Search Results: BIS Choir
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The Motets The Norwegian Soloists' Choir Ensemble Allegria Grete Pedersen, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Bach's motets are surrounded by much uncertainty. To begin with, we do not know how many he actually composed, as some have been lost while others have been wrongly attributed to him. Although several of the motets were written for funerals, it is... |
VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas Brasileiras 7, 8 & 9 Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra Choir / Roberto Minczuk [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] In the opinion of Villa-Lobos, Bach's music was a music for the people - indeed, he even called it 'folk-loric'. As a result, the combination of Bachian polyphony and Brazilian elements evident in his Bachianas Brasileiras came naturally to him, even... |
LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Coro Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra [Coro], Grete Pedersen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "These extraordinary performances would be for naught were it not for the lifelike recording that gives enough space around the performers, yet allows for plenty of clarity. " MusicWeb Recommended June 2020 |
SIBELIUS
Snafrid (Cantatas and orchestral works) Jubilate Choir / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] 10/10 Classicstoday.com |
GEOFFREY GORDON
Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon Toke Møldrup (cello) / Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Lan Shui [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Dividing his time between the United States and the United Kingdom, the composer Geoffrey Gordon writes music that has been described as 'darkly seductive' (New York Times), 'richly satisfying' (BBC Music Magazine) |
PETERIS VASKS
Choir Music Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava and Kaspars Putnins [ BIS / CD - released 26/Nov/2001 ] Peteris Vasks is the Arvo Pärt of Latvia and thus something of a cult figure in his country. Like the music of Pärt, and for that matter of Tavener, Vasks's works have a distinctly spiritual dimension, obvious in this collection of his choral music.... |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Choir Music Det Norske Solistkor (The Norwegian Soloists' Choir), Grete Pedersen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "A superb choir with a warm, clear sound does full justice to these luscious choral works and arrangements of pieces by Grieg" (Classic FM) |
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Stenlund/Malmo Chamber Choir
Christmas Music (Julmusik) [ Bis / CD ] |
SIBELIUS
Complete Edition: Choral Music Various soloists / Jubilate Choir / Astrid Riska / YL Male Voice Choir / Florakoren / etc [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Everything projects as a full musical experience - some modest and some much more - but all the works are aptly even fervently communicated. I cannot stress too much the excellent tone, coordination and artistic feeling of the choirs chosen for this... |
BARTOK / DORATI / MARTINU
Concert for Lidice Will Quadflieg (speaker) HdK Chamber Choir, Berlin / Dresden Trio / Members of the Czech Chamber Orch / New Berlin Chamber Or / Martin Fischer-Dieskau [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/1992 ] Martin Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin to a musical family; his father is the noted singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Fischer-Dieskau's older brother, Mathias, is a highly regarded stage designer, and his younger brother, Manuel, is a cellist.... |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Concerto for Choir; Voices of nature for ten women's voices & vibraphone / Dopo la vittoria (Piccola cantata); I Am the True Vine / etc Swedish Radio Choir conducted by Tonu Kaljuste with Jonny Rannlund, vibraphone [ BIS / CD - released 12/Aug/2004 ] "The cool, unassuming nature of the Pärt pieces balances extremely effectively the weightiness of the emotions in the Schnittke Concerto, making the disc much more enjoyable and 'digestible' than it might otherwise have been" (MusicWeb Sept 2004) |
VAGN HOLMBOE
Concertos (Incl Piano Concerto No 1) Noriko Ogawa (piano) Martin Frost (clarinet) Gordon Hunt (oboe) / Aalborg Symphony Orchestra / Owain Arwel Hughes (cond) / Danish National Opera Choir [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "A well-packed disc with a nice balance struck between the concertos and a rarely encountered choral-orchestral work." - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet) / Pavane pour une infante défunte Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] "The playing throughout is of the highest class, from the first horn's apparently relaxed top Fs … to the vibrato-free flutes that Ravel himself wrote for, the clarinets' piano playing in the furiously fast 'Danse generale', and the chorus's impeccab |
Peter Mattei / Paula Hoffman / St. Jacob's Chamber Choir / Gary Graden
Durufla - Requiem [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "The performances are highly polished and the young chorus and soloists sing with great refinement and control throughout" (Classic CD) |
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Graden/St Jacobs Chamber Choir
Durufle: Requium [ Bis / CD ] |
ERIK BERGMAN
Bergman: Choral Works - 1936-2000 Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek [ BIS / 2 CD - released 26/May/2017 ] In his later years often described as the grand old man of Finnish modernism, Erik Bergman(1911-2006) was among the first in Finland to use compositional methods such as twelve-tone technique, serial music, choral Sprechgesang and aleatory... |
SIBELIUS
The Essential Sibelius (15 CDs at a budget price) Leonidas Kavakos / Anne Sofie von Otter / Monica Groop / Jorma Hynninen / Helsinki University Choir / Lahti Symphony Orch / Gothenburg Symphony Orch [ BIS / 15 CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "The Essential Sibelius...will provide hours of pleasure, discovery and rediscovery for not very much money. If this were your only Sibelius you would have his best music. Alongside this you will become acquainted with some pieces which although not... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Femina moderna - music for mixed choir Allmänna Sången Choir, Marina Goundorina (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "The choir's sound is fresh and direct. Its ensemble is tight and its diction crisp" BBC Music |
SAARELLA
Fire on the Island Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Jorma Hynninen (baritone) / Dominante Choir [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Dominante and Seppo Murto here present a disc of choral works for mixed choir by Jean Sibelius The programme spans the entire active career of the composer and includes some of his best-known works, such as Rakastava (The Lover) and the Six Songs,... |
VILLA-LOBOS
Floresta do Amazonas Anna Korondi (soprano) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / Sao Paulo Symphony Choir / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "It's a typical Villa-Lobos patchwork, including a male chorus chanting in an Amazonian language, extravagant vocalise for the soprano solo and lushly romantic textures straight out of Hollywood...this recording...reveals the score in all its... |
