Ben Heppner - German Romantic Opera

Ben Heppner - German Romantic Opera

Ben Heppner - German Romantic Opera
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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
Conductor: Colin Davis
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Orchestra: Hamburg North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Winds of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Ben Heppner
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1998-10-13
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Wo ich erwacht, weilt' ich nicht
  2. Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen, opera, WWV 49: Allmächt'ger Vater
  3. Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c: Selige �de auf sonniger Höh!
  4. Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: Brünnhilde, heilige Braut!
  5. Parsifal, opera, WWV 111: Nur eine Waffe taugt
  6. Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), opera, WWV 63: Willst jenes Tags du dich nicht mehr entsinnen
  7. Fidelio, opera, Op. 72: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!
  8. Der Freischütz, opera, J. 277 (Op. 77): Nein, länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen
  9. Euryanthe, opera, J. 291, (Op. 81): Wehen mir LĂĽfte Ruh'
  10. Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), opera, Op. 12: O Freund, ich werde sie nicht wiedersehen

Music reviews of Ben Heppner - German Romantic Opera

Music Review: A beautiful voice - but a touch placid in temperament
Rating: 4 Stars

So much about this recital is wonderful that it might seem a little churlish to cavil at anything, especially in a world so short of voices of this calibre and repertoire, but I find myself in two minds listening to it. The sound quality of this disc is a bit recessed and lacking in bite, so at first I attributed the lack of immediacy in these arias to the engineering and turned it up in quiet bits, only to have to reduce volume again when Heppner got going, but there is a kind of placidity to his singing of these arias which makes it difficult to respond to the drama of their context. It is almost as if he finds it too easy; comparison between the earliest recorded (1995) aria here, from "Fidelio", and Jon Vicker's famous version for Klemperer makes the point: Vickers makes the music sound difficult (which it is); the tessitura is very high and there is a dangerous edge to his voice and a strain almost wholly absent from Heppner's account. Vickers occasionally cracks a little and is the limit of his vocal resources, and he invests the words with so much more tension than Heppner; you really feel as though this is a man on the edge, close to madness in his isolation and terror. Similarly, with a far less glamorous voice, a singer like Windgassen makes us feel the terror of his disovery that the sleeping warrior is a beautiful woman. The Santa Fe listener in his review suggests that this (mostly) 1998 recital points forward to a greater expressiveness yet to develop in Heppner's voice; I am not sure that this breakthrough has actually occurred as today I still find his singing to be superbly vocalised and a little bland in expression -and he has unfortunately developed a greater propensity to crack, without deepening his interpretations. I am still very grateful for this glorious voice, but I do not find in it everything I had hoped for, especially in Wagner, which represents the summit of a singer's art. We are lucky to have Heppner but there have been greater heroic tenors.
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