TONY BANKS
Banks: 18 Pieces for Orchestra Martin Robertson, Charlie Siem, Tony Banks, Frank Ricotti, John Barclay, Skaila Kanga [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Famous for his role as the keyboard player in rock band Genesis and as a solo artist, Tony Banks was always fascinated by the idea of writing orchestral music. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Minnesota Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] For its final concert of the 2021-22 season and Osmo Vänskä's last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler's mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a... |
Banks Arcade
Future Lovers [ Unified / CD - released 29/Jul/2022 ] New Zealand natives Banks Arcade are a 5-piece bringing a fresh dose of modern heavy. From the hard-hitting aural hues and thematics of "Be Someone", the oscillating additions of metal, electronic and beyond of "Wine", "Don't Start", and the hip... |
Banks
III [ Universal Music / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Albina Shagimuratova, Daniela Barcellona, Mirco Palazzi, Barry Banks, Gianluca Buratto / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Opera |
BANKS
The Altar [ Harvest / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] The follow up to Goddess was premiered by Zane Lowe with the first single 'Fuck With Myself' on which Banks gets straight to the point and it is haunting: "So I fuck with myself more than anybody else" she sings in that voice that's been alternately... |
Tony Banks
A Curious Feeling [ Esoteric / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] |
Tony Banks
The Fugitive - Hardback Deluxe Edition [ Esoteric / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: King Olaf / The Banner of Saint George Emily Birsan, Barry Banks, Alan Opie, Bergen Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2015 ] "The Chandos sound is full-blooded and excellent in every respect... for this project Ralph Couzens was assisted by Gunner Herleif Nilsen of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; between them they've produced very fine results." (MusicWeb Feb '15) |
Banks
Goddess [ EMI Capitol / CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] |
Banks
Goddess (Deluxe) [ Capitol / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] The debut album from Banks includes nine new tracks as well as underground favourites 'Waiting Game', 'Brain', 'This Is What It Feels Like', 'Change' and 'Warm Water'. Produced by frequent collaborator Lil Silva, it's a powerful mission statement... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Barry Banks (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] "..the combined LSO and LPO choirs - singing beautifully and bringing out the music's profound sadness - is wonderfully enhanced. Colin Davis fits the work to the conditions with a master hand. Memorable." (Sunday Times) |
Paul Banks
Banks [ Matador / CD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] Banks is a 10-song album from the Interpol singer that is a tour-de-force of exhilarating minor-key intensity. |
PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges (recorded live in 2005) Charles Workman / José Van Dam / Philippe Rouillon / Barry Banks / Béatrice Uria-Monzon / Opéra National de Paris / Sylvain Cambreling [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] Conducted by 20th century specialist Sylvain Cambreling and sung in the original French version by superb singer-actors, this production presents a stage performance set in perfect harmony with Prokofiev's inventive music. |
GEORGES LENTZ
Ingwe from ‘Mysterium’ (“Caeli enarrant...” VII) Zane Banks (electric guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Luxembourg-born Australian composer Georges Lentz's 60-minute solo guitar work Ingwe (an Aboriginal word meaning night) is a truly extraordinary achievement. Here, heavy metal meets musical metaphysics, as shrieking amplified sound clashes with the... |
TRADITIONAL
Pax Romana: Peaceful music from the age of Rome Jon Banks (hammered dulcimer, Lyre, Harp, Gittwen, Psalterium, pipe & drums) [ A Feast of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] The Romans loved music and used it both in peace and at war. This unique programme recreates the sounds that might have been heard in a Roman villa in fifth-or-sixth-century Europe, using a wide variety of instruments which were known at the time. A... |
TRADITIONAL
Sanctus: Music for Quiet Contemplation Marguerite Hutchinson (Northumbrian pipes) Jon Banks (harp) The Monks & Novices of Saint Frideswide [ Songs of Praise / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Haunting and evocative words and music that bring us echoes from the world of the monks of Lindisfarne, the Saxon monastery on Holy Island off Northumbria, with early English church music and Northumbrian pipes. |
TRADITIONAL
A Pageant of Medieval Music The Oxford Girls' Choir / John Rowlands-Pritchard / Sirinu / The Henrician Consort / Jon banks [ Music of the Middle Ages / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Cheerful dances and songs from all over Europe of the middle ages and early renaissance. From bear dances to Spanish songs, from brawls to revels, here is a happy, cheery album of dynamic medieval music recorded using instruments and playing... |
Banks Peter
Two Sides Of [ CD - released 21/Jul/2010 ] |
Tony Banks
A Curious Feeling (Deluxe Edition with DVD + Book) [ Esoteric Recordings / 2 CD/DVD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] In addition to the re-mixed CD, this limited 2 disc deluxe edition also features a new 5.1 Surround mix, the rare promotional videos of "For a While" and "The Waters of Lethe" and is specially packaged with a 20-page hardback book. |