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.
373 products
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On SaleMantra
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99On this release, the Trondheim Sinfonietta, founded in 1998, has gathered four works from the three decades encompassing the ensemble’s existence. All four seem to be haunted by an even deeper past: Bent Sørensen’s Minnelieder...
Format: SACD
Release Date: November 02, 2018
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On SaleEstrellita / Urioste, Poster
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99In their liner notes for this string of estrellitas (‘small stars’), Elena Urioste and Tom Poster admit to a shared love for ‘an old-world, golden sound and for melodies that tug at the heartstrings’. This...
Format: SACD
Release Date: October 05, 2018
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On SaleFagerlund: Hostsonaten / Storgards, Otter, Sunnegardh, Finnish National Opera
$21.48 Regular price
$42.99Sebastian Fagerlund has made a name for himself primarily through his concertos and orchestral works. As demonstrated on previous recordings, his music displays a huge range of colors and an uncommon rhythmic vitality, as well...
Format: SACD
Release Date: October 05, 2018
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Dvorák & Suk: Works For Violin & Orchestra
$21.99
Originally, this album was intended to be Eldbjorg Hemsing’s recording debut, but the repertoire interest in what became her debut (Borgstrom and Shostakovich) swayed the label and they changed the plan accordingly. Rarely has a...
Format: SACD
Release Date: September 28, 2018
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On SaleBach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 10: Cantatas of Contentment / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99Robert von Bahr, CEO of BIS Records, writes of this release: “When we finished the Bach Sacred Cantatas there was an emptiness with us all participants, which was - partly - alleviated by the fact...
Format: SACD
Release Date: September 07, 2018
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On SaleBeal: House of Cards Symphony / Bezaly, Vieaux, Norrkoping Symphony
$21.48 Regular price
$42.99This release grew out of the fascination of Robert von Bahr, founder and managing director of BIS Records, for the television series House of Cards. It wasn’t only – or even primarily – the script...
Format: SACD
Release Date: August 24, 2018
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Bach: Goldberg Variations / Borregaard
$21.99
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 work and its highly systematic structure demonstrate...
Format: SACD with CD
Release Date: August 03, 2018
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Bergman: Music from the Films / Pontinen
$21.99
Ingmar Bergman (1918- 2007) made fifty films, directed more than 150 theatre productions and wrote several books, but the recurrent thread running through his life was music. He often said that if he hadn't become...
Format: SACD
Release Date: August 03, 2018
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On SaleC.P.E. Bach: Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 36 / Spanyi
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach published the first collection in his series 'for Connaisseurs and Amateurs' in 1779, at the age of 65, and the sixth and final in 1787, a year before his death. Throughout...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 01, 2018
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On SalePerspectives 7 / Haefliger
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99BIS takes over from Avie presenting Andreas Haefliger’s ongoing (albeit slowly unfolding) Perspectives releases, a series that encompasses intelligent and often unexpected juxtapositions of mixed repertoire. As with its predecessors, Volume 7 features one Beethoven...
Format: SACD
Release Date: May 11, 2018
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On SaleMahler: Symphony No. 6 / Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99Albert Camus once wrote ‘when I describe what the catastrophe of modern man looks like, music comes into my mind – the music of Gustav Mahler’. If asked to specify a particular work, it is...
Format: SACD
Release Date: April 06, 2018
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On SalePalumbo: Three Concertos / Paradiso, Olofsson, Laurin, Martin, Gavle Symphony
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99The genesis of this release 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’...
Format: SACD
Release Date: April 06, 2018
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Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 9 - Contest of Phoebus & Pan / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan
$21.99
Most of Johannes Sebastian Bach’s secular cantatas were written for specific political, academic or private festive occasions. In the case of Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201, however, it may well be that Bach composed...
Format: SACD
Release Date: January 05, 2018
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On SaleBrahms: Symphony No. 2, Haydn Variations & Academic Festival Overture / Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
$10.99 Regular price
$21.99On a number of previous recordings, the 40-odd members of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard have shed a new light on the Romantic symphonic repertoire, with performances described as ‘tight’, ‘invigorating’, ‘transparent’ and...
Format: SACD
Release Date: January 05, 2018
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On SaleFranck, Faure & Prokofiev: Sonatas / Bezaly, Ashkenazy
$16.99 Regular price
$21.99The flautist Sharon Bezaly has, over the past 20 years, released some 40 albums on BIS, recordings which have contributed to the international recognition that she enjoys. Both on recordings and in concert she has...
Format: SACD
Release Date: November 03, 2017
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