Editorial Product Review: :With his 1999 Met triumph as Tristan--the most taxing of all Wagner's tenor roles--Canadian singer Ben Heppner has fully earned his heralded position as the great new Heldentenor of our time. His Lohengrin is a signature role, while his album German Romantic Opera has been nominated for a Grammy. Yet Heppner also commands tremendous versatility--and of a much more engaging character than that of the typical crossover effort--using his powerful, bronze-tinged tenor to tender and charming effect in My Secret Heart. This is a collection of songs roughly from the period between ...
Editorial Product Review: :Forget the superannuated Three Tenors; Ben Heppner, with his huge voice, tonal brilliance, and interpretive sensitivity, is a 1990s throwback to the greats of the past. In this repertory, he's king of the hill. The recital's delights begin with a golden-voiced, 40-minute Wagner set chockfull of vocal thrills, made all the more compelling by Heppner's rhythmic mastery and discreet rubato. You expect excitement from a tenor with his ringing top, but just as impressive is the delicate soft singing that makes the Korngold aria, to take but one of many examples, a ...
Editorial Product Review: :Forget the superannuated Three Tenors; Ben Heppner, with his huge voice, tonal brilliance, and interpretive sensitivity, is a 1990s throwback to the greats of the past. In this repertory, he's king of the hill. The recital's delights begin with a golden-voiced, 40-minute Wagner set chockfull of vocal thrills, made all the more compelling by Heppner's rhythmic mastery and discreet rubato. You expect excitement from a tenor with his ringing top, but just as impressive is the delicate soft singing that makes the Korngold aria, to take but one of many examples, a ...
Editorial Product Review: :Forget the superannuated Three Tenors; Ben Heppner, with his huge voice, tonal brilliance, and interpretive sensitivity, is a 1990s throwback to the greats of the past. In this repertory, he's king of the hill. The recital's delights begin with a golden-voiced, 40-minute Wagner set chockfull of vocal thrills, made all the more compelling by Heppner's rhythmic mastery and discreet rubato. You expect excitement from a tenor with his ringing top, but just as impressive is the delicate soft singing that makes the Korngold aria, to take but one of many examples, a ...
Editorial Product Review: :What an appealing title for this wonderful selection of romantic, ardent songs, sung with such radiant, glowing eloquence! Ben Heppner is a two-fold 'crossover' phenomenon: a great operatic heldentenor completely at home in the lieder repertoire, and a Canadian who sings German like a native. He captures the warm and lyrical simplicity, the dreamy inwardness, the poetic longing, and the passionate intensity of these love songs perfectly, coloring his incomparable voice with infinite flexibility and subtlety to fit the expression. Heppner reserves its glorious, ringing quality for the climaxes and for Liszt's ...
Editorial Product Review: :Not since the days of Lauritz Melchior have we had a true heldentenor, a singer who can take on the big Wagnerian parts and the other roles that require a voice of real weight and heft. The Canadian tenor Ben Heppner is the closest we come these days, but he is both less and more than that--less because he has so far not attempted the bigger Wagnerian roles, more because (unlike most such tenors, and as demonstrated on this disc) he has successfully mastered the idiom of French and Italian operas. He ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ben Heppner is our leading dramatic tenor, but he's also a skilled recitalist; he triumphed in Colin Davis's concert recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens. His first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon demonstrates his skill in the French repertory. Almost half the disc is given to Berlioz arias, done with power and stylistic comfort. His artistry differs from the traditional French tenor; the voice is beefier, some of the delicacy is lost. But the tradition ceased to exist by the 1970s, and Heppner compares favorably with anyone on the scene today. His voice ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ben Heppner is our leading dramatic tenor, but he's also a skilled recitalist; he triumphed in Colin Davis's concert recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens. His first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon demonstrates his skill in the French repertory. Almost half the disc is given to Berlioz arias, done with power and stylistic comfort. His artistry differs from the traditional French tenor; the voice is beefier, some of the delicacy is lost. But the tradition ceased to exist by the 1970s, and Heppner compares favorably with anyone on the scene today. His voice ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ben Heppner is our leading dramatic tenor, but he's also a skilled recitalist; he triumphed in Colin Davis's concert recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens. His first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon demonstrates his skill in the French repertory. Almost half the disc is given to Berlioz arias, done with power and stylistic comfort. His artistry differs from the traditional French tenor; the voice is beefier, some of the delicacy is lost. But the tradition ceased to exist by the 1970s, and Heppner compares favorably with anyone on the scene today. His voice ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ben Heppner is our leading dramatic tenor, but he's also a skilled recitalist; he triumphed in Colin Davis's concert recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens. His first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon demonstrates his skill in the French repertory. Almost half the disc is given to Berlioz arias, done with power and stylistic comfort. His artistry differs from the traditional French tenor; the voice is beefier, some of the delicacy is lost. But the tradition ceased to exist by the 1970s, and Heppner compares favorably with anyone on the scene today. His voice ...
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