BIS
Holmboe: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Music at once convincing and satisfying [TB]
Grieg: Orchestral works (BIS)
The engineers achieve the finest orchestral recording I have ever heard [DBi]
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 1-10 (BIS)
A distinctive addition to the catalogue, with potential for growing appreciation [RWe]
Mahler: Symphony No 3 (BIS)
A sonic feast allows a persuasive vision of Mahler’s Third Symphony to shine forth [EJW]
Elgar: Mot d’amour. Works for violin & piano (BIS)
A variably successful disc [JW]
Mozart: Overtures (BIS)
Willens is both stimulating and instructive. For me, he proves Mozart wants you eager to listen beyond the overture [MG]
Ariosti: The Stockholm Sonatas II (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Highly attractive [DC]
Leifs: Baldr (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Tough, tonal, uncompromising music, rhythmically emphatic, not without melodic softness, hewn out of granite and adversity [RB]
Mahler: Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ (BIS)
A beautifully recorded and performed ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, with a limitation in the chorus [EJW]
Mahler: Symphony No.3 (BIS)
If you have been collecting Vänskä’s cycle, you will want this fine account of the Third [JQ]
Stravinsky: Symphonies Vol 1 (BIS)
Poised and polished performances show these scores in an unusual light [NB]
Mahler: Symphony No 1 (BIS)
A superb if sometimes controversial performance of Mahler’s First Symphony, a showcase for Minnesota Orchestra [EJW]
Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6 (BIS)
Outstanding performances and recording of significant works by an important composer [GH]
Sibelius: Tone Poems (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Vänskä is keeping up to the incredibly high standards he has set himself [TH]
Brahms: String Quintets (BIS)
Highly accomplished playing of two seminal Brahms chamber works in excellent sound [RMo]
Mahler: Symphony No.3 (BIS)
An excellent account, superb sound, but an emotionally cool finale [RMo]
Hungarian String Trios (BIS)
Fascinating repertoire stunningly performed [NB]
Weigl: Symphony No 5 (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Music in Brucknerian manner; a symphony that includes a mighty adagio to treasure [RB]
The detailed orchestration has a French brilliance to it [GPJ]
Schulhoff: Hot Music (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Many pleasures in these near-ideal performances [CC]
Pickard: Symphonies Nos 2 & 6, Verlaine Songs (BIS)
A first-rate addition to Pickard’s discography, not to be missed [HC]
Manziarly: Chamber Works (BIS)
The troubling art of a pupil of Nadia Boulanger [JW]
de Visée: Theorbo Solos (BIS)
Music by Louis XIV’s favourite lutenist, played with distinction on a wonderfully resonant, warm instrument [GH]
Henselt, Bronsart: Piano Concerti (BIS)
Unequivocally first-rate, brilliant in every respect – for the lover of 19th-century piano concertos [EJW]
Mozart: Symphonies 34-36 (BIS)
Vivacious performances in crystalline sound with perfect balances among sections [RMo]
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