FALLA / SUK / SCHUMANN / VIEUXTEMPS / TCHAIKOVSKY etc
12 Stradivari Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "What emerges from this comparative listening odyssey...is simply an even richer love and admiration for Jansen's own artistry." - Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2021 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet and Trio / 6 Songs Martin Fröst (clarinet) with Janine Jansen ( violin), Torleif Thedéen (cello) Roland Pöntinen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2014 ] "Sensuous beauty and taut sinew mingle for an interpretation whose fastidious attention to internal balance and every musical detail result in sovereign excellence, in a sovereign recording. Fröst's control of instrumental colour is superfine |
W. A. MOZART
Martin Fröst: Mozart (Incls 'Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622') Martin Fröst (basset clarinet & clarinet), with Leif Ove Andsnes, Janine Jansen, Antoine Tamestit, Boris Brovtsyn, Maxim Rysanov & Torleif Thedéen [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] "The recorded sound is excellent and the notes contain thorough essays about all three works, as well as biographies of most of the performers. Even if you already have a recording of the concerto, this disc is definitely worth catching." (MusicWeb) |
MENDELSSOHN / BRUCH
Violin Concertos Janine Jansen (violin) / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] 'If one had to evoke the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen in a word, it would be energy.' The Times |
BELA BARTOK / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Bartok / Brahms: Violin Concertos Janine Jansen (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Decca / CD - released 22/Jan/2016 ] "Jansen gives us a lyric reading [of the Brahms] of rare inwardness and beauty...it is a performance that marries meditation with motion, such is the suppleness of Jansen's and Pappano's feel for the concerto's larger symphonic movement" Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Sibelius / Prokofiev 1 - Violin Concertos Janine Jansen (violin) / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä [ Decca / CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] "Jansen's first concerto recording in nine years is worth the wait, not least thanks to her obvious rapport with the conductor Klaus Mäkelä and his Oslo Philharmonic." Guardian Five Stars |
J.S. BACH
Inventions and Partita Janine Jansen (violin) Maxim Rysanov (viola) Torleif Thedeen (cello) [ Decca / CD - released 15/Nov/2007 ] "At nearly 80 minutes there can be no grumbles about value, and with musicianship of the highest order this has to be a Bach collection for anyone with an interest in chamber music for strings and an alternative view on the Inventions." (Recording... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Janine Jansen (violin) with Maarten Jansen (cello) & Jan Jansen (harpsichord) [ Decca Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2005 ] Dutch violin star Janine Jansen leads her specially selected group of soloists in a fresh look at the most loved of all classical works |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956 (with Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4) Janine Jansen (violin) with Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Amihai Grosz (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Jens Peter Maintz (cello) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "...all the players converse with a single voice - the herding calls of the third movement [of the Schubert], for instance, have their own distinct colour simply by virtue of the other-worldly accuracy of their tuning." (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach Adagio [incls 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' & 'Air on a G string'] Riccardo Chailly, Kyung-Wha Chung, John Eliot Gardiner, Benjamin Grosvenor, Friedrich Gulda, Janine Jansen, Andreas Schiff, Pepe Romero, etc [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2016 ] The Adagios series has generated almost €7 million since the late 90s. Here with a refreshed tracklist and presented with a contemporary look is Bach Adagio. This compilation includes over two hours of instrumental music from orchestral to chamber... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos & Sonatas Janine Jansen (violin) with Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe) & Jan Jansen (harpsichord) & ensemble [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "worth hearing for Jansen's driving speeds, nimble ornamentation, energy and elegant sense of Baroque style. The textures are spruce, and a particular success is the C minor Double Concerto with the delectable tone of oboist Ramón Ortega Quero."Times |
PROKOFIEV
Janine Jansen plays Prokofiev Janine Jansen [ Decca / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Janine Jansen has been a top-selling artist since her debut recording in 2004 for Decca sold 300,000 records. A major star in Europe, especially the Netherlands, Jansen has frequently topped the classical charts and featured in the pop charts. For... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Beethoven / Britten: Violin Concertos Janine Jansen (violin) / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / London Symphony Orchestra, Paarvo Jarvi [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Jansen and Decca have surpassed themselves with their new recordings of the Beethoven and Britten concertos. They confirm that digital technology has the potential to rival the best analogue recordings of 50 years ago." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
BOULANGER / DEBUSSY / DUBUGNON / FAURE / MESSIAEN / RAVEL
Beau Soir Janine Jansen (violin) Itmar Golan (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "The last movements of both [sonatas] fizz and crackle, but these performances are about so much more than dazzling pyrotechnics" (BBC Music Chamber Choice Jan 2011) |
GRIEG / MASSENET / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / SAINT-SAENS / NIELSEN
Scheherazade - A night with the Berlin Philharmonic Janine Jansen (violin), Marita Solberg (soprano) & Ingebjorg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Neeme Järvi [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2012 ] "the young violin virtuoso Janine Jansen, splendidly sensuous in the Thaïs meditation and dazzlingly spirited in the urbane Saint-Saëns." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Martin Frost (clarinet) Lucas Debargue (piano) Janine Jansen (violin) Torlief Thedeen (cello) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "The playing is flawless but still deep-felt, unflinching in the white heat of the Dance of Fury, intently hushed in the Abyss of the Birds, fervent in both tender Louanges." The Guardian |