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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART & RICHARD BIRCHALL
Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos Michael Collins (basset clarinet) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Robin O'Neill, Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "Collins elicits a delicious, resonant tone throughout; the clarinet is never upstaged by its string quartet partner." BBC Music |
CPE BACH
Solo Keyboard Music Volume 30 Miklós Spányi (clavichord) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] On the present disc Miklós Spányi presents three sets intended primarily for didactic use: the two collections of Kurze und leichte Clavierstücke and the 6 Sonatine nuove. |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E): Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 37 Miklós Spányi (harpsichord) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Described in Gramophone as 'one of the most needed and important recording projects in progress today', this series has up until now featured the clavichord (on 27 discs), the tangent piano (7 discs) and the fortepiano (2 discs). It is therefore... |
ROSSINI / HOFFMEISTER
Rossini / Hoffmeister: Quartets with Double Bass, Vol. 2 Minna Pensola (violin I), Antti Tikkanen (violin II / (viola), Tuomas Lehto (cello), Niek de Groot (double bass) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] This second and last volume completes two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini's six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the 'normal'... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2020. In an effort to arrange the first performance of his Seventh Symphony, Gustav Mahler declared it to be his best work, 'preponderantly cheerful in character'. His younger colleague Schoenberg expressed his... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.10 Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians - a kind of Holy Grail of 20th-century music. Recognized as an intensely personal work, it was... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä; with Carolyn Sampson, soprano [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "The quality of recording is beautifully clear - as one expects from BIS...Make no mistake: this Mahler 4 ranks with the very best, and I shall return to it very often." MusicWeb Recommended Feb 2020 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Netherlands Radio Choir / Kaspars Putniņš [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2014 ] Phrases reminiscent of liturgical chant appear in Rachmaninov's music...and from the time of its first performance in 1915, his All-Night Vigil has been recognised as a supreme achievement in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
BYRD / GIBBONS / MOODY / MUHLY / NAITO / TAVENER / etc
Sky of my Heart New York Polyphony, LeStrange Viols [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] One of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today, New York Polyphony is renowned for its innovative programming ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary commissions. On Sky of my Heart, the selection spans over four hundred years of... |
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Vigilia - All-Night Vigil in Memory of St. John the Baptist Niall Chorell (tenor), Tuukka Haapaniemi (bass), Helsinki Chamber Choir / Nils Schweckendiek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "the 21 professional voices sing with tremendous flexibility and clarity, meaning that however full and generous the choral textures may be, clarity is always achieved. It helps that BIS have recorded the performance magnificently." MusicWeb |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words Of Christ Nicolas Stavy (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] The Seven Last Words of Christ refers to the seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the New Testament. Over the centuries the crucifixion has served as inspiration to countless composers, and settings of these utterances... |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Relâche & Cinéma: Piano Music, Vol. 4 Noriko Ogawa (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] For the fourth instalment in her acclaimed Satie cycle, Noriko Ogawa has gathered music written for the stage - from the pantomime Jack in the Box (1899) to the ballet Relâche (1924) - one of Satie's last works. Several of the pieces exist in... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Motets The Norwegian Soloists' Choir Ensemble Allegria Grete Pedersen, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Bach's motets are surrounded by much uncertainty. To begin with, we do not know how many he actually composed, as some have been lost while others have been wrongly attributed to him. Although several of the motets were written for funerals, it is... |
BENT SORENSEN
Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria Grete Pedersen, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "It's a virtuoso account of a piece that takes the spirit of Bach and says something quite new." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2023 |
PROKOFIEV / SCRIABIN / ARENSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian Masquerade Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [ BIS / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] Composed in Russia between 1884 and 1917, the four works appearing on this disc all do so in some kind of disguise. Prokofiev and Scriabin both conceived their respective collections for the piano, and it is later arrangers that have adapted them for... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 14: Variations & Klavierstucke Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] Ludwig van Beethoven's first printed work was a set of variations - published in 1783 when he was only twelve years old - and his final keyboard composition was the massive set of thirty-three variations on a theme by Anton Diabelli. His twenty-one... |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 'The Inextinguishable' & Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] These two central works in Nielsen's production have now been selected for the first instalment of a complete Nielsen cycle by Sakari Oramo and his Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. |
EDWARD ELGAR
Edgar: Symphony No. 2 / Sospiri / Elegy for Strings Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] As the present principal conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo has chosen works by Edward Elgar, a composer whose music he has been a fervent advocate of since his tenure at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. |
SAMUEL / BERG / MAHLER
Clytemnestra - Orchestral Songs Ruby Hughes (soprano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "Her eloquence is always unfussy and direct. The instrumental fabric is equally strong, with beautiful playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, on the top of its top form, conducted by Jac van Steen" The Times Five Stars |
CHAMINADE / GRIFFES / NIELSEN / POULENC / REINECKE / etc
Great Works for Flute and Orchestra Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Neeme Järvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
