Angela Hewitt takes a well-deserved break from her mammoth Bach and Couperin surveys to present us with this enthralling set of Chopin’s most distinguished piano pieces – the complete Nocturnes and Impromptus. Between 1830 and 1846 Chopin wrote eighteen Nocturnes that were published more or less in the order in which they were written. By spanning almost his entire creative life, they give us a marvellous opportunity to see not only how his early works were already totally inspired and original, but also how his style and emotional maturity developed through the years. The four Impromptus date from 1835 to 1842. The title suggests improvisation; they might very well have been conceived as such initially, but we know that Chopin went through agonies when it came to writing a musical idea down. He would often spend six weeks on a page, only to return to what he had written in the first place. You wouldn’t know it listening to these pieces. They are full of vitality and freshness, and carry us along with great fluidity. Hewitt’s performances are every bit as fresh as one would expect from the pianist hailed as ‘one of the reliably mesmerising musicians of the day’, with ‘the ability to convey a spiritual seriousness that nonetheless does not exclude an utter charm’ (The Sunday Times). This new recording is available in multichannel hybrid SACD and conventional CD formats

• Wykonawca Hewitt Angela
• Data premiery 2004-01-01
• Nośnik CD

It was during an extended visit to Mannheim in 1777 that Mozart became friendly with the oboist Friedrich Ramm, a member of the famous Mannheim orchestra which was widely acknowledged as the finest in Europe (‘an army of generals’ as Charles Burney remarked). Earlier the same year Mozart had composed his Oboe Concerto, and impressed by Ramm’s ability, he now played the work through to him on the piano. Although Mozart had written it for another player, Ramm was to make it his own: by 14 February 1778 he had performed it no less than five times – ‘a great sensation…Ramm’s cheval de bataille’ as Mozart described it. Mozart later found occasion to compose especially for Ramm – the Oboe Quartet was written as a celebration of his virtuosity, and significantly challenged the boundaries of the possible on the contemporary oboe. As principal oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and an international soloist in his own right, Alexei Ogrintchouk may well be said to be the Friedrich Ramm of our day – also on BIS, his performances of J.S. Bach’s oboe concertos was judged to be ‘as astonishing as it is successful’ on the web site klassik-heute.de, with a sound described as ‘generous, rounded, warm and velvety’ in Classica. He here performs these pillars of the oboe repertoire with the support of the renowned Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in the concerto and in the company of three highly respected young string players in the quartet. To round off the programme Alexei has called in his father, the pianist Leonid Ogrintchouk, and together the two perform a transcription of the Violin Sonata in B flat major, K 378, composed during the same period as the two other works on this disc.

• Wykonawca Ogrintchouk Alexei , Rysanov Maxim , Blaumane Kristina , Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
• Data premiery 2013-03-01
• Nośnik SACD

Antonio Vivaldi is by far the most prolific composer of concertos in musical history; around 475 of his concertos have survived. As a celebrated and virtuoso violinist, it is not surprising that he composed mainly for violin, either as soloist or in the concertante group. But Vivaldi also demonstrated a keen interest in other melodic instruments of the period, enriching their repertoire with imaginative and virtuosic compositions. His second choise of solo instrument is, surprisingly, not the oboe, well-known in Venice at the time, nor the transverse flute, immensely popular all over Europe after 1720, nor even the cello, but the bassoon. His 39 concertos for bassoon with strings and continuo remain somewhat of an enigma. They are the first such works in history and there is no indication for whom they are written nor why there are so many. It is possible that they were written for a student virtuoso at the Ospedale della Pietà, where Vivaldi served intermittently throughout his career, and one visitor indeed listed the bassoon among the instruments he heard there, but there are no records of a bassoon teacher nor of the purchase of any such instrument. Furthermore, the instrument is conspicuously absent even among those typical Pietà showcases of rare instruments such as the oratorio Juditha Triumphans of 1716.

• Wykonawca Berkhout Frans Robert , La Suave Melodia
• Data premiery 2011-08-01
• Nośnik CD

This 59th volume of the Romantic Piano Concerto series features Jonathan Plowright, whose brilliant and utterly idiomatic performances of Romantic Polish piano music have confirmed him as a master of this repertoire. Here he collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Łukasz Borowicz to perform three very obscure but fascinating works. The music of Żeleński has already been championed by Plowright in a disc of Polish chamber music (see below); now he performs his Piano Concerto in E flat major, which was written in 1903 and dedicated to the young Ignacy Friedman, who gave the premiere the following year. A Piano Concerto in A flat major by Aleksander Zarzycki is also included, plus his barnstorming Grande Polonaise, an outrageous masterpiece which is unknown even in specialist piano circles.

• Wykonawca Plowright Jonathan
• Data premiery 2013-03-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Intro - Dissected2. Written By Death3. Back from Hell4. Future Talks5. Biological Green Mutation - Outro

• Wykonawca Emortualis
• Data premiery 2017-09-29
• Nośnik CD

Using a reduced orchestra, unusually without any lower brass, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is influenced by the trend to revive the classical style of Haydn and Mozart, as a reaction against the monumental ‘Wagnerian’ romanticism of its predecessors. The work is based around the final movement, written some years earlier – its childish and naïve text giving shape to the other movements.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
• Nośnik SACD

"The Blue Notebooks" to jeden z najpopularniejszych albumów Maxa Richtera. Do tej pory, sprzedało się ponad 100 tysięcy egz. tej płyty, która, w samym tylko Spotify, była też odtwarzana ponad 91 milionów razy! Album zawiera słynne utwory: "Vladimir’s Blues" (37 milionów odtworzeń na Spotify), "Written on the Sky" (31 milionów) oraz "On the Nature of Daylight" (13 milionów). Oprócz wielkiej popularności w serwisach streamingowych, muzyka z "The Blue Notebooks" była wielokrotnie użyta w filmach, telewizji i reklamach. Z okazji 15 rocznicy premiery albumu, Deutsche Grammophon wydaje jego nową edycję. Krążek ukazuje się w nowej szacie graficznej, zawiera też mnóstwo materiałów bonusowych, takich jak nowe aranżacje, remiksy oraz jeden premierowy, niepublikowany dotąd, utwór. Album ukazuje się w wielu formatach – 2CD, 2LP oraz w wersji Super Deluxe (z dołączonym notatnikiem). "The Blue Notebooks" zostało skomponowane w 2003 roku, a inspiracją do powstania albumu była niezgoda na inwazję w Iraku. Max Richter opisał krążek jako "protest przeciw działaniom w Iraku, zadumę nad kwestią przemocy – zarówno tej, której doświadczyłem osobiście jako dziecko, jak i tej, która dotyka ludzi podczas konfliktów zbrojnych." Album został zarejestrowany tydzień po masowych ulicznych protestach antywojennych. Na płycie znalazły się fragmenty "The Blue Octavo Notebooks" Franza Kafki oraz "Hymnu o Perle" i "Nieobjętej Ziemi" Czesława Miłosza. Czyta je brytyjska aktorka – Tilda Swinton. "The Blue Notebooks" w filmach: Utwory "Shadow Journal" i "Organum" zostały użyte w ścieżce dźwiękowej animowanego dokumentu "Walc z Baszirem". (2008) "On the Nature of Daylight" to utwór bardzo popularny w świecie kina. Pojawił się w "Nowym Początku" Denisa Villeneuve’a (2016); "Niewinnych" Anne Fontaine (2016) "Twarzy Anioła" Michaela Winterbottoma (2014), "Rozłączonych" Henry’ego Alexa Rubina (2012), a także "Przypadku Harrolda Cricka" (2006). Po utwór ten sięgnął również Martin Scorsese, który wykorzystał go w swoim przebojowym filmie "Wyspa Tajemnic". Tracklista: CD 1  The Blue Notebooks (Original) 1. The Blue Notebooks 2. On The Nature Of Daylight 3. Horizon Variations 4. Shadow Journal 5. Iconography 6. Vladimir's Blues 7. Arboretum 8. Old Song 9. Organum 10. The Trees 11. Written On The Sky CD 2 1. A Catalogue of Afternoons 2. On the Nature of Daylight (Orchestra Version) 3. Vladimir’s Blues (2018) 4. On the Nature of Daylight (Entropy)  Remixes 4. Iconography (Konx-Om-Pax Remix) 5. Vladimir´s Blues (Jlin Remix)

• Wykonawca Richter Max
• Data premiery 2018-05-25
• Nośnik CD

Described in International Record Review as 'an absolutely instinctive Mozartian, with fleet fingerwork to match any, and with melodic playing of consummate beauty', Ronald Brautigam returns with the third instalment in his series of Mozart’s piano concertos. As on the two previous discs, he is joined by the period band Die Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens, forming a partnership described on website klassik-heute.de as ‘Mozart interpreters of the first order’. The present disc includes Piano Concerto No.26 in D major, K 537, nicknamed the ‘Coronation Concerto’ on the basis of the slightly misleading information given on the title page of the first edition of the work, stating that the work was ‘performed by the composer at Frankfurt-am-Main on the occasion of the Coronation of Emperor Leopold II’, in October 1790. Mozart did in fact perform the work in Frankfurt, but the concert took place a week after the actual coronation, and was not part of the official festivities. Nor was it written for the occasion – Mozart had in fact premièred it the previous year, in Vienna. Popular for its beauty and rococo style, it is here preceded by Piano Concerto No.17 in G major, K 453, one of the rare concertos that Mozart composed with another soloist than himself in mind. Written for and premièred by his student Barbara Ployer, it is also unusual in that Mozart cast its last movement as a set of variations, with a bourrée-like theme developed at a helter-skelter pace, similar to an operatic scene unfolding on stage.

• Wykonawca Die Kolner Akademie , Brautigam Ronald
• Data premiery 2012-09-01
• Nośnik SACD

"Iced Earth"1. Iced Earth 5:23    2. Written On The Walls 6:08   3. Colors 4:50   4. Curse The Sky 4:45    5. Life And Death 6:08    6. Solitude 1:44    7. Funeral 6:16    8. When The Night Falls 8:44

• Wykonawca Iced Earth
• Data premiery 2011-03-07
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. The Citizen2. Man And The Machine3. Just Galileo And Me4. No Man’s Land5. The Great Depression6. Empire7. Age Of The Atom8. Trail Of Tears9. Escape Velocity10. A Theory All It's Own11. Written In The Centuries

• Wykonawca Sherwood Billy
• Data premiery 2015-11-06
• Nośnik CD