Lieder nach Heine und Lenau

'It would be hard to imagine these virtually unknown songs better performed than here' (The Daily Telegraph)

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

'A fascinating recital' (Gramophone)

'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, USA)

'The programme is sung throughout with easeful tonal beauty; and Roger Vignoles is at his glorious best as he reveals the wonders of Wolf's writing for the piano' (Musical Opinion)

After their Gramophone Award-winning debut disc of songs by Beethoven, and a 2-CD set 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. These songs have been little-recorded and several of them are not presently available on disc. In fact it is likely that they are recorded here for the first time.

Recorded in Tonstudio Teije van Geest, Sandhausen, Germany, on 18-22 February 2002