BIS
Founded in 1973, BIS Records belongs to the most highly respected classical labels in the world, praised for the sound quality of its recordings – whether released on regular CDs or as Hybrid SACDs with optional surround sound – and for the versatility and variety of its catalogue, which to date includes more than 1700 titles.
BIS is the only large record label to keep all its recordings constantly available – with repertoire ranging from the most contemporary to music of the Middle Ages, and from mainstream classical (the Three Bs ...) to the downright esoteri. Commited to undertake – and complete! – projects of daunting complexity – such as the Sibelius Edition with its 68 discs documenting every note the Finnish master ever wrote, and the soon-to-be concluded 55-disc series of Bach's sacred cantatas, recorded in a chapel in Kobe, Japan, by the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki – also shows BIS being a truly international label.
With its headquarters in Sweden, BIS makes recordings all over the world, including Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo, Minneapolis, Rotterdam, Cologne, Vienna ... and a certain medieval church 80km north of Stockholm, loved by musicians such as Dame Emma Kirkby, Ronald Brautigam and New York Polyphony.
Read moreFounded in 1973, BIS Records belongs to the most highly respected classical labels in the world, praised for the sound quality of its recordings – whether released on regular CDs or as Hybrid SACDs with optional surround sound – and for the versatility and variety of its catalogue, which to date includes more than 1700 titles.
BIS is the only large record label to keep all its recordings constantly available – with repertoire ranging from the most contemporary to music of the Middle Ages, and from mainstream classical (the Three Bs ...) to the downright esoteri. Commited to undertake – and complete! – projects of daunting complexity – such as the Sibelius Edition with its 68 discs documenting every note the Finnish master ever wrote, and the soon-to-be concluded 55-disc series of Bach's sacred cantatas, recorded in a chapel in Kobe, Japan, by the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki – also shows BIS being a truly international label.
With its headquarters in Sweden, BIS makes recordings all over the world, including Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo, Minneapolis, Rotterdam, Cologne, Vienna ... and a certain medieval church 80km north of Stockholm, loved by musicians such as Dame Emma Kirkby, Ronald Brautigam and New York Polyphony.
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 3 Sep 2021
Previous instalments of the Beethoven sonata cycle from Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen have met with wide acclaim. Described as "conversat ...
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Saint-Saëns: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Alexandre Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Apr 2022
In 2019, Alexandre and Jean-Jacques Kantorow’s recording of the last three piano concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns earned the highest praise around the ...
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Bartók: Orchestral Works
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Oct 2021
On the two previously released Bartók programmes (both highly praised), Susanna Mälkki and her players in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra have rec ...
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata N°3 - Chaconne (Bach) - Four Ballades
Alexandre Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on 3 Dec 2021
In 2019, when Alexandre Kantorow, at the age of 22, became the first French pianist to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky competition, his programm ...
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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-3
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 1 Oct 2021
For a string player, Beethoven’s 16 quartets are of an importance similar to that of his sonatas to a pianist, or his symphonies to a conductor. As a ...
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Mozart : Great Mass in C Minor & Exsultate, Jubilate
Masaaki Suzuki
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by BIS on 2 Dec 2016
Prise de Son d'Exception5 de DiapasonGramophone AwardGramophone Editor's Choice5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikAs he reached the end of his magisterial cycle of Bach cantatas, one might have been forgiven for asking, "Well, what's next?" for conductor Masaaki S ...
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 9 Apr 2021
2020 saw the release of the first instalment in this three-album traversal of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas – a recording that has garnered many distinct ...
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Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on 3 Sep 2021
The present album is the second of two recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary ...
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J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 1
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Classical - Released by BIS on 4 Feb 2022
A real showstopper! After several visits to the Concertos pour violon (with the English Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey Tate in 1989, and then with the ...
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Saint-Saëns: Symphonies
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Classical - Released by BIS on 21 May 2021
Prodigiously gifted, Camille Saint-Saëns entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, at the age of 13. There he discovered the symphonies of the great Ge ...
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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 4-6
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 4 Mar 2022
For a string player, Beethoven’s 16 quartets are of an importance similar to that of his sonatas to a pianist and for every composer of string quartet ...
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Johan Dalene
Classical - Released by BIS on 4 Mar 2022
Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first music ...
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 4 Sep 2020
Simply magical. This release, beautifully recorded at the Villa Siemens in Berlin, initiates a complete set of Beethoven’s Violin and Piano Sonatas on ...
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Masaaki Suzuki
Classical - Released by BIS on 3 Nov 2014
Because Mozart left his Requiem in D minor unfinished at the time of his death in 1791, various completions have been attempted to make it performable ...
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Saint-Saëns : Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5
Alexandre Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on 3 May 2019
Diapason d'or de l'annéeDiapason d'or / ArteGramophone Editor's ChoiceThere has been a vogue for the music of Saint-Saëns in the late 2010s, which is all to the good, and the piano concertos especially have come in for i ...
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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, Romance, String Quintet in A Minor
Vadim Gluzman
Quintets - Released by BIS on 23 Mar 2011
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyChoc Classica de l'annéeDiapason d'or de l'annéeDiapason d'orThe immense popularity of his Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, both during his lifetime and into modern times, turned out to be almost something of a ...
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Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 & Other Works
Sakari Oramo
Classical - Released by BIS on 4 Feb 2022
What an incredible surprise. Without a shadow of a doubt, this is one of the most beautiful albums dedicated to Maurice Ravel’s orchestral music to be ...
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Brahms: 3 Sonatas
Michael Collins
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 3 Dec 2021
Friends of long standing as well as regular partners in chamber music, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough bring their combined musical insights and exp ...
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Schnittke & Pärt: Choral Works (2)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by BIS on 4 Jun 2021
As Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt both adopted the Orthodox faith in the 1970s, Orthodox choral traditions became increasingly prominent in their work ...
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Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne
Carolyn Sampson
Classical - Released by BIS on 3 Sep 2021
That Baïlèro, a shepherd’s song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favourite with singers ranging ...
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Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 4-6
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 5 Feb 2021
Three-quarters female, The Chiaroscuro Quartet which was founded in 2005 comes from all over Europe. The first violin from Russia, the second from Spa ...
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