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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 3-5 Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] "It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this." Gramophone June 2019 |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Gran Partita (with Beethoven: Eight Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni) Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe & direction), Concertgebouworkest [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "this superlatively played new recording immediately joins the shortlist for this most sumptuous of serenades." Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2021 |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Oboe Concertos Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe, director) Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] In many of J. S. Bach's cantatas, passions and oratorios, the oboe - and its various relatives such as the oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia - plays a prominent role. Using it as his preferred obbligato instrument, Bach obviously cherished the... |
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BEN-HAIM / BRITTEN / DORATI / HAAS / HINDEMITH
A 20th-Century Recital Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) & Leonid Ogrintchouk (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions of the Second World War |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Oboe Concerto Alexi Ogrintchouck (oboe), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "What a subtle and fascinating artist is oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk - a team player as well as a born soloist." BBC Music Concerto Choice November 2017 |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 4 - 6 Alina Ibragimova & Pablo Hernán Benedí (violins), Emilie Hörnlund, (viola), Claire Thirion, (cello) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] The Chiaroscuros complete Haydn's last full set of quartets. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Femina moderna - music for mixed choir Allmänna Sången Choir, Marina Goundorina (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "The choir's sound is fresh and direct. Its ensemble is tight and its diction crisp" BBC Music |
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KALEVI AHO
Aho: Saxophone Concerto and Quintet Anders Paulsson (soprano saxophone), Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John Storgårds [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Recent works by the indefatigable Kalevi Aho. To date, KaleviAhohas composed sixteen symphonies and twenty-eight concertos, several operas and a large number of chamber works -a rate of production which is all the more impressive considering the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Andreas Borregaard (accordion) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/Jul/2018 ] The Goldberg Variations - the perfect fusion of the cerebral and the emotional. The Goldberg Variations, or - to use the original title - 'Aria with diverse variations' counts as a milestone in Western music history. With good reason: the huge... |
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GRAINGER / GRIEG
Cello works Andreas Brantelid (cello) / Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), with Lars Bjørnkjær (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'Wonderfully-played Nordic, or Nordic-inspired, music from a Swedish-Danish cellist and Norwegian pianist. Recorded in Suffolk.' Editor's Choice Gramophone May 2015 |
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BEETHOVEN / BERG / LISZT / MUSSORGSKY
Perspectives 7 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] Since 2004, Andreas Haefliger has been devising a series of recital programmes named Perspectives, presenting them in concert and on disc. Each programme focusses on one or two Beethoven sonatas, juxtaposed with works by other composers (ranging from... |
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DIETER AMMANN / MAURICE RAVEL / BELA BARTOK
Ammann, Ravel and Bartók: Piano Concertos Andreas Haefliger (piano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic suffuse the music with prodigious colour and staggering precision. Colour and precision similarly inform Ravel's Left-Hand Concerto." Gramophone |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano) Roland Pöntinen (piano), Arctic Philharmonic, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "This is a fine disc. The musicianship is of the highest order and I think Christian Lindberg is a very convincing guide to these scores." MusicWeb |
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PIETRO DOMENICO PARADISI
Anna Paradiso plays Paradisi Anna Paradiso (harpsichord / clavichord / fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] As Anna Paradiso writes in her liner notes to this disc 'the history of music is full of fine composers who, for one reason or another, have been largely forgotten.' In the case of Pietro Domenico Paradisi, it is only thanks to his Sonate di... |
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VITO PALUMBO
Palumbo: Three Concertos Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Mats Olofsson (cello), Dan Laurin (recorder), String ensemble, Gävle Symphony Orchestra / Jaime Martín [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] The genesis of this disc was Dan Laurin's idea to commission a concerto for recorder and symphony orchestra. He had performed a number of such works already, but felt that the new, more powerful 'Eagle' recorder developed by the maker Adriana... |
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J H ROMAN
The 12 Keyboard Sonatas (Sonatas 8-12) Anna Paradiso (harpsichord/clavichord) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] The music of Johan Helmich Roman, often called 'the father of Swedish music' owes as much to Italy - specifically Naples - as it does to Sweden: the restlessness of the harmonic idiom, the continuous melodic shifts and the theatrical character.... |
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BERNSTEIN / COPLAND / MAHLER / PART / MESSIAEN / LISZT / etc
Anne Sofie von Otter - A Simple Song Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (Marcussen organ of St. Jacobs kyrka, Stockholm) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] A brief glance at the list of contents is enough to reveal who the singer is - only Anne Sofie von Otter could have come up with a programme as varied and wide-ranging. And only von Otter could hold it together seamlessly by finding the resonances... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Summer's Day - Swedish Romantic Songs Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Bengt Forsberg (piano), with Fredrik Zetterström, baritone [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2012 ] Anne Sofie von Otter, accompanied by Bengt Forsberg and joined by baritone Fredrik Zetterström for two duets, performs works by four Swedish composers whose works were all composed within a century of each other. |
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LUDWIG van BEEHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), llan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] " Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us an historically informed recording of the Beethoven Ninth that conveys the drama, humanity, and transformative release of this incomparable work." Fanfare |
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GLIERE / THOMAS / DELIBES / MOZART / SIBELIUS / ALYABYEV
Coloratura Anu Komsi (soprano) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2012 ] "Anu Komsi's cosmopolitan experience and technical expertise show in the breadth and quality of her programme. And Sakari Oramo makes much of her accompaniments." (BBC Music) |