BIS Year-End Sales Titles

  • Estrellita / Urioste, Poster
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    Estrellita / Urioste, Poster

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    In 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

  • Jarrell: Emergences-Resurgences / Rophe, Orchestre National Des Pays De La Loire
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    Jarrell: Emergences-Resurgences / Rophe, Orchestre National Des Pays De La Loire

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    The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to “examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth” – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 05, 2021

  • Hidden Treasure - Gal: Unpublished Lieder / Immler, Deutsch
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    Hidden Treasure - Gal: Unpublished Lieder / Immler, Deutsch

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    Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Crossroads - American Violin Sonatas / Semenenko, Belogurov
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    Crossroads - American Violin Sonatas / Semenenko, Belogurov

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    On this transatlantic album, three American composers born during the first half of the last century rub shoulders with two young musicians from Eastern Europe. A member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, the...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 05, 2021

  • In Motion / United Strings of Europe
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    In Motion / United Strings of Europe

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    The streets of eighteenth-century Madrid; a contaminated test-bombing site in Australia and a song from El Salvador provide some of the subject matter for this album by the United Strings of Europe (USE). Formed in...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 06, 2020

  • Freeman: Under The Arching Heavens / Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir
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    Freeman: Under The Arching Heavens / Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir

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    The Finnish-American composer Alex Freeman has been described as being ‘as comfortable in the realm of the pop ballad as in that of the concert hall’ and yet his songs ‘are imbued with the craftsmanship...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Leroux: Nous / Claude Delangle, Odile Catelin-Delangle
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    Leroux: Nous / Claude Delangle, Odile Catelin-Delangle

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    The collaboration between composer Philippe Leroux and the husband-and-wife team of Claude and Odile Delangle began in the early 1990s and has grown ever closer over the years. In October 2019 the three met up...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 01, 2021

  • Mahler, Ives, Grime: Songs for New Life and Love / Hughes, Middleton
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    Mahler, Ives, Grime: Songs for New Life and Love / Hughes, Middleton

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    After appearing on a quartet of very different BIS releases, ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection Symphony’, the British soprano Ruby Hughes has devised a song recital,...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: August 06, 2021

  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 8, 11 & 13 / Brautigam
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    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 8, 11 & 13 / Brautigam

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    On this ninth installment in Ronald Brautigam’s series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the program consists of three works composed in 1776 and 1782-83. As on previous discs, Brautigam – whose...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 13, 2015

  • Munktell: Violin Sonata, Dix Melodies, Piano Trio / Ringborg, Johansson, Asplund, Winiarski
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    Munktell: Violin Sonata, Dix Melodies, Piano Trio / Ringborg, Johansson, Asplund, Winiarski

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    This is the first ever album devoted to the chamber music of Helena Munktell, one of the earliest female composers in Sweden. The daughter of an industrialist, Munktell received private lessons in piano and song...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Bach, Kuhnau, Zelenka: Magnificats / Suzuki, Persson, Bach Collegium Japan
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    Bach, Kuhnau, Zelenka: Magnificats / Suzuki, Persson, Bach Collegium Japan

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    REVIEW: In the early 1730s Bach revised his E flat major Magnificat of 1723, transposing it to D major and omitting the interpolations peculiar to Christmas performances in Leipzig. (Recent research suggests such richly scored...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 1999

  • Martinsson: Into Eternity / Larsson, Magi, Malmo Symphony Orchestra
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    Martinsson: Into Eternity / Larsson, Magi, Malmo Symphony Orchestra

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    The music on Presentiment, a 2018 release with four orchestral works by Rolf Martinsson, was described by one critic as ‘bold and uncompromisingly personal, eschewing avant-garde modernism and engaging us with solidly expert conventional techniques...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: July 05, 2019

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra
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    Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra

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    Albert 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

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

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    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

  • Lament - Works By Hagen, Asheim, And Nordheim
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    Lament - Works By Hagen, Asheim, And Nordheim

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    The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Grete Pedersen have made acclaimed recordings of music spanning a millennium – from chants by Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 1179) to the most recent compositions – and in styles...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: August 07, 2020