LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) / Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Brautigam and Willens are alive to Beethoven's every indication on the page..Original, stylish and authoritative, this concerto set is a worthy and thought-provoking contribution to the recordings marking the Beethoven year" Gramophone |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 'The Inextinguishable' & Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] These two central works in Nielsen's production have now been selected for the first instalment of a complete Nielsen cycle by Sakari Oramo and his Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. |
SAMUEL / BERG / MAHLER
Clytemnestra - Orchestral Songs Ruby Hughes (soprano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "Her eloquence is always unfussy and direct. The instrumental fabric is equally strong, with beautiful playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, on the top of its top form, conducted by Jac van Steen" The Times Five Stars |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki - St Luke Passion Sarah Wegener (soprano) Lucas Meachem (baritone) Matthew Rose (bass) / Orchestre symphonique de Montréai, Kent Nagano [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Live recording from the Salzburg Festival, 20th July 2018. Recorded in the presence of the composer. |
CHAMINADE / GRIFFES / NIELSEN / POULENC / REINECKE / etc
Great Works for Flute and Orchestra Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Neeme Järvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
TELEMANN / SAINT-SAENS / DOPPLER / VILLA-LOBOS / J. S. BACH
Sharon Bezaly - Synergy Sharon Bezaly (flute) /Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Urban Svensson, Thomas Dausgaard & Michael Collins, with Michala Petri (recorder) & Bram van Sambeek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians. |
FRANCK / FAURE / PROKOFIEV
Franck / Fauré / Prokofiev: Sonatas Sharon Bezaly (flute), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "The flute just cannot dominate the piano the same way a solo violin can. Bezaly's pianist is none other than Vladimir Ashkenazy, who is ever sensitive but is noticeably placed towards the background to disguise the mismatch." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] With the three piano trios, Op. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with salon music and raised it up to rival the string quartet. |
MAURICE RAVEL / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Ravel & Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "It's ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel's expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form's musical language." WINNER- Chamber BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 |
BRETT DEAN
Shadow Music Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Brett Dean [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Brett Dean and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have enjoyed a close and fruitful collaboration for many years, with Dean appearing in the orchestra's concert programmes as composer as well as conductor. Now one of today's most performed composers of... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No 4 / Hungarian Dances / Tragic Overture Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Begun in 2012 with the release of Symphony No. 1, Thomas Dausgaard's four-disc traversal of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms is here brought to a close with the composer's final work in the genre. |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi Timothy Fallon (tenor), Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] Crepuscolo is the final song in Ottorino Respighi's song cycle Deità silvane ('woodland deities'), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as... |
SORENSON / NORDERVAL / LINDQUIST / HOSOKAWA
Mantra - Music For Sinfonietta Trondheim Sinfonietta / Kai Grinde Myrann, Espen Aalberg (gamelan), Kristin Norderval (soprano), Else Bø (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "(the) concerto for gamelan and orchestra is both beautiful and dynamic. It is performed and recorded wonderfully as if one were present alongside the musicians. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms - The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Vol.2 Ulf Wallin (violin) / Roland Pontinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "Wallin and Pöntinen tend to favour spacious tempos...Such broad pacing allows the players time to highlight and savour details as well as to be scrupulous in their attention to clean articulation and rhythmic clarity." Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas / 3 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Sergei Prokofiev first noted down some ideas for his Violin Sonata No.1 in the summer of 1938 and he began the composition that winter... |
MAX BRUCH / W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Clarinet Trios Wigmore Soloists: Michael Collins (Clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (violin / viola), Michael McHale (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] 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... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Yegveny Sudbin (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Osmo Vänskä (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/May/2017 ] Yvgeny Sudbin at his best is an artist capable of reminding us of that and there is plentiful evidence in these rondo finales" Gramophone |
LISZT / RAVEL / SAINT-SAENS
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "His Liszt is remarkable. The F minor Transcendental Study's brand of miraculous virtuosity, at once tumultuous and limpid, is marvellously captured." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
MIKHAIL GLINKA / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky on the Piano Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), Bella Sudbin (piano - primo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "[In the Glinka], and in the Romeo and Juliet Overture, Sudbin's capacity for quasi-orchestral texturing and digital aerobatics is perfectly showcased: scintillating, and then some." Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2023 |
MEDTNER / RACHMANINOFF
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Medtner & Rachmaninov Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] Having previously released recordings of Medtner's three piano concertos as well as three of Rachmaninov's five concertante works, Yevgeny Sudbin on the present disc combines solo pieces by the two friends and fellow-composers. From Sergei... |