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Track(s) taken from CDA67392

Phantasie aus Don Juan

First line:
Das Mägdlein trat aus dem Fischerhaus
composer
No 5 of Book I of Lieder und Gesänge 'aus der Jugendzeit'
author of text
Don Juan
translator of text

Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: January 2003
Tonstudio Teije van Geest, Sandhausen, Germany
Release date: October 2004
Total duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds

Cover artwork: The Tomb of Böcklin (1901/2, detail). Ferdinand Keller (1842-1922)
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe / akg-images
 

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Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Reviews

‘This disc shows Stephan Genz entering his fourth decade with all the light suppleness and ardour of his youthful recordings, but now with darker colours and firmer bass ballast folding into his baritone. His intuitive musical partnership with Roger Vignoles is as sentient and perceptive as ever; and together they uncover the dark, sensual mysteries of the late-Rommantic response to the natural world’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘A rich sonorous eloquence from Genz, while Vignoles musters a full range of orchestral colours. Piano accompaniment lends these works a more personal, intimate feel, turning this generous disc into a pensive, rewarding journey through the many complex moods of Mahler's inner life’ (The Observer)

‘Even in this golden age of Lieder singers, Stephan Genz has few rivals for easeful beauty of tone and acuteness of insight’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘Stephen Genz is an excellent light baritone whose timbre reminds me sometimes of one of his teachers, Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, and whose interpretations are like Fischer-Diskau's earlier ones,before he began to over-interpret … highly recommended’ (American Record Guide)

‘This is an extremely enjoyable disc, which casts a lot of light on even those songs of Mahler which were written to be accompanied orchestrally … Genz is singing a cycle to which he is utterly suited, and the effect is magical’ (International Record Review)

‘Stephen Genz relies on subtle shading, verbal refinement and a lightness of touch to interpret a generous selection of Mahlerian masterpieces’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘What surpassingly magnificent music this is, and what a superbly intelligent display of Western high-art at its most poignant from Genz and Vignoles. I just can't stop playing the disc. Endless pleasure, endless sorrow, endless beauty’ (Fanfare, USA)
The Phantasie aus Don Juan instructs the pianist to imitate the sound of a harp. Its plangent melody and verbal repetitions such as ‘Im Herzen! Im Herzen!’ also suggest a folksong, and though the text may be Spanish in origin, the character of deep melancholy and personal identification—there is no doubt that the singer’s own heart has been caught like many others in the fishergirl’s net—was one that Mahler was to exploit with increasing success throughout his composing career.

from notes by Roger Vignoles © 2004

Phantasie aus Don Juan commande au pianiste d’imiter le son d’une harpe. Sa mélodie plaintive et ses répétitions, telle «Im Herzen! Im Herzen!», rappellent aussi le Volkslied et, malgré un texte originellement en espagnol, Mahler allait en exploiter, avec un succès croissant tout au long de sa carrière de compositeur, la profonde mélancolie et l’identification personnelle—nul doute que le cœur du chanteur a été pris, comme tant d’autres, dans les rêts de la pêcheuse.

extrait des notes rédigées par Roger Vignoles © 2004
Français: Hypérion

Bei dem Phantasie aus Don Juan wird der Pianist angewiesen, den Klang einer Harfe nachzuahmen. Die getragene Melodie und die Wortwiederholungen wie etwa „Im Herzen! Im Herzen!“ suggerieren ebenfalls ein Volkslied, und obwohl der Text spanischen Ursprungs sein mag, war es dieser Charakter tiefer Melancholie und persönlicher Identifikation (es gibt keinen Zweifel, daß das Herz des Sängers selbst genauso wie das vieler anderer im Netz des Fischermädchens gefangen ist), auf den Mahler im Laufe seiner Komponistenlaufbahn immer wieder mit zunehmendem Erfolg zurückgreifen sollte.

aus dem Begleittext von Roger Vignoles © 2004
Deutsch: Bettina Reinke-Welsh

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Mahler: Songs of Youth
CDH55160
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