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J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion cover
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion
Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, etc / Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra / Masaaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
"The musicians convey it with infectious zeal...Generic early music politesse is relegated to the shadows" Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Choral
Bach: Motets cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Motets
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ]
"The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus." (BBC Music Award WINNER 2011 Choral)
Bach: Overtures (Four Orchestral Suites) cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Overtures (Four Orchestral Suites)
Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2005 ]
"These performances are magnificent, and offering two SACDs for the price of one makes them a good deal too. Suzuki does more than just play the music very well: he evokes its purpose, social milieu, and lavishness of content in such a way that...
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2018 ]
"All performers are in superb form and recorded with pristine clarity and balance. This is a must-listen - a different Beethoven comes forth with sublime beauty and insights beyond the symphony." (Nicholas Butler)
Lutheran Masses Volume 2 cover
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J. S. BACH / MARCO GIOSEPPE PERANDA
Lutheran Masses Volume 2
Hana Blažiková, Joanne Lun, Aki Matsui, Peter Kooij, Robin Blaze, Dominik Wörner / Bach Collegium Japan, Maasaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2015 ]
The two Lutheran Masses recorded here make extensive use of earlier compositions by Bach and include reworkings of arias and choruses from cantatas, but each of the four masses also has its own unmistakable artistic profile
Secular Cantatas Vol III [BWV 173a, 202 "Wedding", 36c, 524] cover
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J. S. BACH
Secular Cantatas Vol III [BWV 173a, 202 "Wedding", 36c, 524]
Joanne Lunn (soprano), Hiroya Aoki (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
[ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2013 ]
Although two of the works on this disc were composed for weddings, they are completely different in character. Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten is a charming and gracious garland of recitatives and arias for soprano solo in which Spring, Flora, Apollo...
The Image of Melancholy cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Image of Melancholy
Barokksolistene / Bjarte Eike, artistic director & violin Berit Norbakken Solset, soprano; Jon Balke, organ / soundscapes; Milos Valent, viola and voc
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ]
Joined by the soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and by the jazz pianist Jon Balke, Eike and his ensemble have created an intensely atmospheric and highly suggestive disc, which richly lives up to its motto - 'Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.'
Symphonies 4 & 8 cover
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GLAZUNOV
Symphonies 4 & 8
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ]
"Strongly characterized and distinctively Russian themes … beautifully and sensitively played … what a fine orchestra this is. There could be no better introduction to Glazunov's symphonic world" (Classical Music Web)
Orchestral Works [Incls 'The Banks of Green Willow'] cover
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GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Orchestral Works [Incls 'The Banks of Green Willow']
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Kriss Russman, James Rutherford (baritone)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/May/2016 ]
When George Butterworth joined the army in 1914, his most recent works included the song cycle Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' as well as the Rhapsody 'A Shropshire Lad', which he called 'an orchestral epilogue' to his settings of A. E. Housman's...
Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times cover
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JOHN PICKARD
Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins, with Chloë Abbott (trumpet), David Goode (organ)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Oct/2023 ]
"This is a marvellous collection, featuring impeccable production values and sound of flawless realism in the best BIS tradition. Not to be missed!" Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2023
Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra / Tema con variazioni / Little Suite for Strings; Four Images cover
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NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra / Tema con variazioni / Little Suite for Strings; Four Images
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nikos Christodoulou with Geoffrey Douglas Madge (piano)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ]
In BIS's pioneering series of Skalkottas's orchestral music we are now releasing the sixth instalment. The main work on the present disc is the Second Piano Concerto (1937), a composition which was essential for the composer's early posthumous...
Catoire / Friedman: Piano Quintets cover
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GEORGY CATOIRE / IGNAZ FRIEDMAN
Catoire / Friedman: Piano Quintets
Bengt Forsberg (piano), Nils-Erik Sparf (violin I), Ulf Forsberg (violin II), Ellen Nisbeth (viola), Andreas Brantelid (cello)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Mar/2019 ]
"High tension late-romantic piano quintets that will please you and broaden your cultural horizons." MusicWeb
Isle of the Dead / The Rock / Symphonic Dances cover
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RACHMANINOV
Isle of the Dead / The Rock / Symphonic Dances
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ]
Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra follow their acclaimed recordings of ballets by Stravinsky with a disc that features the first and last published orchestral works by Sergei Rachmaninov.
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos 4 [1947] & 7 cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos 4 [1947] & 7
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2016 ]
There is nothing unusual about a composer returning to a major work in order to make revisions, but among such works Sergei Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony is a unique case in that it exists in two such different versions that the composer considered...
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: The Three Suites cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: The Three Suites
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Feb/2007 ]
"Andrew Litton is obviously in sympathy with this miraculous score, and he has coaxed playing of considerable warmth and character from his Bergen players." Gramophone Magazine, July 2007
Symphonies No. 1 & 4 'Italian' cover
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MENDELSSOHN
Symphonies No. 1 & 4 'Italian'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2009 ]
"…one of the most enjoyable discs I've listened to in a long time." BBC Music Magazine, February 2010 *****
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (with Liadov - The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62) cover
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RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (with Liadov - The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ]
Since his appointment as chief conductor and later music director in 2003, Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have richly proven a particular affinity for Russian repertoire, both on their numerous tours and in recording. Works by...
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / Scythian Suite, Op. 20 cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / Scythian Suite, Op. 20
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Mar/2015 ]
With his Fifth, Prokofiev achieved something that he had long been aiming for: a big work of wide appeal that at the same time fulfilled the most demanding expectations of form and structure.
Prokofiev - Symphony No.6 / Lieutenant Kijé / etc cover
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PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev - Symphony No.6 / Lieutenant Kijé / etc
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton, with Andrei Bondarenko, baritone
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2013 ]
herald the victorious end of World War Two. In stark contrast to this, his Symphony No.6, which received its first performance in 1947, is one of his deepest and most personal works.
Peer Gynt Suites / Old Norwegian Melody with Variations / etc cover
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GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites / Old Norwegian Melody with Variations / etc
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ]
"..you can't go wrong with this excellent release. Ole Kristian Ruud knows the music about as well as anyone alive, and it goes without saying that the orchestra does too. There are some wonderful things here, including an effortless, surging...