classical music: Juliane Banse

classical music: Juliane Banse

classical music:

Juliane Banse

Jon Villars, Alan Held

EMI Classics, 2003

Disagree about Angela Denoke.
While generally agreeing with Mr. R. Levine's evaluation, I take strong exception to his comment on Angela Denoke. She is a wonderful heroic soprano, perfect for the role. Her passionate, emotionally charged voice blends beautifully in the ensembles and shines in her ...

Viola da gamba concertata
Carl Friedrich Abel, Georg Philipp Telemann, ...

Raum Klang, 2000

Penderecki: Credo
Thomas Quasthoff, Krzysztof Penderecki, ...

Haenssler, 1998

Lehar - Der Graf von Luxemburg / Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Gabriela Bone, Alfred Eschwe, ...

Franz Lehar, Michael Schottenberg

Cpo Records, 2006

beautiful music
The story is a little bit silly and some of the comedy can fall flat. But the music is wonderful and the cast sings it this way. They also are excellent actors who can really make one believe in love. It helps that I understand German.

The Songs of Robert Schumann, Vol. 3
Adelbert von Chamisso, Elisabeth Kulmann, ...

Hyperion UK, 1999

Kafka-Fragmente Op. 24
Gyorgy Kurtag, Juliane Banse, ...

Ecm Records, 2006

Robert Schumann - Genoveva (Opernhaus Zurich)

Juliane Banse, Shawn Mathey

Arthaus Musik, 2008

Genoveva rediscovered
I have seen this production live at the Zurich opera house february 2008. Musically, people tend to think of Schumann as the composer of small miniatures. As a result, he is not easily associated with larger orchestral works such as Szenen aus Goethe`s Faust and ...

Schubert - Fierrabras

Jonas Kaufmann, Juliane Banse

EMI, 2007

Schubert's Brain...
...is the setting for this rare production by the often innovative Zurich Opera House. The stage is Schubert's own music room, with Schubert himself in the throes of composing an opera, Fierrabras to be, on a story he has hardly begun to resolve himself. Schubert ...

Alban Berg Collection / Various (Coll)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sabine Meyer, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

Real Estate Saver
This little box is an elegant, SPACE-SAVING means of acquiring classic performances (all of them stellar) from the DG catalog of Berg's major works, including two by my adored Lasalle Quartet that I believe have recently gone OOP. The set contains eight CD's housed in ...

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Kreizberg, Cachemaille, Martinpelto, Page, Ainsley, Pieczonka, Banse, Glyndebourne

Gilles Cachemaille, Steven Page (II)

Kultur Video, 2004

Gripping, modern, original instruments
The production is stark, the costumes modern, the acting dramatic and exciting, the singing for the most part is superb, the orchestral sound is incisive, sharp and compelling. Altogether a gripping and committed performance of an old war horse. Also great video mix ...

The Hyperion Schubert Edition 36 ~ An 1827 Schubertiad / Banse, Finley, Schade, Dawson, G. Johnson

Gerald Finley, Paul Robinson, ...

Hyperion UK, 2000

A Fulfilling Evening of Schubert Songs
For those unexposed to the enormous undertaking by Hyperion records to record all of the songs and song cycles of Franz Schubert, this superb CD is a fine way to discover. Schubert's range of vocal writing was immense and though many of his songs are de rigueur on the ...

Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-9; Adagio

Gustav Mahler, Michael Gielen, ...

Hanssler Classics, 2005

Gielen's Mahler not to be missed
Mahler's time has now surely come. His symphonies, rare in performance and rarer on record until a half century after his death, have become a glut in the age of compact discs, with multiple complete cycles vying for attention. Even so, a true Mahler aficionado has ...

Mahler - Symphony No. 8 / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rattle

Gustav Mahler, Simon Rattle, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

BBC's Mahler Symphony #8 is BREATHTAKING!
This performance was broadcast on DirecTV's HD channel and I sat on the edge on my chair throughout the whole performance! Even though I'm waiting for the release of the DVD, it has to be as brilliant as the original broadcast! If you love Mahler, you'll love this DVD, ...

Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, Anibal Troilo, ...

EMI Classics France, 2003

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, The Resurrection / Gielen, SWR Sinfonieorchester

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gustav Mahler, ...

Hanssler Classics, 2000

Unusual fillers with a warhorse
To tell the truth, I have five or six recordings of this Mahler and hardly needed another, but Gielen's came out shortly around the time I heard one of its fillers, performed live. Kurtag's Stele is an amazing work, a 15-minute funeral ode, and I've heard few pieces ...