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My Christmas

“My wish on this double album is to share and celebrate with you my own very personal Christmas, as I experienced it as a child. For me, as well as being the festival of love, Christmas also means magic, balm for the soul and a host of enchanting memories. Every year we celebrate this miraculous time once again with our families and children, pausing to reflect upon the original Christmas. ...

Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios

As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed during a game of bowling. The writing is reminiscent of a conversation between three friends in which contrasts ...

Composer: Max Bruch (1838–1920), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: The Prussian Quartets

After their exciting interpretations of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to Mozart’s Prussian Quartets, his last compositions for this formation. These quartets were written for Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and amateur cellist, and offer that instrument an unusually prominent role. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491

For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian Trevelyan, who was awarded three prizes at the Géza Anda ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Sapperlot!

On his first solo clavichord album, Alexander Gergelyfi creates an exceptionally colourful and at the same time sensual portrait of his home country Austria. Exquisite music from the 17th and 18th centuries is presented on what is probably the oldest surviving Austrian clavichord. The elegant "Admont" clavichord serves Alexander ...

Composer: Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651-1711), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Paul Peuerl (1570-1625), Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), Johann Michael Steinbacher (1710-1741), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 11, K. 413, No. 12, K. 414 & No. 13, K. 415 "A Quattro"

This Viennese trilogy was neglected in the Romantic era then reduced to pianoforte chamber music under the Baroque revival. Often only KV 415 is played by C. Haskil, R. Serkin, A-B Michelangeli, M. Perahia, A. Schiff and M-J Pirès. Mozart produced scores with variable accompaniment back in 1781 to satisfy the Austrian ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart, Weber, Strauss Piano Concertos (Remastered)

Friedrich Gulda was an unusual personality. His performing career spanned both classical and jazz, and as a teacher, he was a tremendous influence on many of the 20th Century's greatest pianists. A fine performer in his own right, Gulda gave his Carnegie Hall début at the age of 20, and is considered one of the most important interpreters of the postwar period. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Molieri: Mozart and Salieri Arias

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218, Piano Concerto No. 6 KV 238 & Flute Concerto No. 1 KV 313

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young generation have been selected to appear under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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An Unexpected Mozart

Unfamiliar Mozart: Always curious about unjustly neglected repertoire, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas introduces us here to a Mozart we have not met. Above and beyond his church sonatas, works written on commission, pieces meant to showcase a vocalist or an instrument (such as the rarely heard glass harmonica) or as a mark of friendship with ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Mozart the Poet: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

Michael Wessel is a professor for piano playing, song accompaniment and methodology at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth. He studied piano, composition, music theory and school music in four major courses at the music academies in Detmold and Stuttgart: piano with Hanns-Ulrich Kunze, Jürgen Uhde ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Mozart: Sonatas for four hands

Thomas Beijer (1988) and Nicolas van Poucke (1992) belong to the top of a new generation of young pianists in the Netherlands. Both have won many prizes and performed both solo and with orchestras at important venues in the Netherlands and abroad. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 - K. 540, 494, 545, 570 & 576

Spanning the length of his mature career, Mozart's piano sonatas were written between 1774 and 1788, and occupy a fundamental position within the keyboard repertoire. The early sonatas were influenced by the so-called "style galant” of the Bach brothers Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel, though we hear clear references to some of the traits that characterized the keyboard music of earlier ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Beethoven-Liszt & Mozart-Alkan: Piano Transcriptions

This recording brings together two of the greatest works of the Classical era in transcriptions for solo piano by two of the greatest pianist-composers of the Romantic era, resulting in two of the most thrilling experiences that nineteenth-century pianism has to offer. ...

Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Charles Alkan (1813-1888)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Zauberoper

Following his acclaimed first recording for Alpha Classics, Saga, the German baritone Konstantin Krimmel continues to tell us stories, with a programme focusing on Zauberoper or "magic opera". Accompanied by the Hofkapelle München orchestra conducted by Rüdiger Lotter, Krimmel explores operas by Mozart, ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Antonio Salieri 1750-1825), Peter von Winter (1754-1825), Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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La harpe á Paris

Paris - the city of many dreams and promises - has a special ring to the ears of harpists. In hardly any other place in the world was so much music played with the instrument, so many compositions were written for it and the harp was so popular. It is not for nothing that all the great works for harp and orchestra collected on this album ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Chamber Music with Clarinet

Clarinet player Eddy Vanoosthuyse is joined by the renowned Czech Zemlinsky Quartet exhibiting a refreshing point of view on Mozart's repertoire for clarinet and string ensemble. All things Mozart have been said and done, you'd think. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: Concertos for Flute and Orchestra

If Mozart gave the concerto of his time its ultimate shape, it is because he transferred to it all the characteristics of the opera aria, giving the cantabile – which he often mentions in his correspondence – most significant importance and transforming the vocal virtuosic runs instrumental figurations. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 1, 28 & 41

The series of Mozart symphonies, recorded by Johannes Klumpp with "his" Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen at GENUIN, enters the second round. The tradition-steeped orchestra now juxtaposes the first and last symphonies of the Viennese composer of choice: Early and late works in direct comparison, the alpha and omega of Mozart's ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture

Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, ‘one of the most heart-rending ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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