Search Results: BIS SACD
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BUONAMENTE / CASTELLO / FRESCOBALDI / GIAMBERTI / PASQUINI / etc
Violino over cornetto Seicento Stravagante [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] In the sixteenth century, the quality of a 'civil conversation' was a topic of great interest, both within learned academies and in the verbal games of convivial banquets. As musical virtuosi learned how to 'speak' through their instruments, it was... |
W.A. MOZART
Flute Concertos Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] "I was immediately struck by the dynamic shading the conductor was extracting from the orchestra, each phrase sharply chiselled. A remarkable and fascinating achievement." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
POULENC / MARTIN / REINECKE / MARTINU / MESSIAEN
Masterworks for Flute and Piano II Sharon Bezaly (flute) Ronald Brautigam (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] From Carl Reinecke's Undine Sonata, composed in 1882, to Poulenc's 1957 Flute Sonata this disc brings together five central works in the repertoire for flute and piano, covering a wide range of styles and approaches. |
RODRIGO / BORNE / IBERT
Flute Concertos - Bridge across the Pyrenees Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] "There is absolutely nothing here to criticize. Sharon Bezaly is one of the world's top flutists; the repertoire has been chosen with her usual intelligence and imagination; she plays the living daylights out of all of three pieces; the... |
KHACHATURIAN / RAUTAVAARA
Flute Concertos by Khachaturian & Rautavaara Sharon Bezaly (flute) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra / Enrique Diemecke (Khachaturian) Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Dima Slobodeniouk (Rautavaara) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/May/2016 ] "Bezaly makes a wonderful case for it on this new disc, throwing herself into the exuberant Armenian rhythms with abandon…[she] is lively in the piccolo-led second movement, with its hints of fairground dancing bears…an enjoyable disc" Gramophone |
TELEMANN / SAINT-SAENS / DOPPLER / VILLA-LOBOS / J. S. BACH
Sharon Bezaly - Synergy Sharon Bezaly (flute) /Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Urban Svensson, Thomas Dausgaard & Michael Collins, with Michala Petri (recorder) & Bram van Sambeek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians. |
FRANCK / FAURE / PROKOFIEV
Franck / Fauré / Prokofiev: Sonatas Sharon Bezaly (flute), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "The flute just cannot dominate the piano the same way a solo violin can. Bezaly's pianist is none other than Vladimir Ashkenazy, who is ever sensitive but is noticeably placed towards the background to disguise the mismatch." Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Jazz and Variety Suites Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] Dmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in the same work. In his twenties, before the heavy hand of Soviet officialdom slapped him down in 1936,... |
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... |
