C lassical music has been in the news this month, with the launch of Apple Music’s new classical-specific streaming app and Universal Music Group’s purchase of classical label Hyperion Records.

Ward Marston’s label meticulously conserves and releases old recordings of giants like pianist Wilhelm Kempff as well as little-known figures such as soprano Celestina Boninsegna.

Following the latest transaction, BIS will become part of Apple Music Classical and its artist services business Platoon.

Apple’s New Classical Platform Offers Easier Points of Entry for Both Hardcore Listeners and the Merely Middlebrow: App Review In giving Apple Music Classical a test spin, a user finds the app ...

But this record, drawn from rehearsal disks and tapes,*shows that the passion and honesty he brought to all music could lift the players to a remarkable pitch of performance.

Apple has recently purchased BIS Records, a Swedish record company, for the iPhone maker's Apple Music Classical app. Learn more.

The 50-year old Nordic record label will bolster Apple Music Classical's catalog.

Inducted as the newest voting member of the Grammy Awards’ Recording Academy, tabla virtuoso Avirodh Sharma on the American ...

BIS Records, which has been around for 50 years, is the leading record label for classical music in Scandinavia. It was founded in 1973 by von Bahr and is located in Åkersberga, Sweden.

More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year. But when you look at classical music, it’s been a stubborn hold-out, accounting ...

Bartok: Mikrokosmos (Gyorgy Sandor, pianist; Columbia, 3 LPs). All of the 153 little pieces that Bartok intended for his son Peter. The music acquaints the player—or the listener—with ...