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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] An array of elegiac vocal works from across the centuries. |
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BRUMEL / CRECQUILLON / JOSQUIN / CLEMENS NON PAPA
EndBeginning: Motets and Plainsong for the Dead New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "This superb BIS production, ideally recorded in a Swedish church, bodes well for what looks like the beginning of a beautiful relationship." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2012) |
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FRANCISCO de PENALOSA
Peñalosa: Lamentationes New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "It's wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa, and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish release from New York Polyphony complete with superb booklet notes by Ivan Moody" Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Early Music |
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WILLIAM BYRD / RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT / JOHN PLUMMER / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Times Go By Turns New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] "The sound on this SACD recording, from a Swedish church, is consistent with BIS's usual high standard. Recommended with the assurance that you will listen to this disc often." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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PALESTRINA / VICTORIA
Roma Aeterna - Two Roman Masses New York Polyphony with Tim Keeler (countertenor) Andrew Fuchs (tenor) and Jonathan Woody (bass-baritone) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Don't be afraid to turn up the volume on this-even without a true surround system, you'll be (most pleasantly) surrounded." (ClassicsToday 9/10 September 2016) |
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HENRY PURCELL and others
If the Fates allow: Music by Purcell and his Contemporaries Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque [ BIS SACD / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] On her first solo recital for BIS, Gramophone Award-winner Helen Charlston performs a selection of songs by the English composer Henry Purcell, some very well-known, others less so, as well as pieces by other composers of the period such as John... |
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JOHN CAGE
Aria Nicholas Isherwood (bass-baritone & percussion) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Nicholas Isherwood made his début as Lucifer in Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht at Covent Garden, at the age of 25, and has since collaborated closely with composers such as George Crumb, Hans Werner Henze, György Kurtág and Iannis Xenakis. His... |
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL / RICCARDO BROSCHI / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Amore / Dolore - Countertenor Arias Nicolò Balducci (counter-tenor), Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Nicolò Balducci sings of love, passion and fury. |
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SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Sebastian Fagerlund: Nomade & WaterAtlas Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] "Hannu Lintu's attentive reading opens up Fagerlund's complex score with space and clarity." BBC Music (5 Stars) Concerto Choice Oct 2021 |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Music Nicolas Stavy (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] This recital could almost have been entitled Around Fauré in Sixty Minutes, as the programme devised by Nicolas Stavy spans the entire career of the composer. In April 1863, when Gabriel Fauré noted down the Sonata recorded here for the first time,... |
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BORIS TISHCHENKO
Piano Sonatas Nos. 7 and 8 Nicolas Stavy (piano) / Jean-Claude Gengembre (bells) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] Tishchenko was a prolific composer, with an output that covered many genres, including a great deal of orchestral music. Throughout his career, however, runs the thread of his eleven piano sonatas |
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SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Fagerlund: Autumn Equinox Niek de Groot (double bass) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The title of Sebastian Fagerlund's Octet 'Autumn Equinox' derives from its links with his opera Autumn Sonata, based on the Ingmar Bergman film. Some of the moods and musical material of the opera appear in the octet, as a kind of reflection. With... |
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ANDERS ELIASSON
4 X Anders Eliasson - Chamber Works Norbotten NEO [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Born in a provincial Swedish town in 1947, Anders Eliasson started playing the trumpet at the age of 9 and soon after formed his own jazz band. In his teens he began to study classical music, however, and aged 19 he was accepted into the composition... |
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HENRIK HELLSTENIUS
Hellstenius - Public Behaviour / Together Nordic Voices, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sörensen (percussion) Ellen Ugelvik (piano) / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2024 ] "Looking for something to blow the musical cobwebs away? Try Henrik Hellstenius...Potent, powerful stuff." Gramophone |
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YOSHIHIRO KANNO
Light, Water, Rainbow… Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Mar/2015 ] The pianist Noriko Ogawa is a champion of Kanno's music and has commissioned three of the works on the present disc, including the so-called 'Particle of Piano' series |
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ERIK SATIE
Noriko Ogawa plays Satie - Piano Music, Vol.2 Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/May/2017 ] "Mystifying but wondrous, and Ogawa's clean, refined playing delights. Gorgeous recorded sound and good notes too." The Arts Desk |
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ERIC SATIE
Noriko Ogawa plays Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 1 Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] 150 years after his birth, Erik Satie is still one of the great enigmas of classical music - a composer who said of himself 'I am not fond of jokes… I never make jokes' but is nevertheless regarded as one of the great tricksters of Western music; who... |
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GRIEG
Orchestral Music Vol 1 (In Autumn; Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16; Symphony in C minor ) Noriko Ogawa (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Outstanding concert from an orchestra on home ground and a distinguished soloist." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD DUBUGNON
Dubugnon: Klavieriana and Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Noriko Ogawa, (piano) / Musikkollegium Winterthur, Thomas Zehetmair (cond) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A leading Swiss chamber orchestra champions works by a compatriot. |
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ERIK SATIE
Noriko Ogawa plays Satie - Piano Music, Vol.3 Noriko Ogawa (piano) (Érard 1890) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Noriko Ogawa continues her Satie series with the (in)famous 'Vexations'. 'Satie's work is itself a challenge to conventional performing tradition, so why not challenge him?' |