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Stephan Genz, Roger Vignoles - Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs (1999) [Re-Up]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 6 Nov 2019 16:29:22

Stephan Genz, Roger Vignoles - Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs (1999) [Re-Up]

The East German-born Stephan Genz, still in his mid-twenties, brings an engaging voice and glowing dramatic sense to this desirable Beethoven collection. Some of the ballad-like songs undoubtedly suit his rich, warm, darkish timbres especially well (‘Klage’ – ‘Lament’, or the mournful ‘Vom Tode’); yet he relishes, too, the lively patter of ‘Neue Liebe, neues Leben’, which, with Vignoles’s lively accompaniment, takes instant flight. The phrasing is nicely sustained, though Genz’s rather self-conscious, earnest delivery can be fractionally unsteady (chiefly in the descent to cadences, a slight overweighting of second syllables, the arching up towards higher notes, and scattered patches of chromatic detail). Goethe’s ‘Es war einmal ein König’ and Gellert’s ‘Busslied’ both hint at the wider emotional range to which this young singer can aspire. His contrast between the end of Goethe’s poignantly pleading ‘Wonne der Wehmut’ and the lightly alert ‘Sehnsucht’ could not be more charming. True, one senses those gloomier timbres might be lightened to advantage (an exquisitely floated ‘May-Song’ cheerfully counters his unusually doom-laden launch to the An die ferne Geliebte cycle). Yet if the disc sometimes suggests a promising artist still just emerging, there is much here that is elegantly persuasive.

Review by Roderic Dunnett, BBC Music Magazine

The 26-year-old Erfurt-born baritone Stephan Genz is in the first bloom of his youthful prime. His Schumann Liederkreis, Op. 24 (5/98) was the first recording to give serious warning of the distinctive lyric ardour and keen intelligence of his artistry; and now Beethoven’s setting of Goethe’s ‘Mailied’ (Op. 52 No. 4), with its lightly breathed, springing words, could have been written with Genz in mind.

Four more Goethe settings celebrate the great man’s 250th anniversary year. Roger Vignoles, Genz’s regular accompanist, contributes an irresistible bounding energy and even a sense of mischief to one of Beethoven’s most spontaneous yet subtle settings, ‘Neue Liebe, neues Leben’; and an elusive sense of yearning is created as the voice tugs against the piano line in ‘Sehnsucht’.

The six Gellert Lieder form the centrepiece of this recital: Beethoven’s song-cycle, An die ferne Geliebte, its grand finale. The intensity of Genz’s cry ‘Is there a God?’ in An die Hoffnung, at the start of the disc, gives some indication of the gravitas he brings to his firmly enunciated ‘spiritual songs’ of Gellert. Genz and Vignoles have here reinstated a number of the original verses omitted by Beethoven in the first printed edition, creating a greater sense of balance and proportion within the set.

The concluding song-cycle is quite simply one of the best performances currently available, surpassing the similar Gellert/Geliebte coupling from Olaf Bar, and itself surpassed only by the classic readings of Fischer-Dieskau and Schreier. Fresh and bright of tone, awe-filled and beautifully paced and scaled, Genz’s singing is modulated exquisitely from song to song by Vignoles’s sentient piano accompaniment.

Review by Hilary Finch, Gramophone

Stephan Genz at Allmusic
Stephan Genz Website

Roger Vignoles at Allmusic
Roger Vignoles at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. An die Hoffnung, Op.94 (07:37)
02. Maigesang (Mailied), Op.52 No.4 (02:01)
03. Adelaide, Op.46 (05:34)
04. Der Liebende, WoO 139 (02:26)
05. Klage, WoO 113 (03:05)
06. Neue Liebe, neues Leben, Op.75 No.2 (03:02)
07. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Bitten (02:58)
08. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Die Liebe des Nachsten (02:39)
09. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Vom Tode (03:41)
10. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur (03:38)
11. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Gottes Macht und Vorsehung (00:57)
12. Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op.48 - Busslied (04:56)
13. Aus Goethes Faust, Op.75 No.3 (02:01)
14. Wonne der Wehmut, Op.83 No.1 (02:31)
15. Sehnsucht, Op.83 No.2 (02:15)
16. Das Liedchen von der Ruhe, Op.52 No.3 (04:39)
17. An die Geliebte, WoO 140 (00:56)
18. An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 (14:07)

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