Super-Audio CD

Haydn's stupendous, joyous and uplifting oratorio Die Sch?pfung (The Creation) is thrillingly brought to life in this recording with Andr?s Orozco-Estrada conducting the Houston Symphony, with the Houston Symphony Chorus and the acclaimed operatic...

Having wowed the critics with it's 2011 recording of 'J.S. Bach: Easter and Ascension Oratorios' Retrospect Ensemble returns with Bach's Harpsichord Concertos. Director Matthew Halls takes on the role of soloist, having proved both his keyboard...

Having taken up the post of music director with the Colorado Symphony in 2013, Andrew Litton has chosen a highly fitting program for the orchestra's first recording on BIS: the Wild West, it's folk music, traditions and legends loom large in Aaron...

Having spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with this disc of music by Peteris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto 'Distant Light',...

Having spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with this disc of music by Peteris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto 'Distant Light',...

Having shared ideas and projects for some time, Pentatone and Oxingale Records have joined forces in order to release their first joint issue in the Pentatone-Oxingale series of recordings: Beethoven, Period. This release features the complete sonatas...

Having released their debut album In motion in 2020, the musicians that make up United Strings of Europe (USE) return with another innovative program: Renewal. The title refers in part to the fact that the majority of the works included are heard in...

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 recording combines solo pieces by the two friends and fellow-composers. From Sergei...

Having broken off work on a second violin concerto in 2012, the prolific Finnish composer Kalevi Aho only returned to the project after being contacted by the violinist Elina V?h?l?. While aware of the weight of tradition and eager to avoid the pitfalls...

Having begun their collaboration in 1997, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and it's conductor laureate Thomas Dausgaard have developed an unusually tight partnership. Nowhere is this demonstrated more clearly than in their cycles of the symphonies of...

Harpsichord friends had to wait a long time for this fourth album and the conclusion of the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin (a fifth organ volume is still in preparation). On the fantastic original "Velen" Ruckers harpsichord, recorded in a...

Hardly understandable: Joseph Haydn is still one of the most underrated composers of the classical era. With these four sonatas, Christian Zacharias presents a very individually designed solo album. The works from Haydn's "middle" creative period were...