Music for Several Instruments

Septets by Beethoven and Berwald In the world of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, it's not Schroeder who's most like Beethoven, but the...

Missy Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright & other works Though John Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost , his description of Go...

Kurt Weill: Two Symphonies, Der Silbersee excerpts Der Silbersee was Kurt Weill's European swan-song; premiered in Berlin in February 1...

 J. S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos 3, 4, 6 & 7 This is the second release from BIS of Bach Harpsichord Concertos by Masato Suzuki and Ba...

  Allan Pettersson: Symphony 15; Viola Concerto This is the final release in the BIS series of Allan Pettersson's Symphonies, with Chris...

 Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Works In the score for his 2011  Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello , Harrison Birtwistle adds the first secti...

Handel: Six Concerti Grossi, op. 3 Handel may not have planned this grouping of concertos himself, but the collection we know as Opus 3 is s...

Beethoven: Piano Trios op. 1 no. 3 and op. 70 no. 2 The three piano trios that Beethoven published as opus 1, and especially the third ...

Bach: St. Matthew Passion A new decade is a time for new beginnings, so this release is well-timed: it's a second recording of the ...

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 Those of you who follow my reviews know that my favourite large recording project is BIS's series of Bach...

Holst: The Planets; Elgar: Enigma Variations The presentation of Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations in 1899 single-handedly destroye...

Francisco de Peñalosa: Lamentationes; works by Francisco Guerrero & Pedro de Escobar Francisco de Peñalosa is the link between the ...

Can Çakmur: piano music by Beethoven/Liszt, Haydn, Schubert, Say, Sasaki, Bartok After the artificial rigours of the international pian...

Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto no. 2, Symphony no. 17, fragment Allan Pettersson wrote his Second Violin Concerto just after he com...

Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Works for Piano Concertante I was excited when I saw that Ronald Brautigam was making a new rec...

Tan Dun: Fire Ritual, violin concertos Tan Dun's Fire Ritual is a violin concerto which evokes the many victims of wars. Both as c...

J. S. Bach: Cantatas of contentment. Ich bin in wir vergnugt, BWV 204; Angelehmes Wiederau, BWV 30a Series finales can leave one puzzle...

Allan Pettersson: Symphonies 5, 7 Christian Lindberg continues on his way to a new complete Pettersson symphonies cycle for BIS, for  T...

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis At the top of the autograph score of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis the composer wrote the motto "From t...

Respighi: Vetrate Di Chiesa, Il Tramonto, Trittico Botticelliano As with earlier discs in this Respighi series from BIS,  John Neschlin...