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... |
BEN-HAIM / BRITTEN / DORATI / HAAS / HINDEMITH
A 20th-Century Recital Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) & Leonid Ogrintchouk (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions of the Second World War |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Oboe Concerto Alexi Ogrintchouck (oboe), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "What a subtle and fascinating artist is oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk - a team player as well as a born soloist." BBC Music Concerto Choice November 2017 |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 4 - 6 Alina Ibragimova & Pablo Hernán Benedí (violins), Emilie Hörnlund, (viola), Claire Thirion, (cello) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] The Chiaroscuros complete Haydn's last full set of quartets. |
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 |
KALEVI AHO
Aho: Saxophone Concerto and Quintet Anders Paulsson (soprano saxophone), Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John Storgårds [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Recent works by the indefatigable Kalevi Aho. To date, KaleviAhohas composed sixteen symphonies and twenty-eight concertos, several operas and a large number of chamber works -a rate of production which is all the more impressive considering the... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Andreas Borregaard (accordion) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jul/2018 ] The Goldberg Variations - the perfect fusion of the cerebral and the emotional. The Goldberg Variations, or - to use the original title - 'Aria with diverse variations' counts as a milestone in Western music history. With good reason: the huge... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: The Complete music for cello & piano Andreas Brantelid (cello) & Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/May/2017 ] In French music, Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) forms a link between Romanticism and modernism: in Paris in the year of his birth, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of his death, jazz was all the rage, while Stravinsky was championing... |
GRAINGER / GRIEG
Cello works Andreas Brantelid (cello) / Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), with Lars Bjørnkjær (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'Wonderfully-played Nordic, or Nordic-inspired, music from a Swedish-Danish cellist and Norwegian pianist. Recorded in Suffolk.' Editor's Choice Gramophone May 2015 |
BEETHOVEN / BERG / LISZT / MUSSORGSKY
Perspectives 7 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Since 2004, Andreas Haefliger has been devising a series of recital programmes named Perspectives, presenting them in concert and on disc. Each programme focusses on one or two Beethoven sonatas, juxtaposed with works by other composers (ranging from... |
DIETER AMMANN / MAURICE RAVEL / BELA BARTOK
Ammann, Ravel and Bartók: Piano Concertos Andreas Haefliger (piano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic suffuse the music with prodigious colour and staggering precision. Colour and precision similarly inform Ravel's Left-Hand Concerto." Gramophone |