BIS

Dausgaard homes in on Mendelssohn’s fiery energy, setting the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s playing satisfactorily ablaze. The approach pays dividends in No. 1, which f lares out in brilliant... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Concerto for Two Violins was composed at the end of the second world war, though Skalkottas never wrote out a full score...It's an extraordinarily dense and ambitious piece...The two-piano... — The Guardian, 19th September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Matre’s rather delicate work [preSage] inhabits, compellingly, an unique expressive and musical landscape, beautifully caught by Gupta and the Stavangerans…the [Violin] Concerto is a vivid beguiling... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

The flexibility and assertiveness of his singing is best heard in excitable arias featuring storms or revenge…That said one of the best tracks here is Handel's superb aria for Cleopatra, 'Se... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances (set down as long ago as 2005) are uniformly top-notch, with Susanna Mälkki eliciting consistently alert and finely honed results from the Stavanger SO...BIS's sound is excitingly... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

This entire collection is dark, thrilling and terrifying. Leifs has a direct way with melody, which despite its irregularities often has a pleasing, Reger-like geography…at his best, Finnur... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…