This three-disc set initially seems more suited to the Naxos label, which has specialized in exhaustive resurrections of the music of forgotten composers, than to the top-of-the-line Swedish imprint BIS, with its frequent emphasis on the virtuoso ideal. On closer hearing, however, the set emerges as at least tangential to their mission. Franz ...
Soprano Barbara Hendricks, who was born in Arkansas and lives in Stockholm, has in many of her recordings a hint of the power of the gospel music in which she was trained. This disc of songs by Francis Poulenc is for the most part a different story. Most of the songs are of chamber dimensions and are very short -- minimal glimpses of love, or, in ...
Israeli-born Swedish flutist Sharon Bezaly has been in the forefront of a group of players who have rediscovered the virtuoso literature of the flute (and other instruments) from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in France especially. She yields to no one in the technical arena, flawlessly executing the circular-breathing ...
Caveat emptor...while the vast majority of SACDs released nowadays are two-layer hybrid versions that are playable on all CD players, this little oddity on the BIS label is SACD only. The reason for this is simple enough; with a single-layer SACD, BIS is able to put the complete concertos of Mendelssohn (more than four hours of recorded music) on ...
Leif Segerstam's 2007 box set of Alexander Scriabin's orchestral works brings together recordings from 1989 to 1991 that were previously released as single CDs. This fact is only pertinent for those who care about dating their collections, for in all other respects these recordings sound as fresh, clear, deep, and vibrant as anything recorded ...
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