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WOLF / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / PARRY / BERNSTEIN / MENDELSSOHN / MARX / FRANCK / STROHL / etc
'but I like to sing...' Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] "It's a portrait of an artist who has shown us many faces on those 100 discs but whose voice remains a constant: sweet, flexible, alive to the text. And always intelligent" Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Song |
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... |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Composed in feverish bouts interrupted by long periods of inaction, Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch was brought to completion in 1896. The 46 songs are settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs - miniatures with a... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Elysium - A Schubert Recital Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "The last years of Schubert's life were clouded by illness, so thoughts of the afterlife cannot have been far from his mind. For their latest recital for BIS, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present an all-Schubert recital themed around Elysium,... |
PURCELL / SCHUMANN / QUILTER / etc
Fleurs Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] "A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Solo Recital) |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / STRAUSS / etc
Reason In Madness Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "All performed with Sampson's wonted freshness of tone, superb control and subtle sensuality, with Middleton offering vibrant support." The Guardian |
![Stenhammar: Sangen [symphonic cantata] / Reverenza / Romeo and Hulia / Romances cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10571/10571436.jpg)
WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: Sangen [symphonic cantata] / Reverenza / Romeo and Hulia / Romances Charlotta Larsson (soprano) Martina Dike (alto) Lars Cleveman (tenor) Frederik Zetterstrom (baritone) / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi (c [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] In a way it is odd that Stenhammar may be best known for a comparative trifle - the Entr'acte from the huge cantata Sången ('The Song'). This is an encore for basically all Swedish orchestras touring abroad. So why limit oneself to recording just... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18, Vol.1 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Sensitively considered, wonderfully detailed and engagingly scintillant." MusicWeb Recommended |
ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Schumann & Brahms - Sonatas and Songs Christian Poltéra (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] During the eighteenth century the cello gradually emerged from the anonymity of the continuo group, and by the beginning of the Romantic era the instrument had become an indispensable tool for composers. |
SZYMANOWSKI / BIRTWISTLE / COPLAND / ADAMS / HINDEMITH
Variations Clare Hammond (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] From Szymanowski to Adams - a century and more of piano variations. |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Choir Music Det Norske Solistkor (The Norwegian Soloists' Choir), Grete Pedersen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "A superb choir with a warm, clear sound does full justice to these luscious choral works and arrangements of pieces by Grieg" (Classic FM) |
BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN
B. A. Zimmermann - Complete Works for Piano Eduardo Fernández (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jun/2020 ] It was in the 1960s, with the opera Die Soldatenand his Requiem füreinenjungen Dichter, that Bernd Alois Zimmermann became known as one of the leading composers of the German post-war generation. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Works Unveiled Ekaterina Bakanova, Alexandros Stavrakakis (bass), Nicolas Stavy (piano), Florent Jodelet (percussion), Sueye Park (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] This release is the fruit of the French pianist Nicolas Stavy's efforts to uncover unknown works by Dmitri Shostakovich. Spanning some fifty years of the composer's career, these rarities include early piano pieces influenced by Chopin and the... |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: The Three Violin Sonatas Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin) Simon Trpčeski (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "Hemsing and Trpceski give Grieg a wonderful rendering! Kudos to Sound Engineer Ingo Petry for a disc well done." AudAud |
CHRISTIAN LINDBERG / OSVALDO GOLIJOV
Emil Jonason plays Lindberg and Golijov Emil Jonason (clarinet), Vamlingbo Quartet / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Two imaginative works for clarinet performed by a leading young player. Selected by ECHO (the European Concert Hall Organisation) as one of its 'Rising Stars' of the 2009/10 season, the Swedish clarinettist Emil Jonasonhas become increasingly visible... |
LENNOX BERKELEY / RICHARD ARNELL / STEPHEN DODGSON / CONSTANT LAMBERT
Tournament for Twenty Fingers - piano duets Emma Abbate & Julian Perkins (piano four hands) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] A high-spirited journey through English music for piano four hands. |
CONSTANTINIDIS / ZEMLINSKY / KALOMIRIS / SCHOENBERG etc
Affinities: Greek and German Art Songs Fanie Antonelou (soprano), Kerstin Mörk (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled 'Affinities'. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs - a varied... |
MOMPOU / LLOBET / MANEN
Cancons i Danses Franz Halász, guitar [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] Catalonia is among the most distinctive of the various Spanish regions, partly because of the Catalan language and its rich literary tradition. Catalan music and dance are also unique, however, and have little in common with stereotypically 'Spanish'... |
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... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, op. 17 'Little Russian' / Overture in F major / The Storm / etc Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "Topped off by in-depth liner notes, everything is executed at the highest level." (MusicWeb August 2006) |
