Alpha - up to 45% off
Until 20th November 2024, we're offering up to 45% off all recordings on the Alpha label including downloads. Please note that some titles are while stocks last and will be removed from the offer once sold out.
Alpha - up to 45% off, Brahms (composer)
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Special offer. Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... — More…
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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The finest performance here, by far, is of the Bartók sonata, one of the most demanding of his modernist works. The spontaneity which the performers speak about in their ‘conversation’ materialises... — More…
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Record Review, 28th January 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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If ever there were a piano sonata with a symphony lurking inside, it is the Brahms F minor. To Goerner’s immense credit, he doesn’t detonate the instrument in an effort to accommodate the occasionally... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Brahms: Complete String Quartets & Piano Quintet
RecommendedTill Fellner (piano)
Belcea Quartet
In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI. Here, more than a decade on, their conception retains its essential ferocity,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Dvorák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands
Jos van Immerseel (piano) & Claire Chevallier (piano)
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[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts... — More…
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it is clear that Fournel’s striking mind works in tandem with his fingers. I look forward to hearing this pianist again. — More…
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Special offer. Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120
Miguel da Silva (viola), Xavier Phillips (cello), Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
The performance on this handsomely recorded Alpha disc is flexibly paced and attentive to details of dynamics and articulation, with a raptly sustained Adagio and the most sweetly nostalgic... — More…
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Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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It’s a young man’s cycle, and Chest is in the full bloom of youth. Things get off to a suitably rollicking start…Chest, his German attentively enunciated, setting out his stall with heroic declamatory... — More…
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