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Ernesto Lecuona: The Piano Music; Selected Songs / Carole Farley, soprano, John Constable, piano, Polish National RSO, Michael Bartos [6 CDs]

6 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2013-03-07

Works: Ernesto Lecuona: Rapsodia Negra for piano and orchestra; Andalucía, suite for piano (Suite Española); Ante el Escorial; Zambra gitana, for piano; Aragonesa, for piano; Granada, for piano; Z...
Performers: Constable, John [Keyboards]; Engel, Bruce [Trumpet]; Farley, Carole; Fleishaker, Vivian [Oboe]; Geissinger, Katie; Henreckson-Farnum, Elizabeth; Hoff, Denise; Jolles, Renee; Kocher, Gerald [Trumpet];...
Conductors: Bartos, Michael
Ensemble: ; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Released in 1995 - the centenary of Ernesto Lecuona's birth - the first installment of Thomas Tirino's pioneering survey of the composer's piano music caused...continue...

Ecstatic Drumbeat

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2012-05-10

Works: Yiu-Kwong Chung: Concerto for percussion & Chinese orchestra; Emperor Qin Crushing the Battle Formations, for 2 percussionists & Chinese orchestra; Keiko Abe: Prism Rhapsody II, for solo marimba & or...
Performers: Glennie, Evelyn; Hsieh, Tsung-Hsin
Conductors: Shao, En; Chung, Yiu-Kwong

Appearing with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, Evelyn Glennie has also collaborated with musicians as diverse as Emmanuel Ax, the King's Singers and...continue...
Recording information: Zhongshang Hall, Taipei City, Taiwan (11/2010)....continue...

Dances to a Black Pipe - works for solo clarinet by Copland, Brahms, Piazzolla, Lutoslawski et al. / Martin Frost, clarinet

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-11-03

Works: Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet; Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Göran Frost: Klezmer Dances, for clarinet & strings; Witold Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes (5) for solo clarinet, harp, pian...
Performers: Frost, Martin; Gleeson, Richard; Martin, Benjamin; Nixon, Brian; Reeves, Lucy; Tognetti, Richard
Conductors: Tognetti, Richard

Martin Fröst isn't just one of the major clarinetists of our time - he is also an intrepid adventurer who challenges conventional notions of how...continue...
Recording information: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre, Sydney, Australia (05/2011-06/2011)....continue...

Around the World

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-09-02

Works: Daniel Schnyder: The Island, for bass trombone & piano; Shourouk, overture for orchestra; Suite for bass trombone & orchestra; Variations "Donne"; Around the World, for saxophone, trombone & piano; s...
Performers: Breinschmid, Georg; Buig, Anna; Doctor, Marcio; Hager, Raphael; Hofmann, Ulrike; Kasai, Yuki; Khalife, Bachar; Laine, Esko; Polonek, Krzysztof; Sawano, Tomoko; Schnyder, Daniel; Schulz, Stefan [Bass ...
Conductors: Sanderling, Michael; Helmrath, Michael

Born in Switzerland and resident in New York, Daniel Schnyder's music displays a bewildering variety of influences - from Cuban dance music and African and...continue...

Sebastian Fagerlund: Isola / Christoffer Sundqvist, clarinet

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-07-13

Works: Sebastian Fagerlund: Concerto for Clarinet; Partita, for string orchestra & percussion; Isola, for orchestra
Performers: Bjorlin, Fredrik; Carlsson, Roger; Franzen, Kenneth; Hernqvist, Hans; Stern, Johan; Sundqvist, Christoffer
Conductors: Slobodeniouk, Dima
Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Born in 1972, Sebastian Fagerlund was recently described on the website MusicWeb International as 'yet another obscenely talented young musician from Finland'. The occasion was...continue...
Recording information: Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden....continue...

Berlin Recital / Sawano

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2010-10-10

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Johannes Brahms: Serious Songs (4), Op. 121; Stjepan Sulek: Sonata for trombone & piano ("Vox Gabrieli"); Alexei Konstantinovich Lebedev: Concerto in one movement, for tuba ...
Performers: Sawano, Tomoko; Schneider, Maria Jazz Orchestra; Schulz, Stefan [Bass Trombone]; Sulzberger, Julian

A member of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2002, Stefan Schulz is one of the world's leading bass trombonists. This recital, recorded live at a concert...continue...
Recording information: Chamber Music Hallm Philharmonia, Berlin (01/14/2008)....continue...

Pinturas De Tamayo: Orchestral Works by Steven Stucky

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2010-04-10

Works: Steven Stucky: Spirit Voices, for percussion & orchestra; Pinturas de Tamayo (Paintings of Tamayo), for orchestra; Second Concerto for Orchestra
Performers: Glennie, Evelyn
Conductors: Shui, Lan

Pinturas de Tamayo is the result of American composer Steven Stucky’s encounter with the art of the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. Initially struck by the...continue...
Recording information: Esplande Concert Hall, Singapore (08/2006)....continue...

Japanese Love Songs / Kobayashi, Delangle, Geoffroy

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2009-07-01

Works: Masakazu Natsuda: Poems (2); Toshio Hosokawa: Love Songs (3); Ryo Noda: Improvisation no 1 for Saxophone
Performers: Delangle, Claude; Geoffroy, Jean; Kobayashi, Marie

To quote the liner notes, this unusual disc is a kind of love song "from and for Japan, the eternal, and eternally fascinating - a...continue...

Gruber: Zeitstimmung, Charivari, Rough Music / K. Järvi

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2006-11-01

Works: Heinz Karl "Nali" Gruber: Rough Music; Zeitstimmung; Charivari
Performers: Gruber, Heinz Karl "Nali"; Grubinger, Martin
Conductors: Järvi, Kristjan
Ensemble: Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra

It has been said about HK Gruber that he 'throws off labels as fast as pundits can affix them. Neo-romantic, neo-tonal, neo-expressionistic, neo-Viennese: he isn't...continue...

Hans-Ola Ericsson: The Four Beasts' Amen, etc / Hannus

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2006-06-03

Works: Hans-Ola Ericsson: The Four Beasts' Amen; Melody to the memory of a lost friend XIII; Canzon del Principe; Song of Songs
Performers: Bjork, Tommy; Ericsson, Hans-Ola; Hannus, Anders; Ryden, Susanne

"'Canzon del principe', based on a work by Gesualdo, is performed on a reconstruction of one of seventeenth-century Sweden's finest instruments, and 'Flugelturen' ('Organ Shutters')...continue...

Thirteen Drums - Ishii, Miki, etc / Mika Takehara

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2005-04-01

Works: Yasuo Sueyoshi: Mirage; Maki Ishii: Thirteen Drums for Percussion solo; Akira Miyoshi: Ripple; Hideki Kozakura: Johali; Toshi Ichiyanagi: Portrait of a Forest; Minoru Miki: Time
Performers: Takehara, Mika

Zhou: Rhymes / Lan Shui, Singapore SO, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2004-09-01

Works: Zhou Long: Poems from Tang; The Rhyme of Taigu; Da Qu; The Future of Fire
Performers: Fox, Jonathan
Conductors: Shui, Lan
Ensemble: Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Shanghai String Quartet; Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Oriental Landscapes - Yi, Musgrave, Long, Hovhaness /Glennie

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-11-01

Works: Chen Yi: Concerto for Percussion; Thea Musgrave: Journey through a Japanese Landscape; Zhou Long: Out of Tang Court; Alan Hovhaness: Fantasy on Japanese woodprints, Op. 211
Performers: Glennie, Evelyn
Conductors: Shui, Lan
Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

"Glennie's repertoire is already packed with pieces where the percussion parts are highly demanding. What always comes across, in recordings as well as in concert,...continue...

Open - Xenakis, Cage, et al / Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-06-02

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds, for solo percussion; Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen: Open 1, improvisaton for percussion; Open 2, improvisation for percussion; Open 3, improvisation for percussion; Ase Hedstro...
Performers: Sorensen, Hans-Kristian Kjos

Shostakovich: Suite on Finnish Themes, etc / Kangas, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-02-08

Works: Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite for Soprano, Tenor and Small Orchestra on Finnish themes; Chamber Symphony in A flat major, Op. 118a; Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a
Performers: Komsi, Anu; Nyman, Tom
Conductors: Kangas, Juha
Ensemble: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

"The soloists are singing in their native language, so there can be no doubt about the idiomatic delivery of the words, and the players have...continue...

G. Fisher: Passion of St. Thomas Moore / Högman, Karr, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2001-11-08

Works: Garrett Fisher: The Passion of St. Thomas More
Performers: Aberg, Sven; Hogman, Christina; Mansson, Goran; Persson, Olle; Vinten-Johansen, Anna

"'The Passion of St. Thomas More' is a chamber opera in two acts scored for three singers and the instruments listed. It revolves around More's...continue...

Christmas in Sweden

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2001-08-16

Works: Gunnar Wennerberg: Gates raise your arches; George Frederick Handel: Messiah, HWV 56; Georg Joseph Vogler: Hosanna zu Davids Sohn; Traditional: Bereden väg för herran; Good Evening; Song of...
Performers: Canning, Andrew; Fagius, Hans; Faringer, Solveig; Forsberg, Bengt; Hogman, Christina; Johansson, Per [doublebass]; Mattei, Peter; Pontinen, Roland; Skogland, Mikael; Tannerus, Michaele
Conductors: Sund, Robert; Stenlund, Dan-Olof; Anstey, David; Göransson, Anders; Bohlin, Eva;
Ensemble: Cantores Cathedrales; Joculatores Upsalienses; Malmö Chamber Choir ; Orphei Drängar ; Uppsala Musikklasser

Response - Percussion Works / Odd Borge Sagland

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2000-07-25

Works: Joan Guinjoán: Tension-Relax for percussion; Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms, for marimba; Odd Borge Sagland: Hedda Gabler - Intermezzo for marimba, op. 5; Harald Saeverud: Easy pieces f...
Performers: Sagland, Odd Borge

Eötvös: Psalm 151, Psy, Triangel / Ráca, UMZE Ensemble

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2000-06-01

Works: Peter Eötvös: Psalm 151, for percussion solo (in memoriam Frank Zappa); Psy, for flute, cello & cimbalon (or piano, or harp, or marimba); Triangel, for percussion & ensemble
Performers: Ittzes, Gergely; Perenyi, Miklos [Cello]; Racz, Zoltan
Conductors: Eötvös, Peter
Ensemble: UMZE Chamber Ensemble

Zivkovic: The Castle of the Mad King, et al /Zivkovic, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2000-04-01

Works: Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: Ultimatum 2, for 2 marimbas, Op. 24/2; The Castle of the Mad King, for percussion; Ilijas, for marimba; Ein Libeslied?, for marimba; Northwind, for marimba; Bayerischer Lä...
Performers: Toth, Benjamin; Zivkovic, Nebojsa Jovan

"The German-based percussionist and composer...Zivkovic has developed a searingly intense, forcefully masculine percussion world for much of this impressive new disc. He doesn't balk at...continue...

Bach: Matthäus-Passion / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

3 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1999-12-23

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Performers: Argenta, Nancy; Blaze, Robin; Hagiwara, Jan; Hida, Yoshie; Kooij, Peter; Odagawa, Tetsuya; Sakurada, Makoto; Sollek-Avella, Kirsten; Suzuki, Midori; Turk, Gerd; Urano, Chiyuki
Conductors: Suzuki, Masaaki
Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

"Masaaki Suzuki brings to the 'St. Matthew Passion' the same devotional intensity that has characterised his Bach cantata recordings. This focus is immediately evident in...continue...

Lecuona: Complete Piano Music Vol 5 / Thomas Tirino

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1999-11-07

Works: Ernesto Lecuona: Negra Mersé; La Negra Lucum; La Conga se Va; Dame tu amor, song for voice & piano; Lloraba en Sueños; Aquí Está, song for voice & piano; Andar, for piano; Tu Ser&...
Performers: Hoff, Denise; Jolles, Renee; Silverman, Alan; Steinberg, Mark; Sterman, Andrew; Sternberg, Jo-Ann; Tirino, Thomas

Precious: Christmas Music With Yoshikazu Mera

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1999-08-30

Works: Anonymous, Swedish: How Great Thou Art (Tune; Alan Menken: Beauty and the Beast; Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust; Richard Rodgers: If I Loved You, song (from "Carousel"); Franz Gruber: Silent Night; Gil G...
Performers: Ezrin, Andy; Goldstein, Gil; Mera, Yoshikazu; Nakagawa, Eijiro; Russ, Rosa; Sanders, Marlon; Sharifi, Jamshied; St. Michel, Arif; Wittman, Ben; Yoshida, Jiro
Conductors: Yoshida, Jiro
Ensemble: The Orchestra

Yoshikazu Mera domonstrates aspects of his remarkable talent that we have not encountered before in this selection of songs with a Christmas flavor. The album...continue...
Personnel: Jiro Yoshida (guitar); Elena Barere (violin); Sue Pray, Crystal Garner, Carol Landon, Sarah Adams, Juliet Haffner, Richard Sortomme (viola); Jeremy Turner, Jerry Grossman , Caryl Paisner (c...continue...

Sibelius: Music for Mixed and Female Choir / Jubilate Choir

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1999-05-29

Works: Jean Sibelius: Up through the air (Kör av vindarna; Upp genom luften), for chorus & piano, JS 213; Why, father, do you kiss my sweetheart here? (Vi kysser du fader), for female chorus & piano, J...
Performers: Djupsjobacka, Gustav; Groop, Monica; Maenpaa, Ari-Pekka; Tiilikainen, Sauli
Conductors: Riska, Astrid

The Japanese Saxophone / Claude Delangle

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-06-05

Works: Masakazu Natsuda: West or Evening Song in Autumn, for soprano saxophone & percussion; Ishiro Nodaira: Arabesque 3, for alto saxophone & piano; Fuminori Tanada: Mysterious Morning III for soprano saxo...
Performers: Delangle, Claude; Delangle, Odile; Geoffroy, Jean

Pärt: Summa / Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1997-02-10

Works: Arvo Pärt: Collage sur B-A-C-H for Strings, Oboe, Harpsichord and Piano; Fratres; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell; Summa, for string orchestra; Festina lente; T...
Performers: Laivuori, Jouko; Soderblom, Jan; Talka, Marja; Vartiainen, Juho
Conductors: Kantorow, Jean-Jacques
Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

"...Of especial interest here is Collage, a startling, invigorating contrast to the rest of the music on offer. In this complex, chromatic, dynamic, sometimes fierce...continue...

The Singing Apes - Sandstrom, Britten, Holst, Weill, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-11-04

Works: Jan Sandström: The Singing Apes of Khao Yai; Benjamin Britten: Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Anonymous: Song of the Blacksmith; English Traditional: The Turtle Dove; Samuel Barber:...
Performers: Alin, Folke; Brolund, Walter; Persson, Olle; Pettersson, Jorgen; Ronnlund, Johnny
Conductors: Sund, Robert
Ensemble: Orphei Drängar; Uppsala Chamber Soloists

Linde: Complete Sonatas and Duos / Wallin, Derwinger

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-06-30

Works: Bo Linde: Dance Fantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 7; Dance for Violin and Xylophone; Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Op. 15 no 2; Duets (2) for Violins; Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 10; Romantic M...
Performers: Derwinger, Love; Johansson, Ulf; Silvmark, Johan; Wallin, Ulf

"Discovering a new musical voice, one that delivers genuine passion, is a gratifying experience, especially in a culture where we are inundated with blandness. Bo...continue...

Contemporary Swedish Music

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-11-11

Works: Moses Pergament: Sonatina for Flute & Strings; Hans Holewa: Concertino no 3 for ensemble ("Nonet for 3 trios"); Åke Hermansson: Suoni d'un flauto for alto flute, Op. 6; Flauto d'inverno for bass...
Performers: Asikainen, Seppo; Bahr, Gunilla von; Bergstrand, Martin; Fagius, Hans; Gillblad, Per-Olof; Grippe, Ragnar; Nordwall, Eva; Persson, Mats; Samuelsson, Hans; Savijoki, Pekka; Stevensson, Kjell-Inge; Tch...
Conductors: Westerberg, Stig
Ensemble: Musica Sveciae

The Contemporary American "C"

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-09-14

Works: Aaron Copland: Sonata for Piano; Paul Creston: Sonata for Saxophone and Piano in E flat major, Op. 19; George Crumb: Pieces (5) for Piano; Elliott Carter: Pieces (8) for Timpani; John Cage: Second Co...
Performers: Knardahl, Eva; Lindgren, Ingrid; Mortensen, Gert; Savijoki, Pekka; Siirala, Jussi

Cage, Cowell, Lundquist, etc / Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

2 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-06-08

Works: John Cage: Second Construction, for 4 percussionists; Henry Cowell: Pulse, for 5 players; Torbjörn Lundquist: Sisu for percussion sextet; Yoshihisa Taira: Hiérophonie 5, for 6 percussionists
Performers: Leif Karlsson; Silvmark, Johann
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

Clockworks / Stockholm Chamber Brass

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-05-20

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Rag-time for 11 instruments; L'histoire du soldat; André Previn: Four Outings for Brass; Leonard Bernstein: Dance Suite, for brass quintet & optional percussion; Jan Bach: Round...
Performers: Derwinger, Love; Pontinen, Roland; Silvmark, Johann

For Manuela- Works for Solo Flute / Manuela Wiesler

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-26

Works: Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson: Solitude; Atli Heimir Sveinsson: Sounding Minutes for solo flute; Leifur _órarinsson: Sonata per Manuela, for flute; See-Route nach Bagdad; Hjálmar...
Performers: Bahr, Robert von; Wiesler, Manuela

Xenakis, Norgård / Gert Mortensen, Solo Percussion

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-22

Works: Per Norgård: I Ching, for percussion; Iannis Xenakis: Psappha, for solo percussion; Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Triptykon for percussion & orchestra
Performers: Mortensen, Gert
Conductors: Panula, Jorma
Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Virtuoso Percussion Music / Rainer Kuisma

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1993-11-01

Works: Darius Milhaud: Concerto, for marimba, vibraphone & orchestra (or piano), Op. 278; Concerto, for percussion & chamber orchestra (or piano), Op. 109; Alfred Fissinger: Suite for Marimba; Artur Lemba: ...
Performers: Bahr, Gunilla von; Kuisma, Rainer
Conductors: Panula, Jorma
Ensemble: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Sibelius: The Tempest (Complete) / Vanska, Lahti SO

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1992-11-01

Works: Jean Sibelius: The Tempest, Op. 109
Performers: Hirvonen, Anssi; Junttila, Lasse; Keinonen, Heikki; Kerola, Paavo; Krohn, Markku; Paasikivi, Lilli; Rouvali, Matti; Saarempaa, Leena; Saloranta, Jyrki; Silvonen, Ilkka; Tanskanen, Juha-Pekka; Tiihone...
Conductors: Vänskä, Osmo
Ensemble: Lahti Opera Chorus; Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Sallinen: Symphonies no 2 & 6, etc / Kamu, Malmö SO

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1992-07-07

Works: Aulis Sallinen: Sunrise Serenade, for 2 trumpets, piano & string orchestra, Op. 63; Symphony no 2, Op. 29 ("Dialogue for solo percussion & orchestra"); Symphony no 6, Op. 65 ("From a New Zealand Diar...
Performers: Mortensen, Gert
Conductors: Kamu, , Okko
Ensemble: Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Schnittke: Cello Concerto, etc / Thedeen, Segerstam

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1991-01-01

Works: Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Cello no 1; Hymn no 1 for Cello, Harp and Timpani; Klingende Buchstaben; Hymn no 2 for Cello and Double Bass; Hymn no 3 for Cello, Bassoon, Harpsichord and Bells; Hymn ...
Performers: Davidsson, Christian; Fredlund, Ingegerd; Holdar, Anders; Kamata, Mayumi; Loguin, Anders; Radoukanov, Entcho; Thedeen, Torleif
Conductors: Segerstam, Leif
Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Crumb: Madrigals Books 1 - 4, Makrokosmos Vol 3 /Anne-Marie Mühle

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1900-01-11

Works: George Crumb: Madrigals, Book 1; Music for a Summer Evening "Makrokosmos Vol 3"; Madrigals, Book 2; Madrigals, Book 3; Madrigals, Book 4
Performers: Asikainen, Seppo; Bergström, Ulf; Dahlman, Barbro; Kuisma, Rainer; Lännerholm, Åsa; Lindgren, Ingrid; Mühle, Anne-Marie; Röjder, Robert
Conductors:
Ensemble: Musica Varia