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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 |
GUSTAV HOLST / EDWARD ELGAR
Holst: The Planets / Elgar: Enigma Variations Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] "The sound reproduction BIS provides on this SACD is vivid and well balanced, quite state of the art. Now as for comparisons with the very plentiful competition, I can say Litton finishes very high in each work." MusicWeb |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / ARNOLD SHOENBERG
Can Çakmur - Schubert + Schoenberg Can Çakmur (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] "I am happy to report that it more than fulfils the highest expectations...This very distinguished recording should not be missed by anyone interested in fine piano-playing and heartfelt poetic utterance." Gramophone Editor's Choice Aug 2023 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Minnesota Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] For its final concert of the 2021-22 season and Osmo Vänskä's last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler's mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a... |
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 |
MARIE-JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] "Carolyn Sampson is a delightful and highly engaging soloist. She sings the slow, lyrical songs beautifully, investing words and music with great feeling." Recording of the Month Oct 2021 MusicWeb |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op.18 Nos 4-6 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] The Chiaroscuro Quartet continue their Beethoven traversal. |
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... |
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) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 8 & 9 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Sergei Prokofiev virtually grew up at the keyboard - he composed for the piano from early childhood, and the instrument was his workshop and laboratory. Well before the end of his student days he had absorbed the virtuoso techniques of Rachmaninov... |
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. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Complete Secular Cantatas Joanne Lunn, Robin Blaze, Carolyn Sampson, Katsuhiko Nakashima, Hiroya Aoki, Makoto Sakurada, etc / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / 10 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2019 ] "The SACD sound is near ideal for such music, needing as it does to balance the intimate with a sense of public rejoicing. It catches the colours of the distinctive solo voices on display." MusicWeb |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet and Trio / 6 Songs Martin Fröst (clarinet) with Janine Jansen ( violin), Torleif Thedéen (cello) Roland Pöntinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2014 ] "Sensuous beauty and taut sinew mingle for an interpretation whose fastidious attention to internal balance and every musical detail result in sovereign excellence, in a sovereign recording. Fröst's control of instrumental colour is superfine |
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... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART & RICHARD BIRCHALL
Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos Michael Collins (basset clarinet) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Robin O'Neill, Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "Collins elicits a delicious, resonant tone throughout; the clarinet is never upstaged by its string quartet partner." BBC Music |
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen
Veni: Songs of Christmas II [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2023 ] December is a time of anticipation. We wait and we hope - veni, come! The songs on this album encompass many nuances and moods - from joy and jubilant celebration to deep melancholy and longing. They move between folk tunes, English carols and... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Variations & Bagatelles, etc. Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / 6 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Between 2003 and 2015, Ronald Brautigam recorded all of Beethoven's music for solo piano - a huge undertaking resulting in a grand total of 15 highly acclaimed discs. Choosing to perform the works on the fortepiano, Brautigam began with a sonata... |
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) |
J. S. BACH / PURCELL / WATKINS / TRADITIONAL / FRANCES-HOAD / etc
Ruby Hughes - Echo Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] "An exquisite release touched with poignant pleasures and depth-plumbing reflections that echo, re-echo, linger and endure." Five Stars BBC Music Recording of the Month Feb 2025 |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy / Piano Sonata No. 5 / Prometheus Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui, with Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] One of the boldest and most radical composers of all time, Alexander Scriabin had a lifelong obsession with occult and mystical ideas. Initially under the influence of Chopin, Wagner and Liszt, his music later became more complex, taking on an... |
