Posts Tagged ‘Joe Banno’
HANDEL Mezzo-Soprano Opera Arias – Jun 30, 2010
Opera houses and record companies may be struggling, season after season, to find singers up to the demands of roles like Siegfried, Salome or [...]
LEONCAVALLO La Nuit de mai – Jun 23, 2010
Listeners who know Ruggiero Leoncavallo only as the one-hit-wonder who wrote Pagliacci will be in for a surprise when they hear Deutsche Grammophon’s new [...]
WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen – Jun 21, 2010
More than a few stage directors have wrecked themselves on the shoals of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen by settling for an epic sound-and-light [...]
GARRICK OHLSSON Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev – May 19, 2010
Listening to the opening measures of Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli on pianist Garrick Ohlsson’s new CD for Bridge, you would be [...]
GERALD FINLEY Great Operatic Arias – May 04, 2010
The Chandos label’s Opera in English series moves on apace with complete recordings of Debussy’s Pélleas et Mélisande and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos announced [...]
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe BRAHMS Lieder – Apr 21, 2010
Anyone wanting to sample baritone Simon Keenlyside’s credentials as a lieder singer need only listen to two Brahms songs on this latest recital disc [...]
