Pascal Dusapin: O Mensch!
Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
[Nigl's] always supple and fluid baritone admirably encompasses the violence, pathos and bruised eloquence of what is heard here. The often undemonstrative and always resourceful pianism of...
Pascal Dusapin: O Mensch!
Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
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[Nigl's] always supple and fluid baritone admirably encompasses the violence, pathos and bruised eloquence of what is heard here. The often undemonstrative and always resourceful pianism of...
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Georg Nigl and Pascal Dusapin are united by a bond of artistic friendship as they had already collaborated in two opera productions before embarking on the creation of a lieder cycle. The lyrics of O Mensch! are based on selected poems by Friedrich Nietzsche. Mysterious, poetical, masterly – listen to this recording and witness the documentation of an extraordinary encounter.
Contents and tracklist
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
- Georg Nigl (baritone), Vanessa Wagner (piano)
Awards and reviews
June 2013
[Nigl's] always supple and fluid baritone admirably encompasses the violence, pathos and bruised eloquence of what is heard here. The often undemonstrative and always resourceful pianism of Vanessa Wagner should on no account go unremarked
4th April 2013
Whatever its genre, it's an impressively wrought achievement, a gallery of Nietzsche's obsessions and preoccupations, with vocal lines that always seem to be on the brink of something momentously expressive, and piano writing that is economical and severely self-effacing.
