Browse: Barry Banks (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Barry Banks.
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Rossini: Semiramide
RecommendedAlbina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder
Semiramide has more than its share of grandness, and in the trumpet-crowned procession as the Queen of Babylon prepares to announce her choice of king you can't help but hear a pre-echo of Verdi's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th September 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 6th October 2018, Recording of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Opera, January 2019, Disc of the Month
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (19th century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera
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Elgar: King Olaf RecommendedEmily Birsan (soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Collegium Musicum Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Sir Andrew Davis
there's nothing stilted about Elgar's music: it crackles with confident vitality...the Norwegian choruses respond with crisp vigour and superb English diction, only faintly (and appropriately)... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Julian Orlishausen (baritone), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Minnesota Chorale, National Lutheran Choir, Minnesota Boychoir, Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo...
the trio of ‘penitent women’, dynamically careful, is a real beauty…The amateur choruses catch the fervour of the event, and a seraphic trumpet distinguishes the final massive optimism. — More…
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London choral singing has been among the best in the world. Here it is transcendent. No tempo is too fast, no dynamics too challenging, no high notes too fearsome—the two choruses sail though... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 18th December 2021, Record of the Week
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Mozart: The Magic Flute Barry Banks (Tamino), Rebecca Evans (Pamina), Elizabeth Vidal (Queen of the Night), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), John Tomlinson (Sarastro), Lesley Garrett (Papagena), John Graham-Hall (Monostatos)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Of all repertoire operas, none gains more than The Magic Flute from performance in the language of the audience. Musically, the performance is hard to fault. Articulation is light and buoyant,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Editor's Choice
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Donizetti: The Elixir of Love RecommendedBarry Banks (Nemorino), Mary Plazas (Adina), Ashley Holland (Belcore), Andrew Shore (Dulcamara)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
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Building a Library, April 2002, English Language Version
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Puccini - Il Trittico
RecommendedNeil Shicoff, Maria Guleghia, Carlo Guelfi, Christian Gallardo-Domas, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Dorothea Röschmann, Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, José van Damm
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
No previous recordings bring such warmth or beauty or so powerful a drawing of the contrasts between each of the three one-acters in Puccini's triptych as these. It's Pappano above all, with... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2005, Highly Recommended
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Barry Banks (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Colin Davis
The St Paul's acoustic is something to be reckoned with...and it is striking to observe how careful Davis is to allow for the famous echo...There's some lovely orchestral detail...The chorus... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36 (sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor) & Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Composed in the wake of (and influenced by) Mendelssohn's epoch-making performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Paulus is an impressive work whose punchy choruses bring out the best in Hickox. — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Utah Symphony Orchestra, Mormon Tabernacle Choir with The Madeleine Choir School, Thierry Fischer
Fischer has a fine grasp of the work’s structure, so that the first movement’s conclusion is truly climactic. He is able, too, to sculpt Mahler’s huge second-movement Goethe setting with real... — More…
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