BIS Records - Spring 2025

Over 300 titles from BIS Records are on sale now!

Founded in 1973, BIS Records is one of the most highly respected classical labels in the world, praised for the sound quality of its recordings and for the versatility and variety of its catalogue, which to date includes more than 1700 titles.

BIS Records has established themselves as one of today’s leading independent classical labels, with a strong focus on Scandinavian and Baltic composers and landmark projects including the complete works of Sibelius and the Suzuki Bach cantata series.

Shop the sale before it ends at 9:00am ET on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

  • Anna Paradiso Plays Paradisi
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    Anna Paradiso Plays Paradisi

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    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...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: May 01, 2020

  • Cello Libris / Moldrup, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
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    Cello Libris / Moldrup, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir

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    Dividing his time between the United States and the United Kingdom, the composer Geoffrey Gordon writes music that has been described as ‘darkly seductive’ (New York Times), ‘richly satisfying’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘iridescent and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 03, 2020

  • Kromos: 21st-Century Guitar Music / Eskelinen
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    Kromos: 21st-Century Guitar Music / Eskelinen

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    For his new recital disc, the acclaimed Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen had the aim of creating a programme that works like a story: ‘a modern guitar album that lends itself to continuous listening from beginning...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: April 03, 2020

  • Bach: Toccatas / Masaaki Suzuki
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    Bach: Toccatas / Masaaki Suzuki

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    Very little is known about the origin of J. S. Bach’s seven Toccatas (BWV?910–916) or of their use. They are believed to have been written before 1717 or the end of Bach’s Weimar period –...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 / Sitkovetsky Trio
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    Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 / Sitkovetsky Trio

    $16.99 Regular price $21.99

    With the three piano trios Op. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with entertaining salon music, and raised it up to rival the string quartet. The works are innovative in form...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Berio: Coro & Cries of London / Pedersen, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Soloists Choir
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    Berio: Coro & Cries of London / Pedersen, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Soloists Choir

    $16.99 Regular price $21.99

    Luciano Berio’s Coro has been described as the work that ‘exemplifies all the qualities that made him one of the leading composers of our time’. The work’s full title is ‘Coro for voices and instruments’,...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic
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    Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic

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    At the age of 21, Leonard Bernstein wrote what he described as a ‘Hebrew song’ using a text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Three years later the song became the final movement of his Symphony...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein Musikalischer Spass / Willens, Kolner Akademie
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    Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein Musikalischer Spass / Willens, Kolner Akademie

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    Besides an acclaimed series of recordings with Ronald Brautigam of the complete piano concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens are undertaking a survey of Mozart’s serenades and other incidental...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: February 07, 2020

  • Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 / Kungsbacka Piano Trio
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    Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 / Kungsbacka Piano Trio

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    It was in 1842, his ‘year of chamber music’ that Robert Schumann took on the combination of violin, cello and piano for the first time. He seems to have decided against releasing the resulting Fantasiestücke...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: February 07, 2020

  • Clytemnestra / Hughes, Steen, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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    Clytemnestra / Hughes, Steen, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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    In 2015, when Ruby Hughes discovered Clytemnestra by the Welsh composer Rhian Samuel, the work had not been performed since its première some 20 years earlier. Hughes describes the 24-minute score as ‘sun-scorched and luscious’...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 03, 2020

  • Tullochgorum: Haydn - Scottish Songs / Art, The Poker Club Band
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    Tullochgorum: Haydn - Scottish Songs / Art, The Poker Club Band

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    Between 1791 and 1804, Joseph Haydn arranged some 400 traditional songs for publishers in Scotland and England. Almost all of the songs were Scottish and the most common setting was for voice and piano trio....


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 03, 2020

  • Brahms: Five Sonatas For Violin & Piano, Vol. 2 / Wallin, Pöntinen
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    Brahms: Five Sonatas For Violin & Piano, Vol. 2 / Wallin, Pöntinen

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen made their first duo-recording for BIS in 1991 and have released acclaimed recital albums ranging from Schumann and Liszt to Alfred Schnittke, by way of Schoenberg and Hindemith. With the...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 03, 2020

  • Jugendstil Songs: 1898-1916 / Tilling, Rivinius
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    Jugendstil Songs: 1898-1916 / Tilling, Rivinius

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    Vienna around 1900 was a melting-pot in several ways: a city attracting artists from the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire where bohemian writers and musicians rubbed shoulders with aristocrats and establishment figures, and where late-Romanticism co-existed uneasily...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 03, 2020

  • Carnival - Italian Music for Violin & Guitar / Gomyo, Eskelinen
    Carnival - Italian Music for Violin & Guitar / Gomyo, Eskelinen

    $21.99

    For her debut album, Karen Gomyo has joined forces with guitarist Ismo Eskelinen in a programme offering fireworks as well as graceful tenderness. A violin virtuoso as well as an expert guitar player, Niccolo Paganini...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 01, 2019

  • Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios / Gluzman, Moser, Sudbin
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    Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios / Gluzman, Moser, Sudbin

    $10.99 Regular price $21.99

    This recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio might well may be among the best. In Russian chamber music, a rather special tradition evolved around the piano trio, with a number of composers turning to the...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: October 04, 2019