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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) |
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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... |
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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 |
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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) |
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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi Timothy Fallon (tenor), Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] Crepuscolo is the final song in Ottorino Respighi's song cycle Deità silvane ('woodland deities'), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as... |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |