Soon after her first operatic successes in Vienna, Irmgard Seefried also appeared before the Viennese public as a true lied interpreter - as we can hear in these hitherto unpublished recordings of we...More

We had the immense pleasure of recording Alexei Lubimov in Haarlem in the summer of 2009. From his Moscow premieres of John Cage and Terry Riley in 1968, by way of the Moscow Baroque Quartet of the...More

Severin von Eckardstein, fascinating and secret first laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2003, is not a stranger in the piano world anymore. Regularly host of important piano festivals li...More

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During the Berlin Festival of 1978 Giulini conducted two concerts of Italian music with the Philharmonic Orchestra on 13 and 14 September: the Sonata pian’ e forte by Giovanni Gabrieli, the Concerto ...More

From childhood to death, Chopin never ceased writing for his soul mate: the piano. From the very first Polonaise composed at the age of seven, to the final mazurka, dictated on his deathbed in 1849,...More

Our childhood has the same determining influence on us as our homeland. In the programme of this recording, right from the first polonaise composed by Chopin as an exited seven-year-old, his soul is...More

Trained in the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège not only to respect the polyphonic tradition but also to be open to new Italian influences, Henry Du Mont went on to become organist and composer at th...More

This monumental work of French Romanticism is one of the essential landmarks in the career of any conductor. The quality of Berlioz’s orchestration and questions of timbre and the ideal instrumenta...More

Charles-Valentin Alkan’s neglected Sonate de concert is the most ambitious work for cello & piano of the Romantic period. Alkan wrote this monumental, virtuosic piece for the great cellist Auguste-J...More

The twin influences of Poland and of Italian vocal style are probably the most essential characteristics of Chopin’s music. The ballades, nocturnes and fantaisie presented on this recording offer an...More

Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and are almost all intended for the harpsichord. Some of them display harmonic audacity in their use of discords, and als...More

In his youth, JS Bach came across two North German musicians who considerably influenced him: Georg Böhm and Dieterich Buxtehude. Their stylistic influence on Bach can be seen clearly in his early wo...More

Some twenty years ago, when he discovered by chance the music of the ‘murderous composer’, the guitarist was fascinated by the complexity of the counterpoint and the harmonic framework, as rich as it...More

After studying classical music for the accordion and clarinet Vincent Peirani moved over to jazz and improvised music. During his classes in Paris, he met Daniel Humair, François Jeanneau, Riccardo d...More

This third volume ends the passionate work initiated by Arthur Schoonderwoerd for Alpha in 2004 with the integral recording of the Beethoven’s concertos for pianoforte on period instruments. Source o...More

Bach is a man of crossroads. Born in a musical family for generations, he also created many principles of the modern music. But this brook (Bach) also took its source in the contacts with the musicia...More