Utwory na płycie:

• Mahler: Revelge
• Mahler: Lob des hohen Verstandes
• Mahler: Rheinlegendchen
• Mahler: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm
• Mahler: Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen
• Mahler: Der Schildwache Nachtlied
• Mahler: Das irdische Leben
• Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
• Mahler: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
• Mahler: Trost im Ungluck
• Mahler: Verlorne Muh
• Mahler: Der Tamboursg'sell
• Mahler: Urlicht

Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Roger Vignoles writes in his booklet notes that ‘to enter the world of Mahler’s 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 piano’s 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.

'The charm of Mahler's Lieder-composing style - so close to Schubert's - comes across beautifully. Stephan Genz is more than just a very fine singer: his precision, sensitivity and range of imagination proclaim him a true successor to the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. And Vignoles's booklet note is an informative pleasure in itself' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Deeply affecting … Warmly recommended' (Gramophone)

'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 … This is the first time that I've heard a male voice take on 'Urlicht' … and its quiet serenity, as in 'Wo die schonen trompeten blasen', is what Genz does best' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Urlicht is beautifully sung … and Vignoles's playing is remarkably expressive throughout' (Sunday Times)

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Recording details: February 2007; Tonstudio Teije van Geest, Sandhausen, Germany; Produced by Teije van Geest; Engineered by Teije van Geest; Release date: January 2008;