NICCOLO PAGANINI
Paganini: Caprices for solo violin, Op. 1 Nos. 1-24 (complete) Sueye Park (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Niccolò Paganini is possibly the only figure in the field of classical music whose name has become a household word, equivalent with an almost supernatural excellence in any kind of human endeavour: from soccer to stock market analysis or haute... |
ISANG YUN
Isang Yun - Three Late Works Sueye Park (violin) / Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] At the end of a career spent between his native Korea and Germany, during which he produced works that span the musical traditions of both countries, Isang Yun expressed a wish to limit himself 'to what is substantial, in order to transmit more... |
Svante Henryson (cello & cello arrangements) & Katarina Henryson (vocals)
High, Low or In Between [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] The repertoire on this album is as varied as it gets: truly 'High, Low or In Between'. Pop songs by Elton John and George Harrison rub shoulders with Prince's funk hit Kiss, and Bill Evans's jazz classic Waltz for Debby. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] On the final disc of a complete cycle, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra offer us their readings of Franz Schubert's first two symphonies. Written between 1813 and 1815, by a composer still in his teens, both works exemplify the... |
SCHUBERT
Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 5 Svenska Kammarorkestern, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] The SCO's accounts of the 'Unfinished' and 'Great C major' Symphonies made critics sit up and take notice: 'a consistently refreshing view of both masterpieces' was the verdict of Gramophone, with the Daily Telegraph comparing the result to 'having a... |
KURT WEILL
Weill: From Der Silbersee and Symphonies 1 & 2 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, HK Gruber (conductor and voice) [Der Silbersee] [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] HK Gruber conducts and sings music by Kurt Weill. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies, Overtures & Hungarian Dances Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Brahms' symphonies and much more in Thomas Dausgaard's interpretations. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No.2 / Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn / etc Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] "They play with a transparency that makes the inner lines sing but with a burgeoning weight and warmth that is always ready to be unleashed. Dausgaard is as ever a propulsive driving force...he subtly brings out the unpredictable elements" BBC Music |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music / Overtures Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] "The performance captures the idea of flitting, frenetic activity in a parallel world, activity we are not sure is entirely benign, yet does so without the ideal gossamer lightness Mendelssohn's writing demands." (The Guardian) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Symphonies Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] It was only after his death that Franz Schubert's symphonic works made an impact in music history. In fact, the first public performance of any of Schubert's symphonies took place at a memorial concert held a few weeks after the composer had passed... |
SCHUMANN
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 'These performances, including the revelatory first version of the fourth symphony, succeed in providing a genuinely new, and entirely convincing, approach to two familiar works.' BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2008: Orchestral |
DVORAK
Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "This clearly recorded performance is one to return to even if it does not displace either Kertész or Harnoncourt's classic interpretations." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT
Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] BIS releases the next in their 'Opening Doors' series in which Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra make a case for performing 19th-century symphonic works with a chamber ensemble. They have previously recorded Schumann's symphonies as... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No 1 / Hungarian Dances / etc Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] A weighty symphony, swaying Viennese waltzes and fiery Hungarian dances make up the colourful programme when Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra engage with Johannes Brahms in Opening Doors, the team's acclaimed series of Romantic... |
J.S BACH / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Brandenburg Project: Twelve Concertos The Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (cond) [ BIS SACD / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Bach's celebrated concertos are joined by new commissions. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No.3 / Alto Rhapsody / etc Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "If some of the rubato and tempos in the Third Symphony don't always feel natural, the sound and phrasing is always stylish." BBC Music |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Symphonies and Overtures Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor [ BIS SACD / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Feb/2023 ] During their long collaboration (1997 - 2019) Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra developed a project they named 'Opening Doors', performing orchestral works from the Romantic era with the smaller-than-usual forces of a chamber... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon Musagete, Concerto in D For Strings Tapiola Sinfonietta, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Masaaki Suzuki is firmly established as a leading authority on the works of Bach, both in his capacity as director of the Bach Collegium Japan and as an organist and harpsichordist. In recent years he has also been appearing in front of eminent... |
Theo Hillborg (soprano saxophone), Bruce Copley (didgeridoo), Anders Paulsson (soprano saxophone)
Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] New works for saxophone as creative responses to COVID. Works by Fredrik Högberg, Steve Dobrogosz, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Andrea Tarrodi, Johan Hammerth, Anders Hillborg*, Thomas Simaku, Anna-Lena Laurin, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Bo Hansson, John... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 / Symphony in F major, 'Urbs Roma' Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Closing the symphony cycle during the composer's centenary year. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / Jean-Jacques Kantorow Thierry Escaich, organ |