Search Results: BIS Choir
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Jarvi/Estonian Boys Choir/Goth
Mahler:symphony No. 8 [ Bis / CD ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Missa Sacra Johan Hammarström / The Swedish Radio Choir (Radiokören), Kaspars Putniņš, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Less well known among his works, the Missa sacra, Op. 147, bears witness to Robert Schumann's late interest in sacred music - and in particular in Catholic church music. The work would have a rather difficult fate: during Schumann's lifetime, it was... |
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Jubilate Choir
Sibelius:music For Mixed + Fem [ Bis / CD ] |
SIBELIUS
Complete Edition: Choral Music Various soloists / Jubilate Choir / Astrid Riska / YL Male Voice Choir / Florakoren / etc [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Everything projects as a full musical experience - some modest and some much more - but all the works are aptly even fervently communicated. I cannot stress too much the excellent tone, coordination and artistic feeling of the choirs chosen for this... |
SIBELIUS
Snafrid (Cantatas and orchestral works) Jubilate Choir / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] 10/10 Classicstoday.com |
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Jubilate Choir/Riska
Fougstedt:choral Music [ Bis / CD ] |
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Jubilate Choir/Riska
Sibelius:works For Mixed Ch [ Bis / CD ] |
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Jusrud/Moe
Nilsson:lamento-Com.Wks Choir/ [ Bis / CD ] |
SIBELIUS
Spirit of Nature (Incls Serenade, for baritone and orchestra) Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska conductor; Jyrki Korhonen, bass; Tommi Hakala (baritone) Helena Juntunen (soprano) / Dominante Choir [ BIS Complete Sibelius Edition: Volume 58 / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "A must-buy for all Sibelians" (MusicWeb April 2006) |
PETERIS VASKS
Choir Music Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava and Kaspars Putnins [ BIS / CD - released 26/Nov/2001 ] Peteris Vasks is the Arvo Pärt of Latvia and thus something of a cult figure in his country. Like the music of Pärt, and for that matter of Tavener, Vasks's works have a distinctly spiritual dimension, obvious in this collection of his choral music.... |
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Latvian Radio Choir/Klava
Vasks: Choir Music [ Bis / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] |
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Latvian Radio Choir/Riga Chamb
Maskats: Lacrimosa/Concerto Gr [ Bis / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] |
SIBELIUS
The Essential Sibelius (15 CDs at a budget price) Leonidas Kavakos / Anne Sofie von Otter / Monica Groop / Jorma Hynninen / Helsinki University Choir / Lahti Symphony Orch / Gothenburg Symphony Orch [ BIS / 15 CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] "The Essential Sibelius...will provide hours of pleasure, discovery and rediscovery for not very much money. If this were your only Sibelius you would have his best music. Alongside this you will become acquainted with some pieces which although not... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Kullervo Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano), Tommi Hakala (baritone), YL Male Voice Choir Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä [ BIS / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Sometimes called a choral symphony, Sibelius's Kullervo was premiered in 1892, receiving a mixed reception from an audience that didn't know what to make of the score. The work received a few more performances the following year, but was soon... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius - The Seven Symphonies and Kullervo Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano; Tommi Hakala, baritone; YL Male Voice Choir Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä [ BIS / 4 CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Osmo Vänskä has been described as 'our greatest living Sibelian' (The Sunday Times, UK), a reputation which is founded not least on his two symphony cycles on disc, both released by BIS. The first one was recorded in 1996-97 with the Lahti Symphony... |
GRIEG / PART / CHILCOTT / etc.
De Profundis: Sacred Repertoire for Male Choir Orphei Drängar male choir, Cecilia Rydinger Alin [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] "Orphei Drängar is a 160-year-old choir with a warm sound and a seeming inability to ever sound ugly, no matter the language they're singing. Cecilia Rydinger Alin proves an expert hand in conducting all this little-known music" MusicWeb |
FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiems Miah Persson (soprano) Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano) Olle Persson (baritone) / Swedish Radio Choir / Fredrik malmberg (conductor) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] Musical settings of the Mass for the Dead have a tendency to dwell on the dramatic high points of the day of judgement and the trumpets of doom (Dies irae and Tuba mirum) – partly for the reason that they really are dramatic high points. |
SAARELLA
Fire on the Island Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Jorma Hynninen (baritone) / Dominante Choir [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Dominante and Seppo Murto here present a disc of choral works for mixed choir by Jean Sibelius The programme spans the entire active career of the composer and includes some of his best-known works, such as Rakastava (The Lover) and the Six Songs,... |
JAMES MacMILLAN
Visitatio Sepulchri Netherlands Radio Choir; Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Celso Antunes [Sun-Dogs] & James MacMillan [Visitatio] [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "It is remarkable that a Dutch choir can offer such strong and polished performances of these two choral works by James Macmillan, readily surmounting any problems over singing the English text of the a cappella writing in Sun-Dogs" (Gramophone Award... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies no. 1 - 3 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Mark Wigglesworth [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "This splendid Dutch band and chorus are persuasive advocates for the "socialist" Second and Third, but they shine in a by turns dazzling and soulful account of the ever-astonishing First." Sunday Times, 10th June 2012 |
