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Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal - Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous (2023)

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Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal - Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous (2023)

Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal - Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 1:27:50 | 1.35 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

This album presents the songs from The Threepenny Opera in a new French translation by Alexandre Pateau. The recording was made at the 2023 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence during the run of the new production of the legendary work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann, which features the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise and the musicians of Le Balcon, conducted by Maxime Pascal with Thomas Ostermeier as stage director. In this parody of an opera, the songs are the driving force behind the action and the characters ape the bourgeois lifestyle of the audience, the better to denounce the period of moral confusion they are going through. With Maxime Pascal at the helm of a dozen multi-instrumentalists from Le Balcon, we hear a version based on that of the first performance - hard-hitting and as close as possible to the tremendous creative energy deployed by the two creators of the work in the summer of 1928 - acted and sung by the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise, who rise to all its challenges with brio. Other special features of this album are a previously unrecorded song on a text by Yvette Guilbert and the linking texts between the songs read in French by Ostermeier himself. As Diapason wrote of this production, 'Almost a century after its premiere, The Threepenny Opera has lost none of its subversive power.'

Guillaume Roussel - Couleurs de l'Incendie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Guillaume Roussel - Couleurs de l'Incendie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Guillaume Roussel - Couleurs de l'Incendie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-48kHz] | 1:02:13 | Mb
Genre: Soundtrack / Label: Alpha Classics

Composer Guillaume Roussel has written the original music for the film Couleurs de l’incendie directed by and featuring Clovis Cornillac with co-stars Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz and Olivier Gourmet. The film is based on the novel by Pierre Lemaitre, who received the Prix Goncourt for his book Au revoir là-haut. The movie adaptation of the latter by Albert Dupontel in 2017 (See You Up There) was a huge success and won several Césars. In Couleurs de l’Incendie, Fanny Ardant plays the role of a heroic opera singer; her singing voice in the film is that of the soprano Sandrine Piau. In addition to the music by Guillaume Roussel (who, among other things, wrote the soundtrack for Cédric Jimenez’s film Bac Nord), we hear Verdi, Saint-Saëns and other classics from the French repertoire, including Plaisir d’amour.

Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware - This Be Her Verse (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware - This Be Her Verse (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware - This Be Her Verse (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 58:34 | 997 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

“What if a woman wrote the song?”This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of powerful sirens like the Lorelei. The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke’s arresting William Blake settings offer a woman’s perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten. Devotional works from Nadia Boulanger reveal a compositional master in her own right, in addition to her legendary status as pedagogue to innumerable greats including Aaron Copland and Daniel Barenboim. "This be Her Verse", a song cycle by poet-librettist Lila Palmer and composer Kathleen Tagg was directly commissioned by the artists to conclude the programme and add an important contribution to the repertory.

Stephen Waarts, Howard Griffiths - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Horn Concerto No. 4 KV 495 (2022) [Of Digital Download

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Stephen Waarts, Howard Griffiths - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Horn Concerto No. 4 KV 495 (2022) [Of Digital Download

Stephen Waarts, Howard Griffiths - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Horn Concerto No. 4 KV 495 (2022) [Of Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-48kHz] | 57:30 | 545 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

La Fondation Orpheum, qui soutient les jeunes musiciens depuis plus de trente ans, s’est associée à Alpha Classics pour une série d’enregistrements consacrés aux concertos de Mozart, tous instruments confondus. Les meilleurs solistes de la jeune génération ont été sélectionnés sous la direction artistique d‘Howard Griffiths, chef mozartien reconnu, qui considère que jouer sa musique, c’est comme « se regarder dans un miroir : on entend si tout est en place, musicalité, intonation, rythme, phrasé »… Ces albums immortaliseront ce test implacable et révéleront les grands virtuoses de demain.

Belcea Quartet - Brahms: String Sextets (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Belcea Quartet - Brahms: String Sextets (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Belcea Quartet - Brahms: String Sextets (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:15:48 | 1,31 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

Brahms est l’un des premiers compositeurs à écrire pour deux violons, deux altos et deux violoncelles, il montrera la voie à Dvořák, Tchaïkovski, Korngold ou encore Schönberg. Ses deux Sextuors sont des œuvres de jeunesse, composées en 1860 et en 1865. Le Second est de « la même veine joyeuse » que le Premier, écrit Brahms à son éditeur. Pourtant, la vie du compositeur est sombre à cette époque, sa mère décède brutalement et sa relation sentimentale avec la soprano Agathe von Siebold est un échec ; le premier mouvement du Sextuor s’ouvre d’ailleurs sur un motif à l’alto dont les notes sont la-sol-la-ré-si-mi, soit AGADHE en allemand… Les Belcea ont fait appel à leurs amis Tabea Zimmermann et Jean-Guihen Queyras pour enregistrer ces sommets de la musique de chambre à l’issue d’une tournée de concerts dans quelques-unes des principales salles d’Europe.

Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-192kHz] +Booklet | 1:03:23 | 2,2 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II’s birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events – royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester’s birthday, hundredth anniversary of Dublin’s Trinity College, etc. For these occasions, Purcell composed incredibly imaginative music of amazing quality – often keeping his most beautiful pieces for less remarkable texts, most of the time conventionally obsequious when it came to royalty. According to the registers, the number of singers and musicians were surprisingly small during special events. Purcell’s most elaborate Odes (namely Come Ye sons of Art and Hail! bright Cecilia) seem to have been designed for about twelve instruments and four singers, for solos and choruses. The Banquet Céleste chose a chamber music-like spirit for these extremely expressive and musical works.

Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon - Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon - Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon - Stradella: San Giovanni Battista (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 82:20 minutes | 1.55 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

A composer who led a dissolute life and ended up stabbed to death in Genoa, Stradella nevertheless left a distinctive stamp on the history of music. He is situated at the intersection of several stylistic paths and periods, at the crossroads between opera and sacred drama, since his output, and especially San Giovanni Battista, marks the encounter of the great Roman oratorio inherited from Carissimi with the Venetian opera of Cavalli. Stradella is also close to the next generation, that of Scarlatti and Handel. His music is characterised by liveliness, expressiveness and profound humanity. Although San Giovanni Battista enjoyed genuine success when it was premiered in 1675, it was only in 1949 that the work was exhumed from the libraries where its score lay slumbering. That event took place in Perugia, and the role of Salome was sung by Maria Callas.

Giovani Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Giovani Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Giovani Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 59:35 minutes | 1.16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Giovanni Antonini, virtuoso flautist and orchestral conductor, is the founder of the Italian ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, which burst on the baroque musical scene in 1985; together they have amassed an impressive discography. Partnered by Alpha Classics, they have launched a complete recording of the 107 symphonies by Joseph Haydn, in anticipation of the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2032. Il Giardino Armonico is celebrating a composer with whose music he made his name: Antonio Vivaldi. With Antonini as soloist in a programme of his own devising recorded between 2011 and 2017, a generous bouquet of concertos "per flauto" : RV 433 (‘La Tempesta di Mare’), plus the Concertos RV 441, 442, 443, 444, and 445, and an amazing version of Cum dederit, a solo from Nisi Dominus RV 608, for the chalumeau, the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet.

Barbara Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra - La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey (2020) [Official Digital Download]

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Barbara Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra - La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Barbara Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra - La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 72:36 minutes | 643 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The starting point for Barbara Hannigan’s third recording for Alpha is a work by Gérard Grisey (1946-98) that is particularly close to her heart. Grisey wrote: ‘I conceived the Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil [Four songs for crossing the threshold] as a musical meditation on death in four parts: the death of the angel, the death of civilisation, the death of the voice and the death of humanity…

Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Les Basses Réunies - Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Les Basses Réunies - Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Les Basses Réunies - Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 59:15 minutes | 2.29 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Born in Toledo, Diego Ortiz published the Trattado de Glosas in Rome in 1553. At that time, he was living in Naples in the service of Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and Viceroy of Naples. This region was deeply influenced by Spain. His treatise, published simultaneously in Spanish and Italian, is first and foremost a precious source for the art of Spanish instrumental performance. The second book of the Trattado de Glosas is performed here in its entirety, with Bruno Cocset and Guido Balestracci alternating in the Recercadas.

Taracea - Akoé: Nuevas Músicas Antiguas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Taracea - Akoé: Nuevas Músicas Antiguas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Taracea - Akoé: Nuevas Músicas Antiguas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 51:07 minutes | 928 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The debut of the Taracea ensemble creates a bridge between past and present. The Madrid-based trio’s artistic project is to combine early music, jazz and improvisation. Its founder Rainer Seiferth, a German musician who lives in Spain, plays the vihuela, the Spanish counterpart of the Renaissance lute. Belén Nieto is a flute and recorder specialist and a regular member of Jordi Savall’s ensembles. The double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez is at home in jazz, flamenco and classical music.

Estonian Festival Orchestra & Paavo Järvi - Tüür: Mythos (2020) [Official Digital Download]

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Estonian Festival Orchestra & Paavo Järvi - Tüür: Mythos (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Estonian Festival Orchestra & Paavo Järvi - Tüür: Mythos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 60:03 minutes | 600 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Erkki-Sven Tüür, born in Estonia in 1959, writes music that is characterised by intense energetic transformation. The intuitive and rational approach is synthesised into a complete organic system. He is the composer of nine symphonies, ten concertos, numerous chamber works and an opera. Dedicated to his compatriot Paavo Järvi and composed to mark the centenary of the Estonian Republic in 2018, Tüür’s Ninth Symphony is entitled "Mythos". According to the composer, this refers to the myths that arise about nations and how they have acquired their independence, and also deals with the long history of the Finno-Ugric peoples.

Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon - Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020) [24/96]

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Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon - Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020) [24/96]

Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon - Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 79:13 minutes | 1.48 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

French violinist Chouchane Siranossian tackles a programme of extremely virtuosic concertos that few Baroque violinists dare to face. Thanks to her technical gifts and to partners ideally suited to this repertory - the Venice Baroque Orchestra and its conductor Andrea Marcon, a specialist in the Italian Baroque style - she takes up the challenge with brio.

Leonardo García Alarcón - Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

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Leonardo García Alarcón - Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

Capella Mediterranea, Chœur de chambre de Namur & Leonardo García Alarcón - Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/176.4kHz | Time - 126:11 minutes | 4.08 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The original score of El Prometeo (Prometheus) is held in the Leopoldine Library in Vienna. It dates from 1669 and was written by Antonio Draghi, a composer who was also a singer, notably in the operas of Cavalli. For the first time in history, an Italian set a text in Spanish. The last act of El Prometeo has disappeared. But since the libretto of this act has survived, Leonardo García Alarcón decided to rewrite all the music for it. ‘I immersed myself in Draghi’s music in order to understand his style, his favourite intervals, the type of melody he composed and the type of basso continuo he was fond of, so as to try to produce a score that is worthy of him.

Martin Haselböck - Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 "Pastoral" (Resound Collection, Vol. 8) (2020) [24/96]

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Martin Haselböck - Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 "Pastoral" (Resound Collection, Vol. 8) (2020) [24/96]

Martin Haselböck - Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 6 "Pastoral" (Resound Collection, Vol. 8) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 80:10 minutes | 1.40 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The Orchester Wiener Akademie and its conductor Martin Haselböck continue the Resound Beethoven series, performed on period instruments and scrupulously respecting the orchestral layouts of 200 years ago. Volume 8, the last volume of the series, is devoted to two emblematic works, both of them dedicated jointly to Prince Franz Joseph Maximillian Lobkowitz and Count Andreas Kirillovich Razumovsky: Symphonies nos 5 and 6. Each of these symphonies has a name attached to it. While the Fifth Symphony is sometimes called the ‘Fate’ Symphony for more or less determined reasons, Beethoven himself named the Sixth ‘Pastoral’, thus pursuing the venerable tradition of the musical pastorale while conferring a new dimension on it.