BIS RECORDS

Romeo

Tchaikovsky at the Piano

1SACD# BIS-2198

$19.99

Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

1SACD# BIS-2579

$19.99

Music for Cornetto & Keyboard / Seicento Stravagante

1SACD# BIS-2526

$19.99

Saint-Saëns: Sonatas for Violin & Piano

1SACD# BIS-2489

$19.99

Aho: Concertos for Violin & Cello

1SACD# BIS-2466

$19.99

Hadjidakis: Paper Moon

1SACD# BIS-2636

$19.99

Palumbo: Woven Lights

1CD# BIS-2625

$19.99

Shostakovich: Works Unveiled

1SACD# BIS-2550

$19.99

Netzel, Sandström & Tarrodi: Piano Concertos

1SACD# BIS-2576

$19.99

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

1SACD# BIS-2569

$19.99

1SACD# BIS-2568

$19.99

Mozart: The Prussian Quartets

1SACD# BIS-2558 $19.99

1SACD# BIS-2535 $19.99

Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 2

1SACD# BIS-2524

$19.99

Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony No. 3

1SACD# BIS-2615

$19.99

Martzy: Violin Concertos & Sonatas [6 CDs]

This program forms a journey from dusk to dawn and guides us through various nights as described by several composers of the 16th century. Janequin, Lassus, Palestrina, Guerrero and their Franco-Flemish, Italian and Spanish colleagues lead us as we explore these nights, sometimes dark and terrifying, sometimes radiant with starlight, tranquil, and filled with love. (Profil)

6CD# PH22080 $22.99

45 Compositions / Musiques Mouvelles

[6 CDs]

The publication of this anniversary box set celebrating 60 years of Musiques Nouvelles, a true collector’s item, brings the 30-year collection of Cypres to a close in the most beautiful way. The 45 masterpieces recorded here reflect the beautiful aesthetic plurality of the creative music composed in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles during the decade 2012–2022. (Cypres)

6CD# CYP8621 $49.99

Reinecke: Complete Works for Two Pianos [3 CDs]

Carl Reinecke became known not least for his piano works, in which he reveals his style rooted in Romanticism. He wrote not only for solo piano, but also for piano four hands and for two pianos. The piano duo Genova & Dimitrov have now discovered this group of works for themselves and describe Reinecke as “one of the greatest surprises and discoveries of our musical path”. (CPO)

3CD# 555454-2 $33.99

Mahler: Welt und Traum (Audiobiography) [4 CDs]

Gustav Mahler’s life is the story of a triumphant career. Cheered as a conductor, admired and met with hostility as an operatic stage director, as a composer he remained misunderstood. In his ten-part audiobiography, Jörg Hanstein tells Mahler’s story before the background of a high-tension era, colorful and multi-voiced, factually correct and close to the sources. (BR Klassik)

4CD# BRK900901 $34.99

Wilhelm Backhaus Edition [5 CDs]

“There was never a time when Backhaus could not toss off any or all of the Chopin études or the Brahms-Paganini variations with an imperturbable calm, an implacable security that left one open-mouthed. Not everyone, for only the pianists really knew what was happening before their eyes and ears, knew how to measure such achievement. There they all sat, in breathless astonishment and envy and despair.”

– Gerhard Melchert (Profile)

5CD# PH23001 $22.99

Complete RCA Album Collection / Boston Symphony Chamber Players [10 CDs]

Sony Classical is pleased to present all the Boston Symphony Chamber Player’s 1960s RCA recordings for the first time on album. The BSO’s ensemble of first-chair players is led here by its patrician concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, one of the finest American violinists of his generation as well as a highly regarded conductor and teacher. (Sony)

10CD# 19439946802 $49.98

Brahms: Complete Symphonies [3 CDs]

Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present Brahms’s Complete Symphonies on Pentatone. These recordings, made between 2019 and 2021, have already met with extraordinary critical acclaim. BBC Music Magazine praised the performance of the First Symphony as “splendid and inspiring”, praising Blomstedt’s “wonderfully controlled performances”. (Pentatone)

3CD# PTC5186978 $29.99

A Vaughan Williams Anthology [8 CDs]

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of Britain’s most illustrious composers, and this specially curated selection of works demonstrates the sheer breadth of his achievement. As a major 20th century symphonist he is represented by four of his nine symphonies, all in critically acclaimed recordings. (Naxos)

8CD# 8508021 $54.99

The Complete Wilhelm Furtwangler on Record [55

CDs]

Wilhelm Furtwängler is one of the great conductors of the 20th century, a towering point of reference for performers and audiences. The unparalleled scope of this 55-CD set makes it an essential for the musiclover. Not only is it the first collection to unite Furtwängler’s entire catalogue of studio recordings, it also encompasses every live recording he made with a view to commercial release. (Warner)

55CD# MOB232405 $159.99

Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies [6 CDs]

Sergey Prokofiev’s seven symphonies are acknowledged as one of the major cycles of the 20th century. From the crisp vitality of the youthful ‘Classical’ Symphony to the viscerally exciting Third, the Fifth Symphony, and the deeply moving and heartfelt Sixth Symphony, this is an unforgettable collection crowned by the bittersweet Seventh Symphony, the composer’s final significant work. (Naxos)

6CD# 8506038 $49.99

Bruckner: The 9 Symphonies / Blomstedt [10 CDs]

Bruckner’s symphonies are strenuous alpine hikes, and Blomstedt is a mountain guide who not only has the next fork in the road in mind but knows every stone on the path. Blomstedt’s unique Bruckner cycle impressively reflects the extraordinary spirit of the long-standing partnership between the legendary conductor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. (Accentus)

Wanda Landowska Plays Bach, Mozart, Handel, Scarlatti & Rameau

[10 CDs]

The conductor Arthur Nikisch described Wanda Landowska as the high priestess of the harpsichord, “prima clavicembalista assoluta” and “Bachante”, not least on account of her intensive Bach studies. Her concert activities, her influence as a teacher and her many publications and record releases assured Landowska of a central role in the revival of 17th– and 18th–century music for harpsichord. (Profil)

10CD# PH22027 $34.99

10CD# ACC80575

$89.99

Stenhammar: The String Quartets [3 CDs]

Composed between 1894 and 1916 Wilhelm Stenhammar’s body of six numbered string quartets is considered unique among Scandinavian music of its time, both in its consistency and in its musical aspirations. Together, the quartets reflect the composer’s development, from full-blown Romanticism to a more sparse and formally concentrated idiom that distances itself from late-Romantic conventions. (BIS)

3SACD# BIS-2709 $39.99

Mozart: Die verstellte Gartnerin [3 CDs]

A true rarity is this German version of Mozart’s “Finta gardiniera.”

5 years ago, the Munich Radio Orchestra under Andrew Parrott performed Mozart’s singspiel “Die verstellte Gärtnerin” – the rarely performed German version of “Finta gardiniera”. When this opera was first performed, Mozart was 19 years old – an age at which most composers had not even begun. (CPO)

3CD# 555386-2 $33.99

Mendelssohn: 12 Early Symphonies

[4 CDs]

In 1970 Kurt Masur took over the direction of one of the best orchestras in Germany and the world: the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. One year later, in 1971, these recordings of the 12 Youth Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy were made. They are testimony to the emergence of a fruitful artistic relationship between Kapellmeister and musicians that was to last 26 years. (Berlin Classics)

4CD# 0302855BC $29.99

Bach: Cantatas, Motets & Organ Music

[6 CDs]

In 2012–14, these six albums were issued as individual books, in which format they attracted praise both for the depth of their insights and the excellence of the performances. This box makes them available once again, with a new introductory essay by Peter Quantrill in the booklet. (Brilliant Classics)

6CD# BRI96434 $59.99

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies [5 CDs]

Maestro Marek Janowski and the WDR Symphony Orchestra present a new recording of Beethoven’s complete symphonies, the ultimate symphonic oeuvre in all thinkable respects. With this integral recording, Janowski and the orchestra finish a project that started with an acclaimed rendition of the 5th and 6th symphonies, released in 2019. (Pentatone)

5CD# PTC5186860 $33.99

Camille Saint-Saëns Edition [34 CDs]

Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille SaintSaëns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist. Setting his best-known compositions in their dazzlingly diverse context, this edition invites exploration and discovery. It spans more than a century of recording history, encompassing a host of great instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and orchestras. (Warner)

34CD# MOB746048 $99.99

Glenn Gould Plays Mozart Piano Sonatas [4 CDs]

Between 1966 and 1974, Glenn Gould paid repeated visits to Columbia’s New York studio to record the piano sonatas of Mozart. Often revelatory, sometimes quirky, but always stimulating, these controversial readings tell us as much about the performer’s own endlessly fascinating musical mind and his conflicting attitudes to Mozart as they do about the composer’s genius at the keyboard. (Sony)

4CD# 19439917892 $22.98

Leroy Anderson: Complete Orchestral Works [5 CDs]

Leroy Anderson occupies a unique place in American music. Rigorously trained in the classical tradition, Anderson wrote tunes that topped the pop charts, making compositions such as “Sleigh Ride” and “The Typewriter” world famous. This first set of Anderson’s orchestral music includes several previously unpublished pieces, with world premiere recordings included among many familiar and not so familiar titles. (Naxos)

5CD# 8505259 $39.99