Malena Maleeva

While studying the composer's archives, Darina Maleeva discovered Melancolie, a late work by Cesar Franck. She gave the first performance in Europe, Japan and the United States. Lemoine Editions published the work in her own revision in 2002.This CD also presents two other little-known and fascinating pieces by the young Cesar Franck, as well as a deeply sensitive interpretation of the famous Sonata. Darina Maleeva and Xavier Lecomte de la Bretonnerie present here a unique program of rare and unpublished works by Cesar Franck.

A genius with the ability to combine French and Italian influences in an art that transported the English language, Purcell may be William Christie's favourite composer.This production of Dido and Aeneas, directed by Deborah Warner and interpreted by Les Arts Florissants, was overwhelmingly acclaimed when created at the Vienna Festival in 2006 and again when repeated at the Opéra Comique in 2008.This short opera, one of the earliest, is particularly dear to William Christie who has recorded and directed it on several occasions.

BIS has previously released two discs with Malmö Symphony Orchestra performing symphonies by Gösta Nystroem (1890–1966). The cycle is completed with the present CD, which contains the first of the composer's six symphonies, Sinfonia breve, as well as the third, and perhaps most well-known, Sinfonia del mare.