There is magic in this Die Zauberflöte -- the warmly glowing intonation of La Petite Bande, the pure Pamina of Suzie LeBlanc, the idealized Sorastro of Cornelius Hauptmann, the ardent Tamino of Christoph Genz, the robust Papageno of Stephan Genz, the lovely Papagna of Marie Kuijken, the deeply knowing conducting of Sigiswald Kuijken, even the ...
Franz Schubert never achieved the success as a composer for the stage that the aspired to, and even since his genius has been fully recognized, his dramatic works have not found their way into the repertoire. This is due not so much to the quality of the music, which is often very high, but to the fact that Schubert devoted himself to a form, ...
The follow-up to their previous Mahler disc coupling the composer's three shorter song cycles, this disc by German baritone Stephan Genz and English pianist Roger Vignoles has as its program 13 of the composer's settings of poetry from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. As before, the results are outstanding. Genz is a warm-toned baritone with a smooth ...
Of Bach's small collection of secular cantatas, Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan (The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan) comes closest to being the opera that Bach never wrote, a lack that is purely a matter of historical accident, for if he had been hired by a leading noble court such as that at Dresden, there would be plenty of them. It would ...
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