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, Chamber (genres)
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Special offer. Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Chamber
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The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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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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Special offer. Kodály: Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 - Dvořák: Piano Trio, Op. 90 'Dumky'
RecommendedBarnabás Kelemen (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
While every phrase is carefully considered, each one is communicated with passion...Everywhere there is a wealth of fascinating detail…Some may find the players’ approach a little too intense,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Veress: String Trio & Bartók: Piano Quintet
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin), Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
For me, Veress’s trio is the heart of this disc. There have been four previous recordings, none of which I’ve heard, but I can’t imagine a more inspired performance; these three play as if they... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Chamber
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Special offer. Les frères Francœur
RecommendedJustin Taylor (harpsichord), Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin)
Plaudits to violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and his Le Consort colleague, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, and Alpha Classics for this truly commanding documentation of 18th-century French... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Telemann - Music for Recorder
Giovanni Antonini (recorder/director)
Il Giardino Armonico
Antonini proves an athletic and affectionate communicator of this sophisticated music, enlivening the dances with well-judged tempos, cogent articulation and a light tread that would grace any... — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Baroque
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Special offer. Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & Piano Trio No. 2
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Martin Helmchen (piano), with Antje Weithaas (violin)
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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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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The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2020
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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