Bach's b-minor mass in Montreal with Kent Nagano
The Montreal Gazette, 18.01. 2009
…the central-European quartet of soloists left nothing to be desired.... tenor Christoph Genz had a good thing going with the flute.
Concert at the Bachfest Leipzig
Leipziger Volkszeitung 16.06. 2008
…the outstanding former member of the St. Thomas’ Boys Choir Christoph Genz. It is a pleasure to listen to that smooth and floating voice. Genz tackles the difficulties in Handel’s arias impressively, never forces his voice. His voice rests glowingly in the middle from where it develops into the more dramatic moments. A great enjoyment and fantastic recommendation to purchase his latest CD with arias by Handel.’
Recital in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Schubert’s ‚Schwanengesang’
Leipziger Volkszeitung 22.04. 2008
…Genz’ beautiful voice is a smooth and shining tenor voice with a certain metallic brilliancy – a voice one could go on listening to for ever. Through him Schubert’s songs become gripping stories.
Bach’s St. John’s Passion with Markus Stenz, Philharmony Cologne
Kölnische Rundschau 25.03. 2008
…the crucial part of the evangelist was in great hands with Christoph Genz, his ‚und weinete bitterlich’ was deeply moving.’
Concert at the MDR Musicsummerfestival, St. Thomas Church Leipzig
Leipziger Volkszeitung, 30.07. 2007
…tenor Christoph Genz in Bach’s solo cantata BWV 55 ‚Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht’ was already worth coming to the concert. One can’t get enough of his wonderfully smooth and shining tenor voice. He performs his recitatives and arias elegantly and sensitively – a rare enjoyment.’
Elijah with Herbert Blomstedt and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Chronicle, 26.03. 2007
‘…The evening’s most exciting discovery was tenor Christoph Genz, whose phenomenal debut was marked by gorgeous, burnished tone and fluid phrasing. The aria ‘If with all your hearts ye truly seek me’, which may be the score’s most sumptuously beautiful stretch of writing, sounded even more heart-stopping in Genz’ version’
Production of Mozart’s ‚Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes’ with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
Kronenzeitung, 14.04. 2006
‚…Christoph Genz, pupil of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and former member of the King’s College Choir is a sovereign ‚Christ’, breath-taking his aria with the solo trombone.’
Christmas Oratorio with Helmut Rilling
Ruhr Nachrichten, 11.12. 2006
…tenor Christoph Genz needs to be mentioned especially – so clear and superhumanly beautiful in the higher tessitura like a choir boy.’
Kölnische Rundschau, 24.12. 2004
…Rilling follows closely the Evangelist Christoph Genz as if the Scripture was read here and today for the very first time. Genz’ singing is light and heady, the coloratura with the 32nds in the ‘Hirtenaria’ he manages without the slightest problems.’
Berliner Zeitung, 22.12. 2004
…With Christoph Genz we could admire a high lyric tenor of a quality we haven’t heard since Christoph Pregardien.He performs his aria ‚Frohe Hirten eilt, ach eilet’ with a phenomenal liberty and sovereignity. Here we really do get a feeling of Advent. With his rhetorically masterful singing Genz shows us the emphatic beauty of the German language which is so often lost in our everyday prattle.
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with J.E. Gardiner, St. Thomas Church Leipzig
Leipziger Volkszeitung, 06.05. 2005
..if there weren’t Dietrich Henschel (bass) and tenor Christoph Genz.Both speak so naturally and flawlessly that we simply forget questions concerning the text and just listen. Their singing is of such perfection that we don’t think about technical aspects either. What remains is the narration of the Evangelist Christoph Genz. Relaxed yet poignant, full of calm yet also filled with tension. And finally so fresh and new as if we heard it for the very first time.’
Carl Orff’s ‚The Moon’ at the Classic Open Air Festival, Semper Opera Dresden
Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 11.07. 2005
‚… narrator Christoph Genz with a wonderful diction and a fantastically flowing tenor voice led with candle, hat and cloak through the story from the balcony of the opera.’
Recital with Stephan Genz, barytone
Wiesbadener Tagblatt, 12.05. 2004
…Christoph Genz whom we have heard already in Wiesbaden as Tamino in Mozart’s ‘Zauberflöte’ has like his younger brother Stephan a very smooth and carefully guided voice with an outstanding diction which lets us understand even the finest nuances of the text. Exceptional is his easy and heady high register of the voice, his excellent singing is very musical yet never without control.’