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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Nocturnes & Other Orchestral Works Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui [ BIS SACD / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Third and final disc in Lan Shui's successful Debussy series with Singapore SO. The works on this recording were written at various periods in Claude Debussy's life, and reflect different aspects of him: from a young man stylistically unsure of... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite etc. Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Generally acknowledged as one of the great masters of the late-Romantic symphony orchestra, Richard Strauss understood like few others how to use the rich palette of instrumental colours to portray larger-than-life passions and emotions. He did so in... |
MUSSORGSKY / BORODIN / BALAKIREV
Russian Spectacular Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui Singapore Symphony Chorus & Singapore Symphony Youth Choir [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Four orchestral adventures: from a witches' sabbath to a medieval warrior camp. |
DEBUSSY / ZHOU LONG / FRANK BRIDGE / GLAZUNOV
Seascapes Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui (with Sharon Bezaly, alto flute/piccolo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "This well-filled disc is a real cracker. The programme is well chosen and once again it seems BIS have pulled off a sonic and artistic coup." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Now & Then Sirena Recorder Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] On their latest disc, the Danish-Swedish Sirena Recorder Quartet treats us to a wide-ranging selection from their regular concert repertoire...it illustrates the huge variety of sounds and moods that can be achieved by just four recorder players |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol.1 Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] With the three piano trios Op. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with entertaining salon music, and raised it up to rival the string quartet. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "Where this recording completely and utterly surpasses (others) is the sound quality. An interesting journey this: one that started with curiosity and reservation, but soon led to revelation." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month) |
DVORAK / SMETANA / SUK
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio plays Dvořák, Smetana & Suk Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / CD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] At first glance, a disc combining works by Smetana and Dvořák would appear to be a very Czech affair...But much of their chamber music had a more personal slant, and this applies to the works presented here by the young Sitkovetsky Trio. |
ANDERS HILLBORG
Sirens Soloists, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Radiokören, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Sakari Oramo, David Zinman & Esa-Pekka Salonen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Nov/2015 ] |
KALEVI AHO
Works for Solo Piano Sonja Fräki (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] As in much of his other music, the works for piano display his characteristic fascination with the virtuosic and technically brilliant side of music-making. On the present disc, this quality comes to the fore in the Sonata. |
J. S. BACH
Secular Cantatas Vol 2: BWV208 'The Hunt', BWV134a 'Serenada' Sophie Junker (soprano) Makoto Sakurada (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Bach Collegium Japan directed by Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "brilliantly caught, from the casting of the four characters to the expectional continuo work, led by Suzuki himself. Makoto Sakurada (as Endymion) conveys the ensnaring potential of love with friendly caution" Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice... |
TRADITIONAL
Folkjul II: A Swedish Folk Christmas St Jacobs Chamber Choir, Gary Graden [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Well into the previous century Sweden was largely a peasant society with folk music an integral part of daily life. There were work songs, narrative ballads and, obviously, music for dancing. Over the centuries a not always easy coexistence between... |
WAGNER
Wesendonck-Lieder, Siegfried-Idyll & Overtures Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Stemme dominates with the Wesendonck-Lieder, which have all of her customary vocal richness but also an amplitude and approach that's appropriate to the larger scale and broader strokes of opera. |
WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: The String Quartets Stenhammar Quartet [ BIS SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "Composed between 1894 and 1916 Wilhelm Stenhammar's body of six numbered string quartets is considered unique among Scandinavian music of its time, both in its consistency and in its musical aspirations. |
WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: String Quartets Volume 2 Stenhammar Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Oct/2013 ] After the harmonic and technical audacities of his Fourth String Quartet, Wilhelm Stenhammar evidently felt the need to explore other paths. Thus, in the Fifth Quartet, he makes a new beginning, as indicated by the title 'Serenade' |
WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: String Quartets Volume 3 Stenhammar Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] The Stenhammar Quartet was founded in 1995. The members are Peter Olofsson and Per Öman, violins, Tony Bauer, viola and Mats Olofsson, cello.Their warm and energetic musicianship together with striking technical refinement have given them a position... |
DEBUSSY / BRIDGE / FAURE / WEBERN
The Cello In Wartime Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "Webern's microscopic Three Pieces are wonderfully ominous: another unexpected moment on an imaginative and superbly realised disc. " (Gramophone) |
BLOCH / BRIDGE / HOUGH
In The Shadow of War Steven Isserlis (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression." (5 Stars BBC Music) |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Cello Sonatas Vol 1 Steven Isserlis (cello) Oli Mustonen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "These are performances to treasure and comprise the finest renditions of the Martinu Sonatas I have come across...There is a profound understanding and sympathy for Martinu's melodic and rhythmic idiom." (BBC Music Magazine) |
MONTEVERDI / JOHN DOWLAND / GESUALDO / SASATO / etc
Then: Renaissanceairs and dances Stockholm Chamber Brass [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] This is a highly polished modern brass quintet playing Renaissance arrangements with solemn precision and occasional dancing exuberance. The recorded sound is terrific and the project is well-documented. |
