Chamber Music & Recitals

This second and last volume completes two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini's six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the 'normal' configuration in...

This release has been eagerly anticipated since Ingrid Fliter's applauded recording of Chopin 1 & 2, which gained her a nomination for a Gramophone Award. The repertoire chosen for this recording is close to Fliter's heart. Fliter performs with the...

This 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 or the acting that grabbed him, however, but just as much...

This recording of the complete chamber music works for clarinet by Johannes Brahms is presented with first rate interpreters: Gifted clarinetist Laura Ruiz Ferreres and pianist Christoph Berner. Internationally renowned cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and the...

This recording of selected works by Bach in organ arrangements by Best (1826-1897) gives evidence of an approach to Bach's compositions that may seem quite capricious today. This SACD presents highlights from his comprehensive edition of Bach's organ...

This recording features a collection of magnificent pieces from one of the golden ages of organ music, "The North German School" of the seventeenth century, which also had ramifications in Scandinavia. Five early pieces by Heinrich Scheidemann and six by...

This recording by Michael Tilson Thomas and the GRAMMY award-winning San Francisco Symphony features stunning live recordings from the SFS's wildly successful American Mavericks festival. Presented in premium audio, this hybrid SACD includes performances...

This recording brings together two of the greatest works of the Classical era in transcriptions for solo piano by two of the greatest pianist-composers of the Romantic era, resulting in two of the most thrilling experiences that nineteenth-century...

This project tells of European-American musical exchange at the beginning of the 20th century, the golden era of the transatlantic liners. Through concert tours and emigrations, the chosen composers toured and emigrated across the Atlantic, experiencing...

This programme of previously unrecorded works illustrates a highly distinctive aspect of Nikos Skalkottas as a composer: The 'neoclassical' Skalkottas goes hand in hand with the 'national' and the 'modernist' composer, the common denominators being...

This Pentatone release was recorded in the grand acoustical environment of St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, SD by an ensemble whose typical performance is never less than sublime, the first-rate South Dakota Chorale. Sacred Songs of Life and Love...

This new release, the second volume in the Witold Lutoslawski symphony cycle by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and it's chief conductor Hannu Lintu, brings together two symphonies which belong to the most remarkable symphonic creations of the late...