50 years ago today: A label is born
NewsToday, 50 years ago, a record labal booked its first taxi and headed down to Stockholm Synagogue to record BIS-LP-1. The label owner and album producer was Robert von Bahr, a singing teacher at the Royal Stockholm Academy of Music.
Robert, still making records, will turn 80 in a couple of weeks.
Over the next 2,750 releases, Bis has led the line in recording symphonic cycles by Shostakovich and Schnittke, the complete works of Sibelius and the cantatas of Bach, as well as quite a few Nordic composers from Allan Pettersson to Kalevi Aho… in all a unique achievement.
And every single release has been kept in stock.
Anyone care to guess the repertoire on BIS-LP-1?
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