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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos 1 & 3 Gringolts Quartet [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "Like the other release in this series, this is an essential purchase. As before this BIS SACD is beautifully recorded by Swiss Radio, well presented and with scholarly notes. Very highly recommended." MusicWeb recommended June 2022 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / GEORGE ENESCU
Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Before Felix Mendelssohn produced his Octet for strings in 1825, only Louis Spohr had composed for a similar combination of instruments. Rather than an octet, however, Spohr's work was a 'double quartet' written for two equal but independent string... |
KAIKHOSRU SORABJI
Sorabji: Vocal and Chamber Works Sharon Bezaly (flute), Wild Beautiful Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] "Several of these works have been previously recorded, but to have them collated thus and in such accurate and idiomatic performances under the astute guidance of Chappell Kingsland is a primary reason for recommending this release." Gramophone |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Haochen Zhang plays Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky Haochen Zhang (piano), Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Dima Slobodeniouk [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Aug/2019 ] Winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn competition, Haochen Zhang is no stranger to a challenge. On this début concerto disc he proves this once more, boldly jumping in at the deep end as he takes on Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2. The demands posed... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Passio Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Aug/2021 ] "What impresses me immediately about this new recording is the lustrous depth of the sound of the choir and solo singers, which brings out every dissonance and resolution almost forensically" Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2021.. |
PERTTU HAAPANEN
Reports - choral works by Perttu Haapanen Helsinki Chamber Choir, Petri Kumela, Heikki Parviainen, Nils Schweckendiek (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 10/Apr/2019 ] Playful and with an acute ear for the full range of possibilities of the human voice, Perttu Haapanen has established himself as one of the most exploratory and intellectually curious composers of vocal music active in the Nordic countries. His... |
BACH / GERHARD / HOLLIGER / PAUSET
Ciaccona Ilya Gringolts (violin) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Ilya Gringolts juxtaposes Bach and the avantgarde. Throughout his career, Ilya Gringolts has devoted himself to performing contemporary music as well as the great concert repertoire, while also developing a keen interest in historical performance... |
PIETRO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: Il Labirinto Armonico Ilya Gringolts (violin & direction) / Finnish Baroque Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Ilya Gringolts takes on the challenge of Locatelli's virtuosic capriccios. |
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian: Piano Works Iyad Sughayer (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Born in 1903, Aram Khachaturian became the most significant twentieth-century musical figure in the then Soviet Republic of Armenia. Many of his most important works date from the first half of his career. The expressive immediacy of his music,... |
BRETT DEAN
Brett Dean: Rooms of Elsinore Jennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] 'The five pieces featured on this recording are the result of an extended fascination and confrontation with Shakespeare's Hamlet', writes Brett Dean in his introductory text, going on to explain that the intention of this programme is to be 'a sonic... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Secular Cantatas Vol VI [BWV212 'Peasant', BWV209 & BWV203] Monica Erdmann, Dominik Worner / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "The director's own keyboard playing adds to the intimate and rolling spontaneity, surely Bach's most tantalising example of what opera might have afforded him" Gramophone |
CORELLI / VIVALDI/ LOCATELLI / PAGANINI
Carnival - a violin and guitar recital Karen Gomyo (violin), Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] For her début album, Karen Gomyo has joined forces with guitarist Ismo Eskelinen in a programme offering fireworks as well as graceful tenderness. A violin virtuoso as well as an expert guitar player, Niccolò Paganini wrote a number of works for the... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol.1 Kungsbacka Piano Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] With passion, fire and heartfelt expression - the first two of Schumann's trios |
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HELVI LEIVISKA
Leiviskä - Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 [Incls 'Symphony No.2'] Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] "Whatever the reason Leiviskä has remained a shadowy figure, conductor Dalia Stasevska has now brought to light three of her orchestral works in fine performances by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, that give a strong flavour of what we've missed." BBC |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 Lapland Chamber Orchestra,John Storgårds (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians. Whether fully orchestrated in specific passages, or a sole melody in others, there is one... |
EGON KORNAUTH / ROBERT FUCHS
Kornauth & Fuchs: Works for viola and piano Litton Duo (Katharina Kang Litton, viola; Andrew Litton, piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] "Ultimately, though, it is the sheer musical quality and attractiveness of the works themselves that should ensure the success of this release." MusicWeb Recommeded |
JOHANN GOTTFRIED MUTHEL
The Five Keyboard Concertos Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord) / Arte dei Suonatori [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/May/2015 ] "If you like C.P.E. Bach or just harpsichord concertos in general then this is something with which you truly need to become acquainted." (MusicWeb) |
JALBERT / BACH / PART / VASKS
Jalbert, Bach, Pärt & Vasks: Music for violin and orchestra Margaret Batjer (violin), Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] Making their first appearance on BIS, Margaret Batjer and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) cross great distances in both time and space in this programme of concertante violin works. The disc opens with a Violin Concerto by the American... |
GYORGY LIGETI / BELA BARTOK
Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Bartok - String Quartet no.4 Marmen Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] "They seem to have assimilated the music into their cells, performing it with an energetic vitality and colour that is all special effects...The group offers high-pixel definition of character, conveyed with mesmerising intensity." BBC Music Chamber |
JOSEF HAYDN
Tullochgorum - Haydn: Scottish Songs Masako Art, James Graham, Edin Karamazov, Pierre-Augustin Lay / The Poker Club Band [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] Between 1791 and 1804, Joseph Haydn arranged some 400 traditional songs for publishers in Scotland and England. Almost all of the songs were Scottish and the most common setting was for voice and piano trio. |
