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Stephan Genz's light, warm and cultured baritone is especially fine in reflecting the ghost voices and moonlight serenades of Mahler's folk-inspired anthology. Yet more attack is surely needed... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Dec 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67645
Label: Hyperion
Length: 57 minutes

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Mahler: Revelge

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Lob des hohen Verstandes

Work length2:49

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Der Schildwache Nachtlied (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Wer hat dies' Liedlein Erdacht? (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Trost im Unglück (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Verlorne Müh' (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Mahler: Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

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Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

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Roger Vignoles writes in his booklet notes that to enter the world of Mahlers Wunderhorn songs is like opening a picture book. Each page gives us another character, another fairy tale, another episode, whether happy or tragic, in the tale of human existence such is the consistency of its musical tone that Mahler achieves a remarkably intense evocation of human life in this collection, portrayed with empathy, humour and compassion. Some of these celebrated songs are much more familiar in their orchestral versions and pose a great challenge to the pianist. However the pianos capacity for quasi-orchestral sonorities and textures was an essential element in the evolution of the Lied as an art form, allowing as it did for a far wider range of symbolic reference than would have been possible with any other accompanying instrument, and Roger Vignoles achieves a great level of intimacy within this framework.

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February 2008

Stephan Genz's light, warm and cultured baritone is especially fine in reflecting the ghost voices and moonlight serenades of Mahler's folk-inspired anthology. Yet more attack is surely needed for the prisoner in the tower and the what should be the increasingly desperate pleas of the starving child is 'Das irdische Leben'.

July 2008

Both "Das irdische Leben" and "Der Tambourg'sell" - two starkly different songs - have a gentle lyricism that's deeply affecting. Genz is partnered by Roger Vignoles, whose playing is so sharply characterised and finely weighted that I hardly missed the better-known orchestral version.

Mahler - Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

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