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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, K427 / Exsultate, jubilate, K165 Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makoto Sakurada, Christian Immler / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "The choir are well drilled and the two female soloists are matched as well as any on disc...Suzuki is no speed merchant, and maintains the through line in more strenuous movements" Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 |
J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor Carolyn Sampson, Rachel Nicholls (sopranos) Robin Blaze (alto) Gerd Tark (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Baroque Vocal - "Among the handful of best recordings made, regardless of style." (MusicWeb Jan 2008) |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas (Vol 42) BWV13, BWV16, BWV32 & BWV72 Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Gerd Tark (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] The present volume in the cantata cycle of the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki consists of four works all written for performances in January 1726. Among these is the New Year's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV16 (Lord God, we praise you). |
PURCELL / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / QUILTER
Lost Is My Quiet - Duets and Solo Songs Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor) Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "Carolyn Sampson and Iestyn Davies make a symbiotic partnership in these assorted duets, their tone (not least their control of vibrato) and style ideally matched. They are compelling interpreters, too, with an infectious sense of shared enjoyment." |
SAINT-SAENS / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / SEVERAC / HAHN / etc
A Verlaine Songbook: settings of poems by Paul Verlaine Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Sampson adores these songs, caressing the text with her beautiful, pure soprano, particularly those that dwell on the correlation between nature and the emotions. Her partnership with Middleton is inspired, his intelligence always evident." The Guar |
PURCELL
Victorious Love Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Lawrence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet) Elizabeth Kenny (archlute & thearbo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] One of the most exciting young sopranos to emerge in recent years, Carolyn Sampson was born in Bedford, studied music at the University of Birmingham and lives in London. She made her opera début with English National Opera as Amor in The Coronation... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] The 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers - male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary - bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare's works to which this recital is dedicated. |
MARCELLE de MANZIARLY
Marcelle de Manziarly - Chamber Works Cecilia Zilliacus (violin) Kati Raitinen (cello) Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] De Manziarly - a major musical force to rediscover |
FAZIL SAY / HSIAO TYZEN / YU JULIAN /
Memories Lost Chen Sa, piano / Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Chung Yiu-Kwong [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] In a (mostly) Chinese programme Chen Sa presents a series of works - both solo and concertante - of which several deal with memories, nostalgia and the recreation of impressions. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 74 & Op. 130 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "The warmth and earthiness of the instruments' tone produces results that are haunting in the tenth quartet and shattering in the thirteenth." Sunday Times |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos 4-6 (Vol. 2) Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] The so-called 'Sun' quartets of Joseph Haydn's Op. 20 are often said to represent an unprecedented flowering of his string quartet writing, establishing a high watermark to which every other subsequent composer of quartets has paid homage. The six... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 1-3 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2020 ] "With the Chiaroscuro Quartet you truly get the best of all musical worlds ... these gifted players relish the expressive potential of their instruments with a bracing instinct for emotional narrative." Strad |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: The Prussian Quartets Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] "The group's collective tone is rounded and unexaggeratedly warm, with a gentle degree of vibrato emerging and flowering as each expressive moment requires" BBC Music |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets No 9 & No 14 "Death and the Maiden" Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Oct/2018 ] "Light and shade abound in performances of brisk, fierce beauty" The Strad |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: 'Sun' Quartets Op.20, Nos. 1-3 (Vol. 1) Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "memorable, too, are their fine line-drawing and acute response to the ebb and flow of harmonic tension" Gramophone |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / ROBERT FRANZ / FRANZ LISZT
Im schönen Strome - Heine Lieder Christian Immler (baritone) / Georges Starobinski (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, Starobinski and the baritone Christian Immler present these - all Heine settings but from different opus groups - in the form of two 'imagined' song cycles |
TAKEMITSU
How slow the wind: Orchestra Music Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and... |
CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Christian Lindberg - 2017 Christian Lindberg (trombone/conductor), Evelyn Glennie (percussion) / Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, The New Trombone Collective [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Christian Lindberg conducts - and plays - his own orchestral scores. |
NATHANIEL SHILKRET / FREDRIK Haâ€"GBERG / CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Trombone Concertos Christian Lindberg (trombone/conductor) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Oct/2005 ] Nathaniel Shilkret's trombone concerto is something of a Holy Grail for trombone players. It has long been known that film and Broadway composer Nathaniel Shilkret composed a concerto for Tommy Dorsey at Leopold Stokowski's request, and that it was... |
SAMUEL BARBER
Cello Concerto / Cello Sonata Christian Poltara (cello) bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton, with Kathryn Stott (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] Cellist Christian Poltéra turns to the music of Samuel Barber. He is joined by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Litton and pianist Kathryn Stott. |
