Chamber Music & Recitals

That Ba?l?ro, a shepherd's song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favorite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of Ren?e Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all...

Testifying to the multi-facetted talent of Martin Fr?st as well as to the different responses that the clarinet has awakened in composers over the years, the present compilation brings together four concertante works in recordings that have all been...

Tango Royal is a selection of Tangos by Piazzolla and others arranged for world renowned bandonen player Carel Kraayenhof and his own sextet (Sexteto Canyengue) together with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Choir.1. Calvel...

Sweelinck composed his keyboard music only after 1605, rather late in his career. These works, about 60 in number, were widely distributed during his time and much appreciated by colleagues. Our recording presents a representative cross-section of his...

Swan Lake is the first of the three great ballets that Tchaikovsky wrote, and arguably the most famous. The piece is mainly known in the shape it obtained in 1895, when it became a classic in the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. That...

Sueye Park introduced herself to the general public in 2017 with no less a calling-card than Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin. On the present album, the South-Korean violinist (born in 2000) has a pianist on her side, namely Love Derwinger, himself...

Stravinsky's Pers?phone (1934) is a dynamic music-theatrical narration of the myth of Persephone's abduction to the underworld and return to earth. The transparent, sober but evocative music epitomizes Stravinsky's sensuous take on Neoclassicism, and the...

Still in his twenties, P?tur Sakari studied in his native Finland and in Paris and made his recording d?but at the age of 18. On his previous disc for BIS, he performed works by five French composers, receiving international acclaim with top marks in...

Stile Antico-Vocal Ensemble, Camerata Pacifica- Chamber Ensemble. Stile Antico presents music closely associated with the Hapsburg dynasty (Maximillian I, Charles V and Philip II) in this program of sumptuous works by the finest Spanish & Flemish...

Star violinist Arabella Steinbacher presents Antonio Vivaldi's world-famous Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla's Cuatro estaciones porte?as, creating a lively combination of baroque and tango. The enormous popularity of Vivaldi's Four Seasons tends...

Soprano Lisette Oropesa presents her solo debut album Ombra Compagna, a kaleidoscope of concert arias by Mozart, whose music is very dear to her heart. These concert arias, written for important sopranos in his life, contain the most lavish and virtuosic...

Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue is part of a traditional English bridal rhyme. It refers to gifts of little things given to the bride to bring good luck. It's message is not to marry on the spur of the moment. However,...