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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy / Piano Sonata No. 5 / Prometheus Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui, with Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] One of the boldest and most radical composers of all time, Alexander Scriabin had a lifelong obsession with occult and mystical ideas. Initially under the influence of Chopin, Wagner and Liszt, his music later became more complex, taking on an... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] With the three piano trios, Op. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with salon music and raised it up to rival the string quartet. |
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MAURICE RAVEL / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Ravel & Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "It's ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel's expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form's musical language." WINNER- Chamber BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 |
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BRETT DEAN
Shadow Music Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Brett Dean [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Brett Dean and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have enjoyed a close and fruitful collaboration for many years, with Dean appearing in the orchestra's concert programmes as composer as well as conductor. Now one of today's most performed composers of... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms - The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Vol.2 Ulf Wallin (violin) / Roland Pontinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] "Wallin and Pöntinen tend to favour spacious tempos...Such broad pacing allows the players time to highlight and savour details as well as to be scrupulous in their attention to clean articulation and rhythmic clarity." Gramophone |
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HOWARD FERGUSSON / SIR ARTHUR BLISS / ROBIN HOLLOWAY
Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Chamber Music Wigmore Soloists [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Refined English works performed by the Wigmore Soloists. |
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MAX BRUCH / W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Clarinet Trios Wigmore Soloists: Michael Collins (Clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (violin / viola), Michael McHale (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Yegveny Sudbin (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Osmo Vänskä (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/May/2017 ] Yvgeny Sudbin at his best is an artist capable of reminding us of that and there is plentiful evidence in these rondo finales" Gramophone |
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LISZT / RAVEL / SAINT-SAENS
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "His Liszt is remarkable. The F minor Transcendental Study's brand of miraculous virtuosity, at once tumultuous and limpid, is marvellously captured." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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MIKHAIL GLINKA / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky on the Piano Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), Bella Sudbin (piano - primo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "[In the Glinka], and in the Romeo and Juliet Overture, Sudbin's capacity for quasi-orchestral texturing and digital aerobatics is perfectly showcased: scintillating, and then some." Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2023 |
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MEDTNER / RACHMANINOFF
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Medtner & Rachmaninov Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] Having previously released recordings of Medtner's three piano concertos as well as three of Rachmaninov's five concertante works, Yevgeny Sudbin on the present disc combines solo pieces by the two friends and fellow-composers. From Sergei... |
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Can Çakmur - Piano Recital
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Apr/2019 ] On the 3rd January 2019, only a few weeks after winning the 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Can Çakmur returned to the ACT CITY Concert Hall in Hamamatsu in order to record his début disc. Can's chosen programme reflects his... |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / FRANZ STRAUSS / GLAZUNOV / etc
A Noble and Melancholy Instrument Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "[the playing and musicians are of] a high calibre, virtuosic and technically flawless, but with real emotional depth. And such is the variety here, there is bound to be at least one piece that steals your melancholy heart." The Hearld (Glasgow) |
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FORSTER / TELEMANN / NERUDA / L. MOZART / HAYDN
Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Mozart's horn concertos are so well-known that for many listeners the sound of the horn and Mozart are virtually synonymous. Mozart was not the first composer to write solo concertos for the horn, however, and works from earlier on in the eighteenth... |
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RACHMANINOV / BORODIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
Russian Cello Sonatas Alexander Chaushian (cello) / Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "The well-balanced, naturally spacious recording (CD and stereo SACD) is icing on the cake. An excellent disc. Strongly recommended." (10/10 ClassicsToday May 2011) |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, opera in seven scenes (1869 version) Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Maxim Paster, Mika Kares, Sergei Skorokhodov, Göteborg Opera Chorus [ BIS SACD / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "This new account, based on live performances, is beautifully sung and played, and recorded in surround sound" MusicWeb |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms and Schubert Alexandre Kantorow (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Nov/2024 ] "First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument, huge, highly coloured , but never harsh or ugly" BBC Music |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / BELA BARTÓK / FRANZ LISZT
Alexandre Kantorow: Brahms, Bartók, Liszt Alexandre Kantorow (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. But already before then he had released three acclaimed discs, awarded distinctions such as Diapason d'or de l'Année and... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] "it is hard not to be impressed by Kantorow in the concertos, but the Malédiction is why you should buy the disc." Gramophone |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / etc Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "...this disc completes a Saint-Saëns piano concerto set that has few peers and none that are better." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice July 2022 |