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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Maxim Rysanov plays Martinu Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2015 ] Maxim Rysanov, one of today's leading viola players, explores Martinů's clear fascination with the viola on this disc, opening with the Rhapsody-Concerto from 1952. |
J. S. BACH
Suites for Solo Cello transcribed for the viola Maxim Rysanov, viola [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] "Rysanov's playing has grown in depth of feeling, virtuosity and tone colour...Wit and springy rhythms mark his Courantes, Bourrées, Menuets and Gavottes; his Gigues are joyous apotheoses of the dance." (Sunday Times) |
PETERIS VASKS
Vasks: Viola Concerto & 'Voices' Maxim Rysanov (viola & conductor) / Sinfonietta Rīga [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "The BIS recording is exceptionally good, offering some very striking music, in authoritative performances and excellently recorded." MusicWeb |
BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT
Menahem Pressler Plays Beethoven, Schubert & Chopin Menahem Pressler (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] " Pressler, from the sound of this recording, needs to embark on Beethoven and Schubert complete projects immediately. I doubt this will happen as the recording process can be arduous, and I doubt he has any interest in such an undertaking, but I do |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Oceano: Chamber Music by Sebastian Fagerlund Meta4 String Quartet / Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Hervé Joulain (horn) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Yet his chamber music is no less compelling…By turns ferociously rhythmic, playful and softly luminous, every piece here shares a coherent dramatic arc." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Premiere |
BELLINI / DELIBES / DONIZETTI / GOUNOD / PUCCINI / VERDI / etc
Miah Persson - Sempre libera Miah Persson (soprano) / Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Daniel Harding [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] On her latest recording for BIS Miah Persson ventures into the fields of bel canto, opéra lyrique and verismo in the company of Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The range of characters is wide, from a teenage Juliet, eager to... |
DEBUSSY / WIDOR / SAINT-SAENS / POULENC
La Clarinette Parisienne Michael Collins (clarinet), Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/May/2021 ] "You get a real sense of almost instinctive give and take between Collins and Ogawa here...A most engaging disc, beautifully done." Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2021 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Three Sonatas MIchael Collins (clarinet), Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "This is a disc which will grace any Brahms collection." MusicWeb |
ALBENIZ
Complete Piano Music, Volume 8 Miguel Baselga (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/May/2014 ] If at least some part of Isaac Albéniz' music may justifiably be described as 'salon music', this is not something that the composer would have objected to. Quite the opposite: he was himself very much a man of the salon, especially in his youth in... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Mika Kares (Bluebeard), Szilvia Vörös (Judith) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] '[Mälkki] seems to know instinctively when to unobtrusively tighten the emotional screw and when to step back and simply let us take in Bartók's flabbergasting orchestral canvas.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2021 |
C. P. E. BACH
Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 28 Miklos Spanyi [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 'Zweyte Fortsetzung' Sonatas are, as the title implies, a sequel to a previous collection, namely the famous Sonatas with Varied Reprises, published in 1760. Only one year later a first sequel - the six 'Fortsetzung'... |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach: Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 38: The Earliest Works Miklós Spányi (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was more systematic than many of his composer colleagues when it came to keeping track of his own works and made at least two catalogues of his compositions for solo keyboard. At various times he also destroyed manuscripts... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cello Rising Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (baroque cello), Björn Gäfvert (harpsichord), Karl Nyhlin (baroque guitar) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "Yamahiro Brinkmann demonstrates…that she's more than capable of controlled, fluttering elegance when the notes are coming thick and fast" Gramophone |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI / FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER
Rossini & Hoffmeister: Sonatas, Vol. 1 Minna Pensola (violin), Antti Tikkanen (violin/viola), Tuomas Lehto (cello), Niek de Groot (double bass) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Dec/2017 ] The works gathered here hail from two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini's six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the 'normal' configuration in... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2004 ] "Fiery, elegant, bristling with character - this is impressive Beethoven" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005 |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] Vänskä and his Minnesota Orchestra have chosen to record this work after their acclaimed cycle of Beethoven's symphonies. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] The shimmering string harmonics at the opening of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony bring to mind the suspended breath of spring, and will have signalled even to the very first audiences that a new symphonic era was being ushered in. Soon enough the... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "The orchestral playing is crisp, the conductor's clinical tendencies tempered by an understanding that emotional extremism is an essential part of Mahler's idiom even if it need not be indulged" Gramophone |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor (1903-04) Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Albert Camus once wrote 'when I describe what the catastrophe of modern man looks like, music comes into my mind - the music of Gustav Mahler'. If asked to specify a particular work, it is quite possible that Camus would have proposed Symphony No. 6... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3, 6 & 7 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "One just knows that the ear-pricking clarity throughout these performances is of Vänskä's and not the balance engineer's making." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Orchestral |
