Chamber Music & Recitals

Part 9 of forte pianist Ronald Brautigam's series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this collection presents three works composed in 1776 and in 1782-83. With Die Kolner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens continuing...

Over the past half-century the transistor has transformed our world. No computer or household gadget would be possible without it these days. As regards audio technology, our question was: did anything get lost on the way, and if so, what? And: A CD made...

Over the past decades, Dan Laurin has established himself as one of the most interesting recorder players of our time. His more than 30 critically acclaimed releases on BIS range from a seminal 9-disc set of van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof to...

Over the course of almost 10 years, Yevgeny Sudbin has been recording Sergei Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra. The journey began in the U.S.A. in 2008 with the Fourth Piano Concerto in what Classic FM Magazine described as 'a glorious...

Our new complete recording of the organ works of Johann Pachelbel, the most important composer of the Southern German organ tradition, concludes with a total of three albums - all of them once again in SS and with first-class organists performing on...

Our highly acclaimed Bach series featuring the Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen continues this month with a release on which the master's Brandenburg Concertos and the successful Danish ensemble are heard in surround sound. The Brandenburg...

Osmo V?nsk? has been described as 'our greatest living Sibelian' (The Sunday Times, UK), a reputation which is founded not least on his two symphony cycles on disc, both released by BIS. The first one was recorded in 1996-97 with the Lahti Symphony...

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 recording debut had the...

Originally released in 1981, this collection of Kreisler's unapologetically sentimental encore pieces along with arrangements of music by Albeniz, Dvorak, Glazunov and more written to showcase virtuosity and here find perfect partners in the inspired...

Originally conceived by the maker Adriana Breukink in 2008, the "Eagle" recorder has rapidly developed into an instrument which combines a large sound with a wide range, making it ideal for playing with modern instruments. When the Swedish recorder...

Originally a double bass player, Peteris Vasks has a special fondness for the string family, and has composed numerous works for string ensembles of various sizes. Some of his most widely performed works are for string orchestra, among them Musica...

Onward and upward! Andreas B?hlen's interpretation of Giuseppe Sammartini's rarely played recorder sonatas (Vol.1, released in 2020) was not only veritably celebrated in the early music scene, but he has now even been appointed professor at the famous...