THEODOR LESCHETIZKY
Leschetizky - Morceaux pour Piano Tobias Bigger (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Expressively lyrical piano pieces by a giant of 19th-century pianism. |
GEOFFREY GORDON
Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon Toke Møldrup (cello) / Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Lan Shui [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Dividing his time between the United States and the United Kingdom, the composer Geoffrey Gordon writes music that has been described as 'darkly seductive' (New York Times), 'richly satisfying' (BBC Music Magazine) |
LEO & LASZLO WEINER / ZOLTAN KODALY / ERNO DOHNANY
Hungarian String Trios Trio Boccherini [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] Early 20th-century chamber music with a Hungarian touch. |
PIAZZOLLA / COBIAN / DEMARE / GARDEL / LINDBERG / TROILO
Tangophoria Trio Tangophoria: Christian Lindberg (trombone) Jens Lundberg (Bandoneon) Roland Pontinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] Trio Tangophoria: Christian Lindberg (trombone), Jens Lundberg (bandoneon) & Roland Pontinen (piano) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] For close to 300 years Bach's Goldberg Variations have awed performers as well as listeners, through an unparalleled combination of a dazzling variety of expression and breath-taking virtuosity with stupendous polyphonic mastery. No wonder then that... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major, K563 (with Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat major, D471) Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] BIS is delighted to release the debut recording of the star-studded ensemble, Trio Zimmermann, formed by Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. Here they perform W.A. Mozart's Divertimento in E flat major which the scholar... |
PAUL HINDEMITH / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Trio Zimmermann play Hindemith & Schoenberg Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "The Trio Zimmermann play them both [the two Hindemith works) with such energy, panache and attention to the minutest detail that they are totally convincing and make a perfect foil to the rigours of the Schoenberg that follows." The Guardian |
MAX BRUCH
Works for Violin and Orchestra Ulf Wallin (violin) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Okko Kamu [ BIS SACD / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] A highly versatile musician, Ulf Wallin has recorded a succession of discs for BIS, including music by Schoenberg, Schnittke, Janacek and Hindemith. Lately he has focussed on Romantic composers, resulting in an acclaimed recording of Schumann's... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Vol.1 Ulf Wallin (violin) / Roland Pontinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The first disc of two in a survey which includes Brahms' own violin versions of the clarinet sonatas. |
FRANZ LISZT
Works for Violin and Piano Ulf Wallin (violin) / Roland Pontinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] With this recording of a selection of Franz Liszt's music for violin and piano, Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen aim at expanding our understanding of a composer who in fact wrote in a variety of genres, and whose style, especially in the later works,... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings / Souvenir de Florence / Andante Cantabile United Strings Of Europe, Julian Azkoul [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Dec/2023 ] "So many inspired melodies, ravishingly harmonised, on a single disc...The inwardness of the 'Elegie' and the crescendos from pp to ff are superbly done." BBC Music Feb 2023 - Orchestral Choice |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (with Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor) Vadim Gluzman (violin) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] The great Russian tradition of violin playing, as exemplified by Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein, was largely founded by the distinguished violinist Leopold Auer, who taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory for fifty years. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Vadim Gluzman (violin), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Järvi [ BIS SACD / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "A positively explosive account of the Sonata for solo violin" Gramophone September 2016 |
PETERIS VASKS
Vasks: Distant Light etc. Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Having spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with this disc of music by PÄ“teris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto 'Distant... |
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ARNO BABAJANIAN
Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trio Vadim Gluzman (violin), Johannes Moser (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "The playing is superb, Gluzman and Moser intoning the impassioned opening elegy [of the Tchaikovsky] with grave authority before Sudbin takes over with all his mercurial brilliance and the music takes flight...outstanding recording." - The Observer |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 1 Vadim Gluzman (violin) / Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan, with Angela Yoffe (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 22/May/2017 ] One of Johannes Brahms's sunniest works, the Violin Concerto in D major was conceived during the summer of 1878, which Brahms spent by the idyllic Wörthersee in Kärnten, Austria. By the end of the summer he was able to send the violin part of the... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Cantates Pour Le Prix de Rome Véronique Gens, Vannina Santoni, Clarisse Dalles, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 6/May/2022 ] "a delicious surprise..what is beyond doubt in the three cantatas and handful of elaborated choruses presented here is his supremely affecting way with the voice above and beyond his already considerable orchestral skills." Gramophone Award Finalist |
HOWARD FERGUSSON / SIR ARTHUR BLISS / ROBIN HOLLOWAY
Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Chamber Music Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Refined English works performed by the Wigmore Soloists. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Octet The Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "not only does the performance shine from without but is illuminated with a gorgeous glow from within." Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART
Sudbin plays Beethoven & Mozart Concertos Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] "the marriage of strength in exposition and sensitivity in accompaniment is more or less beyond compare." (Gramophone) |