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A. VIVALDI / J. S. BACH
Lutheran Masses I Hana Blažíková & Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gerd Tark (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] By Bach's time, the Reformation had fundamentally altered the traditional forms of church service, and in German churches Latin had yielded to the country's own language. To a limited extent, however, the Latin mass text did remain in use in the... |
ADRIAN JONES / DANIEL REID
Nybyggnan Daniel Reid (soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones), Jeanette Eriksson & Sérgio Crisóstomo (violins), Adrian Jones (viola), Anna Wallgren (cello) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] Nybyggnan is a folk music saxophone concerto in chamber music format. Its title, meaning 'new building', is a nod to other tunes in Swedish traditional music associated with buildings and construction work. |
ALAIN / DUTILLEUX / RAVEL / MESSIAEN
Solitaires: French works for solo piano Kathryn Stott (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "[her] fingers are well up to the virtuosic demands of the Prelude and Toccata, as they are to those of the works by Dutilleux and Messiaen." (BBC Music) |
ALBENIZ
Complete Piano Music, Volume 8 Miguel Baselga (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/May/2014 ] If at least some part of Isaac Albéniz' music may justifiably be described as 'salon music', this is not something that the composer would have objected to. Quite the opposite: he was himself very much a man of the salon, especially in his youth in... |
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... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN / NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Piano Concertos Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] "Sudbin is wonderfully dashing in the Scriabin, where the rapturous, refined playing of the Bergen Philharmonic under Andrew Litton also really comes into its own, especially in the finale, but he makes heavier weather of the much darker, almost gruf |
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... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos Dan Laurin (recorder) / 1B1 (Ensemble Bjergsted 1), Jan Bjøranger [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] During a recording career that stretches over almost 30 years, Laurin keeps returning to the concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. For his latest 'take' on these favourites Laurin has joined forces with the young and vibrant Norwegian string ensemble 1B1 |
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 |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Schnittke / Pärt: Choral Works Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] "This work has been waiting for choirs able to do this, because the technical challenges are not the most important thing about this music" Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Choral |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Symphony No 6 Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "True connoisseurs know that one of the finest ways to spend thirty or sixty minutes is listening to an excellent recording of a magnificent symphony. They will also know that some of the 20th century's greatest symphonists have been Scandinavian" |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Symphony No. 13 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] Beginning his first symphony in 1951 and working on his 17th when he died in 1980, Allan Pettersson concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic genre for three decades |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Pettersson: Symphony No. 14 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Feb/2017 ] In their series of Allan Pettersson's symphonies, Christian Lindbergand the Norrköping Symphony Orchestrahave arrived at the Fourteenth Symphony, completed in 1978 and given its first performance in 1981, one year after the death of the composer. As... |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Pettersson: Symphonies 5 & 7 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Christian Lindberg [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "Lindberg gets the pacing absolutely right [in No. 7]...The Norrköping players are once again on superb form, responding to Lindberg's advocacy just as keenly; but then this music is in their blood." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2018 |
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Symphony No.9 (1970) Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] "Pettersson's longest symphony becomes a focused 70-minute rollercoaster in Lindberg's hands. Comes with fascinating DVD bonus of a 1970s Swedish documentary on the composer." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
ANDERS HILLBORG
Sirens Soloists, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Radiokören, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Sakari Oramo, David Zinman & Esa-Pekka Salonen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Nov/2015 ] |
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... |
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK / ROZANNA PANUFNIK
Reflections: the solo piano works of Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik Clare Hammond (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Although Panufnik is primarily known as a composer of symphonies and large-scale orchestral pieces, his three original works...are all highly crafted, demonstrating the composer's fascination with mirror forms and symmetrical patterns. |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos 2 & 4 Gringolts Quartet, Malin Hartelius (soprano) [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Conceived thirty years apart, both works on the present disc came into being at difficult times in the life of Arnold Schoenberg. Emotional stress caused by a marital crisis around 1907-1908 is often claimed to have contributed to the break with... |
BAADSVIK / LINDBERG / NESS
Øystein Baadsvik plays Tuba Concertos Øystein Baadsvik (tuba) Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] One of today's foremost exponents of his instrument, the Norwegian tubist Øystein Baadsvik is also an untiring champion when it comes to expanding the tuba repertoire. |
