Among the many child prodigies that have made their mark in the history of music, Felix Mendelssohn is, along with Mozart, possibly the most impressive. By the age of fifteen he had already composed 13 string symphonies and a number of concertos, and his first ‘proper’ symphony was not far away. He wasn’t just highly productive, however – his contemporaries already recognized the high quality of the works he produced: ‘Felix Mendelssohn composes with the greatest conceivable ease and with inextinguishable abundance of spirit, the most difficult pieces…’ wrote a German reviewer in 1822. Both pieces recorded here were composed with Mendelssohn’s friend and violin teacher, Eduard Ritz, in mind. Felix himself premièred the Double Concerto in D minor with Ritz in May 1823 at one of the famous Sunday concerts at the Mendelssohn residence in Berlin, but except for a second outing later the same year, the work remained unperformed until 1957. Here the piano part – in turn quick-silvery and lyrical – is defended by the Russian-born pianist Polina Leschenko, making her first appearance on BIS. She is partnered by Richard Tognetti, artistic director and leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.  Tognetti also leads seven of his colleagues from the ACO in the String Octet in E flat major, which Mendelssohn composed as a birthday present for Eduard Ritz. Written two years after the concerto, the octet only received its first public performance in 1836 but quickly became immensely popular. Although it belongs to the genre of chamber music, Mendelssohn himself underlined that it was to be played ‘in symphonic orchestral style by all the instruments’. He also explored the orchestral potential of the work at a performance of his Symphony No.1 in 1829, replacing the symphony’s minuet with an expanded arrangement of the Octet’s scherzo.

• Wykonawca Leschenko Polina , Tognetti Richard
• Data premiery 2013-03-01
• Nośnik SACD

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) was one of the most innovative and original composers in early seventeenth-century Rome, and a virtuoso on the lute and chitarrone. In 1630 Kapsperger published his “Dialogo posto in musica” in Rome, with the title I Pastori di Bettelemme nella nascita di N. S. Giesu Christo (The Shepherds of Bethlehem at the birth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ). With this, he applied himself to a genre which, in the first decades of the seventeenth century, enjoyed an extraordinarily high popularity in Rome, and at the same time may be regarded as a forerunner of the oratorio: the sacred dialogue madrigal. Kapsperger sets the poetic text of Giulio Rospigliosi, the most distinguished poet in Rome, in a varied sequence of recitative and several strong choral settings. The layout of the recitative is wholly dictated by the content and structure of the language, and reveals Kapsperger as a master of monody. The choruses, with up to six voices, Kapsperger sets homophonically throughout. It is highly likely that the first performance of the “Shepherds of Bethlehem” took place within the framework of a magnificent banquet in one of the Papal palaces after Vespers on the 24th December. The express mention of the Pope in the libretto makes it probable that Urban VII himself was present at the performance.

• Wykonawca Ensemble Echo du Danube
• Data premiery 2010-11-01
• Nośnik SACD

Tracklista:1. Beyze Vintn 2. The Broken Tongue 3. Yestrday Is Buried (S'iz Nito Keyn Nekhtn) 4. Nakht Un Regn 5. Migrant Chorale 6. Ballad Of The "Jew's Whore" Marie Sanders 7. Birch Meadow/Birkenau 8. Unter Di Khurves Fun Poyln 9. Son Of Plenty 10. The Most Laementable Ballade of Edward The Young 11. Man Of Plenty 12. The Silver Window

• Wykonawca Kahn Daniel , The Painted Bird
• Data premiery 2010-06-10
• Nośnik CD

Zestaw największych przebojów z lat 50. i 60. w oryginalnych wykonaniach. Wśród wykonawców: Mazowsze, Chór Czejanda, Mieczysław Fogg .Na płycie: Ukochany kraj, Na prawo most, na lewo most, Budujemy nowy dom, Pójdę na Stare Miasto, Czerwony autobus, Do roboty, Warszawski dzień, Trzej przyjaciele z boiska, Wielka radość w Warszawie, Piosenka o Nowej Hucie, Jak przygoda to tylko w Warszawie, M. D.M., A tu jest Warszawa, Miliony rąk, Jest taki jeden skarb, To idzie młodość, Jak młode Stare Miasto, Piosenka Mariensztacka.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2006-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Oak Tree2. Extravagance3. Disappeared4. Photographing Rain5. Japan to Jupiter6. Wolves/Crowes7. No Longer Elastic8. I Wish It Would Snow9. Tiny Moments, Tiny Omens10. Today Is the Most Beautiful Day

• Wykonawca Kitchens of Distinction
• Data premiery 2013-10-14
• Nośnik CD / Album

Documentary about the Irish rock band U2. Starting out as four inexperienced teenagers in 1976, Paul Hewson (Bono), Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and David Evans (The Edge) began rehearsing songs for their new band. Four decades and 170 million album sales later they are still together and have become one of the most successful groups of all time with a record number of Grammy Awards to their name. Using archive footage and interviews with the band, this documentary looks at their successes within the music industry as well as their ongoing dedication to the world of philanthropy.

• Data premiery 2015-01-09
• Nośnik DVD

Tracklista:1. I Still Believe in Fairy Tales12. Just in Case3. Brown Paper Bag4. I Just Had You On My Mind5. Dallas6. I'll Take What You Can Give Me (When You Can)7. I'm Not a Has-been (I Just Never Was)8. The Man from Bowling Green9. The Bottle10. Your Memory's Gone to Rest11. 'Til I Can Make It On My Own13. He's Just an Old Love Turned Memory14. The World's Most Broken Heart15. If I Could Only Win Your Love16. The Heart17. You Can Be Replaced18. Love Is Something Good for Everybody20. Easy Come, Easy Go19. Where Some Good Love Has Been2. I Did My Best (To Fall in Love Last Night)

• Wykonawca Tammy Wynette
• Data premiery 2016-08-19
• Nośnik CD / Album

Born in Modena, a small town in northern Italy, Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) was the son of a baker and amateur tenor. He grew up surrounded by his father’s recordings of the day’s leading opera singers—including Giuseppe Di Stefano, Jan Kiepura, and Enrico Caruso—and he went on to become one of the most popular vocalists of all time. This collection features favorite arias from classic operas, including L’elisir d’amore, I Pagliacci, Luisa Miller, Don Giovanni, and Martha.

• Wykonawca Pavarotti Luciano
• Data premiery 2011-05-01
• Nośnik CD

Lawrence Power, Britain’s acknowledged greatest living viola player, continues his fascinating and acclaimed series of Hindemith’s complete viola music. This second disc features Hindemith’s solo viola sonatas. These works were all written for Hindemith himself to perform, and are thus are of special significance—as near to a personal testament, an intimate soliloquy, as exists in his multifarious and genre-spanning output. The shadow of Bach lies over any composer writing a solo string sonata, and this is clear in the Passacaglia Op 11 No 5 Sonata, where Hindemith’s ultimate model is unmistakably the famous D minor Chaconne from Bach’s second violin partita—but viewed through a post-Brahmsian sense of sonority and architecture that produces a truly contemporary result. This ardent (and arduous) movement, a most impressive compositional feat, is the first example of a form which was to be one of Hindemith’s trademarks throughout his career, and it makes the Sonata something of a personal manifesto of artistic ambition. In later sonatas the severity of Hindemith’s mature style becomes evident—but harnessed, here, to the extraordinary virtuosity of the composer-performer, it gives rise to the most exhilarating and eloquent music.'Power's performances - characterised by his trademark tonal richness and easy, almost nonchalant technical brilliance - leave no doubt about the weighty seriousness of the music, and its significance for Hindemith' (The Guardian)'Paul Hindemith, himself a major viola player, left one of the most important of 20th-century legacies for his own instrument, including the four solo sonatas recorded here. They make a protean collection … Op 25 No 1, written in 1922 when Hindemith was at his most radical, includes a movement marked “Wild. Tonal beauty is of minor importance.” Lawrence Power easily encompasses the many moods. He has a giant sound at his command – he can make the instrument sound as if it’s being played by a man striding with seven league boots – and he makes every moment gripping' (The Irish Times)

• Wykonawca Power Lawrence
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Celebratory concert for the 103rd birthday of American composer Elliott Carter. The last surviving pupil of Gustav Holst, Carter chose to mark the occasion with three world premieres and a concert. With noted performers Rolf Schulte, Richard O'Neill and Fred Sherry, the concert features some of Carter's most well-known works as well as brand new music and, of course, the obligatory 'Happy Birthday' sung by the audience.

• Data premiery 2013-01-25
• Nośnik DVD