Christian Oelze, for being a tour-de-force song, she has such a lyrical voice, and I love it! You can really hear hear the rolled r’s, but no vowel or consonant is misplaced. Often when I hear this aria done by young singers, they seem to try to over-muscle the phrases, and her breaths are inaudible and her demeanor with the text is quite calm. It sort of reminds me of a frog in a slowly boiling pot. In the same way her voice bubbles over but never loses its ring or intensity. Especialy when the text stops with “und at, seen Kuss” she does a really good job of using the [x] and also the [k] of Kuss to accentuate the text there.
For Angelika Kirchschlager: how can you not love to say Angelika? I like the idea of humanized performance, because operatic works and even art-song can be so esoteric and over the top, they do a really good job of bringing the energy to a digestible level. Her voice is just one great stream of sound. I also enjoy the tempo that she takes, a bit slower than Oelze at times, but just as meaningful. When she dips into the low notes on the word “zerstückt”, the note is so full and she still gets the “ckt” out at an acceptable volume. The r’s are really strange, almost imperceptible. It must be a dialect!
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