JOHAN HELMICH ROMAN
Roman: The 12 Flute Sonatas: Sonatas 1-5 Dan Laurin (recorder) / Paradiso Musicale [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] With his fellow musicians in Paradiso Musicale, Laurin therefore opts for an Italianate slant - different continuo settings, ranging from harpsichord alone to the full complement including baroque guitar, provide great variety |
J H ROMAN
The 12 Keyboard Sonatas (Sonatas 8-12) Anna Paradiso (harpsichord/clavichord) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] The music of Johan Helmich Roman, often called 'the father of Swedish music' owes as much to Italy - specifically Naples - as it does to Sweden: the restlessness of the harmonic idiom, the continuous melodic shifts and the theatrical character.... |
CHOPIN
12 etudes, Op.10 / 12 etudes, Op.25 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] Ever since becoming the youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician award Freddy Kempf has been making waves in the world of music - not least in the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition where he shot to prominence when the jury and the... |
BEN-HAIM / BRITTEN / DORATI / HAAS / HINDEMITH
A 20th-Century Recital Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) & Leonid Ogrintchouk (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions of the Second World War |
ANDERS ELIASSON
4 X Anders Eliasson - Chamber Works Norbotten NEO [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Born in a provincial Swedish town in 1947, Anders Eliasson started playing the trumpet at the age of 9 and soon after formed his own jazz band. In his teens he began to study classical music, however, and aged 19 he was accepted into the composition... |
ANTON EDVARD PRATTE
A. E. Pratté: Works for the Harp Delphine Constantin-Reznik (harp) / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Daniela Musca [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Deftly played and recorded in superb sound, this concerto plus two solo works make a fine introduction to his compositions." BBC Music |
JOSEF HAYDN
Acide: Festa teatrale Bernard Richter, Raffaella Milanesi, Jennifer O'Loughlin / Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] To commemorate the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Haydn, BIS Records and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien have entered into a collaboration which will result in several releases during 2009. |
CONSTANTINIDIS / ZEMLINSKY / KALOMIRIS / SCHOENBERG etc
Affinities: Greek and German Art Songs Fanie Antonelou (soprano), Kerstin Mörk (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled 'Affinities'. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs - a varied... |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Concertante works for recorder, saxophone and accordion Esa Pietilä, Eero Saunamäki, Janne Valkeajoki / Saimaa Sinfonietta, Erkki Lasonpalo, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Concertante works featuring the recorder, tenor saxophone and accordion are few and far between. Stimulated by daring soloists, the prolific Finnish composer Kalevi Aho has composed such works, contributing in his own way to the development of an... |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Oboe Concerto & Sonata Piet van Bockstal (oboe) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins / Yutaka Oya (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "There's a chamber-like intensity to this concerto - a heightened instrumental clarity if you will - and oboist Piet Van Bockstal is a gentle and evocative soloist throughout...Fine music and musicianship, faithfully caught; what BIS does best." (Mus |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Saxophone Concerto and Quintet Anders Paulsson (soprano saxophone), Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John Storgårds [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Recent works by the indefatigable Kalevi Aho. To date, KaleviAhohas composed sixteen symphonies and twenty-eight concertos, several operas and a large number of chamber works -a rate of production which is all the more impressive considering the... |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Solo Samuli Peltonen (cello), Hiyoli Togawa (viola), Piet Van Bockstal (oboe), Simon Reitmaier (clarinet), Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Marie Luise Neunecke [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Seven instrumental solos by the Finnish symphonist |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Timpani & Piano Concertos Ari-Pekka Mäenpää (timpani), Sonja Fräki (piano), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/May/2018 ] Hugely productive, Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) has composed close to 30 concertos to date. These include works for traditional solo instruments - piano, violin, cello … - but also more unusual ones, such as the theremin or accordion. One project of Aho's is... |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Concertos for violin and for cello Elina Vähälä, violin Jonathan Roozeman (cello), Kymi Sinfonietta / Olari Elts [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Having broken off work on a second violin concerto in 2012, the prolific Finnish composer Kalevi Aho only returned to the project after being contacted by the violinist Elina Vähälä. While aware of the weight of tradition and eager to avoid the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / BELA BARTÓK / FRANZ LISZT
Alexandre Kantorow: Brahms, Bartók, Liszt Alexandre Kantorow (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. But already before then he had released three acclaimed discs, awarded distinctions such as Diapason d'or de l'Année and... |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano Paul Wee (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "What is almost incredible is that the soloist Paul Wee is not a professional pianist but a highly successful international commercial London lawyer." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Pettersson: Symphony No.15 & Viola Concerto Ellen Nisbeth (viola) / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15 is characterized by a high degree of tension right from the striking opening: brief, emphatic chords from horns and trombones above the tremolo of a side drum. Soon an expressive melodic subject is heard from the... |
RADAMES GNATTALI
Alma Brasileira: Chamber Works Franz Halász (guitar) Débora Halász (piano) Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] His parents, Italian immigrants to Brazil, named Radamés Gnattali after the male lead in Verdi's Aida, and his mother began to teach him the piano at the age of six. But even though he did become a highly skilled pianist, performing Tchaikovsky's... |
DIETER AMMANN / MAURICE RAVEL / BELA BARTOK
Ammann, Ravel and Bartók: Piano Concertos Andreas Haefliger (piano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic suffuse the music with prodigious colour and staggering precision. Colour and precision similarly inform Ravel's Left-Hand Concerto." Gramophone |
GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL / RICCARDO BROSCHI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Amore / Dolore - Countertenor Arias Nicolò Balducci (counter-tenor), Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Nicolò Balducci sings of love, passion and fury. |