. → Discover 'Debussy Szymanowski': https://t.co/51cmooC2bN
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#ThibaultNoally & @LesAccents celebrate Scarlatti’s anniversary year. Singers #EmmanuelledeNegri and #PaulFiguier join the #Scarlatti specialists for this intimate portrait. → Discover 'A. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Mottetti', out now: https://t.co/2T1xnUdW1o
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Haydn’s 1766 Missa Cellensis launches this collaborative @alpha_classics series with #RenéJacobs, @kammerorchester & #ZürcherSingAkademie and soloists with whom he works regularly. → Discover 'Haydn: Missa Cellensis', out now: https://t.co/9xVwRnnUpX
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#MartinHelmchen, a lifelong lover of #Schubert’s music, further deepened his appreciation for the composer while creating this album and studying the unfinished sonantas. → Pre-order 'Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1' (out 17/10) & listen to the single: https://t.co/cjFTaZXIbn
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"This sublime arrangement of Bach's monumental set of keyboard variations [...] sounds like it came straight from the composer's workbench." - @AppleMusic → Discover #Nevermind's album, 'Bach: Goldberg Variations': https://t.co/ad54LhgXbb
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"I'll go for broke and say I don't know a better Mahler Fifth than this one [...] hair-raisingly brilliant." ★★★★★ - @MusicMagazine → Discover @paavo_jarvi and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich's album, 'Mahler: Symphony No. 5': https://t.co/29dYZ9nZHv
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"He absolutely brings a sense of intimacy that the album promises, as well as a lovely improvisatory freedom and elegant ornamentation. A very nicely built recital as well." @BBCRadio3 → Discover #JustinTaylor's album, 'Chopin intime': https://t.co/jQWHxaYjLP
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Pianist #GuillaumeCoppola marks #Satie’s centenary with 'Satie amoureux', an intimate portrait inspired by the composer’s affair with painter Suzanne Valadon. → Pre-order the album (out 14/11) and listen to this single now: https://t.co/Fmz37I0EVT
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"[...] Beautifully recorded and beautifully performed, this is a very desirable recording." @GramophoneMag → Discover #EmmanuelCeysson's album, 'Images. Hommage à Marcel Tournier': https://t.co/iBmov0okxG
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After acclaimed recordings of Messiah and the Coronation Anthems, @HerveNiquet and @leconcertspi return to #Handel with 'Israel in Egypt'. → Pre-order the album (out 24/10) & listen to this single: https://t.co/Lap5HEW4NQ
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"With fine performances throughout, this is a real pleasure." ★★★★★ - @MusicMagazine → Discover @giardinarmonico, @kammerorchester and #GiovanniAntonini's album, 'Haydn2032 vol.16: The Surprise': https://t.co/xc5I8MwO78
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"Appl's ever expressive baritone is infinitely characterful here in these diverse settings. He is a thoughtful, revealing, interpreter of Kurtág's verse" ★★★★★ - @MusicMagazine → Discover @BenjaminAppl's album, 'Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág': https://t.co/QSx9IBbKqy
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‘Electric Fields’ by @HanniganBarbara, @DavidChalmin & Katia and Marielle Labèque presents arrangements of centuries-old vocal music, as well as new compositions. Read what @NPR, @thetimes, @MusicMagazine, @stereophile and @bbcradio3 said about the album.
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The @buschtrio’s project to record #Beethoven’s complete piano trios launches with the Op. 1 trios & the “Gassenhauer” Trio, in which the clarinet is replaced by violin. It will conclude in 2027, Beethoven’s bicentenary. → Discover the album, out now: https://t.co/LgG12qD4qH
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