LIEDER NACH HEINE UND LENAU

Stephan Genz (baritone) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

After their Gramophone Award-winning debut recital of songs by Beethoven, and a double album of Hugo Wolf’s ‘Mörike Lieder’ (with Joan Rodgers), Stephan Genz and Roger Vignoles return to Wolf for the much less well-known early songs to texts by Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau. It is likely that these little-known songs were recorded here for the first time.

Wolf, H:
 Abendbilder
 An***
 Du bist wie eine Blume
 Ernst ist der Fruhling
 Es war ein alter Konig
 Frage nicht
 Herbst
 Herbstentschluß
 Liederstrauss
 Madchen mit dem roten Mundchen
 Mit schwarzen Segeln
 Nächtliche Wanderung
 Spatherbstnebel kalte Traume
 Sterne mit den gold’nen Füsschen
 Traurige Wege
 Wenn ich in deine Augen sehn
 Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert
 Wo ich bin, mich rings umdumkelt

"In sum, another top-of-the-line issue—confirming yet again that Hyperion has consistently the best production values in the business—and, for Wolf’s admirers, another indispensable album"
Fanfare

"A fascinating recital"
Gramophone Magazine

"A very attractive programme… superbly controlled singing that goes right to the heart of Wolf’s spontaneous response to the poetry"
International Record Review

"It would be hard to imagine these virtually unknown songs better performed than here"
Daily Telegraph