Barbara Bonney (and a little help)

[Opus106]

Cheers! I found that website too a few weeks ago and downloaded it.

Neat.

[DavidRoss]

I, too, love Bonney's voice--pure, clear, sweet, and light.  I particularly enjoy her recording of Sibelius, Grieg, Stenhammar, and Alfven songs with Antonio Pappano (CD titled Diamonds in the Snow), the disc of Brahms's Liebeslieder-Walzer with von Otter, Streit, Bär, Deutsch, & Forsberg (sounds like an ad agency...or a law firm!), the Chailly Mahler IV that Bruce noted above, Mahler's Das Knaben Wunderhorn with Chailly andGoerne, Östman's Le Nozze de Figaro and Zauberflöte, and the Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder piano reduction with Martineau (which sounds peculiar at first without the lush orchestra, but which grew on me as I listened).

[Guido]

Just found a CD of her singing some orchestral songs by Grieg - absolutely gorgeous - I've never heard the pieces before, but her youthful lyric soprano seems ideally suited. The songs are ravishing.

[Coopmv]

I, too, love Bonney's voice--pure, clear, sweet, and light.  I particularly enjoy her recording of Sibelius, Grieg, Stenhammar, and Alfven songs with Antonio Pappano (CD titled Diamonds in the Snow), the disc of Brahms's Liebeslieder-Walzer with von Otter, Streit, Bär, Deutsch, & Forsberg (sounds like an ad agency...or a law firm!), the Chailly Mahler IV that Bruce noted above, Mahler's Das Knaben Wunderhorn with Chailly andGoerne, Östman's Le Nozze de Figaro and Zauberflöte, and the Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder piano reduction with Martineau (which sounds peculiar at first without the lush orchestra, but which grew on me as I listened).

Agree.  I prefer Barbara Bonney many times over Renee Fleming as a soprano ...

[The new erato]

Agree.  I prefer Barbara Bonney many times over Renee Fleming as a soprano ...

They have such different voices, suited to so different repertoire, that I think who you like best more depends on what music you prefer.

[Franco]

I have Barbara Bonney on three very different recordings:

1. Franz Schubert: Lieder / Bonney, Parsons
2. Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Rolfe Johnson, Bonney, von Otter, Chance, Crook; Gardiner
3. Luigi Nono: Il canto sospeso / Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado

These are all good CDs that I enjoy and seem to display an amazing versatility.

[DavidRoss]

A treat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LGb9HWSUU&feature=related