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, Instrumental (genres)
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This is more than a flawless recital played with technical bravura and a born soloist’s confidence. Abduraimov is a major pianist, worth talking about in the same breath as the international... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd January 2021
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Record Review, 23rd January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Special offer. Si J’ai Aimé
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano)
Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
This is utterly adorable from start to finish…In the booklet Piau speaks of her joy at performing this kind of repertoire and her rapture is palpable from the breathless opening moments of Saint-Saens’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Recital
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Helmchen’s commanding pianism and perceptive musicianship hold their own in a competitive catalogue…[he] imbues the music’s question-and-answer trajectory [in Variations 13] with a sense of... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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His account of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite affords further evidence that he is one of the world’s most accomplished poets of the keyboard, and I have never heard ‘Ondine’ so dainty and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Piano
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Special offer. Néère: Hahn, Duparc and Chausson
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano) & Susan Manoff (piano)
Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Schumann: Dichterliebe
Julian Prégardien (tenor), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Eric Le Sage (piano)
Listeners who know Dichterliebe intimately, and think they know the Schumanns pretty well, will discover many fresh delights. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Special offer. Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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though Piau takes few risks with colour and time, her sound is always brilliant. Kadouch, too, is strict with tempo but superb with colour. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Helmchen is drawn to the hybrid capabilities of his instrument, which stimulate fresh insights into how Bach’s Partitas can be played and experienced. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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