Search Results: BIS SACD
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Verbum caro factum est - a Christmas Greeting Bach Collegium Japan Chorus / Masaaki Suzuki (direction), Masato Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "The performances are typically classy, and punctuated by a selection of Daquin's 'Noels' for solo organ, played with peppery registrations by Suzuki" BBC Music |
HASSE / PEROTTI / VIVALDI / TORELLI
A Venetian Christmas Ewa Golińska, Komalé Akakpo, Ruby Hughes / Arte dei Suonatori, Martin Gester [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Some tenuous theming here, but who cares when the music-making - tart and spicy on period-instruments - is so appealing?" (BBC Music Christmas 2014) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / GEORGE ENESCU
Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Before Felix Mendelssohn produced his Octet for strings in 1825, only Louis Spohr had composed for a similar combination of instruments. Rather than an octet, however, Spohr's work was a 'double quartet' written for two equal but independent string... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Toccatas, BWV 910-916 Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Very little is known about the origin of J. S. Bach's seven Toccatas (BWV 910-916) or of their use. They are believed to have been written before 1717 or the end of Bach's Weimar period - but it is quite possible that at least some of them were... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 and 25 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) / Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "Bis has given all performers excellent surround sound that is wide, deep, and comforting to the ear. A most definite recommendation." (AudAud.com) |
KREISLER / PENDERECKI / PROKOFIEV / REGER / SCHNITTKE etc
Journey Through A Century: Solo Violin Works Sueye Park (violin) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent." Recording of the Month - Gramophone September 2021 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles / Piano Sonatas Nos. 31 & 32 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Yevgeny Sudbin has previously recorded Beethoven's piano concertos - releases which have received international acclaim, for instance on the website ClassicsToday.com: 'A Beethoven experience you will not want to miss.' |
HERBIG / MOZART / FLEISCHER / WOLFF / HAYDN
Trennung - Songs of Separation Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "...with immaculate German and elegant delivery, is perfectly matched by Bezuidenhout's endlessly inventive imagination...Enjoy a long soak in this luxurious bath of classy, 18th-century suffering." BBC Music |
HUGO ALFVEN
At Home with Hugo Alfvén: Songs & Piano Pieces Elin Rombo (soprano), Peter Friis Johansson (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] During his lifetime, Hugo Alfvén became known as one of Sweden's principal composers of his time, with works that struck a chord with a wide audience. As a result of his popularity, a nationwide collection was held in celebration of his 70th birthday... |
ALBERT SCHNELZER
Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank Ilya Gringolts (violin), Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello), David Huang & Henrik Måwe (piano) Västerås Sinfonietta [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Chamber and orchestral works from a leading Swedish composer. |
Can Çakmur - Piano Recital
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Apr/2019 ] On the 3rd January 2019, only a few weeks after winning the 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Can Çakmur returned to the ACT CITY Concert Hall in Hamamatsu in order to record his début disc. Can's chosen programme reflects his... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / FRANZ STRAUSS / GLAZUNOV / etc
A Noble and Melancholy Instrument Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "[the playing and musicians are of] a high calibre, virtuosic and technically flawless, but with real emotional depth. And such is the variety here, there is bound to be at least one piece that steals your melancholy heart." The Hearld (Glasgow) |
FORSTER / TELEMANN / NERUDA / L. MOZART / HAYDN
Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Mozart's horn concertos are so well-known that for many listeners the sound of the horn and Mozart are virtually synonymous. Mozart was not the first composer to write solo concertos for the horn, however, and works from earlier on in the eighteenth... |
RACHMANINOV / BORODIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
Russian Cello Sonatas Alexander Chaushian (cello) / Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "The well-balanced, naturally spacious recording (CD and stereo SACD) is icing on the cake. An excellent disc. Strongly recommended." (10/10 ClassicsToday May 2011) |
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... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] "it is hard not to be impressed by Kantorow in the concertos, but the Malédiction is why you should buy the disc." Gramophone |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / etc Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "...this disc completes a Saint-Saëns piano concerto set that has few peers and none that are better." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice July 2022 |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 3-5 Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] "It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this." Gramophone June 2019 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Gran Partita (with Beethoven: Eight Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni) Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe & direction), Concertgebouworkest [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "this superlatively played new recording immediately joins the shortlist for this most sumptuous of serenades." Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2021 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Oboe Concertos Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe, director) Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] In many of J. S. Bach's cantatas, passions and oratorios, the oboe - and its various relatives such as the oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia - plays a prominent role. Using it as his preferred obbligato instrument, Bach obviously cherished the... |
