NEW RELEASES // 1st Semester 2016

Album Release: January 2016
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Extracts taken from « Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets » – Out on 2016-01-08
Extraits issus de « Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets » – Sortie le 2016-01-08

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SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto - Quatuor Danel

Album release: January 2016

Rameau: Dardanus (Live Recording at l'Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

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Extracts taken from « Rameau: Dardanus (Live Recording at l'Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles) » – Out on 2013-10-21
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RAMEAU: Dardanus, Acte III Scène 1:  Prélude "Ô jour affreux!" - Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

CD Release: February 2016
PARIS JOYEUX & TRISTE,
PIANO DUETS BY STRAVINSKY AND SATIE
ALEXEI LUBIMOV, SLAVA POPRUGIN
PIANO PLEYEL 1920, PIANO GAVEAU 1906, PIANO BECHSTEIN

EN // In Paris Joyeux & Triste, Alexei Lubimov and Slava Poprugin alternate pieces by Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie, two composers who became friends in the early years of the twentieth century despite their very different musical personalities. Stravinsky made his own two-piano arrangement of the ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ Concerto, while Satie’s Socrate and Cinéma are heard here in arrangements by John Cage and Darius Milhaud respectively.
Pieces for two pianos, for piano four hands and for prepared piano combine on this disc which mingles music and theatre – for it is the theatrical element that unites the two composers. As Diaghilev said to Cocteau: ‘Astonish me!’ With this programme, these instruments and his extremely diverse musical experiences, Lubimov continues to make that his credo today.

FR // Dans Paris Joyeux & Triste, Alexei Lubimov et Slava Poprugin alternent pièces d’Igor Stravinsky et d’Erik Satie, deux compositeurs qui furent amis au début du 20ème siècle malgré des personnalités musicales fort différentes. Stravinsky signe lui-même les arrangements pour pianos des deux Concertos, tandis que Socrate et Cinéma de Satie sont ici arrangés par John Cage et Darius Milhaud. Pièces à deux pianos, pour piano à quatre mains et pour piano préparé s’articulent dans ce disque qui mêle musique et théâtre. C’est en effet la théâtralité qui réunit les deux compositeurs. Comme le disait Diaghilev à Cocteau « étonnez-moi ! ». Avec ce programme, ces instruments et ses expériences musicales si diverses, c’est dans cette lignée que Lubimov s’inscrit aujourd’hui.

STRAVINSKY - Concerto in E-Flat Major "Dumbarton Oaks": I. Tempo giusto

SATIE - Cinema: Entr'acte symphonique From the Ballet "Relâche" (Transcription for Piano Four Hands)

In this track: QUENTIN: Concerto à quarte parties, oe. XII, Largo / GUILLEMAIN: 3e Sonate en Quatuor Livre I, Allegro.

NEVERMIND (NEW SIGNING) - Album release: March 2016
CONVERSATIONS
JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN (1690-1742),
LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN (1705-1770)
SONATAS FOR FLUTE, VIOLIN AND CONTINUO

NEVERMIND is made up of four young musicians and friends whose passion for early music and for the influence of jazz and traditional music stimulated them to form an ensemble whose virtuosity is equalled only by their youthful impetuosity and their love of fine music . . . For its first disc, Nevermind tackles the treasures of the Baroque in the shape of two totally neglected French composers.

Tracklist of the album:
JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN (1690 - vers 1750)

CONCERTO À QUATRE PARTIES, OEUVRE XII
1 LARGO

QUATUOR, SONATA III, OEUVRE XV
2 I. ALLEGRO
3 II. ADAGIO
4 III. PREMIÈRE ET SECONDE ARIA
5 IV. PRESTO

LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN (1705-1770)

SONATA III, PREMIER LIVRE DE SONATES EN QUATUORS
6 I. ALLEGRO MODERATO
7 II. LARGHETTO
8 III. ARIA
9 IV. ALLEGRO

JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN

SONATA IV À QUATRE PARTIES, OEUVRE VIII
10 I. LARGO
11 II. ALLEGRO
12 III. GAVOTTA, TENDREMENT
13 IV. ALLEGRO 

LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN

SONATA IV, SECOND LIVRE DE SONATES EN QUATUORS
14 I. ALLEGRO
15 II. ARIA GRATIOSO
16 III. PRESTO

JEAN-BAPTISTE QUENTIN

SONATA V EN TRIO, OEUVRE X
17 I. ADAGIO
18 II. ALLEGRO
19 III. PREMIÈRE ET SECONDE ARIA
20 IV. VIVEMENT

NEVERMIND // CONVERSATION - Album Teaser

Album Release: March 2016

Since 2015, Krzysztof Urbański has been principal guest conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, one of the leading German orchestras. They are currently preparing together the inauguration in January 2017 of Hamburg’s new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, a major musical event in Germany with which Alpha Classics will be associated. Krzysztof Urbański is also music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. A resolutely international career for a young conductor who recently earned praise from the Chicago Tribune for ‘his keen musical instincts and vigorous way of translating his ideas into orchestral sound that has both shape and meaning’.
For this first recording, he was keen to celebrate a great composer, one of the most eminent of the twentieth century and a Pole like himself, who, like Stravinsky, Bartók, Berg, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, gloried in the sound material of the orchestra and displayed boundless imagination. Though less well known than his illustrious colleagues for the moment, Lutosławski amply deserves to meet a wider public, for his music can speak as directly to connoisseurs as to simple music-lovers. We hope that this programme will help to further his reputation.

Tracklist of the album:
CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA
1 I. INTRADA
2 II. CAPRICCIO NOTTURNO E ARIOSO
3 III. PASSACAGLIA, TOCCATA E CORALE

LITTLE SUITE (MAŁA SUITA)
4 I. FUJARKA (PICCOLO)
5 II. HURRA POLKA
6 III. PIOSENKA (SONG)
7 IV. TANIEC (DANCE)

8 SYMPHONY NO.4

LUTOSLAWSKI // Concerto for Orchestra - I. Intrada by Krzysztof Urbański & NDR Symphony Orchestra

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ARCHANGELO CORELLI
Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo. Opera quinta
Enrico Gatti, Gaetano Nasillo, Guido Morini

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CORELLI // Sonata No. 12 in D Minor, Op. 5 "La folia"

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JEAN-BAPTISTE DROUARD DE BOUSSET
Airs sérieux
Le Jardin Secret, Elizabeth Dobbin

In 1724, Sébastien de Brossard hailed Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset as ‘indisputably the best of our composer-authors’. Although, at the beginning of the 18th century, the Master of Music at the Académies des Sciences et des Inscriptions imposed himself as the unquestionable leader of the genre, his 875 airs sérieux are little known nowadays and deserve to be brought back into the light. Such is the desire of Elizabeth Dobbin and the ensemble Le Jardin Secret, who recreate with artistry and intelligence the ‘noble, pleasant and natural’ songs of the composer, described by Titon du Tillet in his Parnasse françois (1732). Reflecting the traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries, the musicians have included improvised passages in their performance of these airs and, in particular, chosen to accompany the voice with two theorbos and viola da gamba, instruments that Bousset owned when he died.

BOUSSET // J’aime à revoir ces bois et ces ruisseaux - Le Jardin Secret, Elizabeth Dobbin

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JOHANNES OCKEGHEM 
Missa Cuiusvis Toni
Ensemble Musica Nova

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OCKEGHEM // Messe in D: I. Kyrie

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La famille Forqueray: Portrait(s)
Justin Taylor

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JEAN-BAPTISTE FORQUERAY // Première suite en Ré Mineur: La Portugaise

Album release: August 2016

JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn 2032, Vol. 3: Solo e pensoso
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

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Symphony No. 42 in D Major, Hob. I:42: I. Moderato e maestoso

After two earlier Dvořák releases, the Trios nos.3 and 4 (Dumky) and the two Piano Quartets, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their teachers at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the violist Miguel da Silva (founder member of the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe) and the violinist Maria Milstein, who was also an artist in residence at the Music Chapel from 2011 to 2014. Together they continue this recording of the Czech composer’s complete chamber music with keyboard, this time in the two Piano Quintets and the Bagatelles. There is an obvious close rapport between these musicians, who share with us their passion for this repertory and their enjoyment of playing together. A gap of fifteen years separates Dvořák’s two Piano Quintets, which have few features in common except a shared home key: the First marks the debut of a youthful composer, while the Second shows him at the peak of his art. The Bagatelles, originally scored for two violins, cello and harmonium, are among his bestknown short pieces. A recording scheduled for release in autumn 2018 will complete this quadriptych of Dvořák’s piano trios, quartets and quintets.

DVORAK // Bagatelles, Op. 47 : I. Allegretto scherzando

The year 2017 was a vintage one for Giovanni Antonini: he was awarded an Echo Klassik, two Gramophone Awards and a Diapason d’Or of the Year for his recent releases. Two of these prizes distinguished Il Distratto, volume 4 of the complete recording of the Haydn symphonies on which he embarked for Alpha in 2014. For the sixth volume, released in 2018, the Milanese conductor is again joined by the Kammerorchester Basel, which shares the project with Il Giardino Armonico and which he knows very well, since he conducts it regularly and they have made many recordings together, including volume 5 of the Haydn series. This volume focuses on symphonies with a ‘sacred’ inspiration: the Symphony No.26, ‘Lamentatione’, was composed in 1768 for Holy Week, and no.30 was nicknamed ‘Alleluja’ after the plainchant melody Haydn uses in it. Symphony No.41 was written in 1769.

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HAYDN 2032 // Symphony No. 3 In G Major III : Minuet - Trio

The German soprano Juliane Banse has sung the Lieder of Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, Ullmann, Strauss, Schumann, Loewe and Berg, earning a reputation for both the quality of her interpretations and the warmth of her timbre. She and her regular partner Martin Helmchen, who has just joined Alpha, have chosen to record Paul Hindemith’s song cycle Das Marienleben, composed in 1923 and revised by the composer in 1948. A bewitching, sometimes disturbing cycle whose texts, taken from the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, retrace the life of the Virgin Mary. Fifteen poems, fifteen episodes tinged with mysticism and lyricism. They proved to be the ideal inspiration for Hindemith, whose compositional style here draws on both the power of Wagner’s operas and the subtle nuances of Debussy.

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HINDEMITH // Das Marienleben, Op. 27 : Mariä Heimsuchung

Thomas Dunford continues to expand his discography on Alpha with a programme of solo lute works by J.S. Bach, recorded in the ideal surroundings of the Salle de Musique of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. He performs an original composition by Bach for lute, the Suite in G minor BWV 995, as well as his own arrangements of the (Cello) Suite BWV 1007 and the famous Chaconne from the Partita BWV 1004 – the latter piece has a notorious reputation for being (virtually) unplayable, at least on the violin!

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BACH // Suite En Sol Majeur BWV 1007 : Prélude

Alpha has been a noted reference in the world of classical music since its inception twelve years ago. Today, the label is broadening its horizons, welcoming outstanding new artists and opening its doors to an array of innovative projects.

Vocal repertoire becomes a major focus of the new ALPHA: Véronique Gens has just recorded a recital of French songs with Susan Manoff as part of an ongoing collaboration with the label. The baritone Georg Nigl also joins Alpha. He will collaborate with Andreas Staier on a Bach album. The new generation is represented by Gaëlle Arquez and the soprano Mari Eriksmoen. She will record a programme of songs by Grieg, Strauss and Wolf in April in the framework of the partnership between ALPHA and the Academy of the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Outstanding instrumental soloists have also signed with ALPHA: the pianist Anna Vinnitskaya presents the Shostakovich concertos with Kremerata Baltica. Others will be announced soon.

Collaborations with major orchestras are being finalised, but we can announce multi-year projects with Hervé Niquet and with Le Concert Spirituel (Vivaldi Gloria & Magnificat for double choir to be released this fall). Equally noteworthy are the Beethoven symphonies recorded by Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie in the halls where they were first performed.

ALPHA is also expanding its chronological scope, since the label is launching a series with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Matthias Pintscher and will release a program by Peter Eötvös. For the twentieth century, Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher has just appeared, with an incredibly intense narrator, the actress Marion Cotillard.

As part of the new series ALPHA OPERA, a DVD collection has been created in conjunction with major institutions such as the THEATRE ROYAL DE LA MONNAIE in Brussels and the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles, featuring top ensembles including Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset and Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet (Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse by Boismortier, directed by Corinne et Gilles BENIZIO, aka SHIRLEY & DINO).

ALPHA remains faithful to the artists who have made its history and its reputation. Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique will present a disc of Airs de Cour in the autumn. Bruno Cocset has recorded a second volume of works by Barrière, and Olivier Fortin, Alexis Kossenko, Lucille Boulanger, Arnaud de Pasquale, Céline Frisch and Café ZIMMERMANN will also offer new releases. The ambitious Haydn 2032 project continues under the direction of Giovanni Antonini, while the ‘Château de Versailles’ collection presents recordings of Campra and Leclair by Olivier Schneebeli and Sébastien d’Hérin respectively.

In order to strenghten the label on the international scene, ALPHA will bring together all its house artists with those who recorded for ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES. This merger will make for greater coherence among the 600 recordings in the existing catalogues (especially in the field of early music, the strong point of both labels) and the new releases. By the end of 2015 ALPHA will thus offer a chance to renew acquaintance with such major artists as the Belcea Quartet, Doulce Mémoire and Denis Raisin Dadre, Nelson Goerner in Chopin, Tedi Papavrami in Bartók, Amandine Beyer, Mario Ceccato, and Alexei Lubimov and many others. Another highlight of the year is the seventieth birthday of Jos Van Immerseel: with Anima Eterna Brugge, he will present a magnificent Schubertiade as well as a symphonic programme with Janácek and Dvoràk.

Since December 1st 2014, the label is directed by Didier Martin.

RAMEAU: Dardanus, Acte III Scène 1: Prélude "Ô jour affreux!" - Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

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