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Barbara Hannigan records her first album as singer and conductor!

Barbara Hannigan records her first album as singer and conductor, to be released on Alpha in September 2017 with a film directed by Mathieu Amalric. Whether singing, conducting, dancing or acting, the Canadian sopranoBarbara Hannigan is an endless...

2017 - A MONTEVERDI YEAR

A NOTE BY JÉROME LEJEUNE MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF RICERCAR The year 1567 saw the birth of Claudio Monteverdi in Cremona. Born and raised as he was in a city that was already an important centre of string instrument making, it is scarcely surprising...

Bernard Foccroulle gets an award at The International Opera Awards ceremony!

We are proud to announce that Bernard Foccroulle (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence) is the winner of the Good Governance Institute Award for Leadership at The International Opera Awards ceremony! More info here!    

New signing to Alpha Classics: Mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey

Kate Lindsey releases Thousands of Miles featuring Kurt Weill, Alma Mahler and other émigré composers starring renowned jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon  Closing the distance between classical music and Broadway, between the old and new...

ALPHA CLASSICS IS NOW OFFICIAL CURATOR AT APPLE MUSIC !

  2016 has been a decisive year for Alpha Classics, which received four of the most prestigious awards on the European continent (a Gramophone Award, two Echo Klassik awards, an ICMA award and « Label of the Year 2016 » awarded by the magazine...

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

BEWARE! Due to annual holidays, the web orders will not be processed between the 24th December 2016 and the 1st of January 2017. OUTHERE MUSIC wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Alpha, Label of the Year 2016!

ALPHA has just been named Label of the Year 2016 by the magazine Classica: ‘In 2016, the French record company has stood out for the exemplary quality of its productions.’ ‘A boom year for ALPHA with a dozen Chocs de Classica since last February!’...

ECHO KLASSIK 2016: TWO AWARDS FOR ALPHA CLASSICS

We are proud to announce that two of our artists were awarded with the ECHO Klassik 2016. Congratulations to Anna Vinnitskaya and Belcea Quartet! CONCERT RECORDING (20TH/21ST CENTURY MUSIC) DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO...

The Second Series of Alpha Collection is now Available !

The Second Series of Alpha Collection is now available ! After the success of the first fourteen reissues, which restored to the limelight some of the gems of the early music repertory in the catalogues of our labels, here are fourteen...

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2016

Congratulations to Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff! We are proud to announce that the album of Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff 'Néère' has won a Gramophone Award in the Solo Vocal category. Alpha is very proud to...

The Quatuor VAN KUIJK joins ALPHA CLASSICS!

The Quatuor VAN KUIJK joins ALPHA CLASSICS and performs the programme of its first album in concert at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence on 2 July. Despite its Dutch-sounding name, the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk in 2012 is French. But its...

The soprano ANNA PROHASKA sets the Baroque repertory ablaze!

For her first recording on ALPHA, the soprano ANNA PROHASKA sets the Baroque repertory ablaze! The Alpha Classics label is delighted to announce that it will be recording several programmes over the next few years with the distinguished German...

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CONTEST! Win albums and concert tickets!

Alpha Classics launch a new ‪Facebook contest ! To celebrate the launch of the album "The High Road to Kilkenny" by Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, we offer you the chance to win 10 copies of the album and 10 tickets (5X2) for their upcoming concert...

THE BUSCH TRIO BEGINS RECORDING THE COMPLETE DVOŘÁK TRIOS

Outhere Music willingly associates with promising young musicians and is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Busch Trio.  Under the aegis of Alpha Classics and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the ensemble is embarking on the...

A note by Jérôme Lejeune: The return of the Lantins

The De Lantin brothers were both born in Liège and were active as composers during the beginning of the 15th century; RICERCAR had already devoted a CD (RIC 207) to the works of one of the brothers in 2002. The Capilla Flamenca under the late Dirk...

A complete recording of Marin Marais’ Pièces de Viole? A note by Jérôme Lejeune

As a prelude to the vast enterprise represented by the release of Marin Marais’ complete five Books of Pièces de Viole, François Joubert-Caillet proposes this anthology of some of the most famous pieces that the illustrious gambist of La Chambre du Roi...

The ophicleide: a Romantic instrument lost in the depths of the orchestra?

An introductory note by Jérôme Lejeune RICERCAR’s artistic director When I was assembling the second volume of the A Guide to Musical Instruments (1800-1950) (RIC 106), I needed a recording of a serpent being played. I had the luck to find a...

Heroines of the Venitian Baroque CAVALLI - An introductory note by Jérôme Lejeune

The genesis of a new creation  At the outset, this disc was meant to be a recital by Mariana Flores on the works of Benedetto Ferrari. Then one evening, mere weeks before we were to begin recording, I got an email from Leonardo García Alarcón that...

#HappyBirthdayJos: the photo novel!