SCHUMANN / LISZT / JANACEK / BRAHMS
Haochen Zhang - Piano Recital Haochen Zhang (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] In 2009, at the age of 19, HaochenZhangbecame one of the youngest musicians ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Since then he has had a busy concert schedule, primarily in his native China and in the U.S.A. but also in Europe... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcendental Ètudes Haochen Zhang (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] The Transcendental Études form a cycle of twelve pieces whose composition began in 1826 and was completed in 1851. Starting from the idea of an encyclopædic collection which, in the manner of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier |
C. P. E. BACH
Concertos and Symphonies Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] Manfred Huss has been a long-time champion of C.P.E. Bach, and the present disc combines recordings that he made with the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien in 2005 and 2006. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete) Helena Juntunen (soprano) Katarina Karnaus (mezzo) Daniel Norman (tenor) Neal Davies (bass-baritone) Minnesota Chorale & Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / 5 SACD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "History will tell us whether this cycle stands above those of other conductors and orchestras, but for now I'm placing my copy at the top of an already rather distinguished pile of references." (Recording of the Month Jan 2010 MusicWeb) |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.9 'Choral' Helena Juntunen, Katarina Karnaus, Daniel Norman, Neal Davies / Minnesota Chorale & Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] "Vänskä gives us the shock and awe of Beethoven. So many Beethoven sets fall at the final hurdle, but Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota players bring their best, overwhelming form to this symphony." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2006) |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: The Wooden Prince Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin are - together with the earlier opera Bluebeard's Castle - the only stage works by Béla Bartók. They stand apart from the more abstract and often more explicitly folk-related character of the music that... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius - Suites Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] "Mälkki and the orchestra remarkably conjure the dark, swirling soundworld of 'Lemminkäinen in Tuonela' (the Hades of Finnish legend). And the concluding 'Lemminkäinen's Return' canters along in roistering style." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Children! Hiyoli Togawa (viola) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Hiyoli Togawa commissioned works on the theme of childhood from composers around the world. Thirteen of them, from Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, answered the call and embarked on a journey into childhood. |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN / ARCANGELO CORELLI / J. S. BACH
Telemann, Corelli & Bach: Concertos & Suites Höör Barock, Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Emelie Roos (recorder), Dan Laurin (direction and recorder) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Dec/2016 ] The young period band Höör Barock, based in the south of Sweden, has chosen a colourful programme for its début disc. With recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin at the helm, the twelve musicians steer a course through Telemann's celebrated Wassermusik (also... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms & Schumann - Chamber Music with piano Hrachya Avanesyan (violin) Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Diemut Poppen (viola), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Dec/2017 ] "Each of the movements has tempi that is lively but never rushed, brought forth in a crystal clear recording. The slow movements really linger and break the heart." Nicholas Butler |
PIETRO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: Il Labirinto Armonico Ilya Gringolts (violin & direction) / Finnish Baroque Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Ilya Gringolts takes on the challenge of Locatelli's virtuosic capriccios. |
MICHAEL JARNEFELT
Jarrell: Orchestral Works Ilya Gringolts (violin), Florent Jodelet (percussion), Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] "The excellent Pays de la Loire Orchestra, who accompany the two concertos in exemplary fashion, take centre stage in the album's centrepiece, the Sechs Augenblicke...A very strong recording." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2024 |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Concertos [4 hours on 1 SACD] Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam, Roland Pöntinen & Love Derwinger (piano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Ultra Extended Playing Time. These products can only be played on a machine with SACD capability. They cannot be played on a conventional CD player. These concertos span Mendelssohn's complete oeuvre, from 1822 to 1844. |
TIMO ALAKOTILA / JUKKA TIENSUU / TAN DUN / KALEVI AHO / etc
Kromos: 21st-Century Guitar Music Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] For his new recital disc, the acclaimed Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen had the aim of creating a programme that works like a story: 'a modern guitar disc that lends itself to continuous listening from beginning to end'. The pieces that he has... |
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian - The Concertante Works for Piano Iyad Sughayer (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] The expressive immediacy of Aram Khachaturian's music, with its sensuous melodic writing, vibrant orchestration and rhythmic drive, resulted in a popularity equalled by few composers of his generation. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Jaakko Kuusisto (violin) [ BIS SACD / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] There are many questions surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Six Solos for violin', or the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, as they are usually called today. When did he compose them, and why, and for whom? In what circumstances were they... |
JAAKKO KUUSISTO
Glow: Chamber Music by Jaakko Kuusisto Meta4 String Quartet, Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Riitta-Liisa Ristiluoma (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Jaakko Kuusisto is one of Finland's most versatile musicians, a quality demonstrated by his rich discography on BIS in which he appears as violinist (in chamber music, as soloist and as concertmaster), conductor, arranger and composer. In the latter... |
LAURI PORRA
Entropia Jaako Kuusisto [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Great-grandson of composer Jean Sibelius, Lauri Porra began playing the cello at the age of six, but later switched to bass guitar. In addition to his work as a composer for orchestra, film and media, he is a member of the heavy metal band... |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
Repentance Jacob Kellermann, Lucas Brar, Franz Halász (guitar) / Hariolf Schlichtig (viola), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Philipp Stubenrauch (doublebass), Débora Halá [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] This varied and fascinating journey into the world of Sofia Gubaidulina's chamber music is given us by a Munich-based group of eminent musicians. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jacobean Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and tavern...Lindberg conjures an age that was as perilous as i |