Dutch baritone Henk Neven makes an impressive debut with Auf einer Burg, his solo album for Onyx, a collection of songs by Carl Loewe and Robert Schumann. Neven has a vibrant, warmly resonant voice with a bass-baritonal quality that's absolutely solid and technically secure throughout his range, and his intonation and enunciation are immaculate. He has a well-controlled, fast vibrato that he uses judiciously for expressive purposes, and he can move seamlessly into a lovely mezzo voce in his upper register. He brings an ...
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Dutch baritone Henk Neven makes an impressive debut with Auf einer Burg, his solo album for Onyx, a collection of songs by Carl Loewe and Robert Schumann. Neven has a vibrant, warmly resonant voice with a bass-baritonal quality that's absolutely solid and technically secure throughout his range, and his intonation and enunciation are immaculate. He has a well-controlled, fast vibrato that he uses judiciously for expressive purposes, and he can move seamlessly into a lovely mezzo voce in his upper register. He brings an intelligent and strongly articulated perspective to each of the songs. Particularly in the Loewe songs, some of which are like little operatic scenas, his gifts for acute characterization are on full display, for example in the powerfully memorable ballad Herr Oluf and the humorous Hinkende Jamben ("Limping iambics"). Loewe's richly melodic and strikingly dramatic songs aren't heard as often on recitals and recordings as they were in earlier eras, so it's pleasant to have these nine...
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