CPE BACH
Solo Keyboard Music Volume 30 Miklós Spányi (clavichord) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] On the present disc Miklós Spányi presents three sets intended primarily for didactic use: the two collections of Kurze und leichte Clavierstücke and the 6 Sonatine nuove. |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E): Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 37 Miklós Spányi (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Described in Gramophone as 'one of the most needed and important recording projects in progress today', this series has up until now featured the clavichord (on 27 discs), the tangent piano (7 discs) and the fortepiano (2 discs). It is therefore... |
ROSSINI / HOFFMEISTER
Rossini / Hoffmeister: Quartets with Double Bass, Vol. 2 Minna Pensola (violin I), Antti Tikkanen (violin II / (viola), Tuomas Lehto (cello), Niek de Groot (double bass) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] This second and last volume completes two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini's six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the 'normal'... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2020. In an effort to arrange the first performance of his Seventh Symphony, Gustav Mahler declared it to be his best work, 'preponderantly cheerful in character'. His younger colleague Schoenberg expressed his... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.10 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians - a kind of Holy Grail of 20th-century music. Recognized as an intensely personal work, it was... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2023 ] "This is one of those special listening experiences where the world afterwards is a different place." BBC Music July 2023 - Recording of the Month |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Netherlands Radio Choir / Kaspars PutniĆš [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] Phrases reminiscent of liturgical chant appear in Rachmaninov's music...and from the time of its first performance in 1915, his All-Night Vigil has been recognised as a supreme achievement in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Vigilia - All-Night Vigil in Memory of St. John the Baptist Niall Chorell (tenor), Tuukka Haapaniemi (bass), Helsinki Chamber Choir / Nils Schweckendiek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "the 21 professional voices sing with tremendous flexibility and clarity, meaning that however full and generous the choral textures may be, clarity is always achieved. It helps that BIS have recorded the performance magnificently." MusicWeb |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words Of Christ Nicolas Stavy (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] The Seven Last Words of Christ refers to the seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the New Testament. Over the centuries the crucifixion has served as inspiration to countless composers, and settings of these utterances... |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Relâche & Cinéma: Piano Music, Vol. 4 Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] For the fourth instalment in her acclaimed Satie cycle, Noriko Ogawa has gathered music written for the stage - from the pantomime Jack in the Box (1899) to the ballet Relâche (1924) - one of Satie's last works. Several of the pieces exist in... |
ERIK SATIE
Noriko Ogawa plays Satie - Piano Music, Vol.3 Noriko Ogawa (piano) (Érard 1890) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Noriko Ogawa continues her Satie series with the (in)famous 'Vexations'. 'Satie's work is itself a challenge to conventional performing tradition, so why not challenge him?' |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: 'Ésoterik Satie', Piano Music, Vol.5 Noriko Ogawa (piano) (Érard 1890) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Works from the composer's early, mystical period. |
BENT SORENSEN
Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria Grete Pedersen, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "It's a virtuoso account of a piece that takes the spirit of Bach and says something quite new." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2023 |
RESPIGHI
Metamorphoseon / Belkis, Queen of Sheba / etc Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] "The Liège orchestra plays with great bravura, and BIS's SACD sonics, typically, are just terrific. In short, a very worthy entry in this ongoing series" (ClassicsToday Oct 2015) |
PROKOFIEV / SCRIABIN / ARENSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian Masquerade Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [ BIS / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] Composed in Russia between 1884 and 1917, the four works appearing on this disc all do so in some kind of disguise. Prokofiev and Scriabin both conceived their respective collections for the piano, and it is later arrangers that have adapted them for... |
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 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great Baritone Arias Peter Mattei (baritone) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Lawrence Renes [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Peter Mattei is now in his prime, and his voice miraculously preserves the freshness and vibrancy of youth. His fast notes are excellently articulated, his slow ones are just beautiful. A glorious disc!" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month MusicWeb... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / GERALD FINZI
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D / Finzi: Concerto for Clarinet and Strings Philharmonia Orchestra / Michael Collins (conductor and clarinet soloist) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] The distinguished clarinettist Michael Collinshas in recent years also gained recognition as a conductor, appearing with eminent orchestras across the world. The present disc sees his recording debut as a conductor of symphonic repertoire. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 14: Variations & Klavierstucke Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] Ludwig van Beethoven's first printed work was a set of variations - published in 1783 when he was only twelve years old - and his final keyboard composition was the massive set of thirty-three variations on a theme by Anton Diabelli. His twenty-one... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Impromptus Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Ronald Brautigam performs some of Franz Schubert's most profound and beloved works: the eight Impromptus. Schubert's name has become closely associated with this genre, often characterized by a lyrical melody and a free-flowing structure. |