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SORENSON / NORDERVAL / LINDQUIST / HOSOKAWA
Mantra - Music For Sinfonietta Trondheim Sinfonietta / Kai Grinde Myrann, Espen Aalberg (gamelan), Kristin Norderval (soprano), Else Bø (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "(the) concerto for gamelan and orchestra is both beautiful and dynamic. It is performed and recorded wonderfully as if one were present alongside the musicians. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
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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... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Mot d'amour Ulf Wallin (violin), Roland Pöntinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Though I have some reservations about their performance of the more substantial Sonata, Wallin and Pöntinen demonstrate a real sympathy for these shorter gems. - Gramophone |
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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. |
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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,... |
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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 |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas / 3 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Sergei Prokofiev first noted down some ideas for his Violin Sonata No.1 in the summer of 1938 and he began the composition that winter... |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 Pēteris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto 'Distant... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Plays Scriabin (Incls Sonatas Nos 2, 5 & 9) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Yevgeny Sudbin here miraculously combines the volcanic intensity of Vladimir Horowitz with the cat-and-mouse tonal reflexes of Mikhail Pletnev. The engineering BIS provides for Sudbin is astonishing lifelike throughout, especially in surround... |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas Vol 2 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "More than a decade on from his impressive debut on the BIS label - and indeed in our pages - with music by Scarlatti, Yevgeny Sudbin returns to the composer with a truly triumphant recital." Recording of the Month Gramophone April 2016 |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Vers a flamme Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "A superb recital in which the pianist inhabits the composer - and contributes his own perceptive booklet to boot. Warmly recommended. " Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2025 |
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CHOPIN
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Chopin Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "I've had a great deal of pleasure from playing Yevgeny Sudbin's new Chopin recital and really thinking about how he performs this music. Make no mistake: these are thoughtful, immensely intelligent performances all, and with each successive listen... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] "this pairing of the two most popular of the Rachmaninov concertos should take its place among the best of recent times." MusicWeb March 2018 |