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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Saint-Saëns: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Alexandre Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on Apr 1, 2022
Diapason d'or de l'annéeIn 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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Saint-Saëns : Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5
Alexandre Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Classical - Released by BIS on May 3, 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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J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by BIS on Feb 4, 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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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Johan Dalene, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Classical - Released by BIS on Mar 4, 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: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 4-6
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on Mar 4, 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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Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 & Other Works
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Classical - Released by BIS on Feb 4, 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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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Classical - Released by BIS on Nov 3, 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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Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata N°3 - Chaconne (Bach) - Four Ballades
Classical - Released by BIS on Dec 3, 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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Mozart : Great Mass in C Minor & Exsultate, Jubilate
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by BIS on Dec 2, 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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Bartók: Orchestral Works
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Classical - Released by BIS on Oct 1, 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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Mozart: The Prussian Quartets
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on Nov 4, 2022
After their exciting interpretations of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to Mozart’s Prussian Quartets, his last compo ...
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Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Excerpts)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putnins, Raul Mikson, Maria Valdmaa, Olari Viikholm
Classical - Released by BIS on Feb 4, 2022
The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom by Rachmaninov (not to be confused with the more well-known Vespers), is part of a reform initiated by Tchaikovsk ...
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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, Romance, String Quintet in A Minor
Quintets - Released by BIS on Mar 23, 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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Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3, Opp. 7 & 30
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on Apr 1, 2022
After covering Schoenberg’s Second and Fourth String Quartets on a previous album, the Gringolts Quartet return to tackle his First and Third quartets ...
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À la russe (Tchaikovski, Rachmaninov, Balakirev)
Solo Piano - Released by BIS on May 5, 2017
Choc Classica de l'annéeChoc de ClassicaDiapason d'orAll kinds of hype have attended the rise of French pianist Alexandre Kantorow (son of violinist-conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow), not yet 21 when this ...
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Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton, Ng Pei-Sian
Classical - Released by BIS on Apr 1, 2022
Dmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in t ...
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Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-3
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on Oct 1, 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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Khachaturian: The Concertante Works for Piano
Iyad Sughayer, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Andrew Litton
Classical - Released by BIS on Sep 2, 2022
The expressive immediacy of Aram Khachaturian's music, with its sensuous melodic writing, vibrant orchestration and rhythmic drive, resulted in a popu ...
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J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. Trio Zimmermann for Violin, Viola & Cello)
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on Jun 7, 2019
In 1985 the Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov published his own arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for a string trio at the time of the tricente ...
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Haydn & Hindemith: Cello Works
Christian Poltéra, Munich Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by BIS on Aug 5, 2022
Joseph Haydn once remarked: "I was not a magician on any instrument, but I knew the power and effect of all of them". This knowledge he used to good e ...
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MOZART: Clarinet Concerto / Clarinet Quintet in A major
Martin Fröst, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Vertavo String Quartet, Peter Oundjian
Concertos - Released by BIS on Sep 1, 2003
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